WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7170, 8 November 1884, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FBOM OUB OWN COEKESJONDKKTS.] ;:' Hamilton, Friday. Thß Government after all, it seems, will not construct a footway over the railway bridge at Hamilton, bat will allow the borough, or those interested, to do so at their own expense,

Taupiri, Friday,

Some very fine Shropshire Down ewes and lambe, some fat sheep, and two large fat Hereford steers, were brought here yesterday from the Waikato Land Association's estate for transmission to the Auckland Show. The Shropshire Downs are likely to prore some attraction, as the most suitable class of eheep for the frozen meat market. MoK&msvTLLE, Friday.

"Work, which has been very slack of late, is likely to be brisk again very shortly. The Waikato Land Association have called for tenders for four miles of large drains. The completion of the permanent way on the section of the Thames Valley Railway between Morrinsville and Tβ Atoha will be gone on with, and tenders may daily be expected to be called for by the Public Worki Department for other works in this district, notably amongst these the approaches to the Waihau Bridge, and the widening of the Waitoa main road through the bash where the railway encroaches so much npon the road for a considerable distance that a train and dray loaded with hay or straw would not have room to pass each other.

Tβ Awahottj, Friday. A second election for the new Town Board Commissiqrteffc will be rendered necessary by the informalities which occurred in the election of Saturday last, the Returning Officer not unnaturally, through an ambiguity in the Act, having given a wrongful ruling as to the number of votes 1» be-recorded': by each voter, and no proper roll having.been supplied to■ him. , . . ,--/ Woodward's Japanese Troupe had a full house at the Kihikihi Public-Hall last night.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—COKRESPONijiST.] . r.GAMBBXDGE, Friday evening. The Native Lands Court .was adjourned to« day to Ngaruarwahia.to open there on Monday next, for .the subdivision of a block of land near Whatawhata.

• . •■'•■-■■• :.- : f KmiKiHi; : -'Friday craning. • The Undersecretary has •-' riotified--the Town Board ithat His Ex6ellency-the Governor Has. been pleased ''to; appoint ■ Mr. Forbes Gordon to be Clerk-of'the Kihikihi Licensing' District, vice Constable-Gillies, resigned. , . , „: