COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9490, 20 April 1894, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[IROM ODE OWN CORRESPONDENTS. J Hamilton, Thursday. The following are the vital statistics for th« Hamilton registration district, for the quarter ended the 31st March last -.—The births are I 25 per cent, increase ou any previous quarter, Of the deaths, two occurred at the Waikato Hospital; births, 48, namely, 21 boys and 27 girls; deaths, 10, 5 males and 5 females; marriages, 6. As will be seen by advertisement elsewhere, Messrs. Carter and Francis hold their first sale of cattle at Mr. Lascelles' yards, Waitetuna, on Saturday next. A presentation of a very handsome writing desk was made by the children of St. Peter's Sunday-school on Sunday last,"to Miss Mason, the eldest daughter of Mr. Mason, nurseryman, East Hamilton. The desk was presented with a very eulogistic address by the superintendent ot the school, Mr. Percy E. Stevens. Miss Mason is resigning her duties as Sunday-school teacher, having been transferred from the teachership of the Hamilton East school to that of Ngaruawahia. She is a favourite with the children. The Rev. Wm. Calder is announced to preach at St. Peter's Church on Sunday. For the convenience of settlers living at settlements outside Hamilton where there is no resident medical man, Mr. Louie's bedroom, at the Hamilton telegraph office, has been connected with the district wires, so that parties requirinz the services of a doctor in the night can ring him up from any telegraph station in Waikato with a message for our Hamilton practitioner, Dr. Brewis. Mr. F. W. Lang, the member for Waipa, when at Raglan with the Tuhikaramea cricket team, held a meeting of his constituents to place himself en rapport with the requirements of the district. Amongst other local wants that of a good road between Raglan and Hamilton was the principal one urged, and by the greatest number of those present. Mr. T. B. Hill spoke of it as the most urgently-required work in the district. Mr. Langly said that while there were ■many desirable works that were required in the district, by far the most necessary was the metalling from Raglan to Hamilton, and if they could get a sum placed on the Estimates to do this work it would be the life of the district. Without it the district would go back. Mr. Lascelles spoke strongly, urging the importance of this work. Mr. Mitchell followed in the same strain. Mr. Sewell, civil engineer, spoke warmly in favour of improving this road, and suggested the application of an annual grant fiom th« Government to carry out the work. Mr, Pegler advocated the formation of the road as joining Raglan with the railway and the port of Auckland. It was resolved to hold a further meeting on the subject on Saturday evening next. Ohaupo, Thursday. In another column will be found the. advertisement of MctUcol and Co.'s annual sale of turnip cattle, to bo held here on Tuesday, May 1. There are 800 head of well-bred grown cattle already entered, amongst them 300 head of grand bullocks from the Patetere estate, 3£ to 5 years old, and some 90 head of 2 and 3 years old Polled Angus steers and heifers. The Polled Angus cattle are the first brought to market in this part of New Zealand, and will doubtless excite considerable competition. Kihikihi, Thursday. Owing to the detention of the Ngatimania* poto tribe at Te Kuiti the unveiling of Rewis monument, which was to "have taken plac« on Saturday, has been postponed to the following Monday. <. [BY TKLKGRAFH.—OW& CORRESPONDENT.] Paekoa, Thursday. Mr. W. Lucas is the lowest tenderer for the supply of 10,000 tons of firewood to toe Waihi Company at 5s 2d per 1011. Another large batch of road contracts were let by the County Council to-day. TtaLouu* oil have road votes of the value of £2000 unaer way aud part finished. , The native difficulty, which appeared rather ominous last week, has been satisfactorily settled. Constable Beattie was the chief mediator between the conflicting parties. Russell, Thursday. The election of the new school committee takes place next week. Previous to this tner« has only been the necessary number ot candidates, but there seems to be more lDte "; taken in school matters now. Several new candidates are expected to be nominated tn time. ...