WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7774, 21 October 1886, Page 3

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

[from our own correspondents.] Hamilton, Wednesday. Mr. Logie, the postmaster and telegraphist, left Hamilton to-day on a well-earned holiday of a month. His duties have been undertaken by Mr. Greatbach till his return. Now that the Peach Grove reserve of 137 acres has been set apart for the purposes of the school of agriculture, which will shortly be established at Hamilton, it behoves the local authorities interested to take immediate action for its utilisation. If fenced in at oncc it would be let for a good rental this season, as it is mostly in good grass, and carries a heavy amount of stock, and the rent would go a long way to recoup the cost of fencing. Rangiriri, Wednesday. During the last session Mr. Johnson, the councillor for the Rangiriri outlying district, made application to Mr. J. B. Whyte, the member for Waikato, to urge upon the Government the advisability of placing a grant upon the Estimates to open up the (Government lands in the Waierangi district, Mr. Whyte succeeded in inducing the Government to put a sum of £300 on the Estimatsa for this purpose, which was carried with the proviso that there was a sufficiency of good Crown land in the district to warrant its expenditure, Mr. Ballance having been officially informed that this was not the case. The matter thus stands at present, it is stated, on the authority of Mr. Johnson, and other old and experienced settlers in the distriot, that there is abundance of good land, and that on the Matahura Creek there are some 3000 acres of Crown lands which, if it had access by a road, would be readily taken up by small settlers. The year before the Government expended a grant of £500 in opening up Crown land in the same way between the Miranda and Waierangi, and the whole of the Government land was sold readily and at advanced prioes. Whatawhata, Wednesday. Yesterday Mr. Orchiston, Inspector of Telegraphs, passed through here with the Government workmen en route for Raglan, Aotea, and Kawhia, as it has been found that the wires of the newly-erected lines are chafing with the insulators. They are expected to be away about a fortnight or three weeks. Cambridge, Wednesday. For some time it has been felt that Waikato should possess an educational institute of associated teachers, the same as Auckland does, if it intends to hold its own in educational matters, and arrangements are being made by some of the leading teachers of the district to establish an institute of this kind. As the teachers are scattered and comparatively few who could attend the meetings, it is desirable, to ensure the success of the undertaking, that those gentlemen who take a lively interest in educational matters should become associated members, and thus add to its weight, and contribute to its support.