The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLDM FORTI PARTIA." SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1875.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 434, 27 February 1875, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLDM FORTI PARTIA." SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1875.

In our last issue appeared a telegram announcing thnt Sir George Grey hr»d agreed to "accept the oltioe •pf Superintendent, if elected. We were sum 3^h it Surprised to lf-arn that he had done s>), — that lie gbbnld stand for election for City West, we should )iave thought, was quite a sufficiently grtjat descent from the position he first held in this colony. That Jie shoilld consent to become "Saperiutonderit is l>videuco that he is ho wedded to tho Provincial nystem— the child of li4s imagination — thit he is prepared to sacrifice ease and position iv order to >W)lsWr" it up for^ a short psruxb^ -^though Sir **eor ( ge Gr.ey may have little diffi^fcVjti securing Jiis election to the Assembly by an t^rl>a:i eonstituencylwe 1 doubt much whether-lgkultiv-provin'ci.d not secure his rpjectioa as^ipßrinten-' «bnt. The voters in the country <.'istr\cts are tolerably unanimous that the time has ai rived when Provincial Government should be abolished ; the only, differeace of opinion amongst them is, as to_ whether they should be wipad out in tiie Nort'i and Jsft-to flourish in the South. - ft* we can un lerstand < Bir George Gvey he is bittftfhy*b ( >;>os3 l to their abolition at all ; he would not m ike" any the worsa Ssa peri n ton dent on" that account, bub the p>!ifcioil m>niions of a man who comes for ward for the position are certain to. b5 c ireful ly acinh^l. l".mrd is ■Another light in which to look at the question, thera [%apossibilicy tint th^ Mi ii>t;ry !xrt^suj3)i 1 in '.Jf^rrving cheir resolutions and to have a m in wed lrid , H^ proviucialism to fight the battle of the Provinces, "4,nd by flytrtg hard gain for blie North mora th m 'itke would be likely to get by tli3ex3rfcio is of a m ia irff undecided opinions is worth consideration. We 1 the veteran statesman's address befjre expressing any decide 1 opinion.

thar, we have buried John Williamson with $11 t the honors we could accord to his memory, wo luust'not allow ourselves to forget that,our duty to tfiio oldest servant of the Province of Auckland is >«)t completed j he has left a wife behind him d^ps.itlent, for the means of decent subsistence* upon the people of the Province for which he worked so well and Img. I'j .wk tlitfc he shall Hi '{n'jv'i JiJ far JA ixot asking for charity : the small sum that will ieep frer tjornfortable to the end o£^ her days is ,'?.\Ving ten times over to her dep.iriei husbind. He j(aVe np money-making, tlie almost sole occupation t>f* tfoostj him, to serve the coluny he ha I pdoptul. .Xnie, he received so^wgjiy during his idrms 'of 'office, bnt it is well known that it is imyo Bible to money and uphold t'l^ dignity of Province of which the Superintended was t!ie lrltti*f.- We trust that a vote will be unanimously jwsaelart the- next sitting of the CJancil; there is UA room to argue th.it by so daing avjdang rous precedent vv-ill be established : in the iii*s6]>^qe^beciasj life 'danger nuwt die with th^ Provinces; «nl,* in the second I , becaurseit is exos^lingly irngrabible that ftn equally just cLiini wJi be agiin inada on t h e l^ople* of Auckland,

Now that tho railway will be running in a few *K>nths tbr!mgh the Wutk,itr>, the question of ntmkjngroids ia order to com Jeie tie Hue of communication between this and o.fe>r jiarts of tie provinc • V*Oi>ns& more urgeut. We are not aware that anything ha* yet been (I me towvmts bringing the Waikato into comnuihie ition with, the Tham j s ; and 'ifie Hire from Oambvid^e to the E**»t Cj.ist is ueitly in the same state ©f forward ie\s-H§ it-.was twelve jnontha back. If the r.iil^aya in the colony are to approach direct financial success, no efforts mu^t \*e jpArtUtn-ei.leravruUb'e evsi-yitich of cinntry witbsn the vortex of t'nU- i ifl i >.\2\ I'hsre ar^ m\je %v,iote of c6iYn'rvat t'ltf pre-ivit tirfH in tin direoMoiis \K3 have nam3d»that can never be ojcupi «d except, as pUeep. and cnttle runs-* until g)od rau«i rovla are wade-fehr^ii^ th'etaK It is u-^ip.^ t» cisryfint only «d»,e poition of * wshr-msi ; and it is impossible, of course, to cio everything at oiicp^ bnt the two works V:e ha,ve pointed out appear to^us to be eminently s(pce>«sary to the succksH Of 'thg- [VVai^ato railwaf . We tfmst m-'asure success not ffy direct resitl'is #nly, but by fie pr^s )erity iu-fti^cfcly broa/jt about \>s the meaiia adopted.

The Cyphrentfi did not leave San liVantill the 7ih insfc., soven dars late. She may therefore be expected in Auckland about the 7th woximo. ' • . As was to be expected the- jttry exonerated 'the And crew of the Waikato. steainei' from any charge of ,\viJf ul neglect, or of a more- serf his crime. JSfp.more is known, as is nsual, of the ojigin of the |jre by the holding of tlie inqiiest than whs pev* f&tly well knovsi to the police and ev.-ry hotly else Ijeforo it wsib hel 1. It is lime the periodical fai'ces |jiqneBts were discontinued, lii our rejxM'fc of the h cond day's raeefl hp a%6ie : |g«xpliorti>. : e in&uiß our reporter gob th« mimes of * _%[$ di[ieroiit» horses which ran for the Jbadiss' Pwae ]jia.br4p, ' The race wa3 won by Djii» £tgd not by Tiu, aa our excited sportiag raparfcei! | > |jbat»><l. Kui ran a very clcwe a^cand. ' i We umi«r»tiMid that Me f>irgi villa purpo-ea leading for the S.q>eri'ntendc>ncy against Sir G3or>;e •^/rey. XV - at a eon'rast ba^wemi tha two men, one jfctt.olcfc a^id«%j>eriewBa3 jx>Htici-*j!, .the o;her niiuu^ •M«y the jwrt. Mr j3j.i^q.villo has.d>

l»u u'jiit tiB Hn." Su/'DoaiU MjLutl w_is 0»b u-c it 1 5 1 at lii wby 'ths iui nbwrs of the" K)r-1K )r- 1 th^n C.v'). Tie dinner wis very lav .ply a* tended thera b9i.i» in viv inviW gcuit*. Tie chair was O33i>ieJ b,» Da Cim obeli, who proposal Sir Druid* heiW In dA'\* so, h? ra-nirkil t'uvb he In I Ic.i >wi him f)i* 3i yair^s. Thi li.Mt d?tlin* he hil wit'i -if ii i-i tlivjj eirly diya wa* sv'nn he was c i Uurauri jjf to n^jf >ti ib 3 the pure'iiso of som U'» 1 at tin hi i Is^n abj is h ilt w.iy Ij3tw^.i A ic'rIrilanlt'iq Tjari3H,.oii whic'i wis balievei to exht a ric i <U^o »i: of in i'ig m j s < \ T.ie eamssfcn iss, qiiat ciL'-ih.ij'i, 'nar,*/, ail |>3r3jv i rinj9 In tfien .-1 i >,ye I, w n*3 c n'->! i a ifcic of t'i3 V.i'os **qti3 i. sibms hi hil jn'iievrfl ii dulinj with th 3, uitives — both ai ;fi oSic^i- of tin Gr>v3i*im^ it, ail las a m?.n')9r fche G)vei',ioi3 ib hirn^lf.-^-3ir D. MjL'uq, in rj,)ly; s a:6l h» \Vi3 D:. Ci.n;)')eU ha I propni I thi co is*-, a^ h6 hl l b^6 i nbl jto vee ill 1-6 nin-i-joncea of t)!d turns whioli hid p.is^ed frjiri his oivM mmoi'v. T\M ti an wii'3 put, aa I it whs vvith t'n pi«e.wit th^y hid to djil. It? <vj^-,NJie l>M9val, tha 6pdai.iV of Ohiil'^m U'i, whicn^;liaH^ uvD'i^'ib th3.a toj^Bihsr tint ni^'ib. Ha wdaLl not s'Uw ariv rnj^k nnleity^iii sivin? he had nob^Ji^d b) dj with the opiilin^ bf O'aiaaiMlv^ for theie wis ho flamy iasj the ficb bbit ths dpiiiin* )fthit district to the gold-seeker, had largely eftt'v^ tim^ ail a!ifcB-iti)a of hlp^lf and his oll'igiathe H>n. Di\ Pollen. Bat he wis nob g)ia.jf fco allow thsm t3 fo^aS the ficb thit tb? results so pi-eTjnint witn wealth and itnporiatice ' to the corani3ri3iil community of Ancklanl, were | largely owinsf t.> the untiring and self-denyin* effjrts of Mr. Jame3 Mickay, who had sp^nfc years in biiilding dp the 1 of things which had veiiilte 1 in t.ie opaning of Ciinemuri, and the consequent development which would be given tb the mineral resources and general progress of AuckUuX Mi f . Mickiy had borne the heat and the burthen of the day, and his long and persevering labours in this matter would not he forgotten in the rejoicing? which attend the present entertainment. — C/wt, Fri ! lay. The Ota^o Dewy 7 ivies says that prior to the ordinary Police business being heard at the R.M. Court on the sth inst., Thos. Juhustone was placed in the dock charged with h. capital offenoe, the Press and public being excluded. The evidence of the female witnesses wjs of a most disgusting and revolting mature', prisoner, who is* an old man, a cripple, and a repulsive-looking fellow 1 , having, it is alleged, repeatedly outraged his three step daughters since 1873, the youngest bring at that time only nine years of age", and by the eldest, aged 17, be has t^o^qjiildivn. Such a shocking case of depravity has never l>3en he>u*l of in Duiv^din before, the circtvmskinces bein^ positively sickening. Accusei wasseanrnitted to take his' trial at the next Criminal Sessibas^of the Supreme Court. - _ A " Cot*pse Burning Association 1 , ti i ttea;" is the designation of a company forinad in Dresden for the purpose of furthering cremition. _ The movement, according to the Continental He> aid, has an es momical as well as a social aspec 1 ", for the amount of fti".l necessiry for one opei^ation only costs 43.6 J. D^esclen', indeed, is ta .ing sjreatly to the movement and-'Th^Corpssß.irninsf Polka,' »vith an appropriate fi'outisjiieGe^js.thes.dd piece of musical composition in the shops of the Schluss v ßft!«a^s^.The system whico. is pursued by our native fallow s rbjeots of appropriating to their own «sj horses, sadllps, and bri.ll&s/> on ..every available opportunity, we in the Waikato^are used to. Not ao, however, some of our visitors from Auckland. O'ie, although ho has nob lost a horse, has had his. colours carnal away, and nob being used to such 1 treatment, is indignant. We shall nob be surprised ' the next time a Governor visits the district, if one of our dusky brothers appears to do him honour in thtt costumo of the turf, and it is exceedingly improbable that he will-bs locked up on a charge of robbery. - > * , , It is purpose.! to hold the following religious s<irv:ce3 in the Waikato, to-morrow. Church of Eigland, Hirnilton, 11, a.m., Ngartnwahia, 11, a.m. and 6. 30, p.m., Alexandra, 11, a.m., Te Awamutu 3, p.m., Kihikihi, 7, p.m. — Catholic, Alexandra, 11, a.m. — W^sleyan Methodist, Cambridgp, 11, a.m. and 0. 30, p.m., Pukerimu, 2. 30, p.ni., Hamilton, 6. 30, p.m. Te Awamutu, 11, a.m. United Presbyterian and jootgregational, Rangiaohia, 3, p.m. The Waikato Sbeun Nivigition Compiny ar3 about to bui d a stpamer to replace ti,e Waikato. The ccmyariy's new Imige, T»ii]>i]i. anived in the Waikato in tow ot the Blue Nose on Tuesday night ; she is m'tc'j hr^er than any- other on the river, anil has been built expre-ssly for cirrying the railway j plant to Taupiri. We. notice th i 1;i 1 ; a cono3vt and rhnc3 unler tha auspices of the Alexandra Philarmonic Society, will ttke plac3 at Alex'md aoi Fiidiy s&h Mirch. Any funds that uVtv acortiß will 03 davoted to tap*building of the public h ill ii thvb tow is iip: > "- ,