The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 , 1875.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 424, 4 February 1875, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 , 1875.

We remind intending pmclasers that Mr. J. Knox will sell a la rge' quantity oi timber this da) .-at 'Hamilton West. , • Notice is given, by advertisement of^fchtr days on which the Licenbing Courts for tlie. Wjffikato will ;£lt. ' A We have been shown by Mr rol&ttan -a^sumple <of barley grown at East Hamilton, fne grafo is not very large, but it is very even. T£^ JieUl f roni 1511* of set d was 12 bushels.- . Who after this will ,ex pi ess doubt as to the suitability of the climate jai.d soil oi W*»ikato to grow barley." We are glad to observe that two of the bridges between Ngaiuawal.ia and Hamilton jtie beirg rebuilt. Whilst writing oi thib liad we may us well it mil d tht autl.oiities that this iS the stuLCii oi the jeai to lfpair the roads, and tuist that any mcessaiy woik will he done now, ii plac<. *>f as hiiheilo,just at tl eccirmti.ctment of tht winter, with the lesult of making the road worse t.jai* evn-. : Tt will be seen by adv< rtwment that' tickets or Mi Calder's Lottery for Oil Paintings are oil" Pale at this office, -The paintings, neaily all of^bhh represent scenes in Ktw Zealand, hit suchvakno artist need be'ashnined to own, and any one of than would giace tie walls of any house in tlie colony. J|, is un oitunate thut as )et there aie not a f-uffic'ent number of wealthy appieciators of art in the colony to preclude the necessity of good works being sold by means of lottery. We remind our readers that the Hamilton Entertainment Committee will give an entertainment this evening in the Court House. We understand .that a goocbdeal of ntw talent will be exhibited for the first time, which in coujunction with the superiority of the building in which the performances are to take place should m^ke the affair a greafer success than hitherto, which is saying a very great ideal. , x * « While we place Banking as standing without a rival among Ihe piofessions as a source of mischief to tlie community, we (Lyttetton limes?) are not unmindiuLof having derived from it considerable benefit*. We cannot quite call those benefits favours, because they are offered solely to a committee who can return them with"interest. The general action ,of Banks in a community may fairly be spoken of as <one of much benefit, but unfortunately we believe ,thip to be equally true, that ever and anon their actions are so blunderingly antagonistic to the interests of a community as to moie than wipe out, in six months all the good done in as many years. £some such action inimical to the interests of the people of this colony, seems now in progress within the ' 'Banks. The wide spread mischief which such hostile movement produces, exceeds that which can be by any other profession. Everyone is subjected to its influence to a smllar or Jarger extent. 'A certain proportion only of the population ,at any pne time 'ire moved by practitioners of law or jme/Mcine, and in a still lesser degree can the other professions agitate a community. But to the profession of Banking must be yielded^the palm of being able, as it were, in one moment, to breed throughput a country di^iftpt' suspicion, fear, and general travail in bu^ftHp| Trading solely in the article pf exchange cailfd^^ioney, the influence of their /7>ernrions enters if he meanest and the lonplie t 4 welling. The open or tight hand of the Banks # 'Jetei mines wages and salaries, and what they can purchase influences materially the rise or fall in the orice of pioduce, raises or cheapens contraots, turns jljiis legitimate venture into a mad speculation, and $at .-.peculation into a cause of ruin to its promoters, fuciUtates or jetards the progress of a young pountry in a far more marked degree than that of pn old nation, arijJdgeneraHv hastens disaster or pros-,, p' nty thro^jfcgjljpjlbe smallest or largest coniriftr-*

February, at the Hamilton, .tiotel. Sir Donald McLean started on Tuesday m. ming at 4 o'clock tor Hettit'a place about 20 miles above Alexandra. The party started in canoes. No ne.v* is yet w hand, but we believe Tawhiao was to have met the Native Minister at the above place. ■--> It wJI oe seen by aUwrtiScnient tnat the Bank -6t' New Ze'cuand wul shortly open an agency v at Hahidion. We uuctehsuuul altso Uiat io la tut* - ,ieniiou ot the direct oia to open at an early d«u« a** Alexandra. It must be 1 joKecl^upon as a Hign oi pi ogreurt wnen a Bank tintia it to its advantage to ABti,j no leas tnan tiuee agencies going m a Uiatrio*. w.acii only u lew yeara t*uoj£ waa ni Lheiiands oi Ui<-> 1 latWes. UanKerd are gjuci'.Uy au^pudcu to o ar-aeein., auiuiaLs and in tnia mautn^, we uv,.ic> - c^iac iuuae who " s«t," tor me iianK oi New Ze«u i>i, «re da ciear bignted aa lepute gives vie c.ui;> credit for. .*e uaderstdiid that Mr W. T. Jones, orgar jai.der, and pianotorce uner, (teg. ot Auuitlanu, wi. wicly visic Lue vVal^ctlojjLuieiaai'i.LllM I ly ' i '" J **-*^^ /ill douDiieSi uyYecelv^d uy* tne- Scaiera oi i^. a.LJiot witn -jsUtiaUction iVir Jonea is an exp. bG liis ouauiesa, and l'roin wnat we know"o£ hiu. .ere is uuc h picino oi* Ucinuoniuin in Uie c(imli -v io uiatte how alt'ccted, that could not ba leiievvi. / i.ie « A eiciae vi via bitnl. Aa a tuner he ii» p ot, and aa a repanei* ot lnstruuienLa via lmiueu." i» aguaraiitee Wiat lie is no «,yi^ j.^ i i\ al in tiic uibuict will t^e uuly aunouueed in ci ilumnj-. ' Mtbbis Chambers of Edinburgh have erood gjoxn i' complaint in regard to the way that Jz.ncjtcio/ < a has been handled b) a tiim of American '. pui i>heis, whom the\ furnished with duplicate fetei( otype plates of the work in order that it might hv issued biumltaneousl}' in both countries. The Arne ricans setni tpjh&ye thougittr-themselveSTjllSTilied ii. anything in.J;he^work Avhtch they, dicl noi like, at the same time retaining Me.^rs Chambers, namo on the title -pftge!~ Here ar'e^a couple ioti ex .imples. In (he oiiginal work there i& the following passage:-— Free trade*—" The term, when used at late as twenty years ago, expressed a disputed proposition, and was the badge of a political party ; it now expresses the most important and fundamental truth in political economy." This is the American equivalent :—-Free: — -Free Trade — " a dogma" of 'different growth, industriously taught by British manufacturers and their commercial agents. For many years certain political economists have laboured to establish the theory upon a reliable basis, and have asserted that the doctrine represents an important truth ; but no nation has attained substantial prosperity except by protection to nativtOsndustry, whether avowed or disavowed." The articliL'y Victoria I.I 1 in the original edition runs thus :—": — " The progress made by the nation in the various elements of civilisation, especially in that of material prosperity, his been unparalled (see Great Britain) ; and perhaps during no reign has a greater measure of political contentment been enjoyed." For this American publishers have substituted :—: — " The progress made by the nation in the various elements of civilisationpes^ecially in that of material prosperity, has beexTuWavelled (see Great Britain) ; but &. growing discontent under her unequal institutions, vand a progVe,s^_ towards Republicanism, are plainly apparrent."