WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7646, 25 May 1886, Page 5

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FROM our OWN correspondents/) Hamilton, Monday. The following tenders were received for clearing furze on the property of Mr. R. W. Hammond : —No. 1 contract : Speake, £11 ; Goodwin, £9 18* ; Calderwood, £9 ; Devitt, £8 13s fid : Quinn, £8 l'2s; H. Missen (accepted), £8 10s. No. 2 contract: J.oche, £11; Quinn, £10 10a ;H. Missen, £9 19s 6d ; Devitt, £9 19a; Calderwood, £8 ; Goodwin, £5 2s; and Spcake (accepted), £3 15«. No. 3 contract: Quinn and Devitt, £21 10s each; Missen, £21 2« 6d ; Goodwin, £19 15s ; Calderwood, £13 ; Speake (accepted), £18. The catfish imported from St. John's Lake a year or more ago, and placed in the lake at Hamilton, have increased, small shoals of young catfish having been observed on several occasions lately. Tajtwhare, Monday. A second meeting of the residents for the appointment of a school committee was held on Friday evening, when the following were appointed, namely : Messrs. W. Walworth, T. Diproße, J. D»dds, Hansford, F. Allen, Thomas Rußßell, and J. Shaw. Whatawhata, Monday. Patrick Valally, who was arrested for being in a state of delirium tremens about two months ago, and discharged when cured, was again arrested yesterday as being of unsound mind. Valally, it seems, jumped down a drain some twenty feet deep, with two feet of water in the bottom, and resisted capture. He was arrested by Constable Wild and sent in to Hamilton. KiHiKiHr, Monday. The report was prevalent here on Friday that first one, and then that two men, had been murdered near the tunnel works by a Maori, and the telegraph was kept busy with official inquiries, even from Wellington, into the matter. It appears that there was not the slightest foundation for the report, but the canard got about in this wise :—A section of the Ngatiraukawa tribe came down a few day i ago on the land of the Manukat itahi tribe to assert their supposed rights, not being satisfied with the decision of the Land Court at Cambridge. They brought their guns with them, and started building whares on the laud granted to the Ngatikorikl. The police went out to inquire into the report that a row had taken place between armed sections of the two tribes, and the report was got up that they were gone to arrest a man for murder to fit the occasion,