The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM PORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 383, 27 October 1874, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM PORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1874.

We have received a copy of Mr Itees' pamphlet, but we have not had time to sift the chaff fiom tho wheat. There is one remark, however, which we Qdui )t allow to pass without immediate comment, tor tli© reason that it is eideulated to mislead tho unthinking, but not because it is likely to prejudice prinking capitalists, or for one moment cau.se a politician to think ojt" it except tin the emanation of i|> brain iiot tutored to the consideration of political questions. He writes : " There can bo little doubt but that v/lien the English public— who have already contributed to our loans, or who may yet ha .'ibkod to do so— learn thut the lich lands of the South are to be peipelually given over to the provii.<..?,, and tl-at by tlio procrt-s a!f,o tho landa of tha North— aoquiird fiom tJio Maoris by tho M-ouey Jrnt by them, and not included in the §ecuxity fay, hi,}<±— tli'-y will feel alarmail j ?nd the people

of NNtr tj \v ZZ t Mi llU a v oni t fool iilannod also." llou- ! 1 1 ;'>»■. -i i lit^o sensational writing about trust flinch ->r th ) Widows and o:; hf;:i3 having g:me iuto the c ; ujo I iJuiTjv/iii-j gulf. Wo are not doonxms of c.noisl-ig ];u>r,iMgo, but if any of our roadcn will i'liorm u^ what kind of thing a "borrowing gulf " is, we shall b<> obliged. We have to do on this occasion, not with the flowery And mean* ingloss language of an amateur, but with the political facts of his manufacture. How tinly ab3i\rd it ia for a man to assert that capitalists lent their money to the New Zealand Government because the knd, admitting the fact | that it wits lent on its security only, was in the \ j hands of this particular Go\ermnont or thp other. : Money-lenders . ro veil awaio that the dn,\ 3 o" rrpudiI ation have passed, and e\ery borrowhig coinmnnity is equally ko, that repudiation means i*uin. It \ might juat as well be argued that- the national debt of England was not a safe investment because a I very large proportion of tho land is the property of private individuals, and not of the people through their representatives the Government. The material wealth exists, and that is all the I money-lender in the present day has to look to. A3 a rule, the faster the land passes from the hands .•of the Government into those of private individuals tho more valuable it becomes, they occupy it, and ;improvo it, and thus add to the wealth of the commonwealth, Mr Roes appears to be incapable of 1 grasping the fact that the land, mineral wealth, and I commerce of the country is hypothecated to pay a (l.bt presumedly contracted for the benefit of all, I The transfer of tlat wealth fioxn one individual to 1 another, or ita control from one section of Government to another does not affect the security one tittle. He argues aa if the present incidence of taxation wei c the only one pess ble. Those who hay c acquired large landed estates may, very probably, before tliia colony 13 very many yaua older, devoutly wish that it way. Common justice demands that it should not be so. The expendituxe of loans on useful workß is enhancing the value of property, and on its capacity to bear taxation the capitalists who have embarked their surplus wealth on tho money market in the New Zealand ship, rely. It is a pity that tho will and rapacity to think Id not as great aa that to print miniatured thoughts or perverted facts.

The Waikato settlors have every right to complain in no measured terms of the shabby treatment they have received at the handr, of those who have had the direction of Mr Holloway's movements. He has been rushed into the district, and rushed out of it again ; he arrived on Thursday night, and left a little after daylight on Monday morning, fie lost none of the time at his disposal, in fact, did not reach Ngaruawahia till nearly eleven o'clock on Sunday night. He had time to cursorily glance at the inhabited portion of the district only, to use his own language — '• The best has been reserved till the last." It is so well known that the Waikato is one of the most fertile and promising districts in the colony, that it was hardly necessary to bring Mr Holloway a hundred miles to record the fact. What the settlei s, if we understand them, wanted, was that he should inspect the land not yet occupied in order that he might go home and tell his fellows that there are vast t /actti of magnificent country only waiting for entri prise ami labour to develop themHe can only sj rak uf wl,at he has seen, and what he has seen is merely ;i very small portion of the Waikato of the future. We trust, in making his report of our district, that he will not lose sight of the fact that it is very little more than six years since it was occupied by any appreciable number of aettleis ; native troubles, and the fear of their recurrence have kept it; back ever since. A gross injustice has been perpetrated on those who have taken up land and settled upon it on the supposition that they would receive equal justice with others. Labor of the right class is the great essential, yet he who was to induce it ha* been detained for many weekst at the expense of the whole colony, in the South, and only allowed a few hours to visit and form :vn opinion of the finest district of the largest pro\inco in the North Island. He was taken to the North of Auckland, where the worst specimens of land in the whole province is situated, and of which he could not fail to report unfavorably. The Waikato, Poverty Bay, and the other settlements on the East Coast, all of which would havo well repaid a visit, have never been added to his programme. The proceedings of the Government in this matter has given room for the assertion that they care not what comes of the North if they can only foster the South, the division of the colony which, if the celebrated resolutions are acted upon, will legislate for and dictate to the rest ot % the colony. Auckland has been very shabbily treated, but wo tmst that theniitur.il good sente of Mr Holloway will enable him to see clearly through the shallow trick. It is to be hoped that our member will, if for this occasion only, break a lance in defence of the rights of the district he represents and in "which he resides.

r § — ** - — .— - I A canoe accident took plow on Sundu I(i«r, by whieli n j promising young Strgeant in tlie lineineer Volunteer Mill! in lo«t hi* life. It apjfais that deceived accompanied bv Uo men of tlie torce named Foley and Kemhaw Minted for a pleasure trip m a canoe on Lake Kimiliin, near Hie Coid Mines On geltmt' some distance from the siiore they found the wind very hea\y. and put the ennco belore the winrl After tjoipc nbont 200 \ arris. Ihreo successive sea* broke on board and filled the cnnoe. Neither of the men could swim j they clung to the canoe, deceived in the middle, and Ins companions one at encli end. Want of knowledge how to steady the ennoe under the circumstances caused her to roll round and round. This lasted for about three minutes w!*en deceased lost hi* hold nud sunk. Tlie oilier two held on for about three hours. The strong wind blowinj; drove them gradually toward* tlie shore, which they reached in an eihnusted Mate. Tl>e cimoe beloie reaching the sh»>ro had three miU» to drift. A)>oity of men went from Ngaruawnbu yesierdny Jo search for the body. Tina accident »' . ii'».l l-e a leßson to all not to venluie'in canoes nilhmii 1 .•• • -r«ed of the knowledge to Imndio 1 1, em properly. 1 - •• al-o warn all parents to nee that their childron 1 ' ' -Him, as, hnd tlie deceased known how to sw mhe * in nil probability, not have lost his. jjreseme of mind vi.v i^nsequpntly hi? liTc. We underftand that the young man's jn.ients reside in Auckland. Ho nns about 2i venr* ol ane, nnd fuimerly a trump, ter in tho Military Train. Hi • Honor theSiipenntciKlen! ac(ompitiied by Mr ilollowny Kfi Nfrarunwahm lor Auckland yesierdny. "Tho latter g.'iiti.mun, fiom the luni ed tune at, hii disposal, was little mm e than able to ennlci lhion«h the more tlneklv populated |di>lri(t^ ol | lie WiukHfo. llu csprewod himi-olt in hi-b j | terms of the land, nn'l Mated that Ik considered the country | equal to any he had set n snuo he enme to the colony Attempts weie made bj use of the t.leprH]-li wiro fci get his tn.,l. of wjourn m tho W.nlfito otiended, but without effeei. Oteut i.'i-coniejit prevaiN «m<.nf..st the seltleiN in consequem-i', in tl-ey me i ot. asl ained ol what they luxe i« show, in fact by leitm X Mr Hollow m tl.oroughly investigate tho resource* of the dutmt, they unlicipatrd u Jargo influx oi immigrunts ot ho dittuut dutc.

We (Herald) La\o tu>t been iuom! ,"th any laiui l'jtdligeroe re the S.im Fuuieisco .n,ul bur n:o ih.ai tluit- | tonUinel in the fci\dney papc^ ii'unvcl 'v thu lloi.) The Herald " undei'atauus that during ,\Jr Vogc-l'i vjdt he expressly ijlipUa'ed that in any iiaaa-l'acil'o s-'tvicy to wi.ich Now Zealand would lie a pi)iy,<> loou Inn 1 S'Kh as was pmvided for by tbr Hall an i Foiled Contract bhcuV he earned out thus> gmnj b'ydupy o.'^ an altematu direct sen ico, ami a branch boat for on -h intervezing month ; the same as for Auckland. This, it is aa.il, has sinco betm agreed to. Ou o-ne point both coloniesare unaiiiuioiuj, namely, that the Califomianrou'o •hall be maintained. For some months it will necessarily be by temporary atoaniers calling at Auckland en mute, until a permanent contract and suitable boat* are completed. The Macgregor has been chartered '*y the A.S.N. Co to carry the mail of this month to San Francisco, and to retura here with the mails ff 1 0111 England and America, under contract with the New S )uth Wale 9 Government We understand that the ship has been arrested in the Vice-Admiralty Court for repairs executed or supplies furnished when she was here m June last, sailing under the A. and A. Mail Co Bail lias been by tiie pre sent agents, and befoie the 'np r-I uus to poa probibly the kmittci question of liabiluy of chaiacter or owner will have beeu settle! in tho s .ie now pendirg. In an other paittjjKtph the same journal siys: — We understand that no fresh arrangements other than the conveyance of this month's mails have yet been omnpleted with the A.S N. t!o. The company have submitted an offer to carry on the temporary seivice until December nexr, or for a further period of one year, if neoes-ary. As the matter stands at present, default of the permanent servico cannot be made f>r three months after the dato fixe 1 by the contract. Mr Hall having, when it wat made in England, obtained a promise that, if necessary, three mouth* 1 grace would be allowed the contractors. A private letter received by the Mikado intimates that it was known in commercial circles in Boston (Uni'ed States) that Mr Porbe's circumstances were not so affluent as generally supposed, and it was believed impossible that he could cuiry out lii« contract wuh the Governments of New South Wale« nnd New Zealand. It is satisfactory to know that complete nccord exists between the representatives of these two colonies, who nro now negotiating such arrangements as will gi?e the line a permanence Hud L'usirantee tv character it could never attuin under Mr Hall's i<mpic s." A curious discovery has Intely bron mode bv a pniry of tur xeyort who wer<« at woi k in the neighbom hood of PulmeMtun (Wellington) Some few miles from the township they came upon u piece of sculpture, if it may be termed such, executed in «i manner far suj enor to »nj thing of the kind prerious'y believed to be the work of Maoris. The features i-r.t in the solid rook, ure mid to bo most regular and natural, more eBpccinlly the finger nails, which <lia|^ay an uctjuumtnuciwith the art of sculpture for irhivti it is Hard tv ncuount. A fact worthy of being known wa* c3<nmunu-atcd yestrrday. at the inquest on tho Hobson street (ire, to ojic of the witneacei utider examination. Mr Smith, the tenant of tnc L'te house, stated, that when he took it, it wai for tiie pm ,ioae of a dwelling house, but ho subsequently used it oa a snore. Mr Buchanan, ngert for the Loudmi»tind LiT.Tpcul Insurance Company', 'informed him tluit perhaps he wn« not a«are by so doing ho had rendered tiie insiiraucf of the o'vuer of Llie property to be vitiated. The fact i* woithy cf being {jonprally known — Cross. A man mtmed Michael Barrett wns brought before tl c Resident Magistrate ut Ngaruawahia yestt relay, charged with using abi(<<ireandob<C(ne language in tho public street* on Sunday. Me was sentenced to one mouth's imprisonmrnt with haid labour, in the Wgaruu«»ln» Gaol, a remarkably lenient sentence, considering that ihp foul- mouthed anim«l wns only discharged two or three days previously from the gaol, whert he had resided for u week in expiation of the iiuuc offence. All arrangements have been completed for tho cricket match between the E.V.M. a>id the Ngiruawahia Cdcket Cub to be played next SUurdny in Mr Hume's pnddock. A good deal of interest 11 felt in the match, and if the w< ath r be propitious there will be a very good attendance of the fuir «ex to encourage to deeds of prowess their husband*, brothers, or lovers, as the ciso may be. Mr Price, the contractor for the new Court-houte, at Hamilton, has arrived, and will soon be actively engaged in its construction. We have seen the plans of the" proposed building, which will be at once handsome and commodious. We mentioned that the site in front of the lock-up is not definitely fixed upon, as the space is found insufficient. Tue difficulty might be got over by moving the lock- up back from the street a few fet U The Hero, k.i., arrived in Auckland on Sunday afternoon. She brought the Auckland portion of the European mail via Suez. The letters and papers arrived in the Waikato last evening. The plant for the new evening paper to be published shortly in Auckland, under tho title of The Echo, arrived by the Hero, s.s. We understand that tho first number of the paper will appear in about a fortnight.