WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6824, 1 October 1883, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[PEOM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

Hamilton, Saturday. - Local bodies, it appears, will not be able to obtain the rates due on Crown lande until after the rolls have been made out.

Mr, Primrose has given notice of his intention to propose that a general county rate be struck at the next meeting of the Waikato Connty Council. There were-.foe ■■ tenders for erecting the four bridges at Ran-iriri, on the main road, namely: R. Muir,' £ Sl6; J. S. O'Brien, £773; D. Henderson, £750; and A. Nicol (accepted), £741. . ■• An important alteration will bemadein the mail coach service between Hamilton anit Te Aroha, which will afford considerable convenience to travellers between Auckland and that goldSeld. The mail coach will Conner £ with the train at Hamilton, leavirig Hamilton at half-past two p.m., and reaching TeArohaateL-ht p.m. on-Monday, Wednesday and .Friday. It will leave Tβ Aroha at seven a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, arriving at Hamilton at half-past one p.m., in time to catch the afterneon train which leaves Hamilton on those days for Auckland, at two p.m. A proposition waa made by Mr. Wells at the Waikato County meeting yesterday, bat no motion was made upon it—that the Legislature should be urged to so alter the provisions for hangiog up the Counties Act, that the. majority of the consent of threefifths of the ratepayers should refer only to the number of those who voted on the matter. Thus, if the ratepayers of-a county numbered 1000, and only 501 voted, 301 for, and 200 against the hangiog up of the Act, this vote should be taken as comprising three-fifths of the electorate—the 499> disfranchising themselves by not voting. At ths monthly meeting of the Waikato County Council, held yesterday, there were present—Messrs. Piimrose (in the chair), Wells, Graham, Kunciman, Hewitt, and Johnston. Mr. Forrest attended as a deputation from the Cambridge Highway Board, to obtain an adjustment .of accounts as between the Cambridge town and county riding, alleging that the former had received moneys which really belonged to the latter, and claiming a return of a sum of £29 in dispute., Mr. Forrest contended that there was a balance due to the county riding, that is, the Cambridge highway district, of £137, while Mr. Wells contended that, if the revenue and expenditure were examined, it would be found that, instead of £29 going to the county riding, the latter had been over subsidised, and. £82 was due to the lown. The Chairman stated that the Council had, at a previous meeting, affirmed, by resolution, that this £29 was due from the town to the county riding accounts, and that no alteration would be made tmloss that resolution were formally rescinded. A sum of £50 was voted to the Cambridge couuty riding, for the maintenance of the HamiltonCambridge main road.

S£S£3 I£3BCambridge, Saturday. It will be learned with satisfaction that, though considerable unnecessary delay has occurred in completing the Cambridge railway, there is no intention of indefinitely shelving the work, as has been widely circulated was the case. Mr. J. B. Wbyte, before leaving Wellington, saw * the Hon. Mr. Johnston, who told him that he might, on his return to Waikato, assure his constituents in all good faith that the line would be gone on with at once, and Mr. Blackett informed him that all the plans and specifications necessary were prepared. It is to be regretted that tenders for laying the permanent way, building stations and goods-sheds, and preparing the station yard at Cambridge have not been meantime called for, by which much unnecessary delay in opening the line might have been saved. Notice has been posted here that at the adjourned meeting of the Native Lands Court, to be held here on Tuesday, all business will be adjourned to a future date, excepting the Tatua case, in that as the action of the Court in this case will be in writing none of the parties interested need attend. The Tamahere Highway Board have made application to the County Council for assistance in making the Victoria-road passable, stating that, as a Highway Board, they could not keep the''road open until outfall drains,-"which would cost nearly £1000, had been made. It is understood that; the Government will not do this work, but will sell tho land'lately surveyed by Mr. F. Bdgecumbe undrained as it U. The County Council resolved to communicate with Mr. S. Percy Smith, and point out that if the drain weremade and the cost apportioned to the upset price of the land, it would sell more readily than in the state it now is, as if sold to several parties, and one refused to take share in the necessary drainage work, all those above him would be unable to drain. It was also resolved to ask that the land might be sold in smaller noldidgs than proposed, and on the deferred payment aystem. The New Year's meeting of the Cambridge Jockey Club will be held on the Ist January next.

Hustly, Saturday The Government will, it appears, not undertake the work of constructing a traffic bridge here over the Waikato, which would cost some £5000. The two counties of Raglan and Waikato are the local bodies whose duty it is to take up the matter, and provided the Waikato Steam Navigation Company, which will be largely benefitted by the woek, will do its share, the matter is likely practical form, the money being procurable under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act. The bridge at the Mill Creek, Waierangi,. which is in a dangerous state, is about to be re-built, Mr. W. Ross having undertaken to replace it for the sum of £24 and the use of the planking in the floor of the old bridge. Tenders have also been ordered to be called for expenditure of £350 in works in forming the Churchill-road on the road between Rangiriri and Whangamarino. KihikiHi', Saturday

The forty-two acres of the Remain land have been leased to Messrs. Rigg and Empsom for a term of twenty-one years.