The Waikato Times. "OMNE Solum FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 338, 14 July 1874, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE Solum FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1874.

Mr Curtis has fired the fir3t shot in the battle of Provincial Loans about to be fought. He, as the representative of tho Province of Nelson, only asks authority to borrow £250,000. It is well understood, however, that if ho Cannes his point every Province in the Colony will follow in. his wake. It will bo remembered that towards the end of last session Mr Vogel introduced, and carried -through the Lower House a Bill authorizing Provinces to borrow for specified purposes, viz. : — Ist The erection of schools, colleges, or other public educational institutions ; or lunatic asylums, hospitals, harbour works, docks, jetties, wharves, and buildings for other public purposes. 2. The construction of roads, bridges, tramways, or branch railways, waterworks, reclamation of land, &c. 3. The purchase of land for above pui poses. By the Bill, money was only to be borrowed on the special security of the tolls derivable from the works, the land reclaimed, or in the case of public buildings the sites and buildings themselves. It also authorized the giving of lands as security for the works performed thereon. Provinces were to have been enabled to raise a loan on the security of a special rate, provided a majority in number and value of those who woudl have to pay it, petitioned the Provincial Council. In fact tho Bill placed restrictions upon the expenditure of borrowed money. This Bill, as we said before, was thrown out of the Council. The application of Mr Curtis means that his Province should be authorized to borrow without uny restrictions from the Assembly as to how ho *>holud raise tho money, or in what manner spend it. One of tho strongest arguments against the great l.srrowing scheiuo of Mr Vogol was, not that the theory was bad, but that there was an improbability of its boing honestly carried ojt. With how nnich more force might the same supposition be applied to Provincial Councils and Provincial Executives. The most careless observer must be aware that the smaller the number of members of any legislative) body tho greator the opportunity for "giving and taking "on tho pai tof its members. Tho majority of members of Provincial Councils have their social awl monetary interests centered in the district they sib for, and, unfortunately for tho Colony, broadness of views and houesty of action and intention on the part of the member are not qualities tkit ;u-c approved by New Zealand constituencies. Whether a member returns from the higher duties of letyuenting a constituency in the Assembly, or

the Jos «r in ih* I'io.inoi., 1 . (Council, tiio cjiu^tion | U> Las to uit.-.a-r is " Wh.-l have )ou got for | us?" UonbtiLiU'iidfo c.uv htlle ami know loss about tin* job.-, h^ ]us been obliged to p irticipalc in ;we ine-ui voting \\ w e>.i>(>ndiluic of the Colonial ro-vonue on object.:!, not b\ mse the ad\a,ntag<; was likely to bccomm-'iisiiiMto with the cofc>t, but, bcuiussc he could not go back to his constituents empty luvm'cd. The above fact will not be denied by any man who hv* taken part in Provincial politics, or watched carefully the proceedings of tho.se who haye — the above being the case. We ask ! — is it not the duty of colonists to themselves to try and reduce to a minimum the power for cail of Provincial Councils, rather than increase thorn by placing borrowed money at their disposal. New Zealand is in the same position as all the Australian Colonies; her resources are not nearly developed — consequently good arguments can be urged for the prosecution of works, the cost of which would astonish the Chancellor of the Exchequer. If, therefore, the principle of borrowing to prosecute works, in favor of which arguments can be urged is once admitted, there will in a few years be good excuse for our loading politicians not knowing what is the actual debt of the Colony. It is reported, and the speech of Mr Vqgel last session when introducing his Provincial Loan Bill warrants beliftf in the revenue, that the Government will 'strenuously oppose the git*nrtuag-o£.borro>viug powers to-the Provinces. TheLegislative Council threw but the Bill because in the opinion of a large majority of its members it would be injudicious to allow any of our petty parliaments to increase at will the indebtedness of the Colony. Although the Bill provided for spocial security being given for Provincial Loans, and made special provision that the Colony, as such, should not be liable for their payment ; the fact that thcindobtednessof the Colony would bo increased by the amounts borrowed was not altered. If it be true that the Government will oppose borrowing, they must be prepared to suggest other means of enabling some of the North Island provinces to perform their funcions. Until Mr Vogel introduces budget it hisim possiblelaf to surmise what those means may be.

Ef fcrring to tho extension of the Auckland and Wailrato Railway lo Taranaki, the Taranaki Herald of the Sth instaut states :— " Tho connection of the Waikato Eailway with the Waitara-Wanganui line is already engaging the attention of the members of the House, and wo are glad to notice that an influential deputation of tho Auckland and Taranaki members i 9 about to wait on the Minister for Public Works to represent Ihe desirability of extending the Waikato line of railw of through the fertile lands of this province, in preference to taking it round by tho East Coast. The Auckland members, and the Ministry aro divided in their opinion on the subject, but the Southern members favor tho route through this province as being the cheapest and most beneficial lo tho country. The Southern members aro strong, and it is to be hoped that they will succeed in getting the route, advocated by our members, carried. It will bo seen by our telegraphic intelligence that Mr Ellis, Iho immigration agent in Auckland, has arranged to send 100 immigrants to the different settlements in the Waikoto. This is a move in the right direction, and wo feel confident' that if tho right stamp of men is sent that they will find immediate employment al. good wagei. We, don't want town loafer?, but men capable of doing a good day's' work on a farm. Tho following advertisement appear* in tho columns of our Auckland contemporaries :— " A dozen good carpenters, two or threo shoemakers, one or two bricklaycrs^oiie or two : painters, a chemist, a tinsmith and plumber, could find a I firht-rnte opening at Ngaruawahia, Waiknto 5 soberness an indispensnble qualification. Servant girls nl-o hi dc-i and For particulars apply to Mr Mubin, Wuikato Slcatn Co.'s office." Wo 'nre not prepared lo assert that quite so many tradesmen could find employment in Nguruawuhia, but a considerable number would. A number, however, very mush greater than that named could bo readily employod in tho WaiLato. It is gratifying to Icam that out of the numerous new arrivals which have lately, through the instrumentality of a few of our enterprising tetllers, been brought into the Waikato, there is not one who ia i.nemployed. This fact, and the satisfaction cxpiesscd by the immigrants, augurs well for the progress of this dibl rict. The demand of our settlers for lnbour appears insatiable, as we ore informnd that those who have arrived have not nearly satisfied their requirements. A Wellington contemporary learns, by privato communications from Otago, that the conduct of a largo number of the Asia's immigrants has proved absolutely intolerable. Some of them have spread through tho province, and their pi ogres* has been marked by a series of thefts and outrages of nil descriptions. In Dunedin, the energies of the police ha\e been taxed to tho utmost in looking after these "Asiatics, ' and Mr Bathgate, the Eesident Magistrate, is s.ud to be pcifectU/ exhausted by the labor of signing warrants for their committal, time after time. The gaol and the lock-up have both proved insufficient for tho accommodation of these exceedingly undesirable additions to the population, and ut Inst the Provincial Government bus arrived at the conclusion that the best and cheapest mode of meeting the difficulty is to ship the worst of the lot back to the place from u hence they came. It is said *eriously that the Provincial Government, at its own expense, is making arrangements for tho emigration of about 80 of the Asiatics back to England end Ireland, most of tho feminine undesirables being ex-inmates of the Cork Ecformatory. A rumour reaches us from Wellington to tho effect that Dr Featberstone's appointment as Agent-Generol will bo cancelled and that Mr Stafford will succeed to the office The doctor has experienced great forbearance at the hands of the Government; ho appears lo have habitually ignored the fact that he was amenable to any inductions, and Ihe class of immigrants that have arrived on board ono or two ships in particular, have been bucli, thut it would pay the colony better to defray the cost of their passages homo again than allow thnm to remain in the colony. On several occasions attention has been drawn to the liberal efforts of tko Acclimatisation Society in introducing seeds of fruit and other trees into tho province. In former years tho energies of the Society were expended in introducing birds, and the houso sparrow especially was a most mischievous introduction, and one which will yet entail untold losses upon settlers generally. This act, of all the aits of the Society has committed, has tended to damage its reputation in the eyes of all wlio depended in any degree in Qbtaiuing a livelihood from tho fruitt of tlniir farm or garden. This also tends to dwarf its funds to a very considerable extent, Tbo course they have now adoptod will meet with general sympathy and, wo have no doubt, considerable support— viz., that of introducing valuable fruit and other Ireos, and vegetable products, which can bo turned to commercial importance. By tie mail 'which, left yesterday the Society forwarded orders for seeds. &c, to tho valuo of £30 ; and during the present year tho Society has spent over £100 in importing seeds of new and valuable timber trees. Some of these tbo Society mny not succeed in acclimatising, but there is little doubt that the majority will prove successful, and in tho oourso of a few years tons of thousands of tfio most useful t imbor trees in both hemispheres, will bo springing up in various parts of this provinco - thus laying, broad and deep, tho foundations for extensive industries in tho future. — Cross. During tho debate on tho Polico Estimates in tho Canterbury Provincial Council, Mr Jollio stated that tho increase in the amount required to be voted for tbo department was due to tho fuct that a large number of person* had been attracted by the prosperity of the piovincc, who required the* attention of tho mcmbei-3 of the force, n statement which was received with loud laughter from nil parts of tho House. j Olago seems to bo pnrtieuhnly favoured by tho AgentGonoral. Another nhip hna armed from fork with three hundred souls forty of whom ,<<ro women out of tho Cork workhnn*e. Wo are rather cmious to know who has paid tho p^» ••► »f those people.-the pariah authorities or tho JNc" ■• uovernmcut; equity would certainly point to A- . •. o that farinin?, with proper management, will prove 1. „ii lerative in tho Wniknto, wo havo been requested by ono of our Alexandra settlers to imtnnce tho following :— An excellent crop of Imy was obtainod, and fourteen head of cnttlo wbi-o fattened on 16 ncres of hind, during ono season, llio clear profit, occiuing i& climated at £120. Wo (Qrcsi) ure glad lo learn Irom Mr 'lhorpo, of Ohinomiin, fhnfc tho Aoung trout liberated (hero aic growing into meo sized fash. This is confirmatory of other reports received from the Lpper Thames district, ni to tho suitability of tho streams in this locality for tho fish liberated there. On Saturday evening hist tLo ceremony of constituting a now Orange Lod-ro (No. 37), wos performed at tho Lodge Koom, JTgtmiowaliM, after «l.ich tnc officers were elected, nnd duly installed by a member of the Grund Lodge oi New Zealand. °

A mi Him 1 to llu- Vii-loiiii Mtir/az'mc of which Miss Knnl^ lMitMul is editor, bitji — "CJi.riu.uiy in spite of its mihiury am era-, aiul Llio b|;loiuli)iirol its triumph in tho realms of wi-'iiLV, -tiu.is lovvur in tho ucjlu of civilisation Ihnu any i-tiier Emopean country, cxct-pt Turkey; for in no otbjr i'-»un(ry doos woman occupy so ignoble anil sonrilo u. position. In Erijil.ind tliey aro trculcd with respect. h\ Francu and Ainmc.l, (,0 long as they ivro joun^ und pn»tty, they are "Olahipped. In Gei'ianny they are simply utiliocJ. ' J[r Kennedy Hill will sell on Wednesday (to-morrow) tho eflecU ot Mr Finch. Purticultirs can be seen in our advertising columns Tho inward mail via San Francisco, is due in Anckl uul on Hi' 17th instant, it may be looked for in the Wuikulu by ccajb. on Monday tho 20th.