The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 594, 11 March 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and eva<*t justice to all men, 1 01 whatever state or persuasion, religious or political * • • # * Here shall the Pre^i the Pkopi,f'h right maintain, Unfitted by influence and unbribed by gam.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11. 1876.

The announcement in our last issue that His Excellency the Governor would visit the Waikato settlements early next week

having given me to the considerate whether it would not be becoming on the part of the settlers to give a fitting welcome to the Marquis, as the representative of Her Majesty, we telegraphed yesterday to His Excellency requesting to be informed of his intended movements, and asking whether he would be prepaied to accept a fitting reception from the inhabitants. The same afternoon we received a reply as follows : "Auckland, Friday 12.46 p.m. TTia Excellency will pass through Hamilton and Cambridge, on Wednesday the 15th inst, on his way to the Hot Lakei. He will not be able to make any stay on tho prceent occasion, but : purposes making a visit to the Waikato district after Ins return from the Lakes of which due notice will be gtren. H. W. PHIPPS. A.D.C. It will thus be seen tJi.it this is not the expected official visit to Waikato, is we were indeed somewhat inclined to surmise fiom the Native Minister not accompanying His Excellency on Wednesday. The Governor will proceed right through the settlements to the house of a settler, wheio he will be joined by Major Mair (who accompanies the vice-regal party in their tiip through tho Hot Springs district) and will make a start for tho Lakes early on Thursday morning. From the telegran? we learn, however, that another and more prolonged visitmay be expected fiom His Excellency and piobably on thatccoasion he will be accom panied by the Honoiable the Native Minister, the visit to Waikatb being perhaps one rather of official moment Inan of mere pleasure. At the same time we may gather from the wording of the above reply (hat a reception becoming the Representative of Royalty and of Ihe people of one of the most important of the North Island districts will not be unappreciated by His Excellency. , It would indeed hare been to be regretted if the long looked for visit by the Governor had been a mere temporary sojourn on his way to the Lake district. The visit, especially at the present time, is likely to be one of considerable political importance and is certainly looked forward to by the Natives as well as Europeans with a lively feeling of interest, lei haps more of prestige, even in the eyes of tbe nalhes-is well as m those of our own people, att-ches to the present Governor from the encmnstance of his high social position than has been tho case with former Go\ ernors. The^e, while New Zealand was a secoiiu rate colony, before as yet the financial and administration genius of Sii Julius "Vogol had placed itiu the front wink of British dependencies, -vnvc cho->cn fiom the upper Qiiddle ranks of society, naval and army officers and comparatively obscuie batonetsof no great social or 'politica importance or fortune in the mother country; but with tho chango in her own lank came a change in the class from which her Governors in the future wore 10 be chosen, and the Marquis of Normanby is the iiist member of the "British aristocracy to whom tho honor of representing Her Majesty in Now Zealand has fallen. Doubtless something of this feeling enters into the anxiety which even the more ttolid of tl:e JS iug parfcj havo bcon known to express " for -au interview with the Governor, and it is therefore with pleasure we leai n that a second and more lengthy visit may be shortly expected. Since writing tho < above we have received a telegram from Sir Donald Me Ij^an in answer to one- sent by us yesterday morning. Sir Donald will not accompany His Excellency next week, stating as his rcaso-n presume -of business at Wellington. He may, however.,' shortly be expected, that is, we presume, though he does not bay so, on His Excellency's return from the-Lake countvy.

Editoii'b Lettke-box. — For the convenience of correipondoniH, eapeciulJy of such inoile*t ones at would slip their effusions into th* leti-or. box and run rouud the corner of the noxt itreet lest any one sec thsm, we haro had t\ «lip out for the leception of letters, facing tho stieet.

Ijii'OßTed Shkkf. — Gi&borne Hook maiters wo iee, arc as much awake- as our own to the, Talue of pureitoik.. d K>*orty Bay Co r s«spoiulent writing on tao Gtli inst, says :—": — " Wo hnve lately litui nn lrapovt ition of ruro bred rams from the South, vi?, seven Hoinnoy Mnrsh for Mr Caulton, j.ud tour Liucolns for Mr Davies."

AcmMAnsiTioN- SorrLTr.— At the meeting of the Society huUl o i VVulm^daj, Putnck Leslie, Eiq, Major Jackson, ami Mr \'li Hill of Kagldu, were cloot°d inombc. of tl>> vow Uonnoil. The lliankb of tbe Sooiel,y wi ri> awa'tled to Cftptun JluiTOiin.m of Cirtr-bridgs, for his ser\icus as honorary arcrctiry m tho Waikato (llfatl ICt.

Waitoa-Racfs.— Our Maori friendt, if they hiiTe not altogether becomt pakohaiiod, havo imbibed from us our national love t>f 'hone racing, and ure dfT'jnling to their ineam ho whit boluntl us mhur m owning good hone? or in fitting up race meetings. Early m April wo understand thurc mil bo a race meeting bcld in the Waitoa dintnot, tho programmo of which will thoilly apjMir in Maori and English in the columns ot ilu Waikato Times.

RooTCKiU'fr. — In conjunction with tho essay and diacußiiou whioh formod park of the proceedings at the Cambridge Farmers Club on Tuesday or«ning last, we have repriutcd from the " News of the World" for the 2nd of Janu« ary last, a paper read at an English Farmers Club on the same subject. This had been forwarded to Mr 'Clark by n friend, but \raa received by him too late to be made use of at the Club meeting at Cambridge on Tuesday night last.

Smart hcibsoeism.— We oro reallj sorry to haTo again to complain of Iho unjournalistio conduct of • the aub-edator of the Auckland '• Herald," Ho quietly ohpi the report of tho dinner given to Mr Hume, at Ngaruawahia, from our columns and inserts it in hu own without acknowledgement. -Ho fiuf, however, oauticußly clips off tho concluding gentenco relative to our representative giving an incomplete report hating to leave oarly to return to Hamilton that night.

The Piako Land Sales.— Mr James Mackay roturned to Auckland last eveniug from Piako, where ho ha* boen engaged for the last three weeks m the work of completing the purchase of land in that district. Matters have all been satisfactorily concluded, except Mr Whitakcr's claims, about which the natives are much dissatisfied, and objootion is made b? them to the disallowance by Parliament of the exchange of land which had been arrunged between thpm aiul tLo Gorernm»nt. We believe the extent of the land purchased will bo about 200,000 acros, and that surveyors will at once be put on the ground to completo the necessity plans. Ths survey has been delayed in consequence of a dispute about tho eastern boundary of confiscated lands m the Waiknto district. On ronowal of tho survey last Monday morning, some disaffected natives of th« Waikato tribe attumpted to itop it, but tbo dispute has hoen amicably settled, and that portion of the survey is now progressing.— " Cro*a," MancU 10,

Salk of Stock, &c— Mr Knox it will be seen, selh at Canibrulge, on Wednesday a quant ty of useful stock and other goods the property of Mr Elm sly.

Eclip3E or the Moon.— Yegtordaj afternoon a lunar edips*' occurred, which was perhaps not noticed by many amount us, at any rate till near its close. The first contact with the penumbra took place at 3 2G p m ; the first contact with the ehadow at 9 minutes to 5p m. The shadow was its largest at 9 minutes to 6, and that portion of the eclipse most noticed — sm we had no intimation from the man in the moon, who is our local correspondent in that planet of the event ooming off— was towards the close, the shadow entirely clearing oft", or technically speaking, the last contact with the peumbra taking plnco at 7. 15 p.m

HiMlLroy EjTIivRTAINMENtr CoiIMI (Til. — A. Tery successful entertainment whether looked ot from a musical or financial point of View was held yesterday evening, in the School-room, Hamilton Enst. At least 150 persons were pretent, and the performances especially the instrumental solos and duets were excellent. As tho performers were all amateurs, it would not be fair to criticmo their efforts too closely, hut we may fairly say that taken a3 a whole there was little room for lault finding, and the audience repeatedly passed their verdict of approval by tho applause they rendered, the moat gratifying criticism, perhaps to those whoso efforts to please it was intended to oncourago and prtise.

Boahd or Education.— At the meeting of the Central Board on Tuesday last, the site for a school at Waitetuna offered by Mr Sutton was accepted. The application from Tanpiri to bo created a school district wag deferred for further information. The Kihikihi Board wero allotted £15 on condition that the district find the funds for lining the school and fencing the reserrei. With respect to the application from To Awamutu tho Board came to the conclusion that tlie Alexuidr<i committee do net considor the formation of a new district necessary, as the Alexandra committee can establish a schcol at To Awamntu, but they lug^est certain boundaries if the eettlcrs are of opinion that reparation is advisable.

J\ r<;ABOVWiHiAr <;AB0VWiHiA Laxds.- A petition was being verynnmcrously signed at Ngaruawalua, on Wednesday, lo the Government asking that the land* in the neighbourhood of Ngaruawahia should be opened for «ale at from £2 to £o per acre instead of £10 as now. The petition was to be lent to Auckland on Tuesday, for '.he signatures of Auckland residents holding property in JNgaruawahia, and bo then lelurncd, when those m tho district who had cot signed it would have an opportunity of doing so. "Ween it is fully signed we shall it for general information, and shall tako the opportunity, as we did on a lato occasion, of pointing out the claim of the people of Ngaruawahia, to this consideration and the value ifc would bo not only to the district but to the colony at large.

Give the Davit his Due. — Tho " Timaru Herald " thus describes the Hon Dr Pollen :—: — "That Dr Pollen is ill and worn-out we can well believe. Of all th.3 patient fags whom the public service of New Zealand baa produced, there neTer was one who worked so hard as he does. If becietaripß break down, or clerks neglect their duty, it makes no earthly difference to him. He is a whole department in himself. That swift Italian handwriting flies over page »ftcr page, setting down unerringly, almost as fast as they come, tho 'shrewd, thoughta of the experienced, well-sustained bureaucrat, not untiuged by genial dashes of Irish humour. That extraordinary signature, too, ' Daniel Pollon ' with a flourish underneath it liLo an elaborate kpecitnen of baoketware, means busiut'SH nnd no mislAke.

]l JJaihjwio.— Ngaruawnhia will be visited early next week by fer,e personages of no less note than thoiMarquis of Normanby and Mr Pugo, barb«r, of Hamilton, a double sensation to be experienced at one and the game tune. A letter which appeared in our issue of Thuisday from a correspondent at Alexandra, tmstmg that Hamilton would nob monopolise the new b.vrber, but that lie would take unto himself the habit* of a*perip.ilctic and visit the varioue settlements has been at once responded to, and an advertisement in another column announces, that ho will make hw iirjt appearanco in Ngaraawahia on Tuesd.iy next. With the ttdvertiHetnent Mr Huge writes us roipocting the complaint mado by "|No Monoply ' as to the amount charged for hair cutting namely ono thdling, and says : — '' I quite Hgioo that sixponco per head for a few minutes clipping, as your correspondent calMjit, would be quite nuough if there -were iufficient custom to keep the alive caught barhor at least going, bufc ' No Monopoly " cannot expect jthat with the limited amount of custom in Waikato a bather can kwn to Auckland prices." Wo think fch:s moy bo readily conceded and that "No Monopoly" •hould be thankful to get his hair cut eTen at that pi ice. Mr Huge epoaks very fairly when he further says in his letter :— JJrery luau must c-eep before he ruiin, and beheye me, if I face that I clear expenses or wcoki wages, the pncca will ba lowerod immediately." Tf this docs not •atisfy " No Monopoly," it ougnfcxo oo "!o, and if we thought Mr Hugo would be eoutont to ■tiko hi.T revenge by •liargtiig him half a crown instead of a shilling, and not bo tempted to to take oft' (he long tips of luseart Just hj way of Accident, we would whisper No Monopoly's name te him. Our Knight of the Bciiaora lays that it 14 his intention to take hii rounds to every sett' 3in«nt in WmJcato, in turn, and therefore ti uits that neither those who grow hair nor those who have been in the habit of, cropping it gratuitously, will the one sock to cet his huir cut for nothing as heretofore, ncr the latter give his s#rvices too the injnry of a tradesman who ii making his venture amongst us, and whoso services have beennuch uoedod, and we quite agree with him whore he »ay» in the letter from which wo have already quoted. " After luring a horso and paying oxnensos I hope No Monopoly don't expect mo Ie «ut his hair for •lxponse .n Alexandra."