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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2311, 3 May 1887, Page 2

A concert and dance in connection with the Paterangi Cricket Club will be held in the Paterangi school-room on Friday evening. The R.M-S- Alameda, with the European and American mails, arrived at Auckland on Saturday. Amongst the passengers was Mr Thomas Russell, who is ! on a visit to the colony. The annual meeting of the rate-! payers of the Mangapiko Road District will be held on Friday next at 2 p.m., and that of the Tuhikaramea on the following day at the same hour. The election of the officers of Lodge Beta, Waikato, 450, 1.C., for the ensuing year will take place at the Masonic Hall, Hamilton, on Thursday evening next. Much-needed rain has fallen during the last few days, and the country is gradually resuming its wonted appearance of green. Provided only the frosts keep otf for a time there will be a good bite of feed before we enter on the winter. Mr Bullock-Webster has leased Lake House, Hamilton, with the estate attached, to Col. Forbes, a retired Indian official, for three years. Mrand Mrs BullockWebster intend leaving for England in a few weeks, and Col. Forhes will enter into occupation shortly. • Dr. G. G-. Kenny, the newly ap^ pointed medical officer of the Waikato District Hospital, accompanied by Mrs Kenny, arrived at Hamilton on Saturday, to take up his permanent abode amongst us. He has inspected the hospital buildings, and reports that the arrangements already made are very satisfactory. The lease of the Whaingaroa Hot Springs, with 221jacres attached, was submitted to public competition at the Hamilton Auction Mart on Saturday, and found a purchaser in Mr Wilson, of Waitetuna, at the upset price of £12 per annum. Amongst other conditions, the lessee is bound to erect an accomodation house capable of holding ten people. The many friends of Mr W. Macgregor Hay will be pleased to learn that he is surely, if slowly, recovering from his late severe illness. He is, however, still very weak, and the doctors have recommended three months rest. During his illness Mr Hay has received numerous flattering proofs of the esteem in which he is held by his professional brethren in Auckland. The following tenders have been received by Mr D. Richardson, of Cambridge, for the erection of a house at Te Rapa, for Mr J. Hill: —A. 0. Kelly, Hamilton, £225; A. Connelly, junr., Hamilton, £235; W. F. Madigan, Cambridge, £279 ; R. Gracie, Hamilton, £282 18s; Ohye aud Rauch, Ohaupo, £283; T. Chapman, Ohaupo, £285 ; Thomas Evans, Hamilton, £290; J. N. Millar, Cambridge, £296; H. Kusabs, Ohaupo, £313; W. B. Smith, Tamahere, £322. A fine promising little "boy, four years of age, the only son of Mr R. F. Sandes, of Hamilton, died somewhat suddenly on Saturday evening from acute laryngitis, superinduced by a bad cold. All that medical aid could do was done, but in vain. The universal sympathy felt for the bereaved parents was manifested yesterday, when, despite the condition of the weather, tne funeral was largely attended. The religious service was performed by the Rev. R. O'C. Biggs, Incumbent of S. Peter's, in the church and at the grave in the We3t cemetery, in the most impressive manner.

We have several times attempted to draw the attention of the Cambridge Borough Council, to the damage being done to a number of English trees growing in

Fort-street, by tho pines that are slowly but surely smothering them. Hitherto we have beon unsuccessful. But now that the surfaceman has received instruc tions to top the before mentioned pines, (vide-report of last council meeting) we 1 would again suggest that they be felled, and thus allow the English trees full scope to expand. If they were worth planting, they are surely worth looking after ; and the nice fresh green of their leaves would be much more pleasant to gaze upon that the dull sombre colour of the pines. Then again they would not shade the street in winter as the pines do ; consequently it would be drier. i