WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7539, 19 January 1886, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[fßOlt OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. J Hamilton, Monday. Chief Inspector Lewis on arrival here will in oompany with Inspector Oldham start on a tour of inspection of the Alexandra and H#glan districts. It is said that in some pyrts of the district the rabbits are on the prw«k *nd notably in the Sing Country, In one part they are so numerous that the natives fiave killed as many as 150 in one day. ' Some six weeks qgo the residents at gawhia forwarded a petition to the postal authorities, asking for telephonic communication. Mr. Orohiston, Inspector of Telegraphs for the North Island, has been on a rtiit of inspection, and gone over the road between Alexandra and Kawhia and fiaglan and Kawhia," and is, it "is understood, of opinion that a practicable line oan be had between Raglan and Kawhia, which would be fairly remunerative when constructed. Apples are now ripening in Waikato and plums alio, which are not a very heavy crop; yet sales of fruit seem dull and prices low. On Saturday, Mr. Knox offered Irish peach apples at auction, but there were no Udders, and the Cambridge Jam Factory, it U stated, have been purchasing plums as low M 3d pet lb. Cambridge, Monday. The Cambridge Highway Board held its ninal monthly meeting on Saturday. Present < Mr. Taylor (Chairman), and Messrs, Richardson and Smith. The Engineer reported that he had been engaged for two or throe days making a thorough inspection of the district roads, Mid furnished the clerk with a long list el landowners having gorse growing on the roads fronting their land. The Clerk WM instructed to send them notices to eradicate, in terms of the Public Works Aot, 1885, and the Board resolved to take aotion in every case where the order was not complied with. The Engineer was instructed to invite tenders for works mentioned in his report to be received and considered at next meeting. Bail was, on Saturday, accepted for the natives committed for lib( I in the case Eraser V. Ngukaru and others, £1000. The sureties were Mr. Moon and a native chief. At the meeting of the Tsotaoroa Highway Board on Saturdaypresent. Mr. Q. Hunt (Chairman), and Messrs. Brunskill and Bally—the Chairman reported chat be and Mr, Hally had seen the Minister for Public Works re Cambridge-Gorton Road, and had been informed that the Government repudiated any liability. As the road is really in a dangerous condition, the Board resolved to instruct their Engineer to at once inspect it, and invite tenders for repair, the Board to meet en the 30th inst. to receive the same, and the clerk was instructed to write to the Piako County Counoil asking for the subsidy (Sosived on account of the riding, wherewith to pay for the cost of repairing the road.