COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9067, 30 May 1888, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. 1 Hamilton, Tuesdi,, Mr. Abbott, a settler at Pukete admittZi few days since into the Waikato HosnlJLf with cancer of the liver, died yesterday ' The present hospital building is 1' , adequate to the demands upon it A,„ y ward is much needed. ' " er The young man Horace Wood cW, , with stealing a double-barrelled gun two J m rings, and a pair of spurs from the'hm?£ , Mr. 6leasdale, at Walton, will be broueht, on Thursday. He will also be charged uitk P second robbery, in stealing a sun frn™ .L residence of Mr. Wilson, at Whareroa e Churchill, Tuesdav There is considerable briskness in the tl industry here as elsewhere. Another « mill has been erected on the river, which win employ a number of extra hand's in the e l lection of the raw material and dressing it Ohaui-o, Tuesdav Through faulty information received unintentional annoyance has been pivoJ,^ ll Mr. G. F. Melius, sawmill owner, who ha not removed his plant from the 'bush n Ohaupo to his newly-acquired bush at T-uf piri, as stated, nor does he intend to do for some time yet to come, but is still sunnW ing the timber requirements of the Waikat district. It appears that all Mr. Mellars K at present done is that he has removed hi!! tramway from Martin's bush. Te Awamutu, Tuesdav The divergence of the Codlin Moth Bi'l introduced by the Government this session from the draft bill prepared by the Heft cultural Society, in a few important parti' culars, is sufficient to make the former verv unacceptable to the Waikato in its present form. It is earnestly hoped that our local members will see that it is amended in com mittee, so that the appointment of inspectors rests not with local bodies but with th" Government, that a clause be inserted to en able inspectors to proclaim a district clean that has been unclean and vice versa, that it be made penal to sell or distribute infected fruit whether imported or grown in the colony, and, lastly, that beyond the sura raised by a tax of not more than one farthine in clean and one half-penny in unclean dis tricts for each tree over two years' old iii any one year, all additional expenses required for working the Act to be taken from the consolidated fund, and not raised by special tax 011 orchardists. Without these amendments we should prefer to be left to the mercy of the codlin moth and our own individual energies.