The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1873.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 234, 8 November 1873, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1873.

The election for Superintendent is over ; the people have expressed their opinion, and their opinion lms put Mr Willaoißon at the head of the poll. Our rt-rtderft are well aware from the opinions \\u »»>.ve expit't-hcd that we have always considered tltat Mr VVill<Htßson ia, intellectually speaking, the 6ttestnmVf-.r f ie office. We differed with him on

»h<> qucUfin of education, lit- ij as -i.» c qaaliti<M , l.is oiMuiom; in fact, there- can be liitJe doubt thiit the opinions were uttered much on tho principle that "all is fair in love find war." There is .very i enson to believe that he will not, after the rnanuer in which he has modified hi? opinions, act ao as to close or damage onr schools. It is clear to us that Mr Williamson only put forth his ! opinions with regard to education in ordor to catch the votes of a party. His acts show that ho has no principle to uphold on the question ; and his action with regard to this electioa sh>ws that he has not too gicnt a regard for principle of any kind. Tho inhabitants of tho Province arc at tho least o be congratulated on the f.ict that. Mr Duvvilta has not succeeded in cajoling the voters of Auckland into a belief in his boasted independence; on the other hand he has boon thoroughly snecehsful in convincing them that he is neither possessed of the brains or the respectability (as regards his tongue at any rate) that would justify the merest tyro in political matters in voting for him. We agree with many of those who voted for Mr Dargaville that it is necessary to break the ranks of a certain league that is well known to exist in our principal town. The league, however, is supported, j more or less, by genuine ability; and the man who is to upset and disorganise it must necessarily have j the ability to hold his own amongst them. Had Mr Dargaville's party brought forward a respectable man, as regards his public conduct, they might have done good. The coming forward of Mr Dargaville was little short of a direct insult offered to evejy elector who had the ability to read and write. We have supported Mr Lusk, because we believed that he was the least evil of the three. Mr Williamson is a clever man ; Mr Lusk, although nearly his equal intellectually, has failed entirely in impressing the public as to the actual position of affairs. We doubt each other; and how, tve would ask, is it possible for a pmate individual to estimate at its proper value the expressed opinion of the different candidates ? Unfoitunately for himself, and fortunately for theprovince and the colony he made some speeches ; these speeches have killed him. We reprct that a better man could not have been found, but in the absence of others, as regards ability, we believe that the best man of three has been elected.

It is rumoured, and we bclicvo there is foundation for it, that a number of land jobbers in Auckland have applied to the Government to havo the township of Horotiu put up to auction in one block. We can scarcely believe that any body of men hare had the audacity, and the dishonesty, to make such an application, — but strango tilings happen in this colony. We may, as a preventive of cv;l, warn the Government, and the speculators interested, that the people of the Waikato hare thore eyes upon them ; and further, that they are determined 111 1 oppose every transaction that smells in the slightest degree of land jobbery. We have been requested to call attention to the meeting of the Ngaruawahia Bowing Club called for this evening. We trust thnt every member will attend, an very important business has to be decided. Another club hnj started on the other sido of the river. Opposition it calculated to stir tlio people into activity ; on those grounds we welcome the second club. It has yet lo bo ascertained which side of the river is to hold the palm. The told number of immigrants shipped by the Agent General for the period from the 18th November, 1872, to the 30th August, 1873, was 5133 J. The European mail via Suez arrived in thj Wailcato last evening. The mail has been in New Zealand for nearly two weeks. It is a matter for congratulation that the San Francisco route is shortly to be established. Whatever faults Mr Vogel may be heir to, the people of New Zealand certainly owe him something for having had the foresight to perceive that a mail route via America could not fail to benefit the colony, to no inconsiderable extent. It is proposed to hold the following religious services in the district to-morrow :— Church of England.— Alexandra, 11 a.tn. ; Cambridge, 11 a.m. ; Hamilton, 6.30 p.m. ; Nga- J ruawahia, 11 a.m. ; To Awamutu, 3 p.m. Catholic—Kihij kihi, 9 a.m. ; Raugiaohia, 11 a.m. Presbyterian — Cambridge, !11 a.m. ; Ngaruawahia, 7 p.m. Wesieyan— Te Awamutu, { 11 a.m. ; Pukerimu, 3 p.m. ; Cambridge. 630 p.m. We have now the terms of agreement entered into by the agents of New South Wales and New Zealand for the establishment of a San Francisco mail service. Tho arrangement is for a 12-knot four- weekly service, plying from San Francisco to Sydney and to Port Chalmers. The boats are to be of 2,500 tons burthen, and they are to run alternately through to Sydney and to Tort Chalmers. There is to bo a branch lino of 1,000-ton vessels that will work the 'service to New Zealand or Sydney which, for the month, is left unperformed by tho boats of tho main line. Kandavau, at Fiji, is to be the port of divergence and transhipment. Tho two colonies of New South Wales and New Zealand are to be equal contributors to the cost, each colony paying £40,000 per annum. It will be seen that the cost will be large, and it i« fair to oxpect from such an outlay a line of first-class character. By its establishment a good alternative mail and passenger route to England will be given to all tho Australian coloniee, and there is no doubt that it would become rery popular with passengers and tourists. Even tho execrable accommodation of the Webb line could not for a long time overpower the attractions which the line possessed for persons visiting England. The route will also be the high road to America, and will bo tho best mode of communication with Fiji. Tho advantnges that it will confer on Sydney in its dealings with Fiji will probably be such that would overpower the Melbourne connexion, and place Fiji in tho position of a mercantile dependency of the capital of New South Wales. The formation of such a line would, doubtless, tend to tho benefit of the colonies immediately concerned, and of others in a hss degree, and it is only fair to wish it tho success which the enterprise of its promoters justlyj ustly deserves. — Australasian.