WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6564, 30 November 1882, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[BY TELE«IKAI'H. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] H \mii.ton, Wednesday. A SIM of £''2 in money was taken at the doors .it the children's concert last right. The lu-t proceeds will probably realise tll.'i. There w:\s only one ease at the K.M. Court to-day-T. Daltnn v. H. 1 , . MePherson. The complainant charged the defendant with assaulting liis son, Charles Palton, u;:.ler fourteen years of age, by sinking him on the shoulder with a tea-tree stick, and on the arm with a strap. The evidence showed that the lad had be.-n working for the defendant, lie e.in.e on to work, and had a dispute about the time owe-1 for, the defendant telling him to go away, and he would settle with his father. The boy refused to go, using very foul language. The Resident .Magistrate dismissed" the charge, the complainant to paj- the costs. .'!.~>s. The magistrate s.iid that if Ciiarles I talton had bewn arrested under tlie Vagrant Act he v.-oul.l have committ. d him to an industrial school, and added flog-iug to the sentence, i'here were no civil eases. I FROM OUK OWN , CORIIkSI'ON UiINTS. J Ni:.VKU iW.uiIA, Wednesday. At the monthly meeting of the Newcastle Highway Hoard it was resolved to address- a letter to Captain Lindsay, as councillor for the riding, asking him to vote for the suspension o't the Ci.iinti.-s Act at t'ne meeting ul the Waipa Cnimty Council. A meeting will be held on Saturday next here to consider the advL-übility of borrowing money for road works tinder the Koads , Construction Act. At the Whatawhata eud of the Newcastle district a meeting of ratepagers was held on t'ne •J.'kli inst., when a vote in favour of borrowing was carried unanimously. Tk AwAMfiT, Wednesday. A iirst meeting of creditors in the estate of Archib ,1 .Miller, builder and carpenter, was ieh! * sterday. Mr. (Jresham appeared for :he .! ..tor. Tlie liabilities amount to a sum )f .Cll.') tis (id, and the assets are put down at L':{.">. There are some twenty-three creditors, )f whom a few are in AueUlend. jMr. 11. T. Mblcy was appointed creditors' trustee. -Mr. \V. Colby is, your readers will, many 'f tilt-in, regict to luar, seriously ill. The cheese and bacon factory is taking iiiiiu-u.si-ly v ith the settlers, paying betteV hail Imttor-mukii.g at hume, and rcliuvins; he family of much of the drudgiry entailed >y dairying. The (jnantity of milk sent into he factory is now e'.ose upon f>oo gallons laily. At the Police Court, before .Mr. \ T ortheroft, U.M., Alexander Campbell was inod £2 and e.».-.t«. '-'.'{s, for maliciuu.s injury o property beloiiying to the (Government. It has been decided at a meeting of the epresentativea of the Kihikihi and Tc Awamtu Wtaloyan Churehea to hold a joint azaar in To Awamutu some time- iu March e.\t, with tlie object of making improvelfciits to the 'I'e Av.ainutu church and payig oil a portion of the debt on the Kihikihi hurch.