WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7647, 26 May 1886, Page 7

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FROM OCR OWN CORIIESPON'DKNTS.I Hamilton, Tuesday, The election for the Hamilton highway district has resulted in the return of Messrs. Maunder, Atkinson, and Rothwell. Mr. Charles Beale, a son of Dr. Beale, of Poneonhy, met with an accident while playing football on Sydney Square on Saturday, wliich will prevent hm pUying in the match against Cambridgo on tho sth proximo, severely spraining and bruising one of his ankles. A meeting of the Waikato Horticultural Association will beheld to-morrow, to diecuss the very serious question of dealing with thu codlin moth pest. Te Awamctu", Tuesday. For the second time in tivt- years, we have been favoured with a h'nn day for our race meeting. There was an excellent attendance yr3terdny, though no railway facilities were afforded for the occasion, the department refusing to p:it on an excursion train frou. Auckland unless 84 full tickets from Auckland were guarantee! by the club. The racing was good, aa it ahvaye is under the the auspices of the Waipa Jockey Club. The Maidon Hurdlo Raco fell a gift to Monitor, aud Rangi won the Maiden I'iate. The Birthday Handicap was hotly contested for by Kenilw>rtb, who had, however, to give place to the running of Alpha, the latter winning hard held. Air. McKinuon's Argyle carried off the stakes for the Handicap Hurdles, carrying lOat 41b against Clover, lOatlOib; Dick Hunt, list slb ; Joe, lOst slb; Jonathan, lOsb 51b ; Albion, lOet; and (irey Friar, {ht 101b. Clover made a good second, losing by a couple of lengths. Hontly, Tuesday. George Smith, the miner who was seriously injured on Saturday by a fall of coal and earth from the roof of the drive while engaged in shoring it with timber, is progressing favourably, the fractures of the left leg and ankle having been at once attended to by Dr. Murch, of Hamilton. The irjjory to the back is much slighter than was at first supposed.