WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6964, 13 March 1884, Page 5

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS; J Hamilton, Wednesday. •The icailipg attention in the Her Alt*. to the inferibr .characiJeir of. the railway'atjation proposed to be. .fereqted at East Hamilton, has • not-beeri; without ;goqd ; effect. A gentleman largely/'interested in adjoining .property baa, interviewed the department on the matter, •and the consequence is that Mr. Halea has stated on behalf of the, Government,; that should the settlers offer inducement; they are prepared to erect a .goods/shed at pnc.6,. i that the plans are already prepared' fop tbeV same; It would be well if thei. settlers would get together sotne statement showing an approximate, estimate of the goods likely to be received from and. delivered at. this .station, and memorialise, the Govern-; ment.iu the matter. The goods traffic of a .large district mustjeome; tb.the East Hamiiton station, including the ,half of. the borough trade*, as it is absurd, to Huppoaoi. that the; bulk of the settlersabout Hamilton pa ths •vYaikato side the river, will be couteoit to cross the river and. use, the goods station at the other eud of the. West, .Hamilton township, . Since writing the above a movement has been initiated 1 amongst the country settlers, around East: Hamilton to memorialise the Government on this subject. . The value of insuring corn stacks. agairißt fire was never nearer being; exemplified, than in the case .of Captain Steele. One day lasifcy. week he had insured his. stacks both at the. home farm and at. and on .the «ame, /afternoon, that- the insurance had been ac.;cepted by the local agent; a neighbour, named Smith, living near the; home farmi•commenced burning the fern to drive the. pukatis away from, his potato.fgarden. Thje fire spread up .the hill towards Captain; Steele's stacks, but Mr. H. Steifele, .becoming i as. quickly as posßibie ; got the farinj •hands together, and with a considerable:: amount of work the fire fairly beateii out:before it could reach sufficiently near th 6. stacks to endanger them..

I , At a meeting of the provisional directors I ,oti the North New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Association, held after , the public j: meeting, it was resolved to lower the number i of shares that may be taken by any: intendi ring shareholders from five to a single £1 I share; which will entitle the holder to all [ the privileges; of membership. In such cases; however, it was. understood that the whole money would have to be paid up at 'once, that: is; 10s on application, and 10s on allotment. This is certainly the way to make.the movement widely popular; and to sbring .to the association what is wanted i to make it a grand, success — customers , rather than mere shareholders: - Another wise , provision would aho be to keep the' qualification for.-the direotory as reasonably low as possible, leat small shareholders,' who may be good business men,, be excluded .from it; The association has already reOaived offers from a very large firm at home to do business with them, the offer being" oabled out as soon as the information of:the' proceedings at the: previous meeting, held at Tamahere in Decemher last, reached home;' A matoh will be played, on Sydney. Square, on the-22nd.instant, between' Te Aroha and a Hamilton crioket team.

Cambridge, Wednesday. . : An; attempt will be made to report the returns of the late' licensing election at Cam-' : bridge west. '/ The best legal authority in the district having given: the opinion that the voting for less than, the' full-number of five candidates is contrary to the Act, In numbers of instances,, ratepayers polled only for four candidates, the temperance ticket. The' effect of an " ouster " will be to let in the five candidates at.the bottom of the poll, in .whose .caso.there was..no .such alleged : informality.:' ■ . .

, Considerable dissatisfaction is expresied at the .want, of. courtesy .shown by the authorities to suitors and' parsons interested; in; the adjournment .of.: theNativeLandCourtat . Ohinemutu' to the 0.215t! instant ■ ' It 'was called for the sth instant, and when parties arrived at ,tHe. Ohinemutu fCourthouse' they found a .the adjournment-posted on the door. ; Notice was also given of the adjournment in the Cambridge Land Court, but only on the! sth instant, the very day suitors and other, were supposed to be at Ohinemutu, ' Surely such notice might have been given as would have saved natives and useless journey. .Tourists■■ for..'the:-.ijakes,.continue. to.arrive afloat daily. Yesterday Mr. C. Johnstone, from Hamilton, brought up a party of five— three gentlemen and two ladies—who stopped at Kirkwood's Club-house, and left early' this morning for Ohinemutu, which,, place they , will. roach comfortably by .five, o'clock this afternopn'.The bush road is one of the beat buflh -roads in the colony—not a stump 'having been left, and as smooth and hard as a maoadaihised street. Of course, this state of.' things.; cannot' continue when once the weather, breaks, but then the tourißt season will be over.