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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1106, 26 July 1879, Page 2

The Annual Meeting of the Ratepayers of the Pirongia Highway District, was held m the School-house, Harapepe, on Saturday last, at 2 p.m., Mr R. Neil Chairman. The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and confirmed. The Chairman then read the Report and Balance-sheet of the past year, which were passed. The election of Trustees, was then proceeded with, and the following ratepayers Avere elected Trustees for the ensuing year, namely, Messrs J. Hodgeson, James cdierrett, Wm. Jordan, Rasborough, J. McQuirk. Fence Viewers : Messrs Ety. Southee and P. James. Auditors : ' Messrs R. Neil and David Rolls. A vote of thanks was passed for the Chairman. At a meeting of the Trustees, held after the public meeting, Mr J. Hodgeson was elected Chairman of the Board, for the ensuing year, and Mr James Sherrett, Clerk and Collector. Applications will be received by the Cambridge North Township Highway Board until the 9th proximo, from persons wishing to act as Secretary' Collector of Rates, and Ranger to the Board. Applicants are to state terms. The collector and rangpr.are eaoh to find security. Alexandra Highway Distbict Board. — -A public meeting of the ratepayers Avill be held on Saturday, the 9th proximo, at the Public Hall, Alexandra, at 3 p.m., to elect a trustee m the place of Henry Edwards. The Annual Meeting of ratepayers of tho Town of Ngaruawahia Highway District is adjourned to Wednesday next, the 30th inst. A special meeting of the ratepayers of the Rangiaohia Highway District will be held to-day immediately after the Annual Meeting for the purposo of taking the opinions of the ratepayers as to thafc part of the Rangiaohia district from the Railway Station at Te Awaniututo Fleming's corner being taken from that district and handed over to the Pukakura Board. At the Resident Magistrate.' s Court, Alexandra, yesterday, Daniel Julesmont was charged Avith stealing sundry bottles of spirits, the property of his employer, Mr Thomas Finch, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The prisoner is a natiA'e of the Isle of France, and was to have been^narried yesterday to a young European woman residing at Alexandra. She, it is reported, has now left the settlement, overcome, it is said, by distress of mind. Tenders for finishing the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton were received on Thursday by Mr T. H. White, architect, as follows :— Jas. Cook & Co., £248 10s, Worthington, £'270 ; both tenderers undertaking to pay for the material on the ground. Also, from D. Elliott, £116, leaA'ing the Church Committee to pay for the material — the value of Avhich is £157. No tender has as yet been accepted. The usual monthly meeting of the Cambiidge Farmers' Club will take place on Monday afternoon next, at 2 o'clock, when Mr James Runciman will read an essay on the " Culture of Roots." A notice appears m our advertising columns that m future the platform at' the Drury Sale Yards, Great South Road Crossing, Avill be called " Runciman's." Trains will stop there on being signalled. Mr C. C. Wood will receive tenders up to to-day, for cleaning out ditches of three miles of gorse fencing. To Builders. — Tenders for the erection of a house near the Peach Grove, Hamilton, will be received by Mr T. H. White up to Thursday next. The Sale op Engravings, postponed from last Saturday, m consequence of the Public Hall at Cambridge heing still occupied by the Nati\'e Lands Court, will take place to-day m that building, afc one o'clock, when Mr John Knox Avill offer for sale over hundred choice engravings, oliographs, lithographs, &c. Mr J. S. Buckland's Hamilton Horse Pale takes place to-day, at 1 o'clock, at Gwynne' s Hamilton Hotel. Fire at Te Awamutu.— On Thursday night, about 11 o'clock, a houso belonging to Mr Rutherford, at Te Awamutu, was burned to the ground. Ifc was occupied hy Mr James Mandeno and his family. The occupants had retired for the night when the fire broke out, andAVere quickly aroused, and, Avith assistance, managed to save a portion of the furniture, which was not insured. Ifc would appear that the fire broke out m the kitchen. The house was insured m the New Zealand Insurance Company's Office for £200. An inquest Avas held yesterday, afc a whare somo three miles from Ohaupo, before Mr Gresham, Coroner, and a jury of whom Mr Corrigan was foreman, on the body of a man named Miohael Shea, who, yesterday morning, had been found hanging. Frou. the evidence elicited ut

the inquosfc, ifc appeared that Shea was an old mm of about sixty, formerly a man-of-war's man, and suffering from mental deraugoment to a certain extent for some time past, and that he had not been working for tho last two months, but living mainly on the charity of his former fellow-workmen employed on the railway contract. The body, Avhen found, was suspended by tho neck to a triangle of poles, erectod Over a cooking place near the deceased's whare ; and beside it, Avas a stool, appcarcntly kicked ovor by the deceased after he had placed the noose round his neck. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had committed suicide while suffering from temporary insanity.