"OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 410, 31 December 1874, Page 2

"OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1874.

The telegram announcing that there were no less than two hundred applicants for the position of ;3toratoan in Wellington, is by no means cheering, ;aml the fact goes far to prove that it is quite time ithe present system of free immigration was ; abandoned. We do not write this because we are of • opinion that the numbers brought or likely to be 'brought "will swamp the labor market, but the >m.n»b c of applications for f>uch a position as .\>tore.ihan or to drive a curt about a town, proves that a wery Urge nutubi r bf people have been brought out, •who from thtir Lome experience are not fitted for my but a town lite. It is apparent to everj inau •of observation that ihe population of our large ifcowns is already too great, for the nasori that the •couutry districts are not yet sufficiently populated to support 30 large a number of non-producers. It ia all very well to argue that men are men, and it is men we want ! but when each man in place of reprebe.iting a certain amount of useful labour m the p.,s&efc>soi ouly ot pamculai talents and ability, •alieady at a discount, his presence is likely to prove *n encumbrance rather than a blessing. If the right clabs ot men were attracted by the free Bysi£m it couid be aately purhued for lome .time to come, but as the contrary is the cnt>e, to continue it would be rnudnes-s. It is curious ' to watch the criminal calendars; by doing so it will ! be leen that nearly two-thirds of the crime is committed by recent arrivals. We have had some specimens both of the useful and useless immigrant in tb id district, the lattor of course can barely earn A liviu,' ; where is tlie u-ie of towu-biml men in the Wai atol a spade is put into their hands, andtue employer very soon discovers that it would pay him better to give hit acquisition a gratuity to lavor pomebody else with his services than to feed him, to say nothing of paying him (which is almost in. variably demanded) the highest current wages, f&juie cases have come "under our notice which go far to substantiate our statement that free immigration should cease. A body of " new chums" were working on the Piako swamp; they returned to fcown because, as tliey «aid, they could barely earn bread and cheese. Another body, composed ot " new phum.->" ultjo, out men who had been accustomed to hard work and willing to do it, are at the present pijiiient dealing fioua 25s to 30s per week a^er pa^m n lor their keep. There is plenty oi room ior jmch men an those, but we do trust tlie colony wil^ be spared the influx of useless material picked up £t a certain bum per head by unscrupulous emigration agents.

It will be it-en by nriTrrttfemfnt that Mr W. J. Moon^. fht. »gei>t lor the O-twrnmrnt liuurm cr «ili leuiuie u> MaiiniuJi Will, wu b*iuru U| ), ami m Hamilton J£u»l o Tiijr jn> died* lor _ the ij ortt at Hiimilt«-n hti beii. : -|i,^Bf- V 0^ 1 "" to t lie SSh'ti 01 J*numy» 'l'buailfr«tiuii ' i m«vU^l-i iiiiuie i.i or- it not to cjudli miiu the >puiii jjutcito take place at Uambrioue oc >.rw Ytn»r'» Duy. An • '^SK-nfc^f- m p'.v. itii-cd lor Iwili plucr-. nn • tli ;^:r,t «fcil! doobtlttf r#p»j |11 who *tt«md. We »r« in

* iW« w»re wrong in our last iasue in glfing the limn of the disappearance <if Mist Poroh from Meroer, ■• in th* morning. The aocidant occurred on Saturday night. It appears singular to ut that the girl who accompanied the deceased lo b^the should hive hurried on her clothes ami gone home loavinur Mi 3 , Porch swimming in tbe mer, an • Mist, her ab*i nee from her bwi roo n s -ould not hare been 'liscorrrwd Mil next nvirning, T.n> affiir is a very sadone and we have no d. «ire ro eas' bhune on the uirl, who no doub* though that her bath ng companion was quite tafe i»i the Ira'er, * m i 1;i 1 ; death of Uap'ain C nrlei 0 ark Richardson, of the 71'h/Foot, at W-olburn, Kuw, in the Himalayas, aged 37, « announced. He sorted with Ins regiment in tn* Ne w Zfrtjand war during the years 1862 and 1861, beoame aid«de■•amp to Li-ut -<3r»n. Sir Treror Oliute, ECB. I The rule ni to the method of d -aling w.th unpaid letters in I book-p-ickets for delivery within the olony bus beei. •lre'red, aud in future iuoli letters will b» forwarded, but » •hie of double the deficiency in postage will he levied ; on book packet! a fin* of 4d will be o'targrd. The rule stil old good, howerer, as regards now<pnpers and letters out >f the oionv. Also, in future, halfpenny stamp* will be ■••fognmod when me) for letter*, ns well as newttpaprrs. M. family named Stroh has been bru' illy mnrd-'rfd by the ' ttieetislnnd blacks, near the Palmer rirtr., Mr Court and »* Standon, trarcllins; between Palinewlle and Co >kfown •mnd nntire tracks for fourteen or fifteen milos, and cflm ', ifcon tatimhi obstruction* f hey had placed in *he wajrof (\» PiiflJo. Finally they disturbed ah >ut flfly, whom they hunl«ri iito the rirer. . Tl«s vw »wb»t they found :— " All kinds ©f ' Mions viero ctrewn about the road," and rl<»an by them was ij { [•irse dray, and a shoi;t distance off were three bodi-s — on. a .woman stark inked, lying on her bsck ; and alungsid , i" her th»*'boly of a ieirl fire or six years of aae, also on hick • ' ick naked ; further on the b<>dy of a man with bi» twuser 1 i, lyinir on his face " It was then 5 p.m., and for their I mi safety, the party were compelled to push on, learine >>c bodies unburied, and reporting the circumstauoe at the '" en rest set lit ment. After tlteywere out of siicbt, the blmks eturned and mutilated the bodies of tdeir rictims. S me lajs nfterwards a strong party of police " quiet I « disparted " he murderers, and recorered the property which they had folen. Such it> one *t\m-t of Hie nt fh« Pnlmer—that place *hich bus Imd »uch an unaccountable attrai-tion to many ut he New ZnHlai.d miners. Captain Jm-quemart, of the Prencb war ahip J t n Virc. HTinjt rendeud valuable NosiKtanre to a number ol English mtf>rant»who were Shipwrecked on thr const ot OiHg., tinPtovmcial Council of the (iMriiice resolred to present htm withateftim nal ■ f silver plat . It was t«krn to Par ab\ he Agrnt-Gtnerttl of New Z aland, Mr FiatherMone, »nd • anded o*er te» AfimirHl MutiyiiAc. the Fiench Mimoter <»f Miirine, who will hold it till Captain Jjtcqueumrt's i-eium trom foreign serTico, The Mahuran^i Cnrresjiondent of the Cross writ* a Hat «n in |ii.itniit tneetini! whs held in the pultlic ball, Warkwoit', on Monday, 19ih iustant, for the purpose of ne\ tm^ dily qualified tne >iual practiiioner to rexidu tv tho district. Mr « atnplttll. secretary of the laic me 'ical coui>i. it tee, read the corivspondvnce icceived from Mr J. S Hudson, of Atickhmd. uspiciing ])r Agnzvu, and sialjng the te mi. In ad<li ion to this, the chairman added that hf bad aeen Dr Agazea, and was f.ivouialtly impreasrd by him If was agreed to accept tho Doct->r 'a offer, namely, h g-iHraiitee of £100 |<cr annum and a free house, Mr R W. Hortlej' mote i that Dr Amazes bo requested to meet the settler* »i a public meeting in Wark worth on Monduj. the 28 hii stunt, si comic I l>y Mr Cutler an I a<;ieed io. The Sccietary was reijuueieil to ui.iko the doctor acquainted wiib whit hail tnmspire<l, and to request Ins attendance. ] luring the Boxing Da.\ spons at Diury % very S' range Mid aa yet mysterioua ocuunence that w.ia enacted iv a house about » mile aw »y on the Great South Koad. A rrsptctibla settler anrt his wife letl home tv attend t e sports leiviug x yOuog giil, an adopted child, nine or ten years old, to take charge of the housi ami with »tiicfc inj nc ions not to ligh. a (ire. The child has been regularly Hcaigned over, nevertheless attcmpla bave recently been mad* to take her »w»y. On the pieaent occasion. bowev«r, it is alleged the fathet cune into the bouse, and compelled the chiliito H.bt tbe kitchen fire, which be bail previously set, and in doing su <m explosion of guupowler t'Hik pluue which has neiiouaiy injmel the cluld, who is much burned about tbe face <md h»u.ls. an>l, ailtled to the outrage, presses and draw ci sin tbe house appear to li.ive bi-en «ieiiLetl • ■pelt and rifled. 'J he child haa beeii scut down to the hospital and the father is in etistoly, and these are the only particulars I have a* ytt heen able to glean cone, m ing this apuareutly u\ st uiiwautou occuneiice. — (wire*pondeui Cross, Some unit- a.o w> tonk toticeof some KO»d iookinj iron stone, foun<l by die lion ti. Clininberliu, in the Kiiglan ilutncf. A portion of it wm »cut to the Colonial Luboni toiy f>r anultM*. Mr Ci»mbeilin, hv the last until Irom ' lie soutli, his recviteil alet. r from D Uecior. m mlikli he m informed that the ion or i* nt iioin RiiuUn eonlmni. 59 92 per cent, ot irnn^ I'm- n u lur^e pei ct-iitii^c, an i xiiouKl giTe rery profitabl resu ts when c«pituli-ti< net about developing the iron Ten mvea it the rtn^lun dutrict. A* stated on a former occhsi >■.. tliere i« nbu nianco of coal mid limestone in the mime uate riuinity of the bids ol nan ore. — Croti.