WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6569, 6 December 1882, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] Hamilton, Tuesday. Mr. D. Bekre, the newly arrived Resident Engineer, has received instructions from Wellington to prepare anchorage (as it is termed) for fastening wire ropes or stays from the railway bridge piers to the bank on either side, which work will be immediately proceeded with. Excavations will be made in the soil and solid concrete holding grounds made as anchorage for the wires. Only three of the Hamilton Cavalry Volunteers went to the butts yesterday to fire for the district prizes, and scored as follows: —Lieutenant Johnson, 60 ; Trooper Cochrane, 57, and Trooper W. H. Kelly, 53. Several people left this morning by tho train for Auckland to attend trie sale of the Tauhare township and suburban lands at Messrs. Tonks and Co.'s Auction Rooms tomorrow (Wednesday). The land is some of the most fertile in Waikato, and most conveniently situated for both road and railway communication, and will doubtless form the site of a town of some little importance at no distant date.

One hundred and fifty men arrived yesterday at Te Aroha from the Thames to take up work on Barrow and Foughey's contract for the construction of the tramway. Camuriix; -", Tuesday. The Pukekura Highway Board are about to undertake a long-needed work—the formation of the bad piece of road on Bell'sroad, from Howie's corner to Bell's house ; also tlie widening of the cutting through the town belt on the same road.

Messrs. Mercer and Marshall have got in all the piles for the long viaduct at the Cambridge end of their contract on the railway line over the Tamahere Gully, and in tlie course of a week the heavy timber, for which the continuance of the work has been delayed, will be in Waikato. Many of these beams are 40 feet in length, and, though they have been cut some six months in the bushes north of Auckland, they could not be got out and foi warded e?"lier. The following were the scores made on Saturday at the firing for the troop prizes by the Cambridge or B Cavalry Troop : —Class 1 : Serjeant-Major Fisher, 45 ; Corporal Fergusson, 39 ; Trooper Forrest, 3f>; Sergeant Howie, 35: T.ooper Rhodes, 2!) ; and Sergeant Allwill. 20. Class 2: Trooper Garland, 33 ; Corporal Runciman, 30 ; Trooper McCanu, 30 : Troope.' Crickctt, 2!); Trooper Sharp, 28; Trooper Franklin, 25. Class 3 : Trooper Fitzgerald, 22 ; Sergeant Forrest, 21 ; Trooper Thomas, 10: Corporal Hicks, 11. The ranges were 200, 300, and 400 yards, and the weather very favourable. Tk Awamutu, Tuesday.

Some refreshing showers fell yesterday, and there is every appearance of more to come to-day. The rain was much needed, especially on the pastures. Ihe firing for the district prizes took place yesterday, and some very good shooting was made by the A Cavalry Troop, Lieutenant Bruce scoring 07, and Troopers North, Floyd. Munro, Millett, and Bruce, (Kj. 04, 03, I*2, and 01 respectively. lhi'.osuiA, Tuesday.

At a meeting of tlie District Highway Board tenders were let to Mr. Byrne for keeping the drains clear at the llarapepe end of tho diiitriet, and to Mr. C. Giles for the same work at the lower end, near the Karamu district. Tho tender of Mr. Rocket for earthworks on the lower road was accepted.