COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10565, 5 October 1897, Page 3

COUNTRY NEWS.

[FROM our OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] 1 : *|®f . ' • ■ Cambridge,: Monday, A meeting of the Cambridge. Domain Board > was held on Saturday last, Messrs.. Wells, ", - . Allen, and Fisher being present. . Mr. R. Kirkwood wrote , resigning - hia position its a member of the Board. This was accepted £/3 with regret, and the Board decided to ask .' the Governor to appoint the Mayor of Cam* bridge (ex officio) a member of the Board. It 'flf? was resolved to raise the salary of the clerk ; to £20 a year, he having voluntarily accepted ~ •a reduction of £5 some years ago when the 1 i Board bad a big overdraft. The olerk v j instructed to send the whole of the corres- ",•* if j pondence connected with the Board's efforts to get the necessary authority to sue for over- i due.rents, to Mr. Berries, M.H.R. for the V>l district in Wellington, and ask him to use his 1 ?'<£•}' influence in securing the needed document from the Under-Secretary for Lands. " t ' \l Hamilton, Monday. r - " On Saturday morning Constable Forbes arrested a man named William James Bear- a| ing, on the charge of having been implicated - vi? 1 with two others in stealing a, watch , and ■"•r.-Vs chain, valued at £5 10s, from a man named' Millon. ' • '

The Kirikiriroa Road Board met on Fri- •; day afternoon. It was decided to take ira-";i!)P! mediate steps to prevent the washing away W0 of the river bank at Jackson's landing, Taupiri. The clerk reported that the bank overdraft was £24 63 3d. A voucher for £8 . las had been received from the Treasury for'-fi'ffi] thirds due to the Board. ->7$

"Captain Reid, commanding the Waikate Mounted Rifle Volunteers, lias received a communication from Colonel Pole-Pentou 'ii® approving of the appointment of Messrs. N. I. Hunt and C. J. W. Barton as. acting- ffife lieutenants. ' Colonel Banks has approved ol . the appointment of the following non- -/;#j commissioned officers Messrs. .T. Slade, ;mM Farrier-major; John Browne, Sergeant-major; W. W. Higginson, J. J. Graham, ; and \V. - Jc Hayes sergeants: and W. T. Wallace and J. , -V m J. Raynes corporals. ' V::-, Kiiiikim, Monday. A public meeting of ratepayers of tha . Kihikihi riding of the Waipa County Council was held on Saturday. The' meet- ; ing was called by Mr. W. J. Mandeno, M® in compliance with a resolution 'of the * Council, for the purpose of considering Ji-S the question of a proposed loan of £1000, foe ■);% gravelling and other work to the Kihikihi-Te * - Awamutu Road. There was only a small at- - ; tendance. Mr. J. Hutchinson was in tha chair. Mr. Mandeno briefly explained the 1 V object of the meeting, and gave a sketch of ..> the manner in which it was proposed to ex- '' .Iggfe pend the money if the loan were agreed to. ' -Vv} Mr. .Te'asdale, the other member for th« riding, said it was unfair to the ratepayers ol Ps - -'-i the riding that they should bear the taxation i consequent on such a loan. It was contrary to the spirit of the County Councils Act, gp|g which was framed with the object of enabling the whole of the ratepayers to act together foi, their mutual benefit. He pointed to the iis£ fl present arrangement far the maintenance ol %'' bridges in the county. He concluded'by ' proposing that the meeting be adjourned and • VMI another of the whole of the members of ths * lRangioahia called. Mr. Mandeno objected ' to Mr. Teasdale s motion being put to the meeting," as it was outside the business foi ■; ■ fa which'the meeting had ' been called. Hi would have nothing to' do with another ' meeting. A good deal of desultory discussion ''c $0 followed, the feeling being generally against the loan proposal. .Eventually Mr. -Teas- f 1 dale's motion, "That 'the ' Waipa' County Council be requested, at their next meeting, ' to.call a meeting of the ratepayers through", out_the. Rangiaohia Riding, with a view to' raising a loan, the meeting to take place al Te Awamutu on a date to be decided by the Council," was carried.. Mr. Mandeno said it : was highly improbable that ratepayers living >- 'l beyond . Awamutu, say on the Obaup« Road, who are within the Rangiaohia Riding, would consent to be taxed for making a road j from Awamutu to Kihikihi. The meeting i'&'M then terminated, with the usual vote to th( &sp|( chairman.