CORRESPONDENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 4 January 1873, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by our correspondents.]

To tho Editor of tho Waikato Times. Sib,— l notice a paragraph m your issue of 31st December, m reference to there being no races at Hamilton this season. There is no grand stand as stated by you, it having been removed by Mr Jolly, and the timber used to construct a barn, although undoubtedly public property. , Further, it is not from petty jealousy that the races have fallen through this year, but through the carelessness and lethargy of the Club, r including the Secretary, whoso duty it certainly was to call a meeting of the Club, when, if he, as Secretary, was unwilling to act, another could be appointed, and fresh members elected m place of those who wished to resign. Sufficient money could havo been raised m tho Waikato to got up better races than have yet taken place. As you say, it only wants an energetic club, and I may aid a secretary who will act from other than mercenary motives. Pkogeess.

To the Editor of tho Waikato Times. Sir, — I am surprised that our member has not yet thought it worth while to address his constituents. I sasv by your paper the other day thut a requisition was getting signed u-*kin? him to do so. Has it been burked? I heard several gentlemen were cumins; up from Auckland to hear him — W perhaps he got wind of it and felt " skeered." It seems to mo that all the representatives who have addressed their constituents reveal a rotten state of things m the House, which is hardly tolerable even among the New Zealand colonists, who are proverbially apathetic with regard to politics. The best construction I can put on the matter is that any one who aspires to place and power m New Zealand must have tho gift of gab, (to us© a vulgar phrase), lots of assurance, and a conscience as elastic as India rubber. He must be lavish m promises which ho never intend^, to perform, except nudcr compulsion ; such a one can at once secure and hold the reins of Government till a more unscrupulous individual than he mounts the rostrum and holds forth, when the first is ignominously expelled to make roora for a wo; so. Such is a short resume of the constitutional history of New Zealand, whenever thero has been any money that could be i handled, and such will be m future, unless the colonists wake from their dream, and only return men who pledge themselves to represent their wants, and do their utmost for the country of their adoption. If not, we may rest assured that taxation will reach to such a height that our children, (perhaps ourselves), will be compelled to betake them to ' pastures new' where taxes are light. Thb Man by tub Hivbe.