COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10047, 6 February 1896, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[from our own correspondents,] Hamilton, Wednesday. The insurance of the Waikato Hospital Buildings has now reached to a serious item, having increased in the last year from £7 to £20 8s 6d in the present year. This rise is caused in consequence of the general mo in insurance rates, as much as by the additional buildings erected. The rate of insurance is now raised to 16s 6d on the Hospital, and 14s on the other buildings. The entries for the South Auckland Racing Club's meeting, which will be held at Glaudelands on the 6th and 7th Maroh, close on Tuesday next, the 7th iust. The club has received the necessary permit to use the totalisator, and nothing will be omitted to make the meeting as successful as it has ever been. There was only an attendance of 155 children at the Hamilton West School yesterday. Messrs. McNicol and Co. will hold their clearing sale at the Opouriao estate, Whakatane, on Friday, tho 18th instant, when they will offer for sale, without reserve, 17,000 sheep, 1000 head of cattle, and 40 horses. The stock is of first-rate quality. A steamer will leave Auckland to reach Whakatane, by way of Taurauga, in time for the sale. Morrinsviixe, Tuesday. An application from several ratepayers, who have token up laud on the Manawatu block, having been made to the Waitoa Road Board to assist in deepening two miles of outfall drain, and offering to contribute £15 towards the cost, ic has been resolved to instruct the engineer to inspect and report. The engineer has reported that good Bound heart of rimu timber is more profitable to use in works undertaken by the Board than kauri, and much cheaper. A number of local bodies were now using it in preference to kauri. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] Paeroa, Wednesday. At a sitting ot the S.M. Court last night an action was brought by A, Woods against J. McFlynn, for £23 10a for wages whilst working in the St. Hippo mine, at Waitekauri. Mr. O'Meagher appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Miller for the defendant. The plaintiff gave evidence to the effect that defendant encaged him in July last to work in tho St. Hippo mine at £2 8s per week. He worked for about ten weeks, and received only ten shillings. He had received no further wages since, and ho now claimed the balance, namely, £23 10s. Upon crossexamination, witness said he was a shareholder with Mr. McFlynn in the mine, and upon Buch a statement the case broko down entirely, the plaintiff accepting a nonsuit, with costs &2175.

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