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Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 325, 17 January 1907, Page 4

Messrs McNicol desire us to announce that their Morrinsville stock sale and clearing sale of Mr Chapman’s stock, advertised for Wednesday, have been postponed till Saturday. The Licensing Committee yesterday refused the application for a publican’s booth at the Ngaruawahia regatta. The police report was an adverse one, it being stated there was a good deal of drunkenness at the last gathering. Mr A. Swarbrick appeared for the applicants.

The usual practice of St. Andrew’s choir will not be held this week. A reminder is given of the quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at the Farmers’ Club room at 7.30 o’clock this evening. On Wednesday next, at the residence, Alpha-street, Mr W. C. Davis will hold a clearing sale of the household furniture and effects of Mr Geb. Page. The sale will commence at 1 p.m. William Joughin, on a charge of using obscene language, and indecently assaulting a boy, has been remanded at Hamilton. Patrick Smith, for assaulting a female named H. Brown, at Hamilton, was fined £lO or two months’ imprisonment. It is estimated that fully 1000 gallons of milk were refused delivery at the butter factories in this district on Sunday, owing to the fluid being affected by the humid atmosphere. At the Mangapiko Creamery, in the Te Awamutu district, nearly every supplier had his milk returned. At the meeting of the Waipa County Council on Tuesday, the overseer reported as follows on the Cambridge bridge:— “The job appears to have made slow progres and is yet a good way from completion ; at the same time due allowance must be made for the troublesome, and in some parts, dangerous nature of the work. Since the job has been in progress there has been ample proof of the wisdom of the engineer’s recommendation not to have the work done by contract, as endless difficulties would have cropped up. These have, one after another, been got over, and I do not think that after all the cost will exceed the estimate.” Mr H. J. Greenslade, M.H.R., received the following communication ‘from the Postmaster-General (Sir. Joseph Ward) : —“ I have now the honor to reply to your letter on the 25th September last, enclosing a letter frbm Mr B. M. Savage and others ; to the telegram to you of the sth .October from Mr Veale ; to the representatives of the deputation introduced by you to the Hon. Mr McNab.at Hamilton on the 28th November last; and to your letter of the 10th ult. enclosing one from Mr M. E. Gardner. The Acting Post-master-General decided in May last that the new post office building at Cambridge was to be erected on the present site, and I regret that it is now too late to consider the advisability of changing the site. J may remark that if the agitation is to be continued, the erection of the building may have to be postponed indefinitely.”

A largely-attended meeting of householders was held at the Cambridge West Hall last night, when the proposal to form a town district was discussed at length. Mr C. Jarrett occupied the chair. Mr R. Fisher, chairman of the Pukekura Road Board was present, and replied to a large number of questions. A good deal of interest was taken in the proceedings, and at times there was a lot of good-natured banter. In order to test the feeling of the meeting, Mr Geo. Daily, juor., proposed that the petition in circulation in favor of forming a town district for Cambridge West, be annulled. . This was seconded by Mr J, Kingdon. Mr F. Mack proposed an amendment that the petition be gone on with. Seconded by Mr J. Jarrett, and carried by 15 to 11. Several abstained from voting. Owing to pressure on our space, we are compelled to hold over our report. A counter petition against the proposal is being circulated. The Waipa County Council, at its meeting this week, resolved to call for tenders for work in Shakspeare street, and guavelling on the Te Awamutu-Cam-bridge road, and also to effect repairs on the Te Awamutu bridge. The supervisor reported that the supply °f metal buring the past month had been very unsatisfactory, and work on the Kihihihi road had been delayed in consequence. —A _ by-law regulating billiarcl-rooras within the County was adopted.—The supervisor was instructed to see if a new bridge was required at Pirongia, the old one having been washed away. Gravelling works in various parts of the County were authorised. —The Clerk was granted a fortnight’s leave of absence.—The Council decided to contribute towards work on the KihikihiTe Awamutu-road when the Kihikihi Town Board fulfilled its obligation regarding repairs to the road.—Dissatisfaction was expressed at the way * the Council was being treated in regard to loan moneys from the Government. One Councillor stated that it seemed as though the money would be forthcoming in the autumn, when it was of no use and could not be expended. _ Rheumo cures rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago quickly and permanently. It is a thoroughly safe and absolutely reliable remedy. All chemists and stores, 2/(3 and 4/6,