WAIKATO COUNTY COUNCIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1357, 12 March 1881, Page 2

WAIKATO COUNTY COUNCIL.

The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held yesterday. Present : Captain Steele (chairman), Messrs R. H. D. Ferguson and Primrose. Mr Thomas Wells, the nowly-elected 1 member of the Council for the riding of Cambridge, in the place of Mr W. L. Martyn, resigned, was introduced by the chairman, and took his seat. The minutes of tho previous meeting I were read and confirmed, and the outward correspondence Was read and approved. Messrs JSalow and Powell, of Cambridge, wrote applying for a transfer of the license for slaughtering piga on lot 230, granted to Mr Isaacs, to them. The Clerk explained that the license had been granted under a misapprehension, as the slaughter-yard had been erected too near the road. Mr Doolan, inspector of alaughterj houses, wrote stating that the yards had been removed further back from the | road. Cr Fergusson said he had no objection to the license being granted, provided the yards were removed further from the I road. It was finally resolved to transfer the license to slaughter pigs for three months only. ! Mr Smith, Taupiri, wrote to the chairman, asking if anything further had been done in the matter of his land. It was resolved to refer the writer to the Government. Mr G. F. Hosking, Surveyor, wrote, stating that he would attend as soon as possible to the request of the Council regarding the road from Toles Hill to Matahura. The Chairman said the work should be attended to at once, as great dissatisfaction existed. Cr. Fergusson expressed his sorrow that that portion of the County could not be made a road district, so that the settlers might attend to these matters j themselves. The Uhder-Secretary for Public Works I wrote, stating that the application from ! the Council regarding the cattle-pens at Huntley would be considered. Cr. Fergusson drew the attention of the Council to a resolution moved by Cr. Primrose, and earned at a meeting on the 14th .January, affirming the necessity of retaining the County subsidy with a view to keeping the road to the Aroha in repair, as it was beyond the power of the Kirikiriroa and Tamahere Boards to do so, if the traffic to the goldfielcl continued to increase. This he pointed out was a very unfair proceeding. If the road to Hamilton was wanted, so was that to Cambiidge. The Chairman said the intention had been to expend the money, if required, upon that portion of the road beyond the junction ot the Hamilton and Victoria roads. Cr. Fergusson said so long as that practice was carried out, it would be j fair enough ; but if £5 was spent on the j Hamilton road, an equal sum should be expended on the Victoria road. He thought such a resolution as that lie had referred to might hamper the Council in i anything they might undertake, and he moved that it be rescinded. Cr. Wells, in seconding the motion, referred to the bad state of the Victoria road, which he described as the worst in Waikato. The motion was put and carried. Cr. Wells gave notice that at next meeting he would ask for a return, showing the amounts placed to the credit of the different ridings during the pa3t two years. A number of accounts were passed for payment, and several other matters, reports of which appear in other parts of this issue, having been dealt with, the Council rose.

" I say, Paddy, ' that is the worst-look-ing horse you drive I ever saw. Why don't you fatten him up ?" — " Fat him up, is it ? Faix the poor baste can hardly carry the little mate that's on him now," replied Paddy. DtTBETG the Franco-German war, a man named Teule was captured by the Prussians and taken to Germany, but on the way he attempted to escape, and in so doing nearly killed a sentry, and was condemned to be shot. By a mistake of the jailers, however, Teule was placed in the cell of a prisoner condemned to ten years' confinement in a fortress, and this latter was led out and shot in error. When Teule comprehended the mistake that had been made, he resolved to leave the authorities in their" error, and abstained frqm writing to his family in France. Mean* while his wife and father made inquiries at the War Office, and were informed that Teule had been shot for assaulting a German sentry.' On the strength of this his wife married again, and has a child now four years old. Nothing was wanted to make the confusion complete but the return of Teule to his native Tillage, which' took place a few days since, and he was, of course, received by his wife as one returned from the grave. He had gone through* the remainder of his ten years' : confinement, and left Germany without arousing suspicion of his iadentlty. '