The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1964, 7 February 1885, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and exact justicr to all men, Ot wbatioeTer state or pcnu.ision, religious or political. Here «hall the Pre«s the People's right maintain, Unswed by influence and unbribed by gain.

SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 188 J. ♦

The annutl meeting of the connegation and parishioners of Christ Chinch (Anglican), Ohaupo, 18 c.illed for to nwrrow after divine service.

The next meeting of the Cambridge Parliamentary Union will he held on Monday evening. Mr V.nle will deliver an addrflßs to the meinl>er.s on railway rctoim.

The hon. Mr Ballance will drive to Hamilton from Cambridge to-d.iy. Ho will bo at the Franktoii station .111 lima ljefore the departure of the tr.iin, <uul will there met-t the deputation, c<m-<i»tiii<r of tho Mayor and othuM, who dt'^iu 1 to interview him on the subject of the high nchool for Waik.ito &c.

To the Editor : Sir,— Re North New Zealand Fanaern' Co oper.iti\« Society, would you allow me to call the attention of the rtlureholder-> to one item in the report of £100 as the preliminary expenses. Compare that with others >ou may have and seen, and I think this and for that tiinotint. Tiie directors also aro entitled to our tluinks. — \V. (1. Bunting.

The following special messages to the Frew Association, dated London, February 4tl>, ha\elxvn published :— The shipment of nie.it ex K.M. h s. K.ukoui.i is realising 4M per ll>.— Loul ttherbiooke, whose wife died in the p.nlyp.irtof November, haa remarried.— Mi 0. J. (J'nchen, H|)eaking at I'Minburgh, said that the union of the colonies \\<u> essential to the Kinpiro. — Porttig.il haa seized tlie b.vnks of the Congo.— The Chino-e outworks at Kelunp have beon captured l>v tho French, w ith tho loss of eleven krllefl and "i 3 wmndod.

With reference to a comment which appeared in thene columns, on the 27th ult., regarding the ti fiction engine for Mr J. Allwifl, which was recently sent to Hautapu, we aro informed that the ships charge were made on 3 tons lOcivt. for the boiler, and V.i tons 10 cwl. for the machinery, the actual weight bring 3 tons 10 cwt. for the boilur, mid 0 ton* 10 cwt. 2 quarters for the machinery. The. department has decided to charge at actual vreijrht, not mcasurenient, which will reduce the railway charges by the. amount of £13 Is. We are further informed that only the largext stations Kngland lia\esucli facilities at? five-ton cmncH, Jmt thatin nu reason why a crane nhould not )>e availablo at .such a place a« Onehiinga.

A young man named Richard Hnckett, a .readout of Waikato, h»s embarked on a career of crime which, but for the timely interference of the polite, bade fair to riral that of the renowned Jack Hhephard or Dick Turpin. It neonis that young Hackett lias lately been in the employment of a nuttier named Knberf DougUs, at Pokeno, and towaids the end of last month lie stole Mr Don^his' bank-book and ch«qne-bo<>k, and headed for Wdikato, On tho 2Mth of January he was staying at the Royal Hotol, Hamilton, and ho thero represented himielf to tho groom as Mr DoiifflaH, a Rontleman in po^^PSHion of a larpje banking arcoimt, but who, unfortunately, had npvpr been taught to writo. The Kroom, at his request, filled up and mpifd a cheque for n couple of pfmnd-«,

which Hackett attempted to get cached at Mr ({audiu's hotel. But Mr (Jatidin, not being "*.tti"*h«'flj detuned the cheque, and finally h.uided it over to the police. HackeU secreted the b ink- book and tlu rcniamdei of the blank cheques uihlit the bed of the groom of the Waikatu Hotel, a lad named Murphy, who found thoni, and Hubaequently Sive them to the police. On the 29th . ickutt wvnt to Alexandra, and then, ac cording to his own «tory, Iv stole a lior»t\ which he mda to Te Awani'itu on the 30th. At the latter plac j h' stolj a saddle and In iille, and on the Ist uisf. ho pivsented hum 'If .it tli > T.unihui'o Hotel, whei" he stayed t)\e whole day. At d.tyhjflit mi the following lnortiuit,' lie dcpirted without saying anything, and t)ie next seen of him, was at Tauwhari* on tho Here ho stayed .it WillianiHon's Hotel, and managed to steal ,i pair of tri>u>or>«. H" told Mr WilliatiHoii he wh going to Te Amlia, and the polio 1 (wli > bv this time had been informed that the cheque w.in a forgery) wer>' out in different direction-, the telegraph w ire tK'ing at the same tune called into requisition. On Thuriday morning Sergt. MctJovern re ceived a (elegr.ini from Mr O'Hiien, of the Rangiriri Hotel, to tlio effect that aceu k e 4 lnd been there but had left at daylight. Every precaution was at once taken \» present e*eipe. as it \\ is supposed Hackett had gone in the duection of Auckland Towards midnight, however, Cons-tablr Mvi ray recened information that the delinquent wan m the stables of the W.nkato Hotel, engaged in a search for the cheque .Hid bank books. To effect his ar-re-it was the work of a moment, and H.ickett was speedily lodged in the lock up. Wh Inhere ho made a clean breast of eserything. The prisoner was brought before Mr John Kno\, J.P. yesterday, and remanded f<»r eight da.yn.