The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLDM FORTI PARTIA." SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1875.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 437, 6 March 1875, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLDM FORTI PARTIA." SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1875.

Ti ien Mr. Vogel addressed his constituents in 1 md, he devoted a considerable amount of explaining the now celebrated resolution 1-',1 -', discussion of which, the session closed. + hat a barrister of colonial reputation * the lecess, collect data upon which isure to be brought in this session to Sal institutions. A considerable 1 and as yet neither the barrister . mar^ so tar as we are aware, has put .^pearance. ,The only move, so fiu as we can Joarn, is the despatch of MV. Seed, the chief of the Customs Department to CauaU'i for the purpose of acquainting himself with the form of fooal government prevailing in the Dominion. This step is taken. rather late in the day. Mr. Voxel's promise Jed us to hope that previous to the question being discussed in the Assembly, the people of the colony would have had an opportunity of digesting the proposed naeasnre. The very least that the people •pan ask, with justice, in the "face of an avowed attempt to upset the constitution, that they shah have timely notice of that which it is purposed to {substitute for the institutions under which they Jiave lived for some years. It is true that efflux of time will cause a general election at the termination pf next session, consequently a dissolution would pot materially add tq the burdens of the people. This much js. clear to us, it would be exceedingly unfair tQ members, to prevent* them having an »ppoxtunity of consulting their constituents' before aking part in such great constitutional changes as #re to be proposed. It is much too grave a measure to be jcarricd through Parliament by party tactics gjid wo. trust that the proposed legislation will be jaefore the people in ample time for every point to fee carefully, weighed or that membeis will force tlif. Ministry to appeal to the country on this measure. We are clear thfifc the Provincial water is muddy, put ufij require to be cauvineed that the new ays£am will provide us with n mom limpid liquid fcefure we are prepared to have it thrown away.

Thft harvest which U aovv*,Ui bm, finished throughout the Piov'Miuol W< iJiirjfc.Mi, turns out to be one ril the best wi>'j!i ■!>; ::ii'l r< hi»e ym ie;tpe><i. il'iv find ib M io t lie <jiki .i i,u- h,-. comniitteil »-.i\.\j-.s — iiju. 'tnue-5 iM.il.i'.'^ lui%'i i in tli j coiner tt f a u^'Kl, v. ichoLtt „';iio\i''g tho ltrft of ic — out tlieab trilling on t/ij \\Jjui>'j -ui-1 the «^>uiial result id T^iy eitooumgiii,;. Not 01J/ are tiia orop.i gpo^l g-u'i abuini ait, but tliO c* I'muous uiie weither has .ciuibleU t u b ffiii.fis e\urywhoie to " btive " taem hi fhe beHl «.■>; (.ii.ioii, oo itiut pcici 1 ji<ul plenty |oom very diatijicily b<.i'oru our county fiieuda. 'Die wiiite of an egg has proved off l^te the most iouH leruedy i.>r hump. He^en or eight suc-/.6.->ive applicatioiiH of this subsKiuce bootlio tho iuvn -uid Effectually exeiu-l« the bjuru fi'oii^ l-bo air. h mjm sii^ip c rcint;; I .;' '.j^vu-i uiicfy^l»l& tp cqllodion, or

A covey of partridges, thirty in number, are seen almost daily in the public paddock, Lawrence, 01-\0 1-\ go. A Mr. Pilbrow writes to the 7'imant Herald that having heard of the very large yield that had been grown of the Norwegian, black oats, he resolved to try them, and from what he can see of the crop, they have grown very strong with large heads, and are likely to jield over 100 bushels to the acre. He sends a sample root with his letter, which has 284 corns, which would be 6,248 corns from a single root. * At a Ward meeting in Leeds, a few days ago, says the limes of October 19, a Conservative speaker said that the people are no better off now relative to the price of broad than they were before the repeal of the Corn L.iws and other protective laws. This statement was forwarded to Mr Bright, and elicited the following reply :—": — " Corriebrueh house, Pitlochry, Oot 12. — Dear Sir, — Your letter has been sent on to me, and I have only time to acknowledge receipt of it. Your opponent must be a man. profoundly iguorant or strangely perverse, or he would have a different opinion of the effects of free trade in corn. He, perhaps, does not know that last year 12,000,000 quarters of wheat were imported, worth in this market last year nearly £40,000,000 sterling, and that great quantifies of other gr.iin were also imported ; that not less than 500,000 tons of potatoes with great quantiti&e of cittle, meat, and cheese, and butter were impoYted ; that in fact, £50,000,000 sterling in value were imported, nearly all of which it was the object of the Corn Law and other protects c laws to exclude from the country. More than half the working men of England, with their families, are fed on bread which comes from abroad, and it is obvious that the continuance of the protective system as applied to agriculture would have spread famine among the people, and would have plunged the nation into anarchy. I have not time to write more to you, and I feel ceitain that to add to what I have said would be of no use to your opponent, as he must be very ignorant, and I fear quite unable to reason on a matter of this nature. If you turn .to the newspapers from 1839 to 1846, or to the debates in Hansard, you may obtain all the facts and arguments you require. — I am respectfully yours, John Bright." Under the heading "More Immigration Mnddle," the Bruce Herat d publishes a letter from Win. Henry Williams, who tells his story as follows :—: — "I, along with about 100 more from Cornwall, engaged with the agent there, Mr. John Rennet Nichols, to go by the ship Merope, bound for Canterbury, as he told us that there were^no^ more ships going to Otago that year ( this was iirMarch.) Accordingly, we were sent on to Plymouth, under the impression that we were to be sent by the ship Merope ; but to our dismay, on arriving there we were told by the agent at Plymouth., a Mr. Wiggs, that we should have to go in another ship, the Helen Denny, bound for Napier. On remonstrating with him about sending us so fur out of the way, he told us plainly that ' we shonld Lave to go wherever the Government had a mind to send us.' I wrote back to Mr. John Bennet Nichols, but Mr. Wiggs intercepted his letter to me, and tore otF the one half, and wrote at the bottom, ' that we should have to go on to Napier,' sealed and stamped the same, and sent it to me. Our luggage was then seized and sent aboard, and we had to follow. Now Mr. Editor, before this happeued I had written to my brother-in-law, Mr. Samuel Bray, who was residing at Maungatua, Otago, that I was to sail for Canterbury. He accordingly went down to Canterbury to meet me ( this 1 have found out since I came down in search of him.) But the wor^t of all has to be told. I &ad to leave my wife and family at Napier, and I had not sufficient means to take them down. Now, sir,, I must work for six months before I can earn enough money to bring my wife and family down here, the place where I intended to come at first." It is proposed to hold the following religious services in the Waikato to-morrow : — Charch of England — Te Awamutu,ll a.m. ; Ohaupo, 3 p.m. ; Alexandra, 7 p.m. ; Cambridge 11 a.m. ; Hamilton, 6.30 p.m. ; Ngaruawahia, 11 a.m. Catholic, Hamilton, 8.30 a.m. ; 11 a.m. Presbyterian, Hamilton, 11 a,ra. ; Ngaruawahia, 6.30 p.m. Wesleyan Methodist — Cambridge, 6.30 p.m. ; Pukerimu; 2.30 p.m. : Hamilton, 6.30 p.m. ; Kihikihi, 11 a.m. United Presbyterian and Congregational — Te Awamutu. 3 p.m. The superiority of narrow-gauge rail-roads, says Leslie 'j Illustrated Journal^ is by this time pretty thoroughly established. One by one the prominent companies are changing from the broad to the narrow, the Grand Trunk from Portland to Montreal being the last. The advantages of tais system may be seen by referring to the Denver and Rio Grande Company, in Colorado, owning the longest narrow gauge road in the country. An ordinary freight cur weighs eight and a half tons, and will carry ten tons. A narrow g.iuge car weighs less than three tons and carries five and a half tons of freight. There is a saving of more than thirty tons of car weight for each 100 tons of freight, and 2621bs in dead weight to each passenger. Ag-dn, the narrow gauge of 3ft. costs less than one-half as much to construct as the 4ft B|in. gauge. The decreased amount of dead weight carried with each car is another strong point in favour of the change. From these consilerations, it is probable that the alteration of old roads and construction of new ones will do much towavds solving the question of cheap transportation. Now that the Colonial Rifle Represesent?+ives have just exhibited their skill as marksmen at the Thames, the following from the Edinburgh Courant may be read with interest : — Mr. Edward Ross and Captain Fenton shot recently to decide a tie for the National R]fle Association Cup. The match took place at Wiston Park, Leicestershire, the residence of Sir Henry Holford. The agreement was to fire 100 shots— so at 200, and 50 at 600 yirds. The following is the remarkable score of the second day :—: — 200 Yards. E. Ross t . 444444444441444444444344 Captain Fenton . 444444444334444344444433 600 Yards. & Rosa . 44443444444440144443444444 Od]itdmFeniou33i33i3UUi3U3UUU36i At the 600 yards Mr. Ross fired once without a" bullet, which will account for the cypher in the score, and for the extra shot. The match resulted in a victory for this young gentleman. Jt will be seen that the score is quite unprecedented, and an honour to a family celebrated for good shooting.