The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 270, 3 February 1874, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 1874.

His Ho.ior rhe Snpenntetidout has returned fVom hi* foi m t.he >orh, and we ncrlerstaad that it is lita intention at no distant date to visit the BiutlemenM to the :-ontli ot the seat of CJoverutuent. In oue of ins speeches delivered lately, ami reprinted '" 'hp columns of a contemporary, hoca'oil i»,cii 11.0 11 Be. cut road boar Is to unite, at ,1 ;i ( i e »-cois It^tiori, to lay before him a state. v..Cii of a.c v orkrf that should bo undertaken an I the mr.i^i.r* s « li^pici for the advancement cf (heir who'o cihtiict He will shortly be amou ip Mi t'-.e W (vkato, an-1 ?f t'.ie settlors a'e to reiutor hii'i * tie Hh-.ibi.iuca in their power, couseoiu'nt on their In 1 " 1 In.ortliage, it is quite time that tlu-y n>t.r aud <i ihhj .ie h u'fiune coholu.mcju on ouedtims «T"c*'"g iii<* pr'ib.nnty of the Waikato. 'i'l'H'e aie Jnee qr.-.UOiiS 1.1 jr.tri.calar, viz : Tho ie\hnnu; i .»ifc '01 ufj h. thci oi>ouii.g of the load 10 tfie 'i'hi >ViY i» li: i, -Ji.rl ili.-t ;Yom NgnruawHhia to Aiexniifi'ii. It ib tt.s « i.oß.iu-b.t' t'.at ho should be fiii'inshi'il wuii a „id m' uil i«tud 6uiLab!o fo. - tl c h- tiitiine.it of mimiT.iiiii. Uuless sjmething is ..• v.pn...},ij .v.if i" uid br»d^o, the country will i*. r.ti iiic^'l* c ti>r vi Mm «s T — some of them now are n> ii % i r »*■ 'i ft it» th;it tli»-y are only crossed Xt ti -j ii.ninueu risk of 10-jjs of life or limb. Tho out bo.ii'd , .t. v\c i'u\o of^eu beiore pointed out, „ .. h.-li l<^s ft ->m "'inifc of funds to execute this v- irk. Tho uiaWi . or tae road to tbe Thames v-( 1 ' c[ »• '.ir /jutej utc •* o^ c-u i'\' P.iil '''In fnr th» ' ou ion of mii'ngia"ta; the cnxiutry is gojd, aud t u m j..cl ot -uo 1 1'> ni«» v.oaiu aiu» a roajy u»arkut ,r -li^ 'H .m.*,' Vl'.o:*e is aUo a lurgo quantity of uj'Tcuiiicd l«.'d bv?'wet'n Ni^ioiw.ihia and Alex- , mlll4i w t .., ooutd :> o tiOM.eut, useless at prd r ,» f -n t iIm I*1 '*' '■""" ' r ' |f> T ''*" n "* of commani'cdtioa. j|n id c\ flip\e\cl *o piflsthrourb this district lus L. r >,n ioi q in ot»a to "i cojihiruotiuu tnut; .some of til , o „r o if ■•, jec tho road id only made tnr .i ft.w ujika. It w»'. »'" ''••" d»; '* ''" ft "■'

bo.irds ,11 h(> U.fJvi'-i >o lo '.i-'i^.-ei to iV.Mu^i th»« Supennie'i'kMi' »v , »^ .^J .1 t . • hriMiMu i«h u> the H'so mv& azul wants o '>*" 1 i)iiitn".it. >iiBtriots, the supply of wh,i I) is necessai y ji u*we lo^onrco-i are to be leve.opid Tli^ ruuub is uj lioubtudly jolo-w, u:)1( j «s the Bt'itlef's wil} )u>!p theui^lvci) it ii a'isur I to look for uwiielatii^ fxuiu any Government, bo it colonial or provipoial Tet the ol^ huhit of asking " WbyVlaen not t^eiCoveiuuieufcdo ttus,or do that," b« sabBti^uted by M Way, as govermnents are our bervnuta, <lo we nof. compel Ibotn to yield to our jasb denottuds r* 1 We do not, in this instance, bel'eve lb»t compulsion will be neoi'3bury ; the Supei intmideut and bis Executive are t'uMy ftliee to the fact that the Wailcatoia tho backbone of Aucklaud, and to it sbe must look to help her on the rond to ]»r.).sperity on which fiho ha^ just been started. If our ropreseuta tires at the different boards do their work houeHtly Mud iniellitrently, we feel confideul thut the VVmkato will receive justice at the hands of tho present Provincial Government. Let no board in its report attempt to embellish the truth, — if is not necessary ; the Waikato is admitted to be the fiibt district m the province, and aoiwqneutly 13 bound to receive every possible assistaHicu from an intelligent Council and Executive,

Weha\e to apologise to our Alexandra, Te Awamutu, and suLwcn 1 cis in that direction for having missed the mail on baiuiilay , the fact, however, is owing to circumstances ovei which weiad no control. The mails fur the iJuited Kingdom. America, &0.. will clo*e in Aui-Umid, on Thursday, the 12th February, at 10 30 t.m. Lcttcid must be pouted in the M'aiUto in lime to catch Tuesday morning's »-oacu, (tiib lOtti February.) It will beeeen by our telegraphic intelligence Unit a cutter has been lost on the Manukau Bar. .^ler immo had not been ascertained Tuo vessels are named, the Flora McDonald, bound for Raglan, and tho Dawn. The barijue Lauderdale arrived in Auckland on Friday afternoon. She haa brought 123 immigrants, consisting of 24 married couples, 34 single girls, 19 single men, and 37 children. The Government officers who inspected th» vessel expressed themselves well pleased with her cleanly appearance and accommodation The nrat mail sent by the Macgre»or was the largest evei despatched from the colonies across the P.uj'fic. It consisted nf 8255 letrcre, 217 books, and 11,226 newspapers. Those figures are independent of what New Zealand sent. We regret to have to report that Mr Simpson, of Te Awamutu, was rather seriously hurt by * boar. It appears that he was trying to drive the animal, when it turned upon him, knocked him down and cut him rather severely with his tuaka. By last advices Mr Simpson had not left his bed, but Was doing well. We learn from » Hawked Bay contemporary that Mr J. Harding has sold Mount Erin station, tfavelock, through Mr Miller, to Mi T Proctor, of Oamaru, in the province of OUgo, for £15.000. Tue statiftn comprised 5000 *ore» freehold, with 70<J0 sheep, and a few cattle and horses. It is saUsf.iaoiy to fiml, says the Crots, that onn of our looal iiiuu^tutd is pii»hiug ics way into favor in the old c^uutiy. On the nil ival of the Laudenale from London ynterday, two tins of pi«served meat* were opeued for the Health Offn er's iugpicum, ivzkl they proved peifectly sweet and in line order. One of the tins was from the manufac-T-oiy of onr townsm m, ilr A Dura well, at the Three Kings, the other tm was fr\>m the Riverine district, m New South U'alw The long cuntinnancts of di y weather hai sonously affected, the intreats of the faucets in many parts of this prOTince, nrore paitujlariy iv the neighboihood of AuckUud. A gentleman who Uv-vcltetf tErough one or iwd 6Fthc farming districts lately infoims Ud that senredy a given tbiug caa bo ci en Is> it not worth while for otir farmers and (.Jovemmeut to give thr lenn.ls of Mr Vopel lately at Duuedin ; their earnest coiuideiation? It is a well agcertained fact tnat tli« growing of tiee-> in n countiy makes the l-aiufall moio regular and abundant. A turning ot fin liou*i hollers m tho Ngnruawahia School Dstrct .*«<» li.'ld List Sat ur lay at tho Central Hufel. Mr Gfor«e Jones in the ch.nr. The imo ivement hour at which tie met-tiiig was calitd prevented many oi thoie mo»t mterjited m tlie cause ot education from nttending. Mr Hume, t .o <.ha rn.un of the Imc.il Board, reported on then* prucccuU'gs during the pasfc year; real con espondence that had passed between him and the Central Board relative to the erection oi a kchool-hoiue, the teliool r.-oni in Uae, up to this time, bainy; the property of tiie Coloniul Goveruinent, and r^quued by them as barracks. Tlie Cen'ral Board ex pressed ihi'ir willingness to erect a building provided the householders contributed some portion of tlie cost. Tho following v err pL rtr 1 n Lo«.l Boird (or the pn t-et.fc ;eur :—lf-ssrs: — If-ssrs Hume. Jones, Butcher, G. Thomas, and Gufney. Mrilauio at a bubseq n nt rifpti.ig da-j elected cli lirman. A correspondent to a contemporary snys: — ' Therft is to all appearauuu ahriodt nulimited scope for the increase of productiveness in the countiy districts around G-üborne, in tlie Poverty Bay district, and consequently for an increase in the trade of the town. No one riding along the Orniond road cau fail to he struck with the large quantity of land, level as a biluarci bonrd, and of unsurpassable fertility, whi'-h lies entirely useless as jet. covered perhaps with bushes of I twoet baiar, withcnbbiige nee-, or with manuka scrub. In parts, it is the insecurity or the native title that stnnds in tl<t> uuy of the expenditure oi ea atal and lubour upon it. There i*. of courts, no sayin r when the hinclranae will be lomoved. People are beginning to find, however that so much is to be made out. of a brief occupation of such land that even without titles of an unexceptionable character, we ahall, no doubt, shortly see ifc all used produr t ively. It must be r. m-i-k'd, however, that it is rot only where tho native title is incomplete that the land is to a largo extent unprofltably occupied 06 yet. Much of the Omond block is so for instance. The settlers there ireonh gradually getting their land under cultivation. Msny of them have only ten or twenty acres cultivated out of a hundred or two hundrHd which t.ioy occupy. A very hrge increase in the wealth of the Oi n.ond oiatrut is therefore on) v a question of time.' On Saturday his Honor the Superintendent and the members of his Executive paid a visit of inspection to the immigration bariac><>, the lios,»ilal, tha giol, and tlie lunatic usvlum. Ar tli« numeration bat-racks they found nvrrytlung in n very sot -fnctorv condition, and the immicwml-* per Liuderdale, "ho were (lit- re, expressed themselves us well ratisfied with Cue an angcuients which l-ad been made for tr-ptn »t h'Jiiip. or th<» vo.aiujo out, and alter their arrival here. Tl ey l«avc neirlr nil recivei en,ift"omeiit-<, and te matron informed them that forainglo women the demand was four times greater t'.an the supply. At the hoo,nt:il they found a smaller n«iinber of mmntos than tli.it institution usually contains, nnd ererytlinif wnj in a clean ami orderly condition. Dr Pinlson showed the oxtrenie neoe^sitv that existed f>r having a tic.v and commodious bulldmg erected us rarlv m pnsSiblo. From fhe ho*r»'tHUhe party nroccmled to tlie g'ol, and nibpected tie pcn.il, debtoaT, uunicn'b, w»i ting trial, and hard Inhonr deuHi-hnr-nts. They Anm 1 each departneiit eleun and onieiiy, and an ab^etue of e»mplni"t» bv thfl piii-onere Thenco ficv proceeded to the lunatic n.n turn. whi>n uhb found evcefdirif;lv crowded, i here "iero 147 mnvates, and thtfaccoumuriittion very inadt-quute. It wm tound thnt the inmnti;* |)»ri tob« crowded to<!*<tli>M' m iuch amuiiiier that. el«««ifie'umi \.*« jtni)O»sible, but «o (ur >n nisxiblr the institution «e*ui«d fo bo well managed. — Qrotx.

M. Mafrn», the T.enoh Lluusterof Financa, ha* tteue-d lv« !•■< >ort M«. oelinnten thf expenses of the war at 8,. 39,01).), 000 fr. iic { «.* i«» 'fio,')Po» .if t iio sit tvs borrow a^ t tromHi.e B-»nk Io ago y<V) t , an .,, i, v ,,, !,„„„ „( ! l(!y e)in tj Ml rill,t/0j nil, a nbtiluiir. This i.ifl.-j uuii .ut'l tne mi ,n » o' tl) . pni.l, ),,,„* >iiuoi7iu tn (?0° <K)>o'>) fiancs •Ja no 'iieotshy :iJnfiio"i» »-l)e<x|jt"v"fiire nnl h in >ise ■ )'(.■.(,. 'i • * i,« '. lma na<.B im t«i wolilu jiel i lj)l iX)j,o\*'J