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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2344, 19 July 1887, Page 2

Several letters to the Editor, an Otorohanga correspondent's letter and oilier items are unavoidably liekl over. We draw attention to alterations in advertisement referring to Mr Whyte’s meetings with his constituents. On and after the 25bh Matamata railway station will bo treated as a Hag station. Major Jackson publishes an address to the electors of Waipa in this issue. He announces himself as an opponent of the present tiovermnont. A meeting of the Hamilton Cemeteries Trust was held last night. On the motion of Mr 801 l it was resolved to close the east cemetery paddock at the end of the month, owing to the bad state of the fence, the fees paid this month to be refunded. This was all the business. At Mr T. B. Lewis’s meat sale on Saturday, Mr James Forrest realised ft! 10s upon a beast that he had offered several times at the auction sale, and had never been bid more than i!2 17s (id for. Ninety-nine pieces of moat were sold at from 2d to -Id per lb. A meeting for the purpose of forming a cadet volunteer corps in Hamilton is called for next Friday evening in the Public Hall. Barents and guardians interested are invited to attend. Wo understand that if a sufficient number of boys are enrolled, a gentleman who has had great experience in volunteering circles will consent to take them in hand, and judging from the able and efficient manner in which he conducted his onerous duties whilst tilling the position of an officer of a Thames corps, the hoys of Hamilton would soon be brought to the fore. An example of how the Cambridge Court hnsim'ss is likely to work now the clerk is removed to Auckland, occurred yesterday, when a lad named David Green was brought up before Major Wilson and Mr T. 11. Lewis, J. 8., charged witli stealing a rail, the property of Mr James Meredith, on the previous Saturday. The lad was placed in the dock, his father also being in court. Constable Brennan stated the case, and said it was his intention to ask the bench to cant-ion and discharge the prisoner, as ho was of weak intellect, and the father intended trying to got him sent, to an industrial school. Ho had been looked up during Saturday night, and had only

Infill admitted to bail on Sunday afternoon, and no doubt that would prove a caution to him. .Mr Meredith was not anxious to have him punished, and only wished the paltry thefts u£ timber to which he had been subjected of late stopped. After this preamble the lid was asked to plead, and insisted on doing so as not guilty, consequently it became necessary to prove the charge. Upon the witnesses, Meredith and his son, being called, neither of them appeared, and the court was adjourned until ■J o'clock for their production, the lad being allowed to depart in his father’s charge. At 2 p.m. the witnesses wore present, but the lad and his father failed to show up, and after the constable had scoured the town he caught the boy playing in one of the streets and took him to the Court house. The case was then proceeded with, after the justices had been kept waiting half-an-hour. The charge having been proved the lad was released, the Bench recommending the constable to advise the father to give him a thrashing, and also apply to the R.M. on Friday next, when his court sits, to send him to the training school. The constable, who also had to act as clerk of the court, had a lively time of it, and what with looking after magistrates, witnesses and tlie prisoner, was not sorry when the case was finished. The Bench commented strongly upon the delay, but could not blame the constable, as he had to fill so many oflices.