WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6815, 20 September 1883, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FBOM OUR OWN OOEBE3POKDENT3.] Hamilton, Wedneday. Thb District Court closed yesterday evening, and the Judge returns to Auckland by today's train. In the case Saudes v. Graeme, in which plantiff, a surveyor, sued for £58 special loss aud damage alleged to have occurred through the incompetency of defendant, a surveyor also, in work done for plaintiff. Mr. W. M. Hay appeared for plaintiff, and defendant conducted his own case. A large amount of professional evidence was taken, and a verdict for £18 witn costs recorded in favour of plaintiff. 1 ho case Moore v. Gifford, claim £75, wrongful conversion, was partly heard and adjourned to next Court day. No satisfactory application having been received for the office oi manager of the Waikato cheese factory, Captain Kunciman has been prevailed upon to undertake the duties until such time an appointment is made. The culvert at Crawford's Gully, on tho road to the Tamahere railway station, which is to be built with Wilson's hydraulic liuie, will be 44 feet in the barrel, and about 73 feet overall, and it is proposed to raise the road some 17 feet higher than the level of the floor of the present bridge. It would seem, however, that the Board do not contemplate spending the whole of the £1000 granted by Sir J. Hall for this work, but t> expend some £250 of it on the road leading from Crawford's Gully to the station. Cambridge, Wednesday. Mr. Bailey, on behalf of the Auckland Agricultural Society, made application to the Cambridge Highway Board that certain roads connected with the Fen Court estate should be made according to promise. The Board has replied, stating that in consequence of d-iinage done by recent floods which has had to be made good they were unable to do all that was promised for the Auckland Agricultural Company, but provided the company would subsidise their expenditure at the rate of 6s Sd in the £ they would at once go on with the principal portion of the improvements asked for. Mr. Wilson, the master of the District Hi«h School here, leaves Cambridge at the end of the month for Oamaru, where he has received an educational appointment of £3t)o per annum. Messrs. Forrest and Smith report that they have audited tho public pound accounts of the Cambridge highway district, and believe that by inviting tenders the expense of keeping the pound might be so lowered as to be a gain rather than a loss to the distiict.