WAIRATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7005, 30 April 1884, Page 6

WAIRATO DISTRICT NEWS.

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H«Milton, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Borough Council held last night, the burgess list was adopted aad confirmed. The Clerk sto ted that rates had been paid np close to £600, and that whereat last year the number of burgesses o> the roll was only 220, this year it was 24-i. In the case of the proposal to raise a loan for the clearing of the debt on the Public Hall, it will be necessary to have the votes' of 123 burgesses recorded in its favour. Tne elections for two trustees to the Tamahere and Kirikiriroa Road Boards take plaoe at tbe annual meeting* on Thursday and Friday respectively. This season appears to have been a mast extraordinarily favourable one to the growth of potatoes iu Waikato. It is only a few days ago your Whatawhata correspondent drew attention to the large crop, namely, 30 tons of saleable potatoes grown by Mr. G. Little, from 1$ acres of ground. An even etill larger crop has been grown by Captain Kunciman, of Tamahere. A square chain, exactly one-tenth of an acre, in a clover paddock, which three years ago was unreclaimed land, was dug up and planted with 601bs. of Suttpn's Flonrballs. The result haa been 26 full-sized sown up sacks of eatable potatoes, and some 2 bnsbels over ; or as 12 sacks go to a ton, fully 22 tons to tbe acre. Patrick Sheriugton was yesterday fined 5s and coste at the Police Court for drunkenness. The severity of the sentence of Captain Corbett, of Cambridge, on the three men— Hempenstall, Brown, and Harry Dunnthree months at Mount Eden, for being found sleeping in the hayloft of » Cambridge hotel, has been severely commented on here. The last-named, who has been sent to gaol as a vagrant for three months, is a working man, well known in Hamilton for the last sixteen years, and is the owner of two vainable acres in the borough, atd of a fifty-acre section in the neighbourhood. A memorial is being sent to the Minister of Justice representing the hardship of the case. At the directors' meeting of the Co-opera-tive Association held yesterday, some were for closing the share list at once, but this was opposed, as mauy nettlers in some country districts had uot had an opportunity of making application. The people at Rodney, for instance, had only juat telegraphed to ask that Mr. Grant, of Grant and Crossan, might visit the settlements in that county, with a view to explaining the objects of the association, Ac. 'Ihe same was the case with Gisborne and other districts. The desire of the promoters of the association is to have the bulk of the applicants from the country districts. The majority of applications are for five shares only. Mr. Grant has placed some 900 shares in the country districts between Mercer and Auckland.

Cambridge, Tuesday. Messrs. J. Fiaher and K. Keynolds have been re-elected nserubeis of the fukekura Highway Board.

A tire occurred on Sunday night, by which the dwelling house occupied by a man named Vosper at Pukekura was destroyed. A fire had been left burning dunng the inmates' absence at evening church, and it is supposed that the embers must have fallen on the floor and thus caused the accident.

The annual meeting of the Cambridge Highway District takes place on Saturday, when the election of two trustees will also be proceeded with.

Nominations for the vacant seat in the Waikato County Council for the Cambridge ridiog, and for that for the Cambridge distnot riding, must be sent in to the Returning Officer by noon of Tuesday next.

Kihikihi, Tuesday. Some little indiguatton is expressed here at the attempt of the Alexandra Town Board to lease the ten-acre reserve in this township, which, by some incomprehensible mistake, was set apart in this township for Alexandra during Colonel Haul tain's term of office. The injustice and absurdity of ten acres in this town being granted as a reserve to a town twelve miles distant, or to any town indeed, was pointed out to the member for Waipa, who promised to remedy this anomaly by getting the land made over to the Kibikihi town, and as allotment of similar value elsewhere for Alexandra. In the face of so satisfactory a solution of the difficulty, it is considered scarcely decent that the Alexandra Town Board should complicate matters by eadeavonring to lease the land. The Tβ Awamutu Cavalry corps are about to erect a tombstone and railings on the grave of their late member, Trooper James Weal, accidentally killed at the target a year ego. The half-yearly drill will be commenced on Monday, the I2th proximo.

[BY TKLKORAPH.—OWN COERBSFONDBNT.] Cambridge, Tue*da> evening. St. Peter's Komau Catholic bazaar was opened in the Public Hall this afternoon, uuder very favourable auspices. Colonel Lyon in a neat address declared the bazaar opened for business. in poi.:t of appearance and material to be disposed of, the bazaar is highly creditable to the lady promoters, who, though few in number, have been exceedingly energetic, and everything, weather included, portend* success. Aβ the racee ara now 00, the attendance during the evening of the bazaar promises to be very large. Father Fox superintends the proceedings.