"OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume 354, Issue VII, 20 August 1874, Page 2

"OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1874.

A large amount of our space is devoted to the giving of a telegraphic report of the speeches made in the House on the abolition resolution, we are feonsequently debarred from criticising the different Speakers. We are glad to find that with very few Exceptions the members from the North Island are Opposed to the abolition of their provinces ; and at the two meetings that have as yet been held in this province, the opinions we expessed in a former issue have been endorsed. There are few who fean be found to say a good word for Provincial Government as a system, and we trust that as few will h? found ready to allow their partial abolition. It i» not difficult to foresee that if Mr Vogel appeals to 1 the country on $c _ question. . that he will find the order of things reversed, in place of kitting 'on the right of the Speaker, he will find a resting place on the opposition benches ; and it ia equally safe to prophecy that the elector!* of City East will not give him the right io sit at all: It is not a characteristic of Mr Vogel ifl halt half-way to tho goal he starts for ; he has

clone so in this instance, and if he wishes to continue to lead the colonists of New Zealand he mubt return to his starting point, and there recruit till strong enough to make the complete journey.

Mails 1 for Australian Colouies viu Newcastle and Melbourne, pur Omeo, will close at noon to-day at Hokitika. Telegraphic communication can be had by that opportunity A telegram from the special con espondeiit of t'-ie Herald asserts :—"lt: — "It is ascertained beyond doubt that the WardChapman tolcgiam oxposuie happened thiongh a woman, Mi s Crocker, ' I believe, who is a friend of tUo-judge, «»tl has a son. in the ofScc, either at Timaru or Oamaru." The Armed Constabulary 1 Force 5s without doubt the most numerously officered in the woild. There ate no less | than 115 officers and non-comnnssioncd officers to command 545'constabb *,'or one officer to five men nearly. ■ Meetings have been held at Newmarket and Ofcahuhri to consider the resolution concerning the abolition of provinces At the former place, the following resolution was carried : — " While not pronouncing any opinion on the total aboli-. tion of the pi ovinces, this meeting is of opinion that the proposal* of the Hon Mr Vogel for the absorption of the provinces of the North Island, and 'the continuance and confirmation of those in the South, are unjust, impolitic, and should te lesisted in everyway." At Otahuhu the following was carried by a large majority — " That this meeting is of opinion that it is not dcsnuble to abolish the Northern provinctß unless the Government is prepared to do away with the Southern also." On Friday morning one of the chimneys in Mr Hurper's Hamilton Hotel, caught fire, and m an' incredibly short space of timo the flames were flaring out three or four feet above the top. Some carpenters who were a"t work a short distance from the hotel, on seeing the flame, at once procured a long ladder; and were quickly on the roof ;. wet blankets and sacks were passed up to them ; these wero soon placed on the flue, down which were poured several buckets of water, to which the fire succumbed. In less than a quarter of an hour all danger had ceased, though at one time it looked rather critical, as smoke was seen to issu^just from under the. shingles. The month!/ inspection parade of" Hie Waikoto Kifle Volunteers was held in the Volunteer Hall, on Saturday, the Isth inst. There was not a good muster, and Colonel Lyon, who was present to inspect, informed the men that he hoped at next inspection to see a larger muster, as it was necessary that every man should attend to entitle him to the capitation grant and ammunition. After being put through the m nual nnd platoon etrrci«e t '*o 'nn.pm-v wfudmnH-ed. We mi.- -<i>iM t,i ), .inn ||„,( ,| iniuihii u| |||,» imni!;»i-:iiit« lately m-h» to tin- Waikatoaienot at till tinted lor a colonial life, iiiinitx i•* of them aopear to have, followed tin* occupation d| liurUters or •emething worse at home, and when let to uoik, do n «t seem to Luow how to handle the tools, and quickly betake themsehes to lounging about with arms akimbo, or hands in their pockets A ton p!c succeeded the other clay in getting situations— the w-om.m as laundress, and Hie man as cook— but eref three w«eks were over, the gentleman at whose place they were employed, in strolling round one evening, saw something unusual lying in a ditch, which, on close inspection, turned cut to be the laundress considcraM y inebriated. On rousing her out of her peculiar lair she delivered herself 'of such a volley of Billmsgato that he beat ii lmsty retrofit, and at once {ia\e tli<> el, arming couple notice to quit. Siwe then the ccx.d woman has been seen at the bars of the public houses taking h< r pluss of birr as bold iw brns«. Surely the sooner such as she are sent back to the place they came iiom, the better will it bo ior tho future of the colony. Avnnri nnmed Frank McCarthy was brought beforo C'apt Kayner, J.P., at Ngaruau ahia, on Ttie-d.i\, imil wnlcnced to tbree months imprisonment as a vagrant.' This man was only Hi-charged from gaol four days previously, and according to the evidence, has been drunk ever mucc. An inquest was held at Mercer, on Monday last, on tho body nl James Bowden, who died suddenly on board the Blur Xomj, steamer. The verdict was " Died from natural causes " The man was suffering, according to the medical evideroe, with no less tlian tlnee diseases, either of which wns MifScient to rnii'-e death. In S. her and Co's journal — Colon k/ — published twice a month in London, middle-class emigration is very islrongly recommended. Persons possessing propeity of sufficient value to bring them in £'500 or £600 per annum, nre advised to proceed to th« colonies mid invest in Innd, which would most certainly become much more valuable as tl>e resources of a ci>lony were developed and its piosperity increase*. The London Times' special telegraph wire to Pans is worked from nine in the evening till three in themornine, gathering up the latest Continental news. Tor the us.c of this wire they have to pay £3000 a year. Tho following, relative to bush-cleoiing by Anstralian black*, may be of service to 6ome of our settlers : — The black" about theirjelling with nn nwoiint of contrivance and of adaptation of means toendsfiom which ninny a busiiman, wise in his own conceit, might tale example. By pnrtiully severing a number of trees standing at such an incline as rendered them liable to be dragged or thrown down by the fall of pome giant of the forvst, i nd by them bringing down the whole at one tremendous crash, they reduced the labour to a minimum, and utilized the weight and impetus of each tree >in overthrowing others. A similar plan is pnrsued, according to Sir Emerson Tennant, by the nativei of Cejlon ; but it is difficult to understand how the Australian natives, who clear no ground for cultivation, could have acquired the art, except from close observation of Nature in her more tempestuous moods.