The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 579, 5 February 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Ktjinl .md cxnct justice t<> all men, \ ()i w hdU vci st iiu or pemuuHion, ichj<i >us or politic .tl ♦ # # # # lUrt Khullthi pii'Sh tht- Piopll'h ughlinainUm, Uaawetl l>v inltucnte and uabribcd b^ gain.

SATURDAY, FKURUAUY 5, 1876,

A SUBFICIOCH (_II{CUAIBTAMWi.— A K« ntleinan who rode nt fiom -Pinko jeu'culny, informs u< tlj.it after passing do nntne settlement of Tawliure whupo cvorythiug w hh quiot as uiual be saw somo distance u head of him near iom« denao sciub a Maori on hoisoback, apparently acting us »i spj or patrol who seeing our informant muck Mgn&ls to u bush mo mo distance uwuj of * character calculated to tlie person signalled (o remain where lio w»i and not leiivo o<>vur. Our iriformaiit thought the action t»lr.mgo and on r ding up to tho native fiddretßiid Inm willi the uiunl " Tanakoe! " a atdutotion which was returned with pome npptirunt confusion Hn wai still uioic tmrpria© 1, howtvor, whon on proceeding a little furtlier another imlivo emue out of tho scrub near tho road (not the party fir*t signalled to) mid after tho iihuil mlulatioa nuked " many policetnon up Puko wiiy " t "No," wbh our inforinanta roply, adding wlmt should th<;y be nbout there ? " About tho murder," H»id th o Maori. Our informant pretended toknow nothing about any murder when tbo Maori csulniue 1 to liim th'»t he meant tho murder ot -Packer. There may of com »o bo nothing winterer of significance in all tb.», or, on the othoi lnnd, it na.iy mom muob — that tho wu> is boing wati-hed anrt nunrucd by icouJb that Wirimhi i/,ny travel t irough l}y dayJight in saloty to wlnitwtT part of tho King Countiy in which ho uiiy h»vp determined to uvek n.mctuary, and that ho wa« the puity in tho buuh lomu lit *lo di«taiu<e off n^nullud to rcmuiu uadoi cover at tho road was not th u oleur. 'inn Laik School Kmomon —Acorrespondent elsewhere would tivko uh to tack for our remnikßof 'Jhursdny, in nf.'ropco to tho seliool coiniiiiltooeleclion of tho preceding Aloudny, but tnucla Iron) the rue rd m niiikm^ our remarks ap|)ly to the result of the election. Of i fiat we Raul nothing. Wo neither made nor did wo intend fo moko any refloctioni on tho personnel or qualifications of tho now cominittec-inon. Our remurk simply refoi red to tho manner in irlucli tlie buuncn of thu muutm^ vis comtULHiil, "rui-hed through "would bo perhap* the more appropriate phraso, and wo rapt at what wo then taid, that " ilio «fi«upuditablo iitfuirof the ichool comniiiteo file^tioii on Monday v»as a dmgraeo to Hnmilion and a burleiquo on local toif-^overn-ment." Trading upon tho known want ol punctuality wlnoh churaotenson thn as«em>bling of public meetingo in country played especially m tho WaikatQ, % few, with everything cut nnd dried, met to'the minute and but that they had •omelktloJiflieulty for tho firtitqiiartor of an hour in getting Iho leg '1 quorum ot ton ralopayoru together, would harn lind the new school couimittue clcetcd within five minutiH of the hour for wlmh the meeting was called. Oortunly it waH tho duty of Mr Vuiluuand v>ino other filteen pemonHwho arrived just in time to be too lute to hike pint in tho proct-odingH, to liuvo put in an oppe.kraneo at tho advortuud hour, but bfcaiiHo they did not, uu too fiequcrit'y is tho cusu on Hiiih oco.ihioiih, i-omo punetiial to tho niinuto is no cxciiHp for thuuotiDii of thoso who rushed tho binint'Ha through. In comtnon courttmy, eonNidormg th.it Mi Vialou wav a member of thn proced ngodiiiMtion bo.ird arnl Hont au apology to the meeting expliiining tho eau^oof Ins dotetition and thu* he would ho pniunt in a tew minutes, he ahoidd Im^o been wmted for. As t io rosult chowud he hud impjrtaut information to comm .nic.ilo The udvtntnge tukou of thoni on this novation wdl wo truit read tho public a lemon thit, may bo naoful to th* n in tb« future, and, that v, tho Talut of punctuality.

Wajka'io Gbx ('i,un- A tnfefcin^ of iho n cinhi ra of tho iibote Omb la oouvoned fur tbn cvriiDu, ut (J wynno'H Hotol upon bu-iiv-M of Hrent importance to "hlioolihlh " A«!I»KNT It) Vlll MiWlCM<o* HOAKVAWAIIIA. Wo rei»roV to »\.\\*s that tins i;oiitlom >n me", with an ncoiilcut, yowtoida}, by the upm'ttm,.' of a buc^v, hi» nua di ivn.g nnir tv n'Midi'iin oi Cvptain Sti r!t\ ffiunllon, w)>er by ln» righ' Bliotildcr » ih rniM'li rfpiuincil an.) briuix'd VVIMAIA dpiit'.irt 1o bu Well known in thlk . (lutru-t pijiwrilly in ♦!»• L >wcr W>iikAto. A siuhaoi'ibcr „t Nframawuhiu, t« of optin'm that Lho miHCreunl would clcot to make for Ma' aura, a nativo ntttlf»itmt bctwoon Morour,y B*) ami ThiiraiiKU, win re bo is well known, urul wou'd ))r(>bikl>lv moot uiUi more tympalbr tli.iu at Till. iVIKIKiRiItOA If/OUWAT IIOMiV.—A (!omnp<ifi(.l,.ut wntoe t,o uh from that poilion of lltodisUut bottMvi) 'Lauinrt and Kamilton K.wt (oinpl. lining that in Homo parts tlio roads aro in a ilrtndfolly bud uUto of repair ; that nearly all I lie bridges «ro unsafe 1 , while BomH of the principal ontH tmvu boon entirely carried aw»y by the iiilo (likxlb Ckiokkt. — Tho return mutch between tbo Jim^uri and Frontier towns will be played to-day on tlm ground of tb« form«r club. WicUrti to bo pitched at 10 3'J sharp. The dovem wi.l bo choaon from tho following . layors :— Zmgan Cncket Club < A[ut*ra Boilers, llur^H, A E Cox, N R Cox, FurgUßßon, Hunt, Mowbray, F Pillin(j, Sandcß, Wlutuker, 0 Wojd, *J Wood. (Frontier Tua-n : Mcssri T Bond, P Bond, BUke, Carter, Curlton, Connell, Lucon, Lublin, Mom son, Sli'i'lc, mid Waddmgion. CINTEUBUfy OIiRAT AUTUMN HANDICAP.— Tho (ollohiii^ aic tho ctitrius for the Gront Autumn llandmnp : — Yecnd'n Uory O'More, Yrend's King Phillip, Goodinan'» Blnir Alhol, <'owpcr'a No Ki^ht Bower, M-illocU's Ranolf, Webbs (Illy by K.tvonawortb, Bai'buy, Shiuirt'* Tlio Chief, Shimd's WiUl Roao Kiy'a Tadmor, Kay» Clolh of Gi>ld, Tanered'u Preinior, Noiworthv'i Tuttlt". Jlttdwood'* Komri, Ridvrood's Guy Frt\rkei, Rod wood's Amobia, Cellar's Nectar, C F Baker's Invuvtuieut, B t'aiupbell'n Tommy Dodd, (Jamtiboll's U.mi«l O'Ro ke, ValUnee's I Eelama, OBi ion's Funhook, Watt'f Parawnenua, Buckland'n Ariel, D.-lamam'* Temploton, Dlaniuin'* Illtin Km^, Dolumam's Puug.iwerewerr, Piiuoo's Uuckiurc.