COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9488, 18 April 1894, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[nsou oca own ooßßßstrovDnm.] Hamilton, Tae»dav GEKAT complaints are made that trans L. continuously heard, especially fa the earl! morning, going off, where ducks are »2 likely to be found and that pheasants w. beginning to be both scarcer and shier «*? it is thought the Utter will be found' w?u and few by the time the open season com mences. Numberless persona are ,ff gunning, principally well-grown lads »£„ all possess guns of some sort or another i country districts : and the Beason for dm* ■hootingbeingearlier than thepheasantßeaann' they find an excuse for being abroad tv making of both seasons coterminous am? putting on a heavy gun license— the latw would be an injustice to no one, as there • nothing else to shoot, small birds not be™ worth powder and shot—would be the onlS way to check this wholesale illegal deafen? tion of pheasants. c ' There was a good attendance at the annual meeting of the Hamilton Football Club Nn 1. The report stated that the club still heft the premier position in Waikato whieh it had for five years sustained. The fit matches played last season had all been won The financial position of the club was how ever, not so good, the subscription having been fixed coo low, namely, 2s 6d Th following officers were elected :— President Mr. George Edgecumbe; vice-president. Messrs. L. O'Neill, W. Dey, L. Cussen r W. Forbes, Dr. Brewis, W. N. Von sSii R. Gwynue, T. G. Sandes. T. Slade.N Hunt W.J. Gribble, and T. Buxton; caput T Hill ; deputy-captain, A. J. Peacock • h'on secretary, C. H. LeQuesue. A committee consisting of Messrs. .J. Hill, C. H. LeQ tlestle J. H. Hume, W. Hammond, R. Harrison' Jolly, Williamson, and Peacock was an' pointed. Messrs. J. Hill and N. Hunt were appointed delegates to the Waikato Rusbv Union. The subscription was fixed at 5a payable by the 15th proximo, no man to {,' chosen as a player whose subscription in unpaid after that date. The annual election ! of the Waikato Rugby Union will be held in the Waikato Times buildings, on Saturday next, at 8 p.m., the hour would seem to have been chosen with little consideration tor tin convenience of those attending from outfit Hamilton. The following nominations were received las* night for the election to the Hamilton West School Committee, on Monday night next, namely, Messrs. Bettly, T G Sandes, R. P. Sandes.Hattrick.G.Eiigecumbe. and James Hume. There will be nothing to prevent the receiving of any number of fresh nominations at the meeting ou Monday. Miss Bessie Doyle received quite an ovation last night at the Volunteer Hall, which was crowded-with a most enthusiastic audience Most of the pieces she played were doubly i and trebly encored, and after the curtain fell she was called before it, when the full company sang " Home, Sweet Home." She play I at Ngaruawahia to-morrow night. Tuesday At & meeting held by the natives here, at which Major Harris, M.H.R., was present, the natives spoke with anything but satisfaction of the Premier's address to them her" ftgau Ngau, a brother of the late great chief Tauonui, said that the desire of Ngatimaniapoto was that they should be allowed to sell or lease their land. Mr. J. Ormsby spoke as to the question of Maori taxation. People think we do not pay tuxes, he said, such h not the case. We pay the worst form ol taxation, that is, the difference between ! what the Government pays us for our land, from 2s 6d to 6s per acre, and the market value which is from 10n to 20s per acre. [by telegraph.— own correspondents.] Opotiki, Tuesday. Mr. Mueller, Commissioner of Crown Lands, accompanied by Mr. Goldsmith, Chief Surveyor, arrived via the Motu Bush from Gisborne last evening. They found the road in good order. Mr. Mueller is to-day inspecting the Waiotahi blocks in company j with Mr. Abbott, County Chairman, with the view to opening up roads.