WAIRATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7006, 1 May 1884, Page 5

WAIRATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[TBOU OUB OWN COBBESrONDXNTS. Hahh/tos, Wednesday. - Mb. Bowbon writes to the Waikato .Cheese Fatory Company, with reference to .his re«. ■ port, .that for he must give', the palm to the cheese made at the Rukubia Factory, explaining; that this wx- a mere.«■ matte* of taste.. He himself preferred the flavour of English cheese, to American cheese. The first is made at the Rukuhia the latter at the Waikato Factory. Iα writ-' ing to the Waikato Factory, he eays : "I consider yours the best managed factory, in the Island, and I wish to hold yon up as a pattern to others." As to the quality of the cheeie, Mr. Bowron, says :—" It ia the beet made and the rioheet, bat it is essentially American, and I prefer the English." -' ■ , GiWBBiDGB, Wednesday. An inetanoe of the injurious effect of the new railway tariff is to be found in the matter of chaff. Large quantities of chaffed". oats and straw would been sent to She Auokland market this season bat for the increased rates of freight, whioh in this in' itance ii simply prohibitive. Hundreds of acres of oats had been grown and cat greener than otherwise this year with the intention of chaffing the orop for the Auckland mil- ' ket. The local market, at any rate, will be well supplied, and consumers in Waikato' will get cheap chaff this coming winter. • , tTtmhtihi, Wednesday. Mr. OrchistOD, Inspector. of Telegraphs, has, after inquiry into the matter, decided to at once provide more suitable accommodation for the officer in charge of the telegraph and post offioe and his family.. There are only two rooms in the main, building, and a detached two-roomed building at the back. Three additional rooms are to be built between the two buildings, connecting them together. Great inoonvenience, both to the operator and the pnblio, has been caused heretofore, by the former having' to live at a distance from the offices. . . The threshing of the late-harvest is now nearly got through with in all parts of the. district, the continued fine weather having., been most favourable for it, and the frosts. of the last fortnight having caused the gr*ia to shell freely. On the old levels about, Ranguohia, Tβ Awsmutu, and at Orakaa, - and indeed on . moderately heavy ; lands*' throughout- the Waikato diitrict the.yieldhas been fairly up to expectations, but cot; so on the lighter soils. * Thiti.is, of course,, only to be looked for, wheat preferring heavier toil, bnt where this,crop his been sown- on lighter land, a great advantage would be found in preceding it with a crop of turnips fed off with sheep, thns not only securing the manuring of the land, but its consolidation by the treading of the sheep. . Tauwhabe, Wedneiday. . At a meeting of residents of the Tauwhare school district, which includes the Scotchman's Valley district, for the election of a first school committee, the following gentlomen were appointed—namely, Messrs. Tillofr.: oon (Chairman), Do'dd, Browning,. Diproae, : Hansford, Russell, and J. McNicol. The school is to be built on a five-acre reserve in,, the Tauwhare township, and the timber is -. now on the ground. • . • .- ■

CBY TELEGRAPH.—OWN OOBRBgrOHSKHSS.] ' ■ Camb&idqb, Wednesday evening. A baohelors' ball will be given in the Pablio Hall on Friday evening. ■■. •,: Hamujios, Wednesday eTening. : At the Polict Court to-dey KioUardGeorgiy liMnsed publican, of Wbatawbatn, vu charged with absenting himself for fourteen. days from hia hoteL Defendant pleaded that his wife-was dangerously ill in Auckland, end he wae let off : . with • a caution. Grove - Vowleea and. Walter Coop were fiaed 5e each and costs for furious riding on Easter Monr.r day. A.native,known.«B "P»ddy" wai cenvioted of stealing young Crosbie s eaddlo and bridle, and waa fined four times, tho, value of the atolen property, namely, £8 and. and costs £4. Bobert Balph and.S. Smyth. , 5 were fined 5s eaoh and costs 22a and Mis eaoh, . roepeotively, for not registering their dbgi. ' Miohael Barry, oharged with' being mad .- druak in the, public streets, was fined 2Qj »ad costs, er 7 days' imprisonment.