LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8099, 10 January 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The rainfall registered at the Ruakura Statu Earin a.9 u'ctoek this morning fur the previous twenty tour hours was 2.81 .LCUtS, A tennis match will be played at Cambridge on Saturday, bctr,i.ou Cambridge and Hamilton. A drag wdl leave tne Post Office at 12 noon. At the meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board to-uay, the cnairman reported tnat 4 loan of from XSOOO to £ 10,000 had, beeii arranged for bunding purposes, from tne Public '■ ruatee. On Saturday the New Zjaland Loan and Alercautile Agency Co. ho»d tneir le Awa.•jmtu stoeK sa.e. ihe entries mc.ude gooU i2 to ls-mentns ste-rs and heiters, Caive3, rat heifers, pigs and sundries. The saie : wul st irl at 12 ...'elect sharp. It is understood by me Wellington Post th.it the «pp .lutment >.t two or turee ui ;re Native Laud > ourt judges is eouiouiplatod, iu order th.t the large amount of work tvnicu has been accumulating during the ow-t year or two may Le with at jacd, A newspaper from England was rteenti) received by the General Pose Ohio at >\ eiiington, addressed as todows:— "The Lcuer of the Lauour Party, Pj>rliamenc btuildings, Poueice I'A'ctlingtonJ (S./,.)." i'ne Post vltij-! otti r.ais seat in to the tion ,i A iliilar, Alinister of Labour. A secmd scam of coal ha 3 bei-n struck on the l-uipici West Cual Alining Company's property. I'ne ihktt tiassuuK six teec into ihe coal, wnicii, according to thß boring tesi, 1= -1- tcet thick. During tiie nouuay? j >k t&ui 11 ttet o inches in thickness was passed tnrougu, the coal being ot excellent ~a,ULy. A Commisaiun of i.i.>|Uiry whs opened at Hastings on Tue=aay betoio Jir J A. fuyntou, Public 'J rustee, into certain »ikg.ttijns Sold to i.iVbO.uu made tiu.t ~ud sign l .ar.s ot =ome natives Co a deeu ,1 s».e ot .4 p./i't; a of ciie rt'aim.;rama LiUck t. tne 'j ivevn'nont n»d beou obtained wliiietho natives \.<sru under the intluenc: oi drinii. Tuj evidence ot iue ivuoie ut :ho witnesses, with on.- exception, was in dipro f ot the aliugatluns. Too S eo'iO - P ;yno Bellringers were :r. et-'.i uy a iarsje nuiionce liiu occasit.u vl their in iluniicon last night. Tne Company has lost nune ot' its old cnaru. 1 , and tec various members were received with heiiiy manifestations of ippi'ov.il. Tile most enjoyable items were poruap-i those contributed by the mandoline and hsnjo band, winch weie rtlemiu :e 1. ihesinging of toe nu übers of tne Ci mp-iuy was greatly appreciated.

An inquiry was hold tit Kaurimu before Mc L vied, diitnct coroner, and a jury of ix, en Friday la=t, as to tho cause of the fires which took placfl at kaurimu at tho end ot last iuou:h. Constable Montgomery* appeared on beh>df of the police, lu the cuss of Mr \V Lev;, who loot two Duild-.ngs, iho avideuc s proved thut the fire was aco:d mill, naviog spread from adj vcent ■ uiinings. lu regard to the destruc ion of • K Kiuloy's b.iardiug-house, there being no .•vuitU'.e lu piove the erigin of tne tire, the jury brought in an i-pun verdict. In the c.s- of St iliD:;'s hoarding-house, it appears ■ h'.t toe un ernoatii part ot tee house and also I'll- 1 of the fitting ro 'ins were discovered on tiro at the s line time. A quantity of chips satiif:.ted with kerosene had been piac-'d rouad er.e of the piles uuder the n msn and s-it alight, S hum of the witnesses tnought the tiro was caused by a spark, others t>>at it was delioerately started. I'hu jury's verdict was tnat the fire was cans d by some pers >n or persons unknown. I'he ia6urancns are : Love's building-, X 130; Mclvinley, £>so; Stirling, £BOO. The iiiiuiry, which lasted over twelve hours, was most exhaustive, the evidence occupying thirty-sis pages of foolscap.