The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 409, 29 December 1874, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." T UESDAY DECEMBER 29 1874.

We are $fln,d to learn from a document that hits reached us thsit the idea of giving a dinner to Col Lvon lias br>en abandoned, we are so for the reason tliat we understand the tribute of respect to the officer who lias commanded the Waikato for .some v ears ii to assume a more sotisfictory form than that ot a diin°r at which few cou'd attend. The speeches delivered on such oqftnsions ai"e for the nmh nirfc ho-ntf, an I miv In fiirly cvfalerel an index of nuMic opinion, they pass away, however, •nenrty an fast as the breath that cws-m tlnir utteTJiiica., i It has b?^rk tin opinio'i of m mv, -ri I ours ilfjo. that th Q fivin ; of a diiyvratrl the defiverv of a fevy s]>^o'»'W, cnnot possibly ta an aleflint^ r^wirl t? vi o'H^r who by \\U cooln^SH has wten s\v q I a district of the colony from a disastrous H>anic. Ws ir^ notanthor'H-vl as yet to make public the>ch»»m a on h-vrl, but every settler in the Wiikato wiU he inf)pnv»lof its purport in a few boMiM, an! we fe^l cinftleot th»t those gentlpmen •who Inve u'llertiken to sfli that honor is awarderl whoie honov is due, will maot with the fceaity co-operation of the settlers in the Warkato.