WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6296, 21 January 1882, Page 5

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[from our own correspondents.] Hamiltos, Friday. Grovk Vo\vi,e.s.s was yesterday committed on the fifth charge of cattle stealing— namely, stealing a heifer, the property of Mr. Kay lies, of Hamilton. The defence was that he had taken the animal by mistake for one of his own, and that two other beasts, the property of Mr. Raynes, had been taken and sold at the same time Dy a neighbour of Mr. Raynes of the most unimpeachable integrity; showing that if the mistake could happen in one case, it could happen in another. Again, it may be asked, could such a state of tilings happen with a properly stringent Branding Act? Settlers, should enforce on the notice of their local representatives the necessity for a Branding Act making compulsory the branding of cattle. The Borough Council having been called on by the Public Works Department to provide a sum of £23S towards the cost of screwing up and painting ihe Hamilton Bridge, and having no money at their credit to the general account, but an overdraft against them of £420, and having a sum of £121 only to their credit for bridge purposes, have determined to take up a £100 bridge debenture, and pay no attention to the request of the Public Works Department. Really, there is no such thin" legally as a Hamilton borough, or Borough Council, owing to the flaw in the original declaration of the borough boundaries in the New Zealand Gazette, and the Bill to amend the boundaries having lapsed last session in the Legislature, the borough, mayor, and councillors ha\ r e no legal existence. Hence the lion-collection of rates. Actually, as the borough boundaries are now defined, that portion of the borough on the west side the river is part of the Hamilton highway district. Cambridge, Friday. Great dissatisfaction is expressed here at the falling through of all attempts to enable a Waikato team to meet the English Eleven in Auckland. We have no suitable ground here, or there is little doubt public subscriptions would be forthcoming to make up any deficiency in the gate money fund, which would of course follow the holding of the match where there is no large centre of population. It is understood that every hope of an anangement has fallen through. It will be well for householders tliroughoutWaikato to remember that Monday next is the day appointed for the election of local school committees in the several school districts. The office is a most important one, and there have not been wanting in Waib ato during the last year or two examples of the mischievous effect of letting such elections take their own course, whereby iignorant and narrowminded men are placed in a position i in which they can destroy the usefulness of I a teacher's work, and so injure the cducv - tional advancement of the children a 1 whole district.