COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8423, 26 November 1890, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[from our own correspondents.] . Hamilton, Tuesday. The rains which have fallen during the last forty-eigfit hours, and which still continue | will be anything but welcome to settlers, coming again just as the land soaked by former rain was becoming fit for preparation for the main crop of turnips, for it is time that swedes were sown. A few fine days were wanted also to bring the yolk into the wool, which is somewhat deficient this season, and as a consequence, the fleeces, though large, are in many cases not so heavy as they would have been. At a time when the question of raising the school age -to seven is prominently Wore the public, and is in Mr. Bryce's candidature made " a special matter of reform in educational matters.it may not be uninteresting to know what was the opinion on this point of the late Mr. Richard O'Sullivan, the Chief Inspector of Schools under the Auckland Board, and one of the best authorities on educational matters in the colony. Mr. O'Sullivan has more than once expressed to your correspondent, and in an emphatic manner, that " in his opinion it was positive cruelty to a child to send it to school before seven years of age, and that a child would advance quicker in one year, commencing« that ace. than if sent -to school at five or sis' veurs old." Ngaruawahia, Tuesday. The people of garuayah feel sorely slighted at the unjust manter in which their request for repairs to the county road running through the town was ignored at the late meeting of the Waipi County Council. The " duck ponds" still remain in the street, and are getting a greater nuisance than ever; indeed, to them is blamed the presence of typhoid fever amongst us. If the Council would instruct their engineer to pay this town a visit in wet weather, he would scarcely make such a report at the next meeting as he did at the last, when he gave a denial to the statements contained in Messrs. Friar and Davies' letter, as well as those of the chairman of the Town Board. If stagnant water over vour boots, and ruts deep enough in the main thoroughfare to capsize a dray, are nothing to complain of, then the Council is not to blame tor its action, but such a piece of road near the farm of any oi its members would, and very properly so, too, not be left unrepaired. _ - Oxford, Tuesday, The roads referred to in a previous communication, made by private enterprise from the Okoroire railway station to the Sanatorium, call for further comment, lne centre of a large producing district has been tapped, and it is to be hoped that the Kail way Department will afford such accommo dation at the Okoroire railway station as maybe rendered necessary by the increase l traffic thereto. Passenger accommodation they arc bound to find, but from the exten- , sive reclamations of land in the immediate vicinity whereby large quantities of manures, etc.. will be required, and a consequen traffic of return produce and stock *''' created, for which Okoroire station will the outlet, increased accommodation, want of which is already felt, wilt be st more urgently required. , Te Awami-tc, Tuesday., The Court sat for three days last wees, when two cases, one of which is of gene interest to the public, were heard « . Resident Magistrate. In the. case of Main waring v. Lewis and Co., plaintiff sue fendant for £31 for interpreters lees 8 ' drawing agreements for the. purchstimber growing in the Km? cou ,-v Mr. Gresham appeared for the 1 , tiff, and Mr. Crnikshank and -Mr- >; M. Hay for the defence. Judgment reserved by the Court on a point o ' raised by 'Mr. Hay that plaintiff 1 i«J J claim, us lie had been negotiating re® • . land when purchasing trees which " >•„ cut or to be cut at once, but left swA for an indefinite time, in which case j must be considered as affecting the la > w therefore the negotiations were contr- j the provisions of the Native Land Purchase Act of 1888. . i The other case was that of 1 erute • Ormsbv, a claim for i'l!' I;,s ? or 'fnrtM killed by defendant.. Mr. .Ores l:,an l fo plaintiff, and Messrs. Cruickahank an< M. Hay for the defence. Judgment - given for defendant, each party to 1 •) own costs. - Tuesday-.

At the Police Court to-day the! the assault eases was concluded, merit deferred till Monday next. i... TAURASGA. luww The funeral of the late Mr. Ho ,e ' vfr r took place this afternoon. "J 11 ,., '0f the largely attended. Mr. John r 'J' 111 ''' Thames, and deceased's brothers, - • -jjpen Home and Mr. Adam P. Home, ■ - ■ (jme. at the Thames, received xiitimati . El the and reached Taurauga in tune to awt last '«>'■]» i'"i - At the meeting held la* * eel ' * J oflice of the Mount Eden hoa i t | ie roP"-' the nomination of a candidate tor u j.^,, sentation of the Epsom riding in , v - s i County Council, Mr. Richau . 03e nominated, and there being vacancy, he was declared duly e j or tht The wins are the crew* < I ' d% p" ur V Auckland Rowing Club t Allen (.1, No. 1: J. Baker (stroke), W. v 0 i:W, Bushy (-), A. ft. Smith (bow)- w ruC o, Carm'ina, A. A. Cledhill. •J% . M M. Neumeguen. No. d: A. u \ o ' 4:£. t nail, J. (iorrie, K. C. d'.unei. - i gOties ll ' Darbv, T. Darby, W- - M,,llltt iht ool ,er. No 5- E. (I. Diddanis, J. >tot ',.i A. H. BasW. No. 0:T. M. Ii:lll^° 7; 'l). J Okev. E. Davis, 0. Caslid. >»• y, 0 McNicol, .Jamieson, A. ( - an , Y n; c Tovey. No. 8: E. K. Reeve, \» • - 11 P. Taylor, 11. Brown. {jo'" 1 " Tin: uiiST MicniciNn K *°"'Lt W « nlil 'S AM) SON'S IiIIC.U.VI'TI KX I KALI- 1 iiZJi; t j l( .i*i f powerful effects ill coughs, col Is, " ulll , acc iJ«® l > is iiisUiiitanfOUs. In serious e.-s - |jjjs, irin "„ all kinds, bo they wounds, bums, s. .pnmf, sprains, it is the safest «"';'• >" pnM |.u*l » (lamination. I.ike surpmjns tl nUU ati»i' of*, croup diphtheria, bronchitis »^ lUer lungs, swi.llit.jss Ac, dial rho ■ . <"> l(S(t h<*rf, lie kidneys and urinary ' be . P atro' ,,^ u i ««.(, mM clinics all ore .hegl His .Majesty tin. Kin; of f'. '> •. ib itioii, A'» 4^ r j. ;l ,iddiploinaa.,ti.ter!.aUo.. il " ' J re j W tl »11 tft® •JVuat in this auprovxd article, a