CAMBRIDGE NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1900, Page 6

CAMBRIDGE NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

CAMBRIDGE, Monday.

The monthly meeting- of the Cambridge Road Board was held on Saturday, there being present Messrs J. Taylor (Chairman), L. Edson, M. Butler, W. H. Thomas and J. May.

It was resolved to inform the contractor for forming Morgan's Road that he must proceed with the work at once, or the Board would do it at his expense.

There was a very lengthy discussion j about a g-ate on one of the by roads that a ratepayer had requested should be moved. The one who made the request Is a member of the Board (Mr L. Edson, son of thewell known chemist of your city), and the individual against whom the complaint was lodged is Mr H. Gillett, who has a fruit farm at Hautapu, but whose residence is in Ponsonby. The Clerk of the Board had given Mr Gillett notice that the gate must be removed forthwith, or the Board would remove It at his expense. To that Mr Gillett replied that a former owner of the ground had erected the gate, and that it was not any nuisance, in fact it was only used by Mr Edson, and only seldom by him. He further stated that the Board had taken gravel, from the road to, such an extent that his property was injured, and if they insisted on the gate being removed he should claim damages. ■The Board evidently very reluctantly resolved to remove the gate, and of course that will mean that the whole of the gates on roads in the district, many of which are of great convenience to settlers, and are no inconvenience to anyone, will also have to be removed.

The only other business of importance was calling tenders for the gravelling of Thorntpn Road, and "it was also resolved to reform a portionof No. 1 Station Road. : ■'■''-..'.

At the morning service at St. Andrew's Church on« Sunday, r Archdeacon Willis said, he thought the good news received, about Kimberley. being relieved was a partial answer to the prayers of the :whole of the Anglican Church, who held special services of supplication and prayer the previous Sunday for the success of our army in the Transvaal, and in the middle of his sermon he called up on the congregation to stand up and sing- tha hymn commencing, "Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven, to his feet Thy Tribute Bring." The response was most hearty, both choir and congregation singing most lustily.

Volunteering is going to boom in Cambridge, and the inhabitants intend having a troop'of their,own. Captain Reid was here on Saturday and in'the evening?r -15 young men of the-neighbourhood joined the Mounted Rifles, and there is every probability of that- number being largely augmented. The stumbling block is the horses, for many who would like to join have not the animals, and could not afford to keep them if they had.

We lost one of our old settlers by this morning's train, for Mr B. comer and his family departed for Gisborne, where he has bought an. estate. His son George, who does a little in the steeplechase line, is well known to many Aucklanders. We imderstand Mr. Comer will confine himself chiefly to sheep, but1 'Will' doubtless-; breed- horses,; as ■well, -for the country 'is admirably " adapted for that business.