The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state 01 persuasion, religious or political. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2336, 30 June 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state 01 persuasion, religious or political. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1887.

The installation of the officers ol Lodge Alpha, Cambridge, takes place this evening, when a largo number of visiting brethren are expected to be present. The manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Auckland (Mr S. Kissling), has obtained from the directors a well-earned holiday of six months, and intends visiting Europe; Sir Charles Clifford, who was created a baronet on tho occasion of the distribution of the Jubilee honours, was one — of the representatives returned by Wellington to the first Parliament in 1854. Mr William Lyons, bookmaker, Auckland, left for Sydney yesterday, where he intends to take 'up his abode permanently. He was entertained at a banquet on Tuesday night by about 50 of tho sporting faternity. At the RM. Court, Hamilton, yesterday, before Mr H. W. Northcroffc, R.M., William Wheellan and Jno. Proctor were fined 10s each for furious riding. Several small civil cases were disposed of. We learn that Cambridge is about to beliome possessed of another solicitor, in the person of Mr Ansenne, who has been for some time with Messrs Hughes and George of Auckland, and has lately graduated as a solicitor. We were yesterday shown a very fine sample of swedes which had been grown on what we were assured was some of the worst land on the Patetere estate at Lichfield. Land that will produce turnips such as those we saw cannot bo of bad quality. There was a distinct change in the weather on Tuesday, which day was bitterly cold. When the rain clouds cleared away, Pirongia was seen to be clad in a mantle of snow. Hard frosts were experienced on Tuesday, Wednesday, and last night. The candidates now definitely out for Tauranga, are Messrs L. M. Grace, K. King, W. Kelly and Judge Gill. A letter received by the last mail from England, states that Mr George Yesey Stewart will shortly leave for New Zealand. It it is probable that he will also be a candidate for Tauranga. Mr C. 0 Davis, the well-known Maori interpreter, died at Auckland on Tuesday. Mr Davis arrived in the colony in the year 1830. It was popularly supposed at one time that Mr Davis was the originator of the Hau Hau movement, and he was actually arraigned for high treason but got off. Two candidates were nominated yesterday for the vacancy in the Hamilton Borough Council, caused by the retirement of Cr. Edgttcumbe, namely, Mr John Parr, nominated by Messrs William Jones and William Woods, and Mr S. E. Greville Smith, proposed by Messrs E. L. Smith and R. Edwards. The poll will taken on Thursday next, the 7th July. The election of a councillor to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the election of Mr C. J. W, Barton to the mayoral chair took place on Tuesday. The friends of both candidates worked hard, and almost every available vote was polled. The result was as followsMr J. 11. E. Hatrick, 83; Mr H. M. Salmon, 70 ; the total number of votes polled being 153. The remains of the late Mr R. Wood were interred in the Hamilton East Cemetery yesterday. The funeral cortege was a large one, including about twenty vehicles and a large number of horsemen. The religious service was conducted by the Hev. 11. O'C. Biggs, Incumbent of S. Peter's, assisted by the Rev. W. Calder, of All Saint's, Auckland. Universal .sympathy is expressed for the bereaved parents in their terrible sorrow. The two young Cockheads were yesterday charged before Mr Northcroft, at Hamilton, with unlawfully wounding a lad named Roache. The facts of the caso have already been published. The police offered no evidence, and the Magistrate, in discharging tho prisoners, read them a severe and wholesome lecture, to which they paid close attention, and which'they are not likely to forget. We are pleased to notify that a meeting of those interested in the Pakuranga hounds coming to Waikato this season will be held at Delaney's Hotel, Ohaupo, on Tuesday next, at noon. Those wlO have had an opportunity of following this: excellent pack across country, under the able management of Tom Brown, will, we feel sure, put in an appearance at the meeting, and do all in their power to assist. Our Raglan correspondent writes: —The unsettled weather still continues. During Thursday night a heavy thunderstorm broke over the district, and the rain came down at times like a deluge. Never have I known it cotne down in greater quantities here. Agricultural and garden work is much retarded by the unfavourable weather of the last month, as early planting is of "great importance here.— Major Jackson may soon be expected over here. He was to have come this week, but he had to go to Auckland. At present no one else seems to be coming out. A miner, named James Clarkson, working in the Miranda Coal and Iron Company's mine .at Bridgewater, near Mercer, was seriously injured on Tuesday by falling down the main shaft of the workings. Nothing is known concerning the origin of the accident, but it is surmised that the poor fellow was knocked off one of the higher levels by the cage as it was ascending and thrown to the bottom. He was immediately despatched to the Auckland Hospital, where his injuries, which consisted of a wound on the head that had laid the skull bare, and an injury to the ankle, were promptly attended to by the doctor in charge. At the next ordinary meeting of the Auckland Education Board, which takes pldce on Friday, the consideration of the'following motion, of which notice liaß already been given by Mr Carr, will take place" That in view of the depression in trade, the excessive taxation (general arid local), the privations and inconvenience experienced by a largo proportion of the people, whose incomes are considerably reduced, and the widespread distress among the wage-earning class sauscd by want of employment, this board resolves th.it, after due notice, all salaries exceeding £>JOO shall be reduced to that ■mm, and thar, one of the clerks in the office be dispensed with," The usual monthly meeting of the Waitoa Road Board was held last Saturday. Present: Messrs Chepmell (in the chair), Burnett, Horrell, and Rowe. The engineer reported that the bridge and sarthwork contract at the Waitoa river, on :he Maungakawa-Waiorongornai road, is learly finished, and the contracts on McGlashnn's road and on roads at Richnoiid are well on towards completion, but ;he weather has been so bad that it is difficult to make much progress with such work, bearing ditch and repairing road near Te irol.rp West Cemetery was reported as inishcdj'.qs a number of other small obs in various part* of tJje district. Tho ingineor was instructed to get a iiismbpr of ither small jobs done. The amount of ato to be pnicj was deferred for further onsideratiorj at next njee|ing of the board, idien each member js expected t() "cixp?'css n opinion as to tije amount of money that rill require tra.bo expended i;i the different arts of the district for the ypar, »o that hey may cut their coat according to their loth, so r to speak, in making the rate. All re anxious to make it as small as possible, iccounts amounting to #379 8s (5d were asued for payment.

A meeting of the chairmen and members of the various local bodies in Waikato and Waipa will be held at Le Quesne's Hall, Hamilton, on Thursday next, the 7th, at 11 a.m., for the purpose of discussing the present financial state of the colony. We learn, through a private source, that the sitting of the Native Lands Court.at Cambridge for the further hearing of the sub-division cases in the Pukekura and l'uahoe blocks has again been adjourned, from the sth of July until September lith. We trust that in this instance the authorities will take care that the natives have timely warning of "the change and that proper notices are issued. At the last adjournment the notices were affixed to the board outside the Public Hall at Cambridge, where the court was to have been held, just eighteen hours before the appointed time for the sitting to commence. That was not nearly sufficient. A telegram was sent to a native interpreter residing in Cambridge, requesting him to warn the natives of the change. This he did, at considerable trouble; and duly forwarded an account for £2 2s the authorities, for having done so. To this he received the followingfrom theßegistr ir of the Court: —l return the accompanying voucher as it is one that I cannot certify to. I asked you to let any natives you might come across to know that the court had been adjourned, as I should have asked any other interpreter who might be living' in Cambridge. It was quite open for you tojdo so or not, as you thought proper, but having done it, it is not a matter for which you claim payment." We must say that had we been in the interpreter's place, and (had been_ requested by theßegistrar to perform this — to our thinking—very necessary work ; we certainly should expect to be paid for it. It seems the Registrar has not the slightest compunction in asking the Cambridge interpreters to give their services, when it suits him ; and yet when he has the chance he does not make any return. During the last sitting of thie Court at Cambridge, the Registrar—who was acting as interpreter—was called away. At the time there were two licensed interpreters residing in the town, and if they are to perform gratuitous works for him, we think the least he could have done would have been to have employed one of them. Instead of that being done a half-caste interpreter— against whom we have not a word to say— was employed, and the Cambridge men were shut out. Can we wonder at their being wrath, especially when they knew that the interpreter employed was largely interested in the Ngatiapuakuara claim for the blocks before the court. Verily! " for ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain" commend us] to the Native Lands Court.