WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6915, 16 January 1884, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[PBOU OCR OVjf-S COBEtSPOKDESTS.] *.? "' Hamilton, Tuesday. OTttt- annual chdrfch meeting of the parishenera of St. Peter's will be held in the Public and Volunteer Hall to-morrow evening. Mr. L. Cossen left yesterday afternoon for fCfti'frih'i proceeding on to Kakepuku last night. Cambridge, Tuesday. It has been resolved to take a poll of the ratepayers whether a earn of £600 shall or shall not be borrowed by the town to pay off the existing debt of £100 on the Public Hall, to expend £325 in improving and enlarging the hall, and a further sum of £175 in additions and improvements to the library building. A match between the two steeplechasers— Douglas' Quilp and 11 r. Rutherford's old Sportsman—has been got up for £25 aaide, and comes off on the Cambridge course on Saturday, the 26th insi. Tama-HEbe, Tuesday. A sad loss has happened to Mr. Cowley, of this place. A fine little girl, about four years of ace, had a sunstroke on Monday and sickened and died. Great sympathy is felt for the parents. Since the fine weather has set in, perhaps from the sudden change, the heat at times has been most oppressive, and it is necessary that parents and others ■hould use the greatest care to prevent children, as they are prone to do, running bareheaded in the sun.