The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 572, 20 January 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to nil men, Ot whatever «tatu or persuasion, religious or political # * # • * Here shall the Presi the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbnbed by gain.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. 1876.

The " Eierald," we see, iterates the assertion of "Star" that the late Mr. W. T. Buokland's illness was contracted in Waikato. " Immediately after the Franklin " nomination," says the former journal, " he left for Waikato, and it is thought " that he injured himself by a long jour- " ney in the heat of the sun." We attach no blame to the " Herald " ; the " Star" alone is responsible for and interested in the propagation of mH-statemtntH made to lead the public mind from the true cause of Mr. Buckland's death, and the •" Herald " has simply been deceived by the mis-statements of its evening contemporary. The " Star " iku- its issue of Monday, alluding to Mr. Buckland's illness, contains the following paragraph, which is untruthful in several particulars. The italics are our own. It says :—": — " We " regret to learn that tke illness with " which Mr. William Buckland was seized " in Waikato a few days ago, has taken " an unfavourable turn, erysipelas having " intervened, and small hopes mo enter- " tamed of his recovery. Immediately " after the Franklin nomination, Mr. " Buckland hurried on to Waikato, to assist " Mr. Cox in ?iis election, intending after- " wards to go on to his run, when he " experienced symptoms of sunstroke, which " compelled him to return to town very " ill." It is not true that Mr. Buckland was seized with his illness in Waikato. It is not true that after the Franklin nomination Mr. Buckland hunied to Waikato for the purpose of assisting Mr. Cox iv his election, for the election took place on the 11th inst, and the poll had closed some time before Mr. Buckland could reach the nearest polling station, that at Ngaruawaliia. It is equally untrue that while here Mr. Buckland experienced symptoms of sunstroke. Mr. Buckland, as we have already said, was ailing when he arrived here, and one of his first acts on arriving in Hamilton was to purchase n bottle of Wesson's Wizard's Oil, in the efficacy of which lie had great faith, for application to his arm. The pain which afflicted him waß seated in the upper portion of his left arm, near and upon the shoulder, and he imagined it to bo rheumatism. So bad indeed was it that his arm hung powerless by his side, and many little offices had to be performed for him in consequence. At the Hamilton Hotel he receh ed every care and attention

which could be afforded him by the kind hostess, Mrs. Gwynne, than whose house, we do not hesitate to say, a more comfortable or better conducted one iB not to be found in the province, Mr. Buckland, as we have said, arrived here late on the Tuesday evening and remained at the Hamilton Hotel, where every possible care was taken of him till he started on his return journey for Auckland next morning. As to the possibility of his experiencing symptoms of sunstroke when here, the idea is absurd, for he arrived alter sundown and left Hamilton agtiin at nine olclocko 1 clock on the morning of the next day. The truth is Mr. Buckland contracted his disease in Auckland. He stated here on Tuesday night that he felt ill immediately after the Franklin nomination; and that ho was unable to sleep on the Monday night, as indeed he appeared to be unable to do on Tuesday night at Hamilton, There is too much reason to fear that neither sunstroke nor the fatigues of along journey were the cause of Mr. Buckland's death, bwt that he has been hounded down to his grave by a malignant and unscrupulous presa, and the vituperations of an Auckland mob and its insensate leaders. Undue excitement is too often the precursor of paralysis, and the proud and sensitive nature of an honorable and high-spirited man, go.uled by the untruthful accusations and vile insinuations of party and a malignant press, became too highly strung and broke down after the •excitement which found utterance on the hustings at the Public Hall at Otahtthu on Monday last. This was the cause of Mr. Buckland'-s death, and not sunstroke nor fatigue. He died a victim to the unscrupulousncss of the men who would lide into office, if no other way pieaented itself, though the open violence of " a thousand armed men" urged to rebellion and pillage. What was the life of Mr. Buckland or of any other citizen i£ by heaping undeserved contumelay upon him or them, dirt could bo cast upon the Treasury Benches ! But we can tell Sir George Grey and his myrmidons this, that long after their names have come to be remembered by the citizens of Auckland and the people of this province as byewords of reproach — when Grey and dishonour come to be synonymous terms — the memory of William Thorne Buckland will live green in the newts of his fellow-colonists and thfir children as that of a man who scorned a He to advance Ms public or private interests, and who never in his pursuit of politics allowed diplomacy to merge into the contemptible arts and meanesses of the political trickster, flic Queen may make a belted knight, but nature and a noble heart can alone make the true gentleman.

Cbowdbb out. —An interesting letter on grasses from Mr Cox and several other (letters and editorial paragraphs. Waikato Itjrf Clcb — Bolter lutfl than never ! A meeting of members of the Co'iirm'teo o the above Clab will he h*ld to-morrow evening, at the Hamilton ITotol, on business of Iho utmost importance. Wo bopi» t>s«o a goodly muster, and that p 0 np *; action will be taken regarding thi> forth cou>i lg ru<:» meeting. Okickkt. — The return match at Orickot between tho Zingan Cricket Ciub, and tin* Frontier te.nn will (w.-nt'wi permitting) come off ontlieClub ground Hiralton West, on Saturday next. The fo lowi 14 playors li we bo 1 seli'Plelto do batil • tor the /msjiiri Cricket Club viz :— UAI n, U -,rgn, A X Cjk, N R Pox, W Hunt, Mo* bray, F rilling, SuiuVs, .7 Wood, CC Wood, Wlniaker, aid Sihcr, tweltih man Mil McMINN AND THE DjX'LiKAUON.— It will bo soon by the report elsewhere that though Mr MoMiun arrived too Into to take part in the proceed n.'s on Tv nd iy at noon, lira- friei^ have still tl-e opportunity of hearing what he wou'd hare «aid hid liv b-en present. The written speech was lur.nihed to us by Mr Me Minn hi itself, before living Uitnillo 1, and we have groat jblciwuic in inserting it in it-t proper pjaco m the proceedings, f>r thero are a lar^c number cv n of those who \oteJ against him who hold that gentle nan m high respect as an honest, upright, high principled man. Mr McMinn'rt co itest for the scit has not been a bootless 0 io, a i time will show or we are much mistaken. 'Ike Eodney Election. -Mr John Sliochnn has beon returned for Rjdney by a majority of eighteen votes. Although opposed tj tho policy of which Mr Sheehan is an active and avowed advocate, ti«-e are few but will be glad to hear of his return as a member of th • now Parliament. Mr Hhoehan u a man of largo n itural ability, and unlike the majority of the House, who are mere successful coo lists, enjoin tho advantage of having received a free and liberal education ; and though » member of the bar ii yet too young to have become case hardenod with •rlnNhness or dulled to tho liner feelings and sensibilities of our ommon nature. An eloquent ■peaker, a smart controversialist, apt in roply and fearless in debate, Mr Shuehun hu already made his mark in the ISew Z ■ulund Com nons, and it is with no little pride t hit Auckland claims him as a native born and bred. The Inquest on thi: Latic Mb Bikkkr. — Owing to latter of our Ngiru.iw.ihia correHpoudent having been sorted into tho wro ig box, on Monday evening, it was not received until after the publication of our lust issue. A. correspondent writing to m from Auckland on the late melancholy affmr, asla that wo would publish tho fullest. partiouUiM as to the identity of ttie body which he will forward to tho deceaaad's friends. "There is " he siys, "a Jargn amount of monoy involved, and a little trouble at thi* end of tho world maj «aro a great deal at tho othor." There can be littlo doubt of the identity of tho body and the lotter written to Mr Laing still m .re strongly confirms the circumstance of Barker's death* Our correspondent should put himself in communication with Mr Laing with whom, being an old Waiknto man, ho u no doubt acquainted. NAunow Esoafk op Posr Ofpiok and TiLBGiiAPH Buildings pbom Fiee.— On Tuesday cruning— wo aro /nformod by a gentletnun from up country wh3 had then juit amvod in Hamilton by tho »toamer — tho Post Offico and lelograph station at UainilLou, bad a narrow escape from flro. Our informant's watih had fortunately as it turnod out stopped on Iho ptissago up, and, wishing to set it by tolcgraph timo before proceeding to the frontier next morning, ho strolled into tho waiting room of the Hamilton Post Office. To his surprise on opening the door ho obsorvod a glare and at onco saw that two or threj piecei of paper lying under the desk placed for the convenience of writors of telegrams wero ignited and in close proxmity to a notice board placed edge\vayi ugmnst the outer wall. Ho at once stampod the fire out and took no further noticu of the matter. It is possible, however, that but for his happening to enter the building tlio flume might havo ignited tho bjurd and the budding have boon endangered In all probability somo ono had thrown doirn a lighted match, believing it to bo extinguished. Tho lotter boxes faoo this room, and on three nights of the week there is no light placed in it. Tho consequence is that any one going to tho boxes on these nights is obliged to strike a match to ico what ho it about, a most dangerous practiHo to necessitate, and the only wonder is that an accidont has not occuned before. Whj tho Postal authorities light up three nights in tho week only we are at a loss to underitunrl. The placo at any rate came very near bein^ lit up out of tho usual routine on ruwday niiht latt.

J S Macfablanjj, Esq. M H R- There vr* five righteous men found, thank Heaven, that may, proadventuro, yet p*vo Auckland from the shamo of ilivish obedience to a mob elected Central Committee in which the now notorious J M Shcra playa the part of a very mild Robespiero, and th last found of those fife uMr J S Maofurtene who stands at the head of tha poll for Waitomata. Alt honour to the electors of that district. In Mr Macfarlane they hare chosen an able and an honest and outspoken man who will not hesitate to call a ipade a spade, and whatever he may do, think, or iay, doei not fe»r to acknowledge or gire expression to it' Mr" 1 Maofariane is a good Colonut, and one who will do his duty by this frotince and the North Island in the Aasembly, and one not the least of his qualification!) is, that ho thoroughly knows and despised the Auckland idol, Sir George Groy.