The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA" SATURDAY, APRIL 3,1875.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 449, 3 April 1875, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA" SATURDAY, APRIL 3,1875.

In another column will be found a letter, over the signature of " Elector," in which he calls attention $o the fact that the district of "Waipa will have no representative during- the next session of the Provincial Council, owing to Mr Byron's absence from the Colony. That gentleman, previous to his departure, very properly placed his, resignation in, the hands of a friend, to be sent i,n on, the. slightest intimation thqt any section of his constituents desired it. Unde^ ordinary circumstances we should be inclined to the belief implied by Mr Byron that it mattered little whether a member attended or not. It is little tfyat the, Waikato has received from the Provincial Government, and in its present financial Repression, it is exceeding problematical if the dis,£rict will ever receive any more. It is true that paltry sums aye doled oi\t, to keep onr schools from pecflming utterly extinguished ; but we venture, the ppinipn, although we have no statistics before, us, fhat the amount of rate collected, will far exceed, the expenditure in tfye district. The schools in the country districts are being starved by the Bpardi The local committees are continually complaining that thir communications are. npfc replied to, and that any application for monetary assisijance is almost treated with contempt If only tp bring this matter, before the Council in a practical manner, and force, action upon the Board, w^ think it would be worth while to send a, member. We ipußt remember also, tfyat Sir G. Grey is now Superintendent of- the. Province, and will no ( doubt use. all his. influence.— and privately Ms to Qonvineq. members that thq institution they represent is the most perfect in the world. Bitter experience lias, taught nqarly all country settlers that the contrary is the case ; they save learned that Provinciulism means Centralism on a small bc\ie. and th.it it is in. the neighbourhood of the principal towns th«t tl.e major part of Government expenditure takfca place. Mucn as wo ohjf-et to the resolution of the Government as only .mrtially. abolishing the Provinces, we-shoald be .xe«;edir.gly horry to r>fo the Council cajolod into >nsbir.^ r^solntionH in their t*ivor as institutionsv ( /Ve, tbereftn-e, hold that v, member should be present to ent-er hi.? protest and record his vote ag.iiu-it those of the urban membprs, whose interests are uatuwUy tp uphold putial centralisni. As it has become our duty to urge th« election, of another member, it would bo ti:ijii>i c in us to do so without cooidingour tli.i; A .'.:s to Mi* Byron for the manner \ which K«3 vot-eti uiriii'f his tenure uf the ofli'je ol

I'ejnestnititave. vVe urge tue eitjuum of uuoouer member because we feel we cannot afford to be without one at this juncture.

W«3 are glad to learn that some of the progeny of the hares turned out by MrHammond,inthe neigh~ borhood of Hamilton: some years back, have been seen lately by several persons. We trust that any one who. comes across them whilst shooting, will vefain from tiring at them. It is purposed to hold the following religious services in the Waikato to-morrow : — Church of England, Cambridge, at 11 a.m. ; Hamilton, 6.30 p.m.; Ngaruawahia, 11 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. ; Te Aw.iinutu, 11 a.m. j Ohaupo, 3 p.m.; Alexandra, 7 p.m. Catholic: Alexandra, 11 *m. Wesleyan Methodists: Ctmbridge, 6.30 p.m. ; Pukerimi, 3 p.m. ; Hamilton, 11 a.m. ; Kihikihi, 11 a.m.; United Presbyterian and Congregational, Te Awamutu, 3 p.m, The following is the colander of prisoners for trial at the Supreme Court, Auckland, commencing on Monday next, the sth of April : — Hone Tiireha, New Zealand, labourer, aged 19 years, single, can neither read nor write, Church of England, killing an ox and stealing the carcass ; El ward Mariin, 'Merlin, 1 1873, America, shoemaker, age 25, nvrW ried, Church of England, read and write, sailing from the dwelling-house; Richard Line, ' Hero,' 1872, England, labourer, age 24, single, Church of England, read and write, two charges of forging and i uttering; John O ilvie (on bail), farmer, sheepatealing; Alexander Neil Ogilvio (on bail), farmer, sheep stealing ; Francis Charles Leggett, 'Mermaid,' 1862, India, solicitor, age 41, married, Church of England, read and write, larceny by~a* clerk ; Edward Patterson (on bail), New Zealand, labourer, age 17, single, Ohurqh of England, indecent assault; EJmon Percy Brett/H.M.S. 'Pearl,' 1874, England, no occupation, age 22, single, Church of England, read and write, false pretences; Henry Smith, ' Percy,' 1869, England, labourer, age 29, single, Church of England, read and write, malicious injury to property j James McFarlane, * Eclipse,' 1863, Scotland, engineer, age 40, single, Presbyterian, read and write, forging a.nd uttering ; Oliff Matson, 1 Warwick,' 1875, Sweeden, sailor, age 29, $ingle, Lutheran, can neither read nor write, unlawfully wounding ; Henry Pettit, New £ea./a.nd, baker, age 18, single, Church of England, read and write, assault with intent to rob j William Wilkinson, alias. Singleton, ( Golden Ago,' England^ blacksmith, age 35, single, Church of England, read and write, setting fire to a dwelling house. Writing on the anomalies o f our jury system, the <* Otago Time* v says that sooner or later public intelligence will insist upon the adoption of the Victorian system of paying ev< ry juror an adequate 1 compensation for each day he actually decorates the jury-box or not. A greater scandal to our system of judicature cannot well be conceived than the occurrence which recency happened ot a country juryman having to ride backwards and forwards fining a period of some 8 ov 9 days, a distance of 200 miles in ajl, only to find in the end that his services were not needed, for the settlement between A and B. The loss of time, travelling, and other expenses, which were occasioned, all w«nt for nought. The unfortunate juryman had to hear all these. In the course of his p-irting speech to his constituents, the hon, Mr Fox'said :—": — " He would new refer to the question of prqvincialism.. He had been one of the staunohest advocates of provincialism in the colony, but his opinion had changed, and he had given his reasons for the change in another place, but it was. only right that he should explain to thtm also. Ko, the early days the provinces did all the work that was" done, and they did their work right well up to the year 1562. From that time forward lie felt that provincialism was wanting. There were four principal euvseswhich tended to the fall of provincialism. The first was the native war, which put an end to colonisation, which up to that time had been one of the principal functions of the provinces. During the ten years of war hardly any person came to the polony. The next blow was in 1866, when the Assembly, urged to it by the land sharks of Auckland, threw open to the public the power of buying native lands, a power which had previously been retained by the Government. The third bjow was in 1867, when an Act was passed to, prevent the provinces from borrowing. The final blow was in 1870. when the colony took into its own hands the carrying- out of public works and immigration on a Urge scale. >; The provinces then bad nothing left for them, to do, /and the reason for their existence was swept away. > When he found that this was the case, he voted for their abolition ; and if he might go so. faF a.s to advise them in this matter, he would suggest that they should have, a distinct understanding from their representative, that he would vote for the abolition of provinces ; at the snnie time, they should not be unreasonable! but allow their representative some discretionary powers. E[e believed in the desirability of doi.ng away w.ith, the provinces, but he felt that it was only right that they should carefully consider- what was to. be substituted, and that was a matter which they would have to leave Urgely in the hands, of their representative. In thanking tl>em for the attention they had given him, he must say in concluding, that if he nad not done in their service all that he might have done, he had done his best. He was now getting into the sere and yellow leaf, and he had had about enough of politics. Some people thought it was a fine thing to, be a politician, but he found that it did not pay from, any point of view. It was hard work, and the only consolation in it was the knowledge of having done one's duty. (Cheers.) He might offer his services to them, again or he might not. But if tjiey ever felt that circumstances had arisen, in. which hp could be of use to them, his seryices were at their disposal. (Prolonged cheers.) The fir^t shipment of a new gunpowder to "Australia, called the " Schultze " has been received by Messrs. Lassetter and Co, of Sydney. This powder has very little in common with the ordinary gunpowder, except the name and the power of propulsion under certain conditions. la comparison with other explosives, it is safe and free fi.om danger, both in manufacture and storage ; for if ignited when loosely stored, it does not explode, but only burns rapidly and brightly ; when, confined, however, as in- a gnn-barrel, it explodes on, ignition, with even greater propulsive force than black gunpowder. In other words, so long, as the gases generated by the, burning We .free naeaai of escap, ing to the open air, they do.so jn the shape of fl*me, without oonousmon, Phia explains hoy it ia that this powder is at once ao powerful antf no dangerous. Some of it» advantages are the following : The recoil of the gun is about one-third less than with black powder. It makes a very, much smaller report. It creates but little smoke. It hoils the gun inappreciably. If it. become* wet" its original propulbive force is restored by dryiag. The charge 42 grains (4} drams by measure) for IJoz of &hot] is half the weight of bj£s£ gpupowddr. It produces no sulphurous ur other uawholeson^e aud j°£ lv . % a ti)M^fr*m&to^b*mhkYy diss-'pitew, thus admitting the immediate iue of th-a 'wbc ml ! barrel ; anj.faid*u»h«b r le Jttfv&Sftige to sportsmen. ■ With this day's (jubljcatiou we issue a supplement containing a larie-nnount of information, including Inter Hnglish tele^r.inn, interesting tales j and sketches, also an cdotes of George 111. It .will be so=m that the aale :ulveriis««l by Mr Kuox to, take plicr on the Bth inst, at Hamilton Eist isj postpone! till the l^th last, in con^qn^nov of the owner of the stock bdiiig nn-OA? to muster the cit.lo ' ' ; >' |

We have reason to believe that tie senaatio 1 ml ''bunckum" in- the shape of native news in the Auckland " Star," emanated directly from a man who had every appearance of a maniac. Eo carried a revolver in his v packet, an£ threatened to nae it .vhen wonted in argument. He visited our office,' hut as we were clear that he was totally unreliable, declined to notice in anyway the information, he afforded us. We^bongratulate our contemporary on his correspondent/ We should not bave noticed .the matter at all, but there is danger that those who do not know the character, of the paper in which it appeared may believe the nonsense, and even partial belipf must .have a detrimental effect upon the colony, and more particularly upon this district. We trace the report to the luanatic, from the statement he made to us, which our oontempory repeats, that "6,000 natives were expected at the meeting," which, on the faqe of it, is absurd. The vagaries of our contemporary in native matter have done quite harm enough . already, and it is the ■sincere wish of every, settler in this district that he would discontinue publishing " lies." His boasted " special " is lively to bring forth a large orop. What will not the conductors of a disreputable paper do for sensation, "_ John Mitchell, lately eleoted rinmbsr for Tipp3rSisry— and refused a seat hy the House —is dead. AS an instance of "the present tightness of the money s V^rlset in Wellington, and consequent value of mone|, Ye ("_ Post ") may mention that the Aus. tralian Mutual Provident Society having the sum of .£lO,OOO to deposit for twelve months recently invited tendeFB"frote-fhe-banfcs-fbrit;"The"Bink of Australasia's offtft^of 7 pcr scent5 cent was accepted. Mr Knox will %ell a quantity of furniture, pictures, ifec., at 1 o'clock, this day, in West Hamilton.