COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9087, 22 June 1888, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[FROM OUB OWN CORRESPOKDENIB.3 T av xr NoARUAWAHiA, Thursday "*« The Ngaruawahia cemetery trustees finding that they cannot legally lease or utilise th S large proportion of their cemetery, not UkeW to be required for very many years «1 teking the necessary steps to bring a private B -ll^ to *V e House to enable them Real with these lands, the rents and profits to hi applied to the improvements and ornamenta. tion of the other portion of the cemetery a simple clause in the. Cemeteries' Act wnnM remedy this matter better, and serve th necessities of many other districts than tha? of Ngaruawahia. About two years sum f trustees of the East Hamilton CemetS advertised a portion consisting of 29 acr<4 for public lease by auction, with improving clauses, but had to refrain from leasing at th» last moment, as they found by the present Act it was beyond their power to do so Th» framers of the Act never seemed to have con templated the case of country districts wherp thirty to forty acres have been set aside as cemetery reserves for the use of comparative] v small townships. * ri . , ... Hamilton, Thursday It is a long while since so much interest has been taken in a borough election as in that which took place yesterday to settle the q Ue s tion of the introduction of the Public Libra" ries Act. For the credit of Hamilton it should be known that the majority of the 55 who voted against it recognise the advantages of a good and well managed public library, but were led to vote as they did on aside issue—the unfounded statement that an affirmative vote necessarily meant the imposition of a special rate. At the meeting of the self-constituted Board of Agriculture for Waikato, held yesterday, which has now assumed the functions of an agricultural league, the tariff was unanimously condemned as pressing most unfairly on agriculture, especially in the matters of agricultural machinery and salt. At the same time it was recognised that revenue must be raised, and the more effectually to promote this object, and at the same time to do away with the necessity for many irksome duties, the meeting recommended the imposition of the tea duty, and a halfpenny per pound on sugar, as not only assuring a larger and more certain increase of revenue, but as more fair in its incidence than many proposed duties. Where duties for revenue purposes are largely increased all round, the tariff necessarily becomes of a protective character, and tells against the agriculturalist, for, with the exception of fruit, nothing that he produces is imported into the colony. Recognising this, it was suggested that steps should be taken to urge upon the Government the desirability of adjusting this onesided operation of the tariff by the institution of bonuses on everything exported by the farmer, such as frozen meat, cheese, butter. &c. The number of dogs at large and unregistered in the streets of Hamilton 13 matter of general comment. A day or two ago a little girl belonging to Mr. McManon was knocked down and trampled upon by half-a-dozen or more of large dogs, greyhounds and others, quarrelling and fighting over a joint of meat stolen by one of them from a butcher's shop. People travelling through the town on horseback also complain that these dogs lie in wait, and rush upon their horses to the danger of the riders. The matter is one which the Borough Council should see to. Cambridge, Thursday. It is matter for regret to find such energetic and well-to-do settlers as the Messrs Pearson Brothers giving up farming and leaving the district. Tt is satisfactory, however to learn that the rising generation are venturing on the work of cultivation of their lands as they fall vacant. Some time since the leasing of a considerable portion of the large Pencarrow Estate was taken up by the sons of Mr. A. Main, and now the other portion of the estate, known as Gol borne, a highly-improved farm, has been leased by the sons of Mr. J. Gane, of Pukerimu, for os per acre. [by telegraph.—own CORRESPONDENTS.] __23 Cambridge, Thursday. A special meeting of the Borough Council was held this evening, when the annual accounts were settled. The matter of putting down a new floor for the Public Hall was also considered, and the Public Hall Committee instructed to bring up a report at the next meeting.