COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9487, 17 April 1894, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[from our own correspondents.] Hamilton, Monday. Frost this morning. Glass two degrees below freezing point. The Mayor and town clerk have interviewed the Bank authorities with reference to selling the ground to the Borough on which the Hamilton East School bridge has been partly built, and which is on the direct road to the East Hamilton rail way station and racecourse. Captain Steele, as valuator, has fixed the value of the land at £12 per acre. The quantity is a little over an acre and a quarter. Tne Bank have agreed to the sale and price, and there is nothing now to prevent the bridge, which has been closed as being unsafe, being repaired. The Mayor and Town Clerk will attend the next meeting of the Kirikiriroa Road Board to confer as to the future maintenance of the bridge. The caretaker of the baths reports that the bathing season just closed has been financially the worst he has had, a fact not to be wondered at considering the manner in which the baths, enclosing fence, and dressing rooms have beeu knocked about by last winters floods, but attributed the fact to people havI ing been allowed to bathe in other parts of

the river. This of course camilT not to be interfered with! £££ \* n {«»fo "TOW* the Practice of O S r ? n , able bathing dress. The bath* will P,suitopen during the winter, the carV-tlil be k «M ing a subsidy of 10s per month ker rec6iv - The local Board hrde H c at ndaytaking several new works in the°Y'' Tenders will shortly be callJd f dlstri Asler's, Barford's Ld Se W 8 ?» No. 4 contract, on the Te Kowh d T ad ». been let to Mr. E. Price, for £16 ?° ad - h *» has been sent to the Newcastle t> Pet ! tlrj n several Whatawhata ..tt&^te 1 b * fencing obstructions which have hTi ne of across the road runuini? between Hi. . p ace(J sold township lands. It WMaiW'taking action in the matter that the « , ore of the Board should pe^onailvt.Tec^ B ground on W eduesday next. ' " apect the

. , Cambridge Mnnri. A large number of footballers a . 7' at the National Hotel on Saturday" - led and it was resolved to form a r.inl Ven,n & called the Cambridge Football fib V* following officers were appointed n' dent, Mr. N. J. Markham ; v SSrS^ 1 Messrs. R. Fisher, G. F ffi- , r , eBI dents J. S. Bond, and W. Thw ton ' E ' tain Mr. M. Roberts ; vice-ca t Sn 1 Carter: secretary and treasurer Mr a Bach; committee, Messrs. Prin V • a G. McCann, J. Arnold, R. Car" ' 7, nent ' Riley; delegates M. Roberts and G u 3 Cann. Members' subscription was fil' a jMjd, and 37 gave in their names a s n ? e * [BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORRESPONDED 1 a n* to Hamiltox, Monday' As Mr. L. Sutton was driving a bu-W, , pair from the station the offside honk came restive, and the pair, turnin<r tuJ] round, bolted for the pavement but ,2 stopped by the post, which brought them ll —a horse on either side of it. But for \l post the pole would have gone light throS Mr. btebbmg s large plate-lass window a number of people were standing close l.v who at once seized the horses "and U, some little girls out of the back of the bin- v No damage was done either to the bueevk, horses. °° y or

_, , Tamaherk. Mondav The lease of the farm here, 460 acres Vh property of the late Mr. Crawford, occupied until recently by Mr. Rutland Turner ha, been transferred to Messrs. Strubshaw'anl Pritt. The latter is a son of the late Arch deacon Pritt. They have entered into dm" session to-day. The district will regret to lose so sterling and well-respected a settler as Mr. Turner, but unfortunately he had no choice but to leave, Mrs. Turner having been ordered for her health to reside at the sea side.