WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7160, 28 October 1884, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FKOM OTJB OWN COBRESPONDENTS.}

TTatyttltqn. Monday. Is 1 the codlin moth regulations are to bo at I all effective, the prohibition of apples altogether from affected countries must be enforced, and not the mere perfunctory official examination of cases of fruit arriving in the colony be considered sufficient. Of recently sent up cases of apples into Waikato since the regulations came into force, some boxes have been opened and examined, and some have not, but even in the cases of those boxes evidently opened, evidences of the presence of this insect pest have been found on the more careful inspection of them by tho3e directly interested in the matter. Discretionary power to pass or condemn in such case is very poor security to the fruitgrower against the introduction of thiß and similar insect pests. A requisition has been already numerously signed, and is still in course of signature, to Mr. William Day, a member of the Borough Council, asking him to allow himself to be placed in nomination for the coming mayoral election. Mr, Philip Monro has resigned from the candidature for the election to the vacant seat in the Council on Wednesday, leaving the contest between Messrs. Phillips and W. Wood, t - Cambridge, Monday.

Why will not the railway authorities encourage the u£e of the lines by making thsm attractive and available for passenger traffic. Cambridge people, for instance, can go to Hamilton, Ngaruawahia, or Huntly, down the line and return home the same day, but people from these places cannot come to Cambridge in the morning and return home later in the day, consequently we see no more of our neighbours now the railway is opened than we did before. The same rflle applies to Te Awamutu, Alexandra, Ohaupo, Morrinsville, and other places on tbe lines. -No wonder passenger traffic does not pay. .Yet all the while the engine and train, which leaves here for Hamilton Junction every morning remains there idle for four hours, when it could just be as well employed in making a trip from Hamilton to Cambridge one day and from Hamilton to Te Awamutu and back the next day, returning in each case in time for the regular afternoon journey to Cambridge. ■ The cost- would be only the difference of coal required between keeping the lires banked up and keeping steam going, for the guards and firemen may be seen whiling away the time every day in the streets of Hamilton. Even if people did not care to return the same day, as now, they would get the full day in Cambridge or Te Awamutu, and not (as now) arriving in either place late in the afternoon, and leaving early next morning. No wonder the Minister for Public Works refers to railway management as he does in his Statement published in Saturday's Herald. Official bungling would seem to be directed to work our lines so as to study in the least possible degree to make them popular and attractive to the travelling public. What could have more thoroughly shown this than the charging full fares on the excursion train at the opening of the Cambridge line ? Alexandra, Monday.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday, before Mr. W. H. North croft, R.M., and Captain Gascoigne, J.P., a charge of malicious injury to property, the pulliDg down of a fence to the value of 33, was preferred by William Sinden against James Sinden. Mr. O'Neill appeared for the defendant, and the case "was dismissed, each party paying their own oosts. In Fawcetfc v. Grierson, plaintiff was nonsaited. itatapu v. Ormsby, claim £30 7s 6d, for detenue of a horae: Mr. W. M. Hay for plaintiff; Mr. O'Neill for the defence. This case, which has been several times adjourned, was on this occasion adjourned again, in the absenee of a native assessor on tlie Bench. There was another case of detention of a horse, Hughes and another v. Serancke and another, in which Messrs. Hay and O'Neill appeared for plaintiffs and Mr. Gresham was for the defendants, but the case had to be adjourned in consequence of the non-appearance of defendant's counsel. In the case, Alexander James v. Mackay, claim £S Is, for dishonoured cheque, judgment was given for plaintiff, with costs. A considerable number of natives are assembled at Whatiwhatihoe, waiting the arrival of Tawhiao, when there will, be the usual amount of feasting and koreroing over the return and adventures of the Royal party. Te Awahotcj, Monday. At the nomination of Commissioners for this town district, eight candidates were nominated, viz., Messrs. J. W. Bridgeman, J. B. Teasdale, J. Walton, J. H. Mandeno, S. Short, J. K. Wright, J. A. Stichbury, and W. S. Rutherford, The last two candidates were objected to, as their nominators were not electors. —OWN COBKESPONDENT.] Cambridge, Monday evening. At a meeting of the Town Board to-day, the tender of Messrs. Ryan and Carmicbael (£l3O 12s 6d) was accepted for forming the Victoria-road. At a public meeting held at Cambridge West on Saturday evening a letter from the Waipa County Council was considered, in which it was proposed to appoint a Board of local trustees to have control of the cemetery. The following resolution, proposed by Mr. H. Hyatt and seconded by Mr. Bailey, was carried:—"That two suitable persons be nominated for the Council's acceptance as trustees for Cambridge West cemetery, conjointly with the local authority, namely, the County Council, as prescribed by the Cemetery Act, ISS'2." A letter to the County Council was read and adopted, urging that work be at once commenced on the cemetery. This cemetery was consecrated by Bishop Selwyn, but its present condition is discreditable.