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Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 324, 15 January 1907, Page 4

During the year ended December 81st, 1006, there were 87 births, 32 deaths, and 18 marriages in Cambridge. The dreaded potato blight has again made its appearance in the district, and many crops are badly affected. There were 15 cases of drunkenness before the Cambridge Court during the past year, or six cases more than the preceding period. Arthur Erickson, the iad who was kicked by a horse on the Hastings racecourse; some weeks ago, is still in a critical condition. The quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Farmers’ Club Room on Thursday night, at 7.30 o’clock. Important business will be transacted. The Waikato Licensing Committee meets at Hamilton to-morrow. Members of the Committee inspected the Cambridge and Te Awamutu hotels on Saturday. Owing to the rough weather, the Ohaupo races, which were to have taken Place at Glengariff to-morrow, have been Postponed. The date of the meeting will be fixed later on.

The following tenders were received by Mr 0. Reid, architect, for the building of a ten-roomed residence, in Queen-street, for Mr M. E. Gardner: F. Mar croft £576 (accepted), W. Hogan £595, W. White £620, F. Potts £630, H. G. Davys £633. Rabbits are on an alarming increase in the Te Awamutu and Kihikihi districts and settlers are slumberously beginning to realise that they will be compelled to take more energetic steps to suppress the progress of bunny. A meeting will be held at Cambridge West Public Hall to-morrow evening to consider the advisability of forming a Town Board. The meeting will commence at 7.30 o’clock, and a large attendance is requested. Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer, will visit the Cambridge Sanatorium this week. The special object of his visit to Auckland is to confer with the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board with regard to the provision of shelters for consumptives in Auckland.

There are numbers of people under the impression that a package marked “ 0.P.5.0.,” and forwarded to a Government Department, without the usual stamp, will reach its destination without any trouble. Such is not the case. The postal officials, in cases where an unstamped letter is received, demand postage and extra postage of a Government Department or a civil servant, just the same as they would demand it of a private citizen.

Regarding the chiming clock for Cambridge, we are informed that at Carterton, a town with about 1400 of a population, 150 more than Cambridge, the Government made a similar offer to them as has been made to the local residents, and the people of that place readily subscribed £4OO, or £IOO more than was required. In Cambridge the public are only asked to subscribe £2OO, the Borough Council having voted £IOO towards the proposal. In Carterton the residents never received any financial assistance from the local governing body. Two young men, first offenders, were before the Police Court yesterday. One was charged with assault and the other with using insulting and provoking language. It appeared from the evidence that the parties had a dispute on New Year’s Day about some of the competitors who took part in the Oddfellows’ feports, and the latter defendant repeatedly called the former a liar. No. 1 defendant thereupon upon became angry and struck the other. The presiding Justices, Messrs E. J. Wilkinson and J. Ferguson, considered that the first defendant, for whom Mr C. C. Buckland appeared, had been subject to considerable provocation and dismissed the case against him. No. 2 defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. He was also ordered to pay costs, £2 6s. Why spend money at Rotorua and other thermal springs when Riieumo will quickly cure you of rheumatism, gout, sciatica or lumbago. Chemists and stores 2/6 and 4/6.