WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6828, 5 October 1883, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN 00RBESPONDENTS.] Hamilton, Thursday. A meeting of the Borough Council waß held last night. Present The Mayor, and Messrs. Peat, Tippen, McDonald, Bradley, Gaudia, Cochrane, Davy, and Von Sturmer. Seddon-street, recently laid out across the East Hamilton Domain, was formally named and dedicated. A motion for the appointment of the whole Counoil as the Works Committee was lost, and an amendment carried appointing Messrs. Davey, Cochrane, Gaudi o, Tippen, and Peat. The whole Council Was elected a Finance Committee, and Messrs. Davy, Von Sturmer, and the Mayor a Furze Committee. The Council refused to: receive the report of the Worts Committee, as it was proved that the report was written' by the Chairman without the meeting, whose report it was snpposed to be, having met. The report was referred back again. Several amounts were passed, which broaght the overdraft up to a sum of £788. ' A committee of enquiry, consisting of Messrs. Bradley, Coch-' rane, and Gaudin, was appointed to enquire j into the circumstance a quantity of 61J yards of gravel having been laid on a footpath 3£ chains in length only, in Hoodstreet, and for the irregularity of the voucher. A niotion was carried by a majority of one censuring the Mayor in stopping the removal of grass from the footpath in Hood-street. When the local Postmaster, Mr. Logie, was in Auckland as a witness in the recent forgery case, arrangements were made for the transmission of an afternoon Hamilton mail to Auckland on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. This mail will close at half-past one p.m. A serious buggy accident happened on the Waikato Cheese Company's premises on Tuesday. . Mr. . and Mre. S. S. Graham had been visiting the newly-opened cheese factory, like many others, and the buggy and horses had stood quietly for nearly an hour in the paddock alongside the building. Oa leaving Mrs. Graham had taken her seat, the reins being still fastened to the lamp, and Mr. iGraham was in the act of lifting a child into the carriage, when a sadden bnrst of steam from the escape-pipe frightened the horses, and they dashed furiously away, upsetting and smashing' the buggy, and throwing out Mrs. Graham, who was so severely shaken thftt she has since been confined to her bed-

Cambridge, Thursday. The soiree in connection with the Cambridge West Wealeyan Church will be held on Wednesday next. A public meeting will be held after the soiree.

Mr. A. B. Stubbing, surveyor, will accompany the directors of the Auckland Meat Freezing Company, who start in a few days to inspect the overland sheep route between Patetere and Napier, with a view to selecting the sites for the various camping stations for the sheep required on the road. The plant of Mr. 1). Fallon, contractor for the Lichfield section of the Rotorua Railway, arrived in Hamilton yesterday.