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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 102, 24 December 1872, Page 2

It. is to i;s astonishing oy what process our Auckland contemporaries arc li '.vmkod into publishing any report tluit then- most unreraeious correspondent;! aft Alexandra send them. In the JTfraUl of Saturday last appears a telegram I:ie Hauhans have cut and pegged oil" a new boundary line lor us, culling oil portions of several farms, mid Kay's, a!, 0nil:a 1 1 altogether. Also the land south of the Orakau block-house direct to Punia river." This sort of thing, if it was not calculated to conduce to further disturbance, would be rather amusing than 0.-iierv/ise. We have some :liiTieultj in t'ee ding in our own mind-; which is more to blame, the iiooJ.-.v inked Editor or the deviating Correspondent. We regret to report that Mr D. F. Seott was kicked by a lorsj yesteiMay, at iN'garuaw.inia.: scmo of his ribs are n-okeu. T)r Benle, however, has informed us tiiat no serious consequences need be anticipated. lae Eev. i- delivered, a lecture in the Schoolroom, Cambridge, on Thursday evening last, 0;i account of many people being busily engaged with the hay harvest, the attendance was not so large as might have been expected Mr J. P. Campbell occnpiod the chair. The. subject wa " Ira PPJ Homes, and how to make them," which was treated by the Rev Lecturer in such a way as to afford both instruc tion and amusement. On the motion of Mr Sanderson, a cordial vote 01 t-nnnss was given to ihi l Locturer, who, in re plying, announced that the next lecture would be delivered n Cambridge on that night three weeks, the subject to be -V Js tie tell ot the 1 Century. The proceedings were brought to a conclusion by Mr Stewart pronouncing the benedict ion. A very good card-is adverted tor the Te Awamutu Race Meeting to take pl iee on Boxing IV,-. A good day's snort may be anticipated. The following are gazetted as members of the. Tamaherc. EFghwav District Patrick Leslie, Chairman; William. Xorman Leslie, William Cumuiing, Robert Eirkwood, and Hakariwi.i. Duncan McLean is gazetted a member of the lumgiawahia Highway Board, rice William Eirs, resigned, The receipt- by the Provincial Secretary of copies of the Assessment- Lists for Hamilton West Township and Town o -\g:>ruawahia Highway District is acknowledged. James Farrell is appointed Collector of Rates for the Rangin wahia Highway District. It is notified in a Gcz-ils published on Saturday that tin Provincial Government Offices will be close.l from Wednesday, the 25th instant, to Saturday, the 23th, aiso on the ollowiug Wednesday and Thursday, Ist and 2nd January.

We hear several <wnplttint9 among our country settlers of the total failure of their man;;okl wnrtzel: crops, this season. This is especially the ease with the red crops, grown from seed purchased at one or two places in town. We hear that one of our principal fefiners at the Tainaki, who ordered a quantity of yellow mangold wurtzel from one of our principal seedsmen in town, received, (as was ultimately proved) the t-'ped of red mangold instead, —the result being, an entire failure of the crops, the seed sown being worthless. We hear that the matter is likely to .come into Court, and that not only will the inonev paid for the seed be claimed-, butt'aat specific and contingent damages will be demanded through the loss of crops. ' It will be somewhat interesting to note the Court's deefsion, tjliould the ease be brought forward. for such decision would certainly form a precedent.— Jlerald.