WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6817, 22 September 1883, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

«. , [IROM ODR OWN Coßltt->lOM> MS J Hum ton, Friday Mk Poll, Inspector of £siti\e Scluols, , arrived here from Auckland jestenlay and e pio"eoded the same iftcriioon to Wutetuna The railway contract ha\ing been I completed and passed, a Hrgf lot of the j timber used as staging, &c , iu its construe. a tiOn will be soli by auction on Saturday v week—some 40,000 feet at Whytc s landing e and about JO 000 feet near the old puut r bailding m West Hamilton Ml Marshall, c with bone of tho men lately employed on the bridge, leaves to morrow, to take part in ciirymg out the contract held by his firm— the construction of hu tirst section of tl c j 1 Rotoru and 1 hames Valley R ul\va> J Andrew Browning was brought up y ster day at the Police Uiurt, and lined 103 and e costs on a charge ol drunkenness e IiAMUKiuGt Frulaj j. It is extremely improbable th tt Mi A v McDonald will come up to Auckland to 0 confer with Messis WUker and otheis v with reptet to the actions, of ejectm nt ,f pending in the Sur> erne Couib, is they arc 0 quite unable to agiec ou the bisis of , arrangements proposed by him n It will be sitiafa tory for Town Boards 8 such as thii, arid boroi glis of less (j tnan four thomand inhabitants, such jj as Hamilton, that :v ; the member./for ( j. Waikato succeeded iu?getting inserted into y the Public Works Act of last session a" clause [. whereby adjoining.. counties will liave to jt bear their share ■ of i the . inaiuteuance of j bridges. In the case of the Karapiro bridge, ] in the cost eft maintenance Will fall equally on io the Town Board and the Waikato County, 3 and, in the ease of ■ the Hamilton bridge, (n upon the borough and counties of Waikato and Waipa in equal proportions.. '" ,1, An experiment iatoresting . to Highway [ n Boards has been carried out by the Engineei' fo to the Cambridge Highway district in the m metalling of the main road from Cambridge le to Hamilton, From Main's corner towards e _ the road has been recently gravelled, and here and there, at intervals of some few ft _ hundred, yards, there ia a sudden change .„ from the heavy pull through loose gravel to a Short space of firm, hard road, as smooth l( j as asphalt. This difference is caused simply w by adding about. 20 per cent, of loam to the gravel when it is laid on, which causes the ,n gravel to set firm and compact at once, j Any one who knows how for weeks and even a j months a newly gravelled piece of road is a r _ drag upon a team will appreciate the advauw tago so simply attained. „{ ' [' Huntly, Fridiy. lS The engine arid boiler for the pottery k worke. to be established here by the Messrs. 8 g Wright, of Hamilton, arrived in the Poric, J( j and tiio rest of the phut is expected within * ie a couple of months. Mr. Wright has pura_ chased six acres, of land from the company at ' e £30 per acre, partly hill and partly swamp, but tiie clay for the purposes of the manufac}s tu-fe of the finest china cannot be surpassed, j 0 ancl is aaid to be superior even to that at the n Hamilton potteries, where very handsome iq articles in terra cotta, some of which were j exhibited at the Melbourne exposition, have r j been manufactured. The reason for the aa Messrs. Wright removing their works to S8 here is thp advantages of having clay and or coal, railway and water carriage all conja joined. The clay at Huntly, Mr, Wright le (who in an experienced potter of many years' a3 standing at homft) considers, is far superior rn to any to be obtained in tho old country, and n( . if there would be of considerable money m value per ton.