FRIDAY NIGHT'S MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 510, 26 August 1875, Page 2

FR IDAY NIGHT'S MEETING.

Sib, — Be good enough to albw me, for the first time, a space ia jour column*. In a paragraph ia your last, issue you st-ite :: — '* The meeting of last night was a proper re-pmseto the invitation of Sir Donald McLean," * * " a id the practical suggoatiom embodied ia the resolution are worthy of consideration, &.G., &o." Had the njtice wiling the meeting been so worded as to convey the idea that it was in respwae to Sir Donald's requ'sb, v\h eh referred alone to ihj rating clauso iniheLjcal Government Bill, and which had been disposed of at the meeting previous, is would in every way hare been proper and desirable, but the notice seated the busiueee to be "to take into " further consideration th-» Aboli'ion and Local Government Bills." I think I might safely a«sutne that ninety-nine out of a hundred unorejudiced men would interpret that as a re-opening of the Abolitioa queHtioa. Gentlemen residing in the township of Hamilton htve advantages yf a private character in gaini'g information of the motives which iinpol men in their midst to certain oourses, from which the outsula settler i» debarred. He mturully looks upon a public notice as he woul.i upon an ordinary document, as bearing its purport on its face. 1, for ona -and I think I epe*k the tniud of outsider* generally who were prn&enton the occasion, — would not h%v<s at'enied the meeting were it not thit I an icip^ted an attempt to stu tify our previous efforts against Provincialism. Ceriamiy not to discuss, at twenty-four hoira notice, a bill of 271 clauses. As a proof of th^ absurdity, on so aborts notice, of discussing abi 1 of the kind, I would point out the utter fruit lessness of the attempt, when the combined political talent ofllmnl'on mot on FridiV Ilsl-. I ask where are the "' practical auj-ges tions " ? whjrethe "defects? that have escaped, lhanotioe nf uipeti.i£j3 held ia other parts of the Culo y," in the resolution : — "That the attention of the Government should be cU!ei to clauses 21, 27anJ 28 of thd Lojal Government Bill." Sir, does that convey a, single suggestion as to the nature of the anendinent wo seek? Taking this in conjunction mththe notice convening the meeting, 1 fiink the po'itituus of Hamilton cxpi.ru tic | übhc to imagine a great deal. The resii't of the meeting brings forcibly to my mind an old m'4aphor, '* Lii^ a mountain in labour brings forth a mome." — I am, &c, R W. llamhond. Eorako Nui, 2JM August, 187 u [Ju reply to Mr Ilxmmond'd quuries regarding " practical suggestion* " and '• defects " we bc'g to refer him to the elaborate letter of Jir T. Witson, Chairman of the Newcastle District Board, published in this is-iue. — Ed W. T.J