WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5885, 27 September 1880, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

•■■ :—« [ritoM ovr oim correspondents.] : Huntley, Saturday. The want of a cattle pen at the railway station here is much felt. There is no place within five miles where cattle goiDg from or •' coming to Huntley. can be got on or off the railway trucks. . The railway will kill our cattle for us at our doors as they often do, : but oa the other hand they won't give' us : the accommodation of taking our cattle up or letting them out at our doors. It is somewhat hard to see the train passing the station, and to have no nearer cattle-pens than those five miles away. Hamilton, Saturday. The infant daughter of Mr. Lee, billiard marker at the Waikato Hotel, East Hamilton, was severely scalded yesterday by a jug of hot water falling over it. The left side of the infant's face and head and its left side were much i3calded. Dr.Sandes was passing along the street at the time, and was at once called in aad. dressed the injured parts, and under his skilful care the child appears to be likely to recover the shock to the system, which was a severe one. The first bit of b.-jrb wire fencing put up in Hamilton has jast been completed to-day. Mr. E. Gwynne is fencing a portion of the town belt leased by him from the Domain Board; It makes a splendid fence, as those who wish to see what it is like may judge for themselves. A considerable portion of the town belt leased some twelve months ago or ■ more has been worked and brought into cultivation.. The adjoining sections of about aix acres each have been cultivated and laid down iD grass by M essrs. Hume, Gwynne, and Wallnut. 'Mr. Price has another similar sized section on which he grew potatoes last year, aad has now a splendid sole of grass, and Messrs. Bradley and Vialou have also their sections fenced in and graseed. A portion of the approach at the Cambridge end of the Tamahere bridge, on the main i road between Hamilton and Cambridge, has been washed away by yesterday's rain. There is an ugly and dangerous hole some two or three feet across juat in the line of wheel traffic. Te Awamotu, Saturday. The price paid by Mr. Malcolm Taylor for Mr. Bruce's farm was not £14 but £15 per acre, all the more gratifying as showiDg the estimation in which land here is held by old residents.