COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8372, 27 September 1890, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[by telegraph.—own correspondent.] Cambridge, Friday. P. 11. Johnson was brought up to-day before Messrs. Priestley and Clements, J.P.'s, charged v/ith breaking and entering the store of Mr. Wells, and stealing therefrom goods and cash to the amount of £5 19a 6d. The accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for trial at the Supreme Court. The Legal and Finance Committee, Messrs. Priestley, Hally, Bach, and Bond, met this afternoon, and proceeded to inspect a portion of the town where the gorse nuisance was complained of. A note was taken of the places whore gorse had not been cleared, with a view to legal proceedings. With regard to Crown lands, which were largely overgrown with furze, one of the committee suggested that the Crown Lands Board be asked to hand over the charge of these sections to the Borough Council for a number of years with a view of getting lessees to occupy the same free of rent for a period, conditionally that the same be cleared and fenced. The Mayor was authorised to write to the Crown Lands Board pointing out that as they had intimated their inability to clear the gorse fronting their lands, and as it was next to useless for adjoining owners to clear their properties whilst the Crown land section! remained untouched, the advisability of handing the care of the same over to the Borough Council for a number of years in order to get the same cleared and fenced, thereby rendering the same of some value instead of remaining as at present an eyesore to the town and a source of annoyance to adjoining owners.