THE DIFFERENCE IN THE CAMBRIDGE TOWN BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2038, 30 July 1885, Page 2

THE DIFFERENCE IN THE CAMBRIDGE TOWN BOARD.

TO TUB KniTOR. Sin, — I cannot allow tlio article entitled " A Difference in tho Cambridge Town Board," appearing in this morning's Waikato Time*, to pass uncontradicted, as tho statements madn and tho inferences deducted are so utterly opposed to facts. In tho first place, tho board never lcioheii to gravol Lako-Htreet. No minute to that effect is on record ; in fact the matter was never mooted at any meeting of the board. •The Streets Committee may havo talked the matter over, but could not legally authorise any work the cost of which would exceed £5. Instead of this the work now being undertaken is likely to cost nearer £50. This work has been undertaken without any legal authority from theboaid, by one member on his own responsibility, with tho knowledge of one member of the Streets Committee. To endeavour, as the writor of the ai ticlo haw done, to shift the onus from Mr How itt to the chairman is a mixcr.ible subterfuge, too thin to mislead the most ignorant in these matters. If Mr Hewitt s high-handed action is endorsed at the foithconnng public meeting, it will bo time for tho farce of a repiesentative board to be abolished and tho ie\cnues of the town handed over to him to spend aH he niny think proper. The wntor evidently wishes the public to consider Mr Hewitt as one without repioaeh, and, I take it, thinks that tho members of tho board who daro question Mr Hcwitt'.s action or handiwork (whethor legal or otherwise) should cry peccavi. — I am, fee, AI.KRKD G. HUGHKS. Cambridsro, July 28th, 1885.

Ax Old Prophecy Rewved,— A prophecy of Nostradamus, written 1506, •ays : — When Ctenrßo God .shall crucify, When Maik nhall him iemi.scit.ite, And when John shall cany him. Then the end of the woild hIuiII be. In 18S6 St. George's Day will follow Good Friday ; St. Mark's Day on Ristcr Sunday ; and St. John's Day on Corpus Christi. Thcpiophccy will thus bo fulfilled as to conditions, and many aro wondering whether the woild will ic.illy he brought to an end next year. Others, Icbs panic stricken, interpret " the end of the world " as meaning the overthrow of existing human governments. At the annual meeting of the Aborigine! Protection Society, the other clay, Mr Chesßon (the Secretary) gavo "detailß of the recent visitof the Maori chiefs to England, hoping it would be followed by " highly beneficial results in their own country." Later, Mr Alex. MoArthur moved, and tho Rev. 11. P. Chase (chief of the Obijbeways) seconded, a careful and sage resolution, which proclaimed the " great need for wisely directed efforts on the part of friends of the Aborigines Protection Society, in order to secure justice for the uativea. of New Zealand."