WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7340, 29 May 1885, Page 3

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

|FSOM OUR OWN CORRE-PONDKKT.I ■- Hamilton, Thursday. The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, which will " shortly erect slaughter yards in Waikato, have sent to Chicago to ascertain the prices of freezing or cooling cars for the railway coming plant and apparatus and machinery for the weigh* ing of live cattle. Though it is their intention to open retail butchers' shops in Auckland, it is not their intention to do so in Waikato townships, but local butchers and others who are shareholders will be enabled to purchase one or more carcases ef mutton or beef at such wholesale rates, there being no middleman's commission, an will enable them to retail the meat at more reasonable prices than is at present the case, and families, by joining together, will be able tojiupply them* selves at wholesale rates.

Mobrth, " the friend and adviser of the King natives," has been arrested at Rotorua on a charge of vagrancy, and remanded for a week, to enable the police to make fall enquiries into his antecedents here and in Auckland.

An impounding case was tried at the Tβ Aroha Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Kenriok—Guildiog (poundkeeper} v. Given. The claim wu for £310s, the balance of fees ever and above what the impounded cattle realised when sold by auction. Mr. W. M. H»y appeared for defendant. The plaintiff was nonsuited, being unable to prove that the Act had been complied with. A test case was also brought forward, Mr. Hay appearing for plaintiffs, to determine , whether a County Council could be sued. The plaintiffs were Messrs. .Montagu and Donovan' versus the Piako County Codncil; claim, £15 17b. A verdict was given for plaintiffs, tho Council conf etsing judgment. . : The Waikato Cheese Factory is being fitted up with hot pipes to secure the proper temperature for the ripening oi the cheese at this season. "• .

Tβ AwAiniTr/, Thursday. One result of Mr. W. A. Graham's address on Monday evening on "Co operation"has been that close, upon 1000 shares of the new issue have* been subscribed for here, two new members going the fall limit of 100 shares each.

Disappointment has been caused to a number of working men who had been induced to come up here, owing to an advertisement in the Anekland papers that a number of men were required to work on the Turongo, or first section of the railway. Owing to the non-arrival of waggons and other material for Mr. Coleman's party employed on the big cutting, whioh had been expected sooner, the men could not be taken on, and many of them have been put to severe straits for a living. Meantime work on the line is steadily progressing, about one hundred men altogether being at work. Mr. Coatee, the contractor, has the road formed from the present ter minus, and will soon have the rails laid to the Puniu River, for the conveyance of the bridge material, which is, most of it, lying at the station yards here. A large proportion of those now working on the construction of this section of the line are natives, taking small contracts and carrying them oat under the supervision of Mr. Hursthouse. These natives have somewhat astonished oar European contractors, who never expected to see the work carried out by Maoris in the style it has been done on these small cattings. Mr. Goates says he never saw better finished work. It is also being rapidly pro* ceeded with, the natives working over hoars and Only keeping the Hauhau stabbath (the tenth day). The objeot of these several small parties in driving ahead so quickly is to get another small contract as soon as they com* plete the ones on hand, the space reserved for native labour being only about 2\ miles on either side of the Ka wa station. Ormsby's party, the first native contract come to on the work, have made perhaps the best job as yet, a piece of work which any engineer would "pats" with pleasure. It is to be hoped that the Government throughout the line will endeavour to provide small eontracte for native labour.

Kihikihi, Thursday. A concert, in aid of the funds of the new Presbyterian Church here, was held in the Town Hall on Monday evening. There was a large and appreciative audience, and the entertainment on the whole (both from * musical and monetary point of view) waa, it is pleasing to note, highly successful. The Rev, Mr. Hutson presided.

|BX TELEGRAPH.—OWN OOB&KBPOHDXNX. I Hamilton, Thursday evening, Pending the removal o! the Kirikiriroa Poet and Telegraph Office fro«n Mr. Lβ* quesne's to Messrs. Dey and French's store, Mr. Logie, the Hamilton Postmaster, received instructions to-day from headquarters to ascertain the i'eeling of the residents of East Hamilton aa to whether they would not be satisfied with the closing of the Post Office, and the substitution of a better re* ceiving box in lieu thereof, the Telephone Offioe being still kept on. When this became known, there was a very general expression of angry determination to resist this second attempt to compel the people on the Waikato side the river to receive their letters from the West Hamilton Post Office only. The greatest sufferers, however, would be *he Kirikiriroa eettlere living outside the borough, whose Post Office this has been for many years past. Mr. Whyte, M.H.R., will be again interviewed on the subject, and had there been an issue of the looal paper to. morrow, there would have been a pubUo meeting called of the residents of Bast Hamilton and Kirikiriroa for that evening. It is to be hoped, however, that a faithful report by the looal Postmaster of the wishes and feelings of the inhabitants on this matter will have the effect of allaying all cause for public anxiety. - :