ABSENCE OF CRIME IN THE WAIKATO.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2173, 11 February 1881, Page 2

ABSENCE OF CRIME IN THE WAIKATO.

The “ Waikato Mail,” gays though the times are dreadfully dull as far as news goes, and though journalists in this part of the world have to rack their brains to find the smallest local items to lay before their readers, it is satisfactory to note the almost entire absence of crime throughout the whole Waikato disdistrict. The duties of the B.M. are of the lightest, either in Hamilton or Cambridge, Our solitaary constable in charge here has almost a sinecure. Sometimes a worshipper of Bacchus has time for repentance in the look-up, but even this is a rare event, whilst serious crime is utterly unknown if we except one sbeepstealing case. This is owing, we presume, to there being plenty of employment at this time for all who are able and willing to work. The farmers are as busy as bees with their harvest, the larger settlers are executing huge drainage works in various directions, and we doubt if at the present time there is an unemployed man in Cambridge who is desirous of obtaining work. This is a most satisfactory state of things, and, what is more, may be expected to continue, inasmuch as the coming Lands Court will release many large blocks of land that will afford employment to many hundreds more than are in the district now. Altogether, though dull in incident, there is no part of the colony more steadily or surely advancing in solid prosperity than the Waikato.