WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6261, 10 December 1881, Page 5

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

- \ [from our own correspondents. J Hamilton, Friday. The District Court, owing to the continued absence of the Judge from Auckland, will be further adjourned from the 12th and 13th until 3 p.m. of the 19th and 10 a.m. of the 20th inst. The excitement here over tiie election has been very great, and party feeling never ran so high. Ordinary business has given way altogether to election matters, ami nothing else talked about but the merits and chances of rival candidates. Last night Major Jackson delivered an eloquent and practical address in Hamilton, and completely carried the meeting with him. A new and handsome shop for Mr. James Martin has been commenced by Mr. Price, of Auckland, in Victoria-street, on the pro'perty leased from the Weslevan trustees. Mr. Sims, the contractor for thu railway bridge here, is getting on fast with his work. The two first sets of piles for the temporary or skeleton bridge are driven on the west side the river. A matter in connection with the construction of this bridge has cropped up, and was incidentally Alluded to at last ' night's meeting. It appears that along the ! sides of the line across the bridge it is to be I plauked for a distance of three feet outside •' the rails, leaving the space between this i planking and the outer edges of the bridge open. If this is done it will b« more or less used, in spite of all hindrances, as a passenger bridge, and especially at night, and will then be a dangerous trap for half-druken men. The drop into the rirer below i 3 110 feet. Either the bridge should be plauked throughout or not planked at all if the public safety in this matter is to be taken into account Taufiri, Friday. It will be learned irith satisfaction that Mr. "Whyte, M.H.R., has just received an official letter from Wellington stating that the Hon. Mr. Hall was about at once to appoint a telegraphist and station-master here, the Railsvay Department paying one-half, and the Telegraph Department the other other half of his salary. People here were beginning to think the matter was forgotten. A new flax mill is about to be started across the river by a Mr. Shepherd. Arrangements are being made for a suitable site from Paora Hopera. There is abundance of excellent flax of the best kind in the vicinity. Cambridge, Friday. A serious accident happened to the district engineer, Mr. Lawrence Cussen, who left here one day last week for Taupo on official business. He was riding, and driving a spare horse in front of him, when on the Tokororo ridge a number of wild horses ' were met with, and the horse driven in front by Mr. Cussen galloped away to join them. Mr. Cussen put spurs to his horse and endeavoured to cut the runaway off from the mob of wild animals, and when at full gallop his horse put his foot in one of the numerous holes on the Tokororo, and threw his rider. Mr. Cussen's arm was put out of place, the shoulder blade being forced forward, and his arm twisted up behind him. His brother, Mr. W. Cussen, who was with him, dismounted and not seeing that the arm was injured lifted him off the ground by it, which caused the bone to spring into its place, but before Mr. Cussen could reach Taupo the bone had again got out and returned to the socket more than once. At Taupo Mr. Cussen availed himself of the services of a medical man in the A.C. force, and returned to his home at Hamilton. Traffic on the bridge over the Waikato was suspended for some time the other day, when a waggon loaded with timber, belonging to Berry, Gardner, and Co., of the Ohaupo saw mills, coming down the incline, broke the linchpin, and came down with a . rush on to the bridge. It struck the corner of the bridge on entering upon it with such force as to smash one of the 1 wheels, coming down, load and all, with a . crash. One of the horses was severely cut about the legs. To make matters worse, the driver of a waggon belonging to the Auckland Agricultural Association, crossing the bridge, thought there was room to pass the wreck, and tried it, but got completely . jammed in, and could get neither backwards nor forwards till drays were got, and the timber carried away, and the broken waggon remOTed. i Piako, Friday. i Younc: Mr. Ticklepenny arrived here last , night with sir pure bred bulls for Messrs. ' Morrin and Studholme's Lockerby estate.