THE COMING ELECTION.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 478, 12 June 1875, Page 2

THE COMING ELECTION.

ifc Jfre ll^ikato Times "The^foi«A^he peoOTa mustVioHly roll like one great thunder c?to frohf^am end\f thefaidnv t<#tbe other." Sir, — The above words apffeared in a leading articleof the "Times" of a recent owe. Is the millennium about to come 1 Happy day for New Zealand if the people of this colony, and of Auckland in particular, would only throw off their apathy in politics, and come forward manly, and every man vote according to his conscience for those who he considers wilEß^aesNto p^pmoteijlhe welfare of his adopted hon^.^^TifeH, sirj^Stfredr representation,, the abuses, cl^^nery^s^trcnragfedw^and partiality now going on*would be put a^stop'ro, the Government of the country, and the Public Works and Immigration policy would be carried on in a more systematic and economical manner, that would in the end redound to the credit of all connected with it. You call or^the farmers to give their mosfc earnesft^ftH|nlsfcii t\^hc of the colony. I think, Tlirjvi^ all^uKjJJßpOTt to that body, you appeal to\he m&St apatn^tic T^. notwithstanding the not ver^ remote probability that their lands will have to bear the brunt of the heavy taxation - looming not far in the distance. But the time fe not too far gone to stir, not only the farmers, bul everyman that has a vote in every out-district in the ]»^e, %• s^fkig^n. vwery district political union nfc^ig&j- ha^ng joX^heir object unity in selectin^^nrH^pr^mrflB\j^at are above suspicion, an* mot likely to%be bougKt over by either this or that party in anp Government. We have now vote by ballot, which, it was supposed, would allow everyone to vote independently, but what do we see I—-only1 — -only lately in one of your Auckland a conte»poraries^hat numbers of the leading tradesmen haye^N^u^w^^ tHwr^ames removed from the elect&sral'roM^'so not be able to vote, became iiV^i^y %ntecD^^«pientiously they would lose a customer or T^jvo. I pity men in such a position, but I know from experience such is the case. When Provincialism was represented by an ** oligarchical clique, and Aucklamlcity meant Auck- | | land pr^h^jJ^andvCeal^a^sm reigned supreme, then, sir,^^Vfeusej^s to attempt to alter things. Now, I thSKT^JieVuftdstKcts will only come - forward, and \o their diiW to a man — a duty they owe to themselves, their S^ldren, and their country — we shall soon ceass to hear complaints of this or that department of the Government, but all will * work Bi»atiiljy^bther for our common weal. — I am, <kc\^V^ T * B. Hill. Aotea, flfce *y-LB^L^^ \

We would remind those who desire bargain* that Mr Kennedy Hill will sell by auction, to-day*^ at two p.m., at the residence of Mr AI. J. Cleary, East Hamilton, *N*^ assortment ' of household , furniture. Thorne McGuinomwhoWas severely injured at Meicer by the upsetting of a dray, baa been removed to the PiovinciaFHospital.