WAIRATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Issue XXI, 15 May 1884, Page 6

WAIRATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FBOM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENTS.I ) Hauiltok, Wednesday. The ordinary . monthly , : meeting of the I Borough Council'waa held last night. The request of the 'Masonic body for the sole use 1 and control of that, portion of the' East Hamilton oemptery .\riuph. they have enclosed and cultivated waa granted, and a oommittee consisting of ".Messrs., Von Sturmer,' Johnson, ' Bradley; • Xipptri," and Gaudin were appointed to bring up a ieport on the proposed BOheme for'maaaging the cemeteries. It was resolved to put on three extra men during the remainder of' the fine weather to push forward certain necessary works in the streets. The gum trees in front of Sergeant McGovern's property were ordered to be sold by auction on Saturday next. The overdraft wftß stated at £578 19s.

At the meeting Of direotors of tho North New Zealand Co-operative Association, held yesterday, the applications were considerably in excess of; the number to be issued (5000), and applications were pouring in at the last moment. It waa reßolved to increase the issuo to 8000, and to keep open the time for receiving applications until the 20th instant. The association has already commenced operations, and members are beginning to fully appreciate the advantages to be derived from it in cheaper purchases of grain, ooal, seeds,. manures, and other prodnoe. At the meeting of the Borough Council tho Mayor (Mr. R. Peat) read a long paper exculpatory of his action in reference to the taxation proceedings in Mr. W. M. Hay's bill of costs. The Counoil, however, declined to express an opinion on the matter, the proper occasion for whioh will be when the bill of oosts of the law proceedings, carried out by the Mayor contrary .to the resolution of the Counoil of the 7th of April, oomes before them for payment. Afterwards tho Mayor brought forward his . notice of motion that the paragraph relating to tho bill of costs taxation which appeared in the Waikato district news of the Herald of the 26th ultimo was " a deliberate falsehood." After some delay, Mr. Tippin seconded the motion pro formd, and spoke against it. Other councillors followed in the same strain, and by consent o{ the Counoil the Mayor withdrew it. On the motion of Mr. Bradley, the motion was then unanimously ordered to be expanged from the records of the Counoil.

The application of tho Waikato Steam Navigation Company for a Isasefor 21years of lot 417, fonr acres ot foreshore, on which their store in East Hamilton is situated, together with the old toll-house, at a yearly rental of £12, has been refused ; and one on whioh their store stands, but with river frontage no higher than half a ohain above the store,. IB to be offered them at a rent of £15 per annum, on a yearly tenancy. The Waipa County Counoil, in reply to the proposal of the Waikato Counoil that the two counties should contribute one-half of the cost of maintaining the Hamilton traffic bridge, the borough undertaking the other half, have authorised their Chairman, Mr. Lake, to make the beat arrangement he can, provided the cost does not exceed one-sixth of the whole amount. Mr. Lake stated that he had telegraphed to the Minister for Public Works asking that no response Bhould be made to the application of the Borough Counoil to have the charges apportioned amongst the local-governing bodies until after the County Counoil had had time to consider the matter,;

Cambridge, Wednesday. The petitions for and against the bringing the Impounding Aot into force in Cambridge West have been finally deoided upon by the County Counoil, which declines to move in the matter, considering that the accommodation afforded by the public pound in Cambridge East is quite sufficient. The Cambridge-Kihikihi swamp road, which haß lately been fascined and clayed by the Waipa Council, from being positively dangerous is now one of the best untnetalled roads in the distriot. All that is required is to prooure the use of a traction engine, and gravel the swamp road from the gravel pit at the one end of it. The working of the engine would consolidate the formation, and make it one of the best roads in Waikato.

(BY, TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT,] Hamilton, Wednesay evening. At the Police Court to-day, a settler named George was fined 20a and costs for riding backwards and forwards over the Hamilton traffic bridge at othsr than_ a walking pace. A native named Piripi Nomonui was fined 5> and coats for a similar offence, and 20s and oosts for being drunk when In charge of a horse. A trumpery oharge of stealing fruit, brought by Samuel Teaa against a respectable lad named McSweeney, was dismissed. The case of McPherson, for the Kirikiriroa Board v. W. M. Hay, to complete the clearing of furze, was upset on a technioal point, with costs. The case also of MoPherson v. Tristram, to recover slattghliering fees, £1 6s, was lost, with coats, through plaintiff having laid an information imitead of a complaint. At the meeting of tho directors of the Co-operative Association; yesterday, an amended soale of voting was proposed, as follows:—Holders of five shares, and under one vote, from five to fifteen shares, two votes; fifteen to twentyfive shares, three votes; twenty-five to fifty shares, four votes; fifty shareß and over, five votes. This matter will be submitted to the general meeting on the 27th inst. Five thousand five hundred shares were subscribed for, and a fresh 2700 will be issued on Tuesday next; after that the remaining 2000 shares will be offered at Auckland, Coromaudel, and the Thames, for applications of one share only, 10s—the full amount of calls to be paid on application. The object is to secure a large class of customers connected with the association. The holder of one such share being entitled to as large a participation in the profits pro rata to the amount of business done by him with the association, as tho holder of the largest number of shares. Messrs. W. A. Graham, Gillett, and Bell, of Southern Wairoa, proceed to Auckland to-morrow to select the most suitable stand for Central Agenoy Storen in Auckland, and to arrange with merchants and business man in Auckland to see how far the association can do business with them before going out of the colony to establish business relations.