WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7392, 23 March 1886, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.! Hamilton, Monday. There seems to be a doubt whether a sufficient number of votes to carry the proposed loan of £6000 will be got at the poll to-morrow; not but that the public opinion of the burgesses is in favour of the loan almost to a man, but that from the number of absentees, property-holders living in Auckland, heads of families away at work eltewhere, and others disqualified to vote from not having paid rates at the time the roll was made up, there will be a difficulty in getting a majority of votes in favour of the proposal. All those who cannot vote, who d» not vote, and who vote against it count on the adverse side. It is therefore to be hoped that every man who has an interest in tho advancement of Hamilton, and the value of whose property must rise or fall, as the town progresses, or otherwise will not grudge the trouble, loss of time, and cost of personally attending and voting to-morrow. In one or two instances Hamilton ratepayers resident in Auckland have forwarded" proxies to vote in favour of the loan, but these are useless, as voters must record their votes in person. An alteration, important to tourists to the Lakes, was made on Friday last, to be retrospective from the previous .Monday, in the arrangement entered into between the Railway Department and the proprietor of the coach running between Oxford and Rotorua, in the issue of the "through tickets'' from Auokland to the Lakes. The latter party would allow of no break ou the route, except at Cambridge, This, of course, would mean to the railway so much less mileage on the route, and ho many more to the coach proprietor. Mr. Hudson insisted on a break being allowed at Hamilton, which would allow the traveller to stop there on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday nights, and go on to Oxford by the 7.15 a.m. train, which leaves Hamilton for Oxford on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, arriving at Oxford at ten a.m., leaving an easy drive to complete the journey by daylight even in winter, The thanks of the tourists are due to Mr. Hudson for keeping Oxford as the terminus of the present railway line, 25 miles of the roughest portion of the road travelling between Waikato and Botorua being saved by starting from Oxford, and the advantage will be even greater when the railway reaches Lichfield and passengers take the coach there instead of at Oxford as now, Mr. C. J W. Barton, the proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Hamilton,- is preparing to-put a coach on the road between Oxford and Rotorua.

Ngarcawahia, Monday. A son of Mr. Mpffatt met with a serious accident on Saturday morning last. He was on the platform of the railway station when the early train onme in from Hamilton, when another boy, with whom he had been skylarking, gave him a push from behind, whioh threw him against the engine. He was pulled baok at once by a bystander, but it was found that bis right elbow was difllooated. Mr. Moffatt took him up to Hamilton by the first train, where his injury was attended to by Dr. Carey.

Cambridge, Monday. At the monthly meeting of the Cambridge Highway District Board, held at Hewitt's Hotel, ou Saturday last, there were present the Chairman (Mr. J. Taylor), 8. S. Graham, J. R. D. Richardson, and J. J Smith. The olerk was instructed to write to Mr. Baily and order him to remove a fence which had been ' erected across the road, passing seotion 163, Haufcapu, from Fencourt station to Victoria Road. Mr. Richardson was authorised to get the humps on Kiti's and adjoining roads levelled, and leave was given him to erect wings to three bridges on roads adjoining his property. Soarcely any business was done at the Vaotaoroa Highway Board meeting on Saturday. The engineer was instructed to have a wooden water table fixed at the Gorge (Gorton Road) at an estimated oost of £4 10s per chain.

In justice to Mr. Gelling, the able curator of the fish-breeding establishment under control of the Hamilton Domain Board, I am requested to state that the young trout fry which died at the 'Horticultural Show, held in the Public Hall here on Wednesday last, were not sent up for exhibition as stated by a local journal. Mr. Gelling sets far too muoh value on the young fish for that. They were brought up to hand over to Mr Brunskill to be liberated in a stream at Taotaoroa, and Mr. Brunskill not keeping his appointment to receive them, they were then shown at the exhibition. As soon, however, m Mr.

Gelling found the heat of th'a atmosphere was destroying the ice and affecting the fish, he poured a glass of brandy into a fresh jar of water, put such of the fish as were alive into it, and took them .down Ito the Karapiro Greek,. where they might have a obance of recovering and thriving., ,« Mr. J. Forrest. who had contracted to undertake the maintenance of the main road, has been notified that unless he signs the bond and starts work his contract will be cancelled and deposit forfeited. [BY TKLIttORAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Cambridqk,; Monday evening. There in muoh unfavourable comment on the persistent efforts of the Railway Department to divert the traffic from Cambridge. The map of the route to the Hot Lakes ignores the town. The Roman Catholic mission will not be held. A pablegiam recalls Father Hegarty to Sydney. At the late horticultural show, of fir*t prizes Cambridge got 36, and Hamilton IS ; of seconds Cambridge got 16, and Hamilton 7 ; of oommonded Cambridge got 12 and Hamilton 5. About nine hundred people attended (and twelve pounds ware cleared over expenses). The show concluded with a successful concert and dance at Cambridge West School on Friday, At the meeting of the Masonic lodge here on Thursday evening occasion will be taken to present a past master's jewel to Brother Brunskill. late Pastmaoter of St. John's Lodge, Featherstone, together with an address. Hamilton, Monday evening. Mr. Orchiston, of the Telegraph Department arrived here today en route for Kawhia. The telephone line will be completed to-morrow, and opened to the public next day. Messrs. McMurdo and Trotter passed through Hamilton yesterday with 3100 sheep from Napier 600, of which were for the Hon. ■ie,B. V\ illiamson'u state here, and 2300 for North Pahi, Kaipara. They left Napier on, March 1, and have been very successful, having lost only twenty-five «heep on the road through. They had not a shower of rain since leaving.