Captain Steele has agreed, on behalf of Messrs Grant and Foster, that one-half the settlers shall be placed on the land by the Ist January, 1882. A demand by Mr Rolleston for payment of £4400 of the purchase money immediately the agreement is signed has been objected to.
The number of sheep-owners in the colony is 5980, and the number of sheep 11,693,911.
Mr Pardy, late Sub-Inspector, now ranks as Senior Sergeant in the Police Force.
We are glad to notice that the Kirikiriroa Highway Board purpose re paring the bridge orer the Tamahere Creek, on the Cambridge road, The wheel guard on the western Bide is quite rotten, the hand rails are springing, and one of the panels in the fence on the Hamilton side has been broken down.
Something ought to be done by the Borough Council of Hamilton, to make the approach road to the bridge at Slaughterhouse Gulley suitable for wheeled traffic, as it will form a portion of the new road to Kirikiriroa through Claudlands. The approach to the Peach Grove road should also bo attended to.
