The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1873.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 217, 30 September 1873, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1873.

Bv a telegram from Alexandra on Saturday, published iv the columns of the Herald of yestcrd»y, which we reprint in order to afford to oar rcaJui'B the full arnnnnt of amusement or disgust derivable therefrom. Here it is : — "Great credit is due to Mr j\laok«y /'or having frustrated Purnkatn. Purnkutu's next move is uncertain. The Waikato renidents foci safe in tho lands of Mr Mackay. AU is uncortaii.ty at present, bit a few days will decide tbc course of events $ p.m : Farukuiu ia on fie move, and musing un«tiiD<?BB. Mr Ulaclcny loft to day for Cambridge.

''ook.u^ < c ry Ber-OQ^ aU(I ft flu jj eu oul b re ak is expected daily. f> Lot us commence with the 6rst paragraph. We are perfectly ready to give Mr Mack.-iy credit for great energy, applied principally to rapid locorar,tin u . Wo have yet to learn, however, what Purukutu'* moves were, and how they have been fia*traUl, Purukutu not. having as we believe -and we are well info med -loft To K. .id, •t is hardy worth whiio to consider wlwt hi* next move may be ; if we did, «c slionlil certainly arrive at the conclusion that ho will continue to romain stationary. The Wailcato settlors, we are told, j-Meel Bate in Mr Maeka/s hands." We are not ! quite certain that, if they were in his hands, they wo^ld feel so particularly safe ; and many, we have | little doubt, would ptefcr to be m the hands of a i less volatile individual Jt is to be lesfrt-tmd ilun i he correspondent, of our< contemporary did not explain the danger from \\ hich tli- t>< tilers h.ivo to fly [ into bus hands for protection The eorre^ondent of [ our contemporary nmj have plenary information; it is tticich more probable, however, that he had indulged in a heavy sapper, and the telegram resulted from the consequent indigestion. Native nfluirs we learn are looking very serious • this is intelligence .scarcely worth troubling the telegraphist to tiansmit, they having done the same thing every month during the last ten years. Why are we not told the reason they look particularly serious at ; the present time ? Kext we are told that Purukutu is on the move and that great uneasiness is felt. We have at last got -a sentence that conveys a meaning, and we most emphatically state that it is untrue. Unensiness has been acted by a few interested individuals, and on the principle that every man has some influence, the acting of these iudividuals has disturbed the minds ot a tew people who have not (he means of readily procuring information, 'lhs myßtery that enshrouds all native matters imparts to them an importance which we firmly believe, if the truth were laid bare, they would not for one moment possess. Jn our last issue we very tersely explained what appeared to us the actual position of affairs as regards the King and his followers, and we have not yet any reason, beyond the vague rumours, that are always current, to doubt in the slightest degree that we were right " Medicine men " are a dark and incomprehensible people; so much so in fact, that our legislators are i afraid even to insinuate a doubt as to their wisdom ; and to hint in the House that the native question is being used as a political lever would be sufficient t) send the unhappy author of such a treasonable | sentence home t<> bed with that which in our youthfu 1 days we should hare called "a flea in our ear." We even as a member of the fourth estate are doubifnl whether it is quite safe to speak disrespectfully of the "mysterious." We remember our nuise. We have now got a uurse or nurses, of a different sex it ,ifi true; the "bogey" nevertheless is still held over our heads, with the difference only that he lias now nssunmri the tt»nyu ble shape of a Maori in p l uoo of that °of an unknown and feiirfol devil. We were^ often naughty in our youth in spite of tho " bngev " that j we did not know, and we see no reason why we should not displease our rmr-e now by telling him our belief, which is simply that half the rmnonrsof dangers emannte from his own creatures. '• Out of sight out of mind " is a proverb seldom forgotten by public men desirous of rising

We loam that tlio King nuiives hmled by Mnnuu-biri are prating the Government to remove Major Mnir from hi* position at Alexandra. Tl, 0 impudence of our King Iricnds appears to be unbounded. We suppose they haio not been able to squeeze sufficient of the good things ot this life out of him lately, or probably bo is too ndl oliio to their political dodgery to par ,mv attention to their nonsense. We believe that they wish Wircinu ie Whero to occupy his position. To con.ent to their request would, if possible lower us in the eyes of the ratives. We hear, on good an.' thonty, that the fluctuating policy of the Government hos at last led the King native* to express in »ords that which they have long thought. Eveiy European is now spoken of as a "dog." MrCalvert, M.K.C.S., has -idted this district, and requests us t© intimate that he will re-vij.it the Waikato during next month. Due information as to the date of his visit will be given in our culi-mim. He requests that •11 settlers who have cattle to operate upon will arrange amongst themselves in order that a number may be collected in one yard, thereby reducing the expense of his service* to all. This gentleman has hail long experience in his profes«ion, and intimates to us that if sufficient inducement offered he would reside peimanontly i» the district. It appears to us that it would be to the interest of the settlers to guarantee a certain sum per annum. There was a sitting of tlio Krsiilenfc Magistrate's Court, before W. N. Searoncke, Esq , X M , at Ngaruawahia, jcrterdny. There were two or three small debt cases heard of no publ.e interest. Them was, however, another case worthy of notice. George and Catherine Gihnore appeared in answer to an information laid a S *.nst them by R. J. Newell that they did on the 21st day of September use abusive and inflammatory language-having said that informant waa a murderer, and compared his head to that of Stsrk, a man executed in Auckland some timo back for murder. Mr Leary appeared for informant and Mr Hay for tlio defendants. Mr Hay, after the reading of the depositions, objected to the case being proceeded with, on the ground that it was incompetent to take proceedings by information, and that a complaint in place thereof ought to haie been made. Mr I/eary argued that it was competent for the Court to allow him \p amend the information. The Resident Magistrate ruled that according to the 26th clause of the Justice of the Peace Act an information or complaint might be amended, but he failed to see how he could ullow on information to bo converted into a complaint. The ca*c *as therefore dismissed, and full costs alloncd to defendants. A meeting |T the Ngaruawahia How m« dub was held on Saturday evening. A code of rules was pained, after which members were elfctd to tlio following offices :— Mr Wtf Clarke, president; Messrs Innes, Curti,, Hunt, and Uiimo' maiißfjins committee; Mr IIollo«av, captain; Mr Eitgeo.u.b.. h-asurer; and Mr Mitford, secretary. The club n*.w musters about 28 members. Wo tmt that before the close of the season our Auckland friends will receive a challenge to row on our splendid riv.<r. A meeting wa. held on Saturd.y for the purpose of ap - pomtmg a committee to carry out the necessary arrangements for the Mgaruawaliia Annual .>orU. The following were elected a committee :-Messrs Clarke, Holloway aunt, Carpenter, and Bayner. About Xlo were subscribed in the room. Two natives were arrested on the charge o f bavin* robbed Mr Bnght'a store on the 22ud mst. They were brought bifore Major Mair. The evidence was not sufficiently strong to bring th» crime homo to them ; they Mere consequently discharged. ' It will be eeen that Mr Kennedy Hills cattle sale advertised to take place in October i» postponed till a dote to bp hereufter fixed m IWmbor.

i iu< U'i.vvi.tuent steamer Luna, put mto Ituglan ior aUmmr on Sunday morning, she had received some httjo damage to hor paddle wheels. We an* informed that Mr Mackaj was expected at X ii kinki last night on his road to Raglan.