The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 361, 5 September 1874, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1874.

We are glad to iiml that the rumour in reference to \]\e departure of Mr Vogcl from the colony has been \uthoiitatively contradicted, and tliat the conversation represented to have passed between him and iVIv Stafford originated in the brain of some unscrupulous political opponent. Such rumours are calculated to damage the credit of the colony, and in 'quarters where least desirable cause a feeling of doubt f.\"> to iis nn.'ucial aoiuulnts>s. We are not amongst 'tho>e who consider that Mv Vogcl is the only hi'ivi in tho country capable of conducting 1U •cititfa'a llauUgh the -present crisis in ita history,

I l»«it thiu'v n, uinst uihU ,:rahlo th it lio ..houM i -bi^a I lii. position at Mio present time, ff iinneil tVom ! olnec 1,1 t\. cuvhutij courr.o by an .ulvcis-j vole of ftlu- l. r oi:s', il \snuld ,1-ttor little. AH pooplo ;iro i £ivp,i ni'nv or X; to liovo worship, uwl the IJaal j tljjit tho people of -.his colony have sot up for themfculveo i>s undoubtedly Julius Vogol. He hr.s shown himself an able financier, no doubt ; he has borrowed money from those who had it to loud, but they farted with it not because Julius Vogel naked for it, they believed in the security he had to offer ; in that, and in that only, consists the charm our present premier is supposed by some to have thrown over the capitalists of England. Wo must not run away with the belief that ruin would follow upon Mr Vogol's departure from the colony ; there are many other men amongst us quite capable of administering the iiffhira of tho colony in a satisfactory manner. To Mr Vogel is due the credit for having possessed tho political dash to give New Zealand a lift on the road to the great prosperity which she must, from her natural resources, attain. Tho country is bound to the policy, and if Mr Vogel left it to-moiTow, only one course would bo open to his successor, viz., to prosecute the policy to the end; to hesitate would be to fell. Any man possessed of administrative ability could do this.

Settlers travelling per the Waikato Steam Navigation Company's steamers from Cambridge to Mercer are requested to obhene that the tune table is nltereil. In fiiture tho steamers will leave Cambridge at 6 a.m. Our Hamnipi correspondent writes, under dale September <!:— "Tho Government have at last done justice to tho men of Yon Tomphkv's corps, by paying thorn the raonej due for the purchase of titubor. No thanks, however, aro due to our M.H.It., who, because the men expressed then* opinion rather freely about his company having received their money more than a yeaa ago, took oifeneo and declined to take any interest in the matter." Information has just reached us, per the telegraph npencv at Lyttelton that Captain Crawford, of the sh;p Cuthcnrt, has been committed for trial tor wounding three refractory seamen on tho passage from England. Major Juck-on, M.H.R., returned to the Waikato last evening. Wo trust that be xt\\\ not treat hU constituents with the contempt that has hitherto been his wont. After tho vote of our member on tho abolition question we :u-e certainly entitled to an explanation. We nre clear o.i tho point that lie has not represented the opinions of the majority of hia constituents. It is purposed to hold tho following religious services in tho Wajkato to-iiiorrow :— Church of England — Cambridge, 11 a.m. ; Hamilton, 630 p.m. ; Ngaruawabia, 11 n.ir?. } Ohoupo, 11 a.m. ; To Awamutu, 3 p.m. ; Alexandra, 7 p.m. Catholic- Hamilton, 11 a.m. Wesleyan Methodist— Pukerimu, 2.30 p.m. United| Presbyterian and Cdngregatioiial — T« Awamutiii 11 a.m. The Australasia thus descants upon Mr Voxel's Polynesian scliemf|i— "L'audaoe, Vaudac, ettoujoars Vatldace, is evidently tho motto of Mr Vogel. New Zealand politics, in their present quiet, slowly moving condition, do not afford sufficient occupation for his enterprising spnit, and after performing his Parliamentary duties, actively ndmimstenng the business of two or three Government 'departments, mid and cxci cising a general supervision over those in th» hands of his colleagues, Mr Vo«el feel 3 oppressed with ennui, and sighs for more worlds to conquer. Under theso circumstances, ho has turned his attention to the 1 object of colonising the Polynesian Islands, und gophering them, in his own words, " in one dominion with New Zealand as the centre of Govern- | mont; the dominion, like Canada, to be a British dependency." Ho has been in communication with Mr Phillips, the promoter of n trading company, which is to be to the South Seas what the East India Company was for India. The following from the Bruce Herald is very good : "I went just now to tho gentleman who condescends to edit this paper, and applied for leave of absence for a tew months. JHe snid that wns all right, I could go ; and, indeed, I had his permission never to write another lino of what he was pleased j facetiously to term my ' rot.' I then asked tho editor how I should arrange about getting my payment remitted to me whilst I was away. Tho editor said, ' Payment ! and have you the infernal cheek to ask for payment whilst you will be doing nothing? 1 I said to the editor, Sir, I have clipped from your esteemed contemporary, tho Wakatip Mail, the following possnge, which I think suits my httlo caso to aT;' and I handed him t his— l Absence by leave is equivalent to attendance during a session. Mr Piko is entitled to receive payment in full, us if ho had continued in his seat during tho whole of the session. The amount of tho honorarium, though the session was to be on uumually short one, has been increased to £150' This had beon written in answer to eomo inquirer, who had nikod whether Mr Pyte was to pet his honorarium, after having attended fourteen days of tho session, and having during that inno put a question to the premier, re the payment of members. I looked at tho editor, as bo rend it, and thought I had him.' But I hod not. lie said, ' The country may be a fool, but the boss of this paper is not. No work, no pay, yoang man- And for this Jeason yon will probably have some more of my writing next week." b The Ironmonger, a London periodical, says :— •' Wo regret to find it necessary to cnution our readers' against taking spurious gold coin, as it appears that tho usual tests of musical ring, milled edge, or even weight, aro no longer reliable tests. That ' all is not gold that glitters' is now clenrly cletnontratetl, for scientific roguery has now so far advanced that tokens of platinum alloy aro now being pioduced so exactly resembling tho precious metal as to deceive tho most cartful nnd experienced business uion. So dose, indeed, is tl o imitation that a specimen taken recently by a London tradt<«nuin was only suspected on clipping tho edge, nnd spe< uniuis beinp shown to the ofllciuls at the Bank of England, were put. through the ordinary tests, and admitted to bo perfect in form and weight. The discovery is anything but pleasant, and tho natural question arises— how are wo to gunrd against such scientific smashing?" Fomentations with water from boiled gum leaves are now established cures for sores on horses. It is found that these applications effect a very speedy and sound cure. It is stated in tho columns of a Dnncdin contenipor.-irv that the entire population or tho Fair Isle, situated between tho Orkney nnd Shetland Islands, is about to lesvo for Nuw Zealand. The population numbers about 200 to 300 souls. A meeting of tho Priory of Ota^o, of the Religious and Military Order of Enights Tomplar. under the command of tlio Grand Master of tho Temple Cor, Scotland, was held at tho Mnsonic Hall, Dunedin, on Monday evening, tho 27th August. The Priory was opened by Prior Sir Knight Curdwell, assisted by the Sub-prior, Sir Knight Sanders, Knightcommander ; Sir Knight Paterson, and several other Kuights. Tho principal business of tho evening was tho reception and investiture, us a Knight ot the Order, of Com* panion Dr William Q-eorge M'Clure, of Chapter No. 11G S O , a well known resident of Invoreargill. who has thus attained' to the highest degree recognised by the Masonic fratermtv, as at present practised in this colony. Ono of tho disnsteous, effects of the Commune in Paris wna the sneking of the Louvre, and the distribution of the collection of art treiisines, the accumulation of centuries, to the four eorrersof heaven. A curious relio of this pillage is now to bo seen in Wellington in the shape of two superb oil paintings which wero cut from .their frames at tho tnno the Louvre was sacked. Tbo Communist who soeured them escaped tho letribution which overtook so many of his commdes, and managed to make good his e3oapo to this colony. Very recently he died in a neighbouring province, and las efleets passed into tho hands of a gentleman in this city, amongst them being the two canvasses in question. The pictures aro companion pieces, .and are evidently the work of the old masters. Ihey aro allegorical representations of Temptation, nnd the results of yielding to it. — ?ost.