The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 508, 21 August 1875, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

nn 1 «-X' ct ju^ticn to all nvn, -; wii»io .i nutf <>i pi-rtiiHsiou. r.l'gfousor political ,lero <=!' ill *hf I'ress th^ PioPi.i's right maiataia, 'ii ,w> d bj infl.ieiicu urn! uubtibjii i y giii »•

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21. 1575

he kind of weapons which are being nployed by the Opposition may be d«'ed from a few choice morceaus which c have culled from an Auckland evening ■ntemporary. The newspaper to which b refer taunts Sir Donald McLean that > was once a " wood and water joey? and ies other unmanly means of attacking a >litical opponent of the party which the urnal in question serves. If the public en of the colony are to ba subjected to in species of mud-throwing, the time is )t far oil" when every man with any reird for decency will shun politics as a atileuce. r lh© dignity of labor, the ■ecioiu-. honor of men who have in this aim^ country, uy yeais of patient toil and ugatlU, Oiuivup competence for tbeir o-U fe^aucf liotuos tor tneir ciiiidren, is inIlted by auch kuguage. As if further to align the \ery class of men whose ■ m^ion our contemporary pretends to » LII'IU^S U.O 'uul\U iilUlV-.-'L' Wltll /\in-: I" in - u c kuhi'jU uoU'j :n „'cu^e of 'uhaLi 3k: -11-I 1 -- -^cr ia.i a\OlL" ab «bu ,Ii&h } IIU i-Ka V '^ :llt mAll s Vi Ut

noblest of our colonists luivo not been ashamed to do. Abraham Lincoln was once a hewer of wood, and even the sjreat ex Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain, Mr. Gladstone, retires from the turmoils of political strife, and in his bhiit sleeves applies the axe to giant trees, with the same vigorous strokes as he did to the old abuses which overshadowed and blighted the growth of political reforms. If Sir Donald McLean once performed manual labor, all honor to him. All honor to those true colonists who are doing the same " heroic work of colonization." Labor degrades no one, the sweat of a man's brow is ennobling. There aro thousands of men in this colony who ha\e been thearohit-icts of iheirown fortunes, and whom the gre.ite.bt Sovereign in the world delights to honor ; and we rejoice to think that in the blue shirt and common moleskins there are yet thousands of others in this fiv,e and vigoious young country who will elevate themselves to the most lionoiable places, and may win a niche in the Temple of Fame, or a page in future lii-.tory. It is our pride and boast that here, at least, the avenues to honois and dignities are not shut against the working man. And if it be true that one of the leading- politicians of this colony, and the only man who has yet satisfactorily solved the Native difficulty, once wore the plain blue of an humble constable, it is a fact of which any man may feel proud. We know that in the ranks of the Constabulary there ai c many men of real worth, many gentlemen by bivLh and education, who need not be civshamed of their, calling, and whose heaits will swell with a fealing of pride that their chief was once like them one of the rank and iile. Our contemporary has chosen a .singularly unhappy ground of attack upon a political opponent. If &iv George Grey is not utterly blinded by political passion, ha must blush for the mistaken zeal of his Helots.

Tiik crtursd to which til- Opposition is now commuted, is one which can neither redound to their own political credit, nor conduce to the good of tlu* Colony. It is indeed a course which is only ca'euluted to cover the last hours , of moribund Provincialism \wth ignominy and contempt. It has become manifest that the Opposition are prepdred to resort to every miserable shift and expedient to defeat a large majority in Parliament, aud to thwart those political reforms, which tue people, after long experience of the evils of Provincialism and mature consideration of the mam necessary cjanges, are clamorous to obtain. The Opposition is not a Constitutional safeguard from mal-artrnnustration, or a wholesome check upon hasty legislation. It has degenerated into a tyiannous iniuurity of mal-eou-tents, who delay the real business of the country by raisiug debates on false issues, by resorting to improper expedients for delay, anil by sacrificing the interests of the country c.) att mi their sellish end*, fho list hours of Provincialism forcibly recall the somewhat inelegant but graphic s.milo of Mr Carleton, V) h< n he b|)"ke ot Provincial institutions s. uttering down, and *' flickering out, like a tallow candle, with a stink." But amidst the ignoble- ranks or' an unprincipled Opposition, it u absolutely painful to observe- one with (lie hi^h reputation o'" ~ir G-orge Grey. Truly ho* are the mighty fallen ! The great. IVo-Coimsul, the bta.esuian, the Scholar, ha-> cast m ti s lot with a rugged army of Aduilamites, who are prepared to sacrifice the last dra*f> of blood of the Colony in order to save th/eir own puhticil skins. Every true friend of Sir George Grey must teel paiued at seeing his reputation dragged through the mire at the chariot wheels of Mr Fitzherbert and a Wellington party, who have 1 1 the past stabbed Auckland in the back, and would as readily t 1 in upon her again. It has become apparent that Sir George Grey is blindly infatuuted with his parental affection for Piovincidl institutions. There is a sort of affection for a darling object which in tin>e absorbs a man's whole toul, and renders him a monomaniac upon that particular &übjeet, until his reason is uot to be trusted on any mutt or which has the remotest bearing upon or connection with it. There is such a thing as subordinaiing every consideration to one dominant master passion, until the mental balance is destroyed, and the man is no longer to be trusted to reason calory and act rationally upon ordinary subjects. We know how old men in their days of senility are blindly attached to the things of their earlier years. The Duke of Wellington was devoted to the oli " Brown Bjss" to the latt, and regarded the rifle as a stupid innovation. The introduction of railway locomotives, and other modern inventions has been impeded by the same class of opponents. Every reform is clogged with the prejudices of non- progressionists. JSir Giorge Qrey's attack on the sale of certain Confiscated lands in the Waikato to Messrs Steel and others, is^ hko the random blows of a blinded and beaten pugilist, who is as likely to injure his friends as his toes. S.r George Grey is striking directly at the best interests of the Waikato, aud he ought to know it. The land sold to the Piako Swamp Company had oeen open for sale for years at 5s an acre, and found no purchaser. It might have lain idle and useless for many years to come had not a few enterprising capitalists combined to utilize it, and when they bought it the land na< dear at the money. We should be the last in the world to uphold lands-harking, or the acquisition of large areas by improper back-stair influence-.. Any act of the Government giving an undue monopoly to capitalists, any attempt to sacrifice the interests of the mauy for the t .ain of the few, shall never U.vve our sympathy or support. But our credulity is not to be practised upon by meietncious appeals, and we earnestly caution the settlers of Wuikato, and especially the working population against the attemp which Sir George Grey, prompted and demeaned by his " cluacqu^rs" and henchman, is making to arouse class prejuJici s and throw dust, in the eyes of the working men of the Colony. The Waikato Swamp Coui- . pauy has expended some £20,000 in the district, it has constructed roads over impa^s abl.- 1 niuras&es, and it Las been c large employer of labour in this place, the benefit of v> liich our tradesmen and all classes of the community have directly or indirectly reaped, air Ueorge Grey's blind infatuation leads mm to s>trike wildly at the interests of that Province over v\hich he presides, aud especially at the weltare of the working man, who is ihe ally and uot the enemy ot capital. George Givy perhaps forgets how Jus o!miuaie o.jpositK n to Su Duncan Cameuui s j )iW ,'Oacd lruutier hue reudeied the .Miii'^n c 5 ttieoieut scheme a ujtnpaiutiv uuiu..' An experienced g-neial, a strategist rtlr... s.-u-n itic reputation was uurivaiuu vi tv. Military College, devised a scheme whuh lie conceived aouIU promise permanent security, bd' was thwarted by the Pmlo-Alaon syni pitihie-> <>i ivtird ex ca r >tun of a marching U'piu' Ut, \, io najijii.o 1 to in. tlu 'iipci'.-r •ml uiiuii.i^UMior i.i (iiu Cv'.tny, li;ii if u ,t been loi iha' ta'ai . iCM.or-siii,- nhicL bu' •J'-'v-r^c Giey exhibited in ilit? day a of iittf

Governotsliip, and which, vriser by experieuce, he now shuns by rushing iato the opposite extreme, Xawuia aiuJ£/.Tauranßa would now be the entrepots of- ttte Upper Waikato, comraunicatioo would be established through the length and bieadth of thf land by permanent military roada, and a serui-military population would long since have developed into prosperous settlers. There are yet thousands of waste acres of swamp land in this district, that may be unreclaimed for years unless capital and enterprise come to the rescue. It would be a boon to the Waikato were they given away te men possessed of the nirans to utilize thorn. It would increase the income of tho Koad Board 1 ?, add to tho mater'al wealth of the country, and largely employ labour. If Sir Geoige Grey professes to be the friend of this district, he has a singular method of shewing it. Does JSir George Grey forget his speech at the Thames in which he denounced the Auckland and Waikato railway as an unpardonable wasto of public monpy. Truly if he be the friend of the Waikato th<*n may men gather grapes off thorn*, and figs of thistles. In the words of tho immortal Fdlstaff we may ask : "Call you this backing )f your frieud9 ; a plague uuou such backing."

It is again our pleasing duty to congratulate ths settlers of Hamilton upon their awakened intereat in political uuttora. The meeting last evenin£, tViia a perfectly proper response to the invitation of Sir Donald McLean, whose telegram we published in our last issue, and the practical suggestions embodied in the resolution are worthj of careful consideration. It certainly reflects credit upon Hamilton that it is the first to point out defects which have e»ciped notice at the numerous political meetings held throughout the Colony iatcly. The resolution, which wah carriad unanimously, on the motion of Mr Morris, vrsi as follows ; — "That in the opinion of this mcetiug the attention of the Gorernrnenfc should be called to the rating clauses in the Abolition and Local G-overuuipnt ll'll. and particularly ol md«B 21, 27, and .IS o( tiie last Uained Pull." * W<- «-iro uoiapeliO 1 bj jiic<t«ure of telegraphic and ollur luipurtaut mwttor Lo hold over our report.

At a meeting of settlors of Tauiuhere, yesterday afturnoou, at wlin-li nvery ratcpiyer m the di»triur. ntlPii led, exc^p^ o1o 1 c who wi* on tilled 10 hi» houaf by an aiviieut, tlie lollowmg resolution, moved by Mr Lt-she und seconded by Mi H"icl, wrta cAirh'd unatninou3l.v :— ' Tb it tliis meeting i 3 of opmioathit the p*s-*irig of tie Abolition of Provinces uud Luo^l Government Bills during t tie present Session of Parliament, is nbsjlutely ne.vasary to "euure jußtice to the out-di-tricttt and to the Colony generally" Mr Cum ming was in the chair.

Our Supplement to-'J»y contains fourteen columns of cio-ely irinted mater. It c mpme* amongst oihor mteres. ing selections '' Miss Burke — My curious Cmnpimon." "The Frozen Ship," a tile of thj PoUr Sea. " Farming Mutteiis " '• Mrs Lovel .)u Mui.ntuony." "Advice to a Girl who is ' Fitng'ifd.' " A Poem attributed to Lord Byron ani never bfore published. " Health Ao^es." Am.'li'dii JSevvs, and a thousand atjci on. 1 other j'eiin cuitub c fur "young men an i maidens, old nieu ami clnldi^i). In me Resident 'viajjislr.ito's Couit, Hamilton vestei\l.\, 'mtoro I\Lij )>• Clare and Cipt-Ala'-Ph rson — Jus.tict'3, Mcf^.aiut uoi.nuu of Iambb ni.'e w a biought up on suspicion of being un&i> :nd in maul ; ana on the medical teoCi.in>n\ of Uo^t.Oib W.iiMmjum an I Uaiey, and ihe e\'i lenec of Air Edwin B. Wal<er, fcent to the Whin Lunat.c Asylum, 'i lie unfortunate wonim is 3 ) years ot ago, a n ittve of Lim-ay!*, Ireland She his been in this Colony about sixiuontjs, has only recently arrived m the YVaikato, being u.itil within t ie last, few days employed as domestic &uvant, by Air ft. B.Walker, of Dambridge. rhc p ior o-eitu.-e was in a high state of in utal excitement, the victim of numb, rless dolusionss, whicii appeAre i priaoipally t»> pirt^!».o of a religious character, A cucam&tuice shewing how a fire may somotirues occur without its origin ever bemg discovered, came under our notice ou I hurad ly morning last. One of our ''imps, ' while einploved in the yard, notice I smoke issuing from a box containing a number ot lemonade bottles, and a quantity of straw and nibbish, which was lying alongside our ofßoe, uud drew our attention to the fa:t. The con ents of the box were louud to be smoaltlenng and some piecM ot rag burnt to ashea. ihe the had evidently been caused by the relLctum of the su i's rays up »u the bottles causing them to act as a burning gla.-s Bad the box been in a less frejuented part of the j aril, where it was not 30 likely to be noticed, there is e\ery probability thit it woulJ ha»e smouideied onforuome time, and — perhaps during the night — have buist into a name winch with our lack oi appliances ior extinguishing a tire, may have done gieut damage. We received from the Government p -inter last niglit, papers on the powvr ot tho (jroueral As seinbly to Abolish Piovmces ; Armngetnents «ith Govt'rumeiit Ageuta ; SLatemeub of Heserye Aocount ; Claims uoon Unds tt»keu over by the Province of Auckland from the General Government ; Itnmi^i'iUioa Returns ; Siitoenth Report of the Voft OiEee Department ; Jtioport ou the Gold fields; Import, Jfxport, and Shipoiog Returns ; Armed Constabulary Anuual import ; Qualification of Electors' Hill, Hansard No 4, &c, &i., for which we are ooliged. At the luual weekly loJge meeting of the Ho^e of \\ r aikato Lodge 1.0.G-.T. last cTeniug Mr J. Kno\ ivportad tlia*; the General Oovetnment had offered the Good Templars a site next the Bank of New Zealand, on the un Id standing that it shall be put to auction at an up 3 et price oi iloy. and sold w.th any improvements. Mi- Davis oilered a site live 'or ten years wnii a purciutsmg clause. A committee was appointed to consider ani report upon tho various olflrs of sites, and to t-'raw up rough plans ai.d estimates of a building 80 feet by 3(3 Another committee wao appointed to make preparations for a Dramatic and Negro Minstrtl Entertainment. Owing to the wretched s tate of the weather there was but an indifferent a-teudance at the auction eale of Mr Waltnsley's furniture, ou Thursday last. Mr Kennedy Hill ropo.ta thai fair prices were realized. We hare been obligingly furnished by the Fosunaster, Hamilton, with the following information : " Tlie English Mail via !San Francisco, wid close at the Hamilton offije, on Wednesday, Ist September, at 8 p in." It tue Pußt'uaaters in the otner townslups of the Waikato, will take a hn t f'roiii the abote, we shall Oe happy tj pubiisli their lutices from tima to time. In Boston thouaancis daily '' live and move and have lh'ir bo" ans. Mongrel cars are a great nuisance in some of the settiem -nts. Oh-iiipo th<)i"3 are some wh eh vujli out and attack every passing horseman, and are very anuoymg to travellers. i.c pi-nodical settlors balls, held ut Ohaupo, are well patronised, votaries of the hgh> fantastic csi-ividc q >ing Iroin Alexandra, To Awa nutu, and e.Bßwheie. Tne one held on Tu^odiy evening was well attended, aui passed of very satistacieril.) . ihe Mutual Improvement Society of Pukerimu, now nuuioers some bweaty members, th >a^h io nas only oeen about live weeks in eMs.euce. Considerable interest is manifested in the meetings, and the institution, is calculate I to do a great deal of good. Dibcussuns upon important poll tical, scientific, and social bubjecis will aid in tormmg the inwus ol ti.e young niea of the district, and developing a taite tor intellectual parsuits. It will alt>o uiible taein tj cultivate tlie Oi t of public epe&ki .q, aud remoy-vs tli.ifc diliidtiloo a.i t confusion ot l ieas which so many evhi ,it sr.ieu called upon to tulhi eveni.iie moat msiguilicant pait in public, or to Ulster a tew seuttm.es. Ihe debates ot improvement (Societies wih lvi part CQuh'dcncc, fluency of speech, and c.joiceiiess in expresiion, and if they do not degenerate into nie.e sophislic wrangha^a ajd exhib.ti'jns of vunfj ,ni, b^oomemoitiintructiveaudemmendy I iii L.iv.i iiua Via i. il l.a\>i ,\ i.iu,M >Jj v, .n'l I t.Us'. tli.C i; V*.iii v.j<.iXL>J.,

At the Auckland EJucation Bourd, held on T lursday last, au npp'ioition asking bh»t Wha'a Wliata be created an E luc.tlioii.il Dmbriut withm the meaning of tbo AcL was received, furilxu Information was requested iv aoeoixiauco with tlie regulations. A public meeting of the inhabitants of. Cambridge it convened for this arWnoon at the National H'tel, to oonnider the Abolition and Local Government Bill*. There will doubtlous be a Urge attendance of settler*. At the nubject is of importance the editor of thii journal will attend the ti. eat ing. The address presented to Mr Walmaley, on WodneBd*v evening last, waa very handsomely illuminated and engrossed on p*rchui«»nt, by Mr T. K. Sraithe, of Hamilton. Though the work vms performed at ahort notice it is a very skilful epecimm of this branch of art. The "Scientific Amerioan" has discovered a way of making a delicious perfume out of bed-bugs, and thus a new industry is openei to the enterprising housewife. Mr John Knjit will sell at Joseph's late itore, Hamilton \Vtss*. a quantity of drapery, hosiery, &c, being bankrupt at >ck Mr Knoxs auohon pale at Ngurawahia on Wednesday, of Ouptain Scliofit-M's furmtuie, was not so tu.-ocssfal ai antioipated owing to the inclement weather.