KARIOI ROAD BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2098, 17 December 1885, Page 2

KARIOI ROAD BOARD.

On Satin (lav, the 12th in-t, a meeting \va* held at To M.ita of tl»t- X tn»i Ro.id Hoard. Vaiious matters of importance to the district were brought forward .uid conMdeied. Application having been made to Govern inent to open up a, largo block of land fm settlement .it thu head of tiie Aotea Harbour, the question of reserves in various parts weic considered. One a round the Hot Spring* at the hoad of the Rigl.in Harbour in the Whamgoioa district was consulted, and action thereon adjournod. Summones again "t various parties for arrears of rates and dog ta\es vveie duetti'd to be issued. — Mr Edgecumbe, in m tger of The Waikato Time*, having kindly olfeied to •'end copies of the same paper foi the purpose <>f reference, the Iwt thanks of tlio board was given tohimforhiskiudncss in the matter. — Several rooiishar ing been stopped, the plans of same were inspected, .«nd the furthei legal proceeding will take place befoio the Resident Magistrate of the distiict.—Thf iepie->entativo of the county on the Hospital Boaid, made a statement le the Ch intiblc and Hospital Act, and the pioceedinps of the bo.ud in Vucklind, wlien it was unanimously agreed to "Th it Mi Pegler merits the best thanks of the Kunoi li"ad JJoard for tho stand lie h.w taken against tho undue latmg with which the County of Raglan is thieatened, and to lequest him to do all in his power to limit the lubihty of the Raglan County to its ruqnuements."' Wh.it those requireiiKMitsnio being easily xtatcd, to pay fur out own poor, and dischaigo our o\vn hospital expense*. A h\ed determination wa« evpu^sed by all present to withstand to tbo utmost all taxation beyond all in the resolution passed. The niori* this subject of Hospital and Chantablo .Vid is considered, tho more evident docs it hecomn that tho country districts must for baie life and e\i-tence, stand united ag.unst its working and operation. And much ai it is to be legretted, history is once mom repeating itself and the more pity 'tis 'tis tuie. "Tacitus the Roman saw tho (ieimans, a race of farmers, pasturing in the forest glades, and ploughing their villago holds," sturdy and independent, and what utruck him moat was their hatred of cities and their love within their own settlements of jealous independence. And so it is alas once more; on every hand wes-eo it, and this Act moie than any other will of necessity intensify this feeling. It m a hocio-1 pioblem that is occupying inon'H mind in many lands besides our own. And us Mill rem u k<?, " the diseased of Hociety aro no moio to bocuied than mo tho maladies of the body md di«oa«e« oftliemmd, without being talked about." And if this Act serves no other good purpose, it may at least be tho means nf raising tho settlers of Waikato, W.npa, and Ilnglan fiom the apathy which they have in tho past viewed political and Hocial jtioblems into a moro active and earnest, political and social life, with a determination in tho future to only return and support members of the Housq of Reprcsen tativc* who will tluow fiiide all other con dideiiitiotiH and go in for letronchment and reform. — (Own Concspondent.)

Meifsrn W J. Hunter and To will *dl at thr Cambridge Yards on Thur«h\, !he 2-ttli inn , f.it cattle, itore c.ittjr, duiry cow*, tit Uie.-p, 8r In consequence of Saturday, the 2Ulh, bcinfj i. liolidjy, tnt*y will bold their mini Cambnd^e Hone S*lc on Thunday, the 2tth, immrdi ituly nftor the cattle sals, wken thc> will offer f 0 usrful horses «f all kinds, spring cart and barncs*