WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6052, 11 April 1881, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[from our own correspondents.] Hamilton, Saturday. The usual monthly meeting of the Waikato Council was held yesterday. Present : Capt. Steele, Chairman, and Messrs. Cunning, Primrose, aud Wells. Mr. Wells stated that when in Auckland he had seen Superintendent Thomson, who had promised him that the police should be employed in prosecuting otl'enders under the Dog Registration Act. When the_Superintendent was in Cambridge the other day he, Mr. Wells, again saw him, and understood Superintendent Thomson to have said that he liad so instructed the police. The fact, however, was that up to the present time Constable Brennan, in Cambridge, had received no instructions to act. The matter was a perfect nuisance. If the Act had been enforced while the Maoris were in Cambridge at the Land Court, it would have made a considerable difference to the Town Board revenue. The Secretary, Capt. McPherson, stated that in Hamilton, Sergeant McGovern had received no instructions to put the Act in force. It was then resolved that the Secretary at once telegraph to Superintendent Thomson, asking him to carry out his promise. Mi\ J. S. Buckland's sale of Mr. Leslie's horses, cattle, farm implements, furniture, &c., was well attended yesterday, and on the whole very satisfactory prices were realised. Mr. Barugh, the new proprietor of the property, was one of the principal purchasers. A monster meeting of members of the local bodies to consider the circular issued by the Manawatu Council is to be held at the Waikato Council Chambers on Monday, the 25th instant. Invitations to the members of the Waipa, Piako, and Raglan Counties, and to the members of all Highway and Town Boards in the four counties of Waipa, Waikato, Piako, and Raglan, will be at once issued by the Secretary of the Waikato Council. Should the Council Chambers prove too small for this local parliament, an adjournment can be made to the Oddfellows' Hall. The meeting will take place at 11 a.m. Mr. Vickerman having completed the survey of the 3rd section of the ThamesWaikato line into Morrinsville is now engaged in laying off the Cambridge branch line. The start is made a little nearer to Hamilton than Breakell's trial line, but not sufficiently so as to obviate the very great objections to the junction as intended, which makes a quite unnecessary loop in what will be the main line between Auckland and the lakes. (This was telegraphed on Thursday night, but you seem not to have got it.) "Vickerman's line crosses the Piako road at Captain Steele's, about a quarter of a mile from where Breakell's line crossed it, but then commences inclining towards it and the one line joins in with the other about a mile nearer Cambridge. Tenders have been invited for extensive drainage operations in Maclean and Co.'s Waitoa swamp, referred to in yesterday' 3 letter.

A serious accident occurred to Mr. William Hackett, Mr. Leslie's manager, on Friday, just towards the close of the sale. Mr. Hackett was driving some horses up, when that which he rode "stumbled and threw him heavily, kicking him in the ribs as it got up. At first it was feared his ribs were broken. Fortunately Dr. Waddiugton was on the ground, and he at once examined the sufferer, and found that, though no bones were broken, the muscles over the ribs had been considerably torn and bruised. Mr. Angus Campbell i 3 the successful tenderer for fencing in the Waikato County Council's premises at Hamilton, the cost being £32 10s. Huntly, Saturday. The work of laying off a road from Tole's Hill to Matahura has been commenced by Mr. C. W. BreakeU. The delay in proceeding with, this work has simply arisen from the fact that it was only on Thursday that Mr. BreakeU received the necessary bearings and distances from the Survey Office in Auckland. The length of the line of road will be four and a-half miles. Ngaruawahia, Saturday. Captain Mahon, Drill Instructor to the Education Board, arrived here yesterday, and proceeded at once to the initiation of a system of drill for both boys and girls in our public school, in which he will be efficiently assisted by the teacher, Mr. Chappell. Raglan, Friday. It is time that the main road to the Waipa were looked to before a break up of the fine weather. There are several rather heavy slips at the sidings, aud the consequence is that the water channels choke, and the newly-formed channel cuts away and destroys the road, sending it down hill, and leaving it scarcely wide enough for the passage of a vehicle with safety.