COUNTRY NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9217, 21 November 1888, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. J Hamilton, Tuesday. With the prospect of the Borougn Council no longer interfering to prevent cattle running at large on the streets and roads between sunset and sunrise, town and suburban owners of gardens are about to form a jarden Protection .Society for the purpose of putting the law in motion as it exists for their own protection. There, is nothing to prevent them, and at little cost, under the 104 th clause of the Public Works Act from employing a ranger to impound all cattle at large cither by day or night, and this is one measure they are prepared to adopt if the nuisance drives them to it. _ Again, legal advici has been obtained, and it is stated that tht Borough Council will be liable for damage* done to property by cattle through their laches; that the law entails on the lomJ bodies the duty of carrying out provisions of Acts made for the public safety, and that their neglect in so doing renders them responsible. Deer supposed to have come down from Mangakawa ranges, have been lately seen on Mr. Bullock-Weoster's property at the Hamilton Lake. A considerable amount of business was done at the race committee meeting of the South Auckland Racing Club on Friday evening last, when some fifteen members were present. It was resolved not to appoint two handicappers in the usual way, but the whole committee, barring those who are horseowners, should conduct the handicapping. The question of an autumn meeting was discussed, and it was decided to hold a two days' meet, ingin the autumn, on one of which a steeple chase should be the great attraction. If was resolved to make certain necessarj improvements to the course at once and it was estimated that out of th< 5 per cent, deducted from the £271 given in stakes at the summer meeting of the •29th proximo, and from the £400 to be ran for at the autumn meeting, together with the training fees, there would be a sufficient sum to permanently widen the whole course, and effect other improvements. The members tickets are now ready for issue. Mr. John Parr has now in his window a gigantic and closelv-grown cauliflower, raised by himself from Webb's seeds. Ohacpo, Tuesday. _ There is of late a strong feeling growing in the minds of farmers in Waikato that a change for the better, very much for the better, is now taking place in the new and improved markets for the sale of their produce, and a thankfulness that their own increased activity has enabled them to secure the advantage of this change. Thanks to Mr. Firth and the press, they "have started on the cultivation of their lands for wheat oil something like a scale commensurate with the capabilities of the district, and the proper utilisation of their lands. Wool has risen and hardened in price, and the latter may also be said of New Zealand mutton in the English market. This season they have had a most favourable lambing time, from 110 to 120 and 130 per cent of lambs being no uncommon rate of increase, and the wool clip is turning out most satisfactorily. *> hat is scarcely of less importance is the favourable aspect of the dairying industry, lhat Messrs. H. Reynolds and Co. should have carried off at Melbourne the " blue ribbon with Waikato manufactured butter means much for the district, and already a movement is afoot amongst our local dairy farmei 8 to present Mr. Reynolds with an address in recognition of the skill and enterprise whica have enabled him in his own and in then interests to have done so much in pushing in the outside markets of the world a local manufacture of such vast importance to the district and to the colony. Te Awamutc, Tuesday. The Waipa Racing Club, which holds its annual meeting here on Anniversary Day, has convened its annual meeting for Friday evening next, at Lewis' Hotel, to receive tn balance sheet, and to elect officers for tn ensuing year. , The members of the Te Awamutu Cava 1 ' Troop have been called together for 1 - morrow evening to elect a captain »' tn Jj place of Captain Rutherford, who resignc some time since. Otorohaxga, Tuesday. The large viaduct 011 theWaiteti section 01 the railway may now be said to be completed, nothing being wanted but a few bolts, il} 11 the material for so large an undertaking should have been manufactured on the spot, at the workshops of the contractors, Measis. Anderson Brothers, reflects the highest creiU upon Messrs. Robertson and Alabaster, «n have had the conduct and supervision of work. What is also more noteworthy is i carefulness with which this work has oe ■ executed, that not a single accident w< . noticing has occurred to the men engage its construction. In works of tar less , tude undertaken in the district, such a • railway bridge at Hamilton and others, _ dents, even fatal ones, have occurred, not so here. Everything connected "'J™, scaffolding, &c., has been solid and tain oughly tested, and the unremitting <- , Mr. Alabaster has been constantly ana vigilantly exercised. [BY telegraph. —OWN CORRESPONDENTS.J Casibrilhje, 1 uesilaj • A meeting re the Domain lands was ie 1. & Cambridge West on Monday nigh - * ■ Tobias Hicks in the chair. Messrs. 1. "J and J. Fisher, members of he lo' nam Board, attended, ami Mr. Wells esi . the financial position of the east ami domains to the satisfaction of the iijiij 0 * of the meeting. No definite rest ll -'j -, arrived at, the question of the tanninei, West Cemetery occupying most attention.