WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7719, 18 August 1886, Page 3

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] Hamilton*, Tuesday. Some very narrow escapes from accident have occurred lately through foot passengers crossing the Hamilton railway bridge. In one case a party who had crossed about a third of the bridge heard tho train rumbling after him, and too lato to return, rau faster than ever he did in his life to reach the other end first, which ho only succeeded in doing through the engineer slackening speed. In a second case, one of the railway employes himself had to climb off the bridge down one of the girders. A watch is now set to make an example of the first person crossing it, in which case a tine of any sum, not exceeding £5, may be inflicted. A footbridge in connection with this bridge ought long ago to have been constructed, for as soon as the vigilance of tho railway authorities is relaxed, people will agaiu commence to use the bridge for passenger traffic, women even and children having been in the habit of doing so. Mr. Osmond, of Auckland, who hai leased the Claudelands race course to the Hamilton Jockey Club, has offered a subscription of £'20 towards tbe cost of construction. Others directly interested have offered sums of £10 and £5 and smaller amounts, and some arrangement should be come to with the Government to construct an outrigger footbridge on the lower frame of th« structure, some 16 feet below the permanent way, which could be done for probably £130 or £150.

September 1 has been fixed for the day of the football match between tho Waikato and New South Wales teams, and the right of charging a shilling entrance to Sydneysquare on that day has been granted by the Domain Board to the match committee. An application to tho Domain Board to put up several more sections for lease in West Hamilton was agreed to at last night's meeting. In the case of the domain lands, Kast Hamilton, some sixty acres or more, it is proposed not to proceed with the improvements as originally intended, but to let them as now, cleared and ploughed, the external fence only to be erected by the Board, the division fences by the lessees. The upset price is fixed at 153 per aore. The triangle reserve, where the old schoolhouse once stood in the main street, is to bo neatly fenced and planted with flowering shrubs and English forest trees, and Garden-place, a thoroughfare, some ten chains wide and ten chains in length leading from the road opposite the Council Chambers to the public school, is to be similarly dealt with. Cambridge, Tuesday. It is proposed, at the instance of a number of Waikato settlers, that the local bodies should telegraph to the Minister for Lands their earnest protest against the importation into the colony and letting loose of weasels, stoats, ferrets, and similar destructive pests. Intelligence has been received from Wellington that the proclamation constituting Cambridge a borough will appear probably in Thursday's Gazette, and if not then certainly in that of tho following Thursday. Mr. G. W, Russell is spoken of as the first Mayor of Cambridge, and certainly deserves the honour for the energy he has shown in bringing about the advance in municipal government here. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Cambridge, Tuesday evening. At the Town Board meeting to-day, a resolution passed at the last meeting, voting £5 salary to the Clerk of the Licensing Commissioners, was rescinded. The clerk had expressed his wish that the matter should be allowed to drop. It was resolved to instruct the Board's solicitor to recover the amount of license fee paid by J. McNicol to the Waipa County Council, as McNicol's principal place of business and residence is in Cambridge. The Board decided to plant trees round the Government paddook, and to drain and gravel Brycestreet, near the Wesleyan Church. The chairman's action in having a culvert put in at the junction of Thornton Road and the Town Belt was approved, half the cost being borne by the county. The next meeting of the Board was fixed for the first Tuesday next month, instead of the usual date, to allow accounts to be oqared up prior to the election of commissioners or borough councillors, as the case may be. It was resolved to obtain two long ladders for the use of the town in case of fire, or for other purposes. A circular was adopted to be forwarded to all public bodies in the counties of Waikato, Waipa, Piako and Raglan, and the boroughs of Hamilton and Cambridge, recommending the scheme proposed by Thomas Wells, suggesting a practical, economical, and simple method of administering the Charitable Aid Act. The scheme is, instead of erecting buildings, and maintaining an hospital staff, to make arrangements with private people to board and nurse patients who come under the administration of the Board.