The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 598, 21 March 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of Srhatever state or persuasion, fellgious or political # * # * • Here shall the Fresi the People's right maintain, Unawod by influence and unbribed by gain.

TUSSDA V, MARCS 21, IS7G.

Wk publish elsewhere so much of Sir Jul!u» Vogtl's ipeech, delivered on Thursday night last> to hi* constituenti at Wangmui, as appears to I pertain to matter* of colonial interest. And in | doing so we feel that we may be permitted to queition what it &U means, »nd to suit with that perplexed aharaeter of Brett Harto'i — " Are things what they seem, Or is tisioni about ? Is local self gor'ment a dream, Or ii Julius Togel played ont?" With Kings, Queens, and Governor*, the art of an ftddrsss ii to clothe as small an amount of metfnitfg aa possible in the largest number of words, but "when the premier of a country addresses an audience, and in doing- co is p»r(ioular in reminding them that h« addresses them as Premier, and not merely aa their representatire, we look Yor something more than a disjointed.'inooherent, fragmentary speech, suoh as that which has been presented to the public ; and not tho less so that this address at Wanganui had been spoken of as the occasion on whiou Sir Julius, as the mouthpieco of the GoY«rnment, wauld recite the prologue of th« piece so shortly to be acted at Wellington. The probable explanation is that the Pross Tekgraph Agent at Wanganui has not been assisted by the reporting staffs of the local press, and, in plain language has made " a mess of it," for it is not possible to suppose that Sir Julius could bare giren forth such bald, and in many cases 'unmeaning utterances aa those attributed to him. i Such as it is, howerer, we mutt make th» best of it, and apply the maxim' of "Ecptde Herculera," as well as we can. We may catch the outline of the figure, if wo cannot accurately fill in each feature in detail. ProTincialism, it 1 stems, neither pure nor simple, nor in its henna.

phrodite form of two provinpes for either iilund is acceptable to Sir Julius, but then, on the other hand, we defy the reader to rise from the perusal of this address and say what it is that the GoTernment propose to put in its place, and this is exactly what the public wishes to know. It is easy to abolish the present system— si stroke of the pen will do that — but it requires something moro thin a vote and a stroke of the pen to conttruot a ay item of gorernment with which to replace it. And none knows this better than the Premier. To us it seems th*t the Government — and in doing so we think act wisely— gee clearly enough thai no cut and dried, no cast iron system of local self-government to bo acceptable- can bo forced upon the colony, but that a system to be be fairly workable mußt be of more gradual growth and fit itself to the requirements of tho Tarions parts 6f the colony as they make themselves manifest. And this view of the case looms out of the incoherent rubbish with which the reporter or the press telegraph agent has involved the utterances of the Premier. In the next session the Government proposes to deal with counties only, not with road boards, fieyen countios will take the place of the nine existing provinces, if we may count Westland as auch. But there will be this difference, that whereas the provinces are administered by so many Superintendents with independent CouacHo, aoting often inharmonio«ily with and even antagonistic to the thief central government of the colony, tho f siren counties will be administered by the Colonial Government itself, the road boards or moro detailed organisation* of local government being the adaptation of editing institutions to these oounty divisions, or the -natural outgroVth of them. Whether the colony will be content to place so much power in the hands of any Government remains to be seen, but to ask it to do go is a far more tenable position lor a Ministry to take up nt the present moment, than to -pin itself to any comprehensive aketch of local self-government in detail. When 'the House meets next session it has but ono question to consider, ' Abolition, and that settled, neither Sir Julius Vogel nor any New Zealand statesman living can foretell what shape parties may lake, what will be tho new party combinations formed by the turn of the pohtieal kaleidoscopes. Until then 1 we must not expect to find Ministers dealing in other than generalities, and ifter all, aswo have before said, our local institutions must to a large extent be allowed to develop themselves from session to session under the fostering charge of tho Colonial Government just as they have done in time pait under Provincial legislation.

'TBLKr.nAPK Notice. — Elsewhere appears a notice fiom tho General Manager of the New Zealand Telegraph Department with rrepect to the registration of abbreviated addrenei.

Cambridge Tpbmc Sale ' Tabes. — A meeting of the subicnbers to the Cambridge Public Sale Yardi tfill be held at the National Hotel on S-itiirdry next, to t,*ko action in the matter of the Gofcnment baviug grdcted a sito fcr tLe yards

Locai- lirorsTßf. — As will be lecn by adveti.aemcnt in another column, Mr H Ilarkins, late of the A C Force, And Mr H Webber, baro commencorl business H3 general blank and locksmiths in Hamilton Weit. Wo wish them every succeae in their new undertaking.

Tur. Whki-ler and Wilson Sewing Machinist —Mr Lorfgbottora, of Hamilton, lias just been appointed agent in the Wnikato for Messrs Wheeler and Wilson's sewing mnchinos. and. e,s will be seen bv adyertisemcnt, ib prepared to treat with those desirous of purchasing the same on the defcmd payment syitem by weekly or monthly instalment!. Tite " Town and Countrj Journal" says : — Tho reign of the false hair is over, and it is said •'fit Pausicns are already arranging their own I lolLs either in pl&ited rr twisted coils round the head, or in artistic CUrls at the back of the neck. \7e may, therefore; soon hope to see tht hcuds of onr fair ladies reduced to their nafcural line and shape.

linnGP.stfTS 'pku Brodtcs Cabti/i. — The follow ing arc among the immigrant* expected to arnvo by the Brodick Castle, applications to engage whom must be made to the depot master mid matron respectively at the Immigration Depot, Auckland :— Farm laborers, "with wires »nd families, 8 ; with wives but no families, 8 ; single men, 2i j hborers, with wives and families, 7 ; single men, 16 ; shepherds, 2 j stockman, 1 ; carter, 1 ; ploughtrfcn, 1 ; also fin assortment of tingle womeu.

Thk Pmio Dtstriot, wo aro glad to learn, ie beginning to receiye duo attention to its requirements as a growing and prosperous community. The nunrfc« ■ of its settlers is daily on the increase, and a church and school will quickly follow the hotel which has already been established. The church and sohool house will be built in erte, »nd GoTommertt kayo giveu £100 towards the cost of th« building in its educational capacity. We hope soon to see tenders for a regular weekly post between Piako and Hamilton called for.

i Tan "Waipa Rivin.— From » gentleman returned from 'Alexandra we learn that th» Waipa Hirer above that lettlemeut is 10 low that the natives are unable to get tbcir produce down to th* io tt lenient, which has rendered business somewhat dull during the past week. Mr Speight, we also learn, met with grc&t iiioceis in his oilicial visit to that district. Hit addresses havo comide'rably strengthened the Good Templar movement. Many new momben have joined, and many more contemplate taking into consideration the 'desirableness of doing »o.

Eitraokdinabt Suicide. — A moit distreuing c»so of lelf-desfcruclion occurred on Thursday last at Takabti, in the prorince of Nelson. A Mr»."Scott wai fbund with a gtzn reltiftg acrois her and the top of her head was blown off. 'i'bo jury returned a Ttrdict of determined suicide. Her huiband had been drinking for »ome time, and want on home Sunday suiforing from 'delerium tremens.' The "wife wai 29 yean of age and waa confined on the same day of her seventh child. No assistance of any kind wai left her little children. On the following Thursday the luipide occurred. Tbero wai much indignaton at the R»v C lloore, English Church clergyman, for refusing to read the burial sertioe.

The Bathuebtßcrk.— A telegram elsewhere announce! that the Bathufst barr is being allowed to quickly tpread in thd neighbourhood ti f the Sown of Tauranga. Indeed, we had heard as much priTfttely'from a Tauranga settler recently -risUing Hamilton. The "Bay Of Plenty Times" lately drew attontion to the peat thu plant h«s been in other places, and says : — Any one -who -knows the nature bf this weed must be aware that it is one of the greatest curses to a farming and agrignltufal district: it takes poncuion of 'the ground and forms miniature forests, growing often to the height of ten or twelre feet ; impervious alike to man or beast, being armed with numerous needle hko thorns, which nothing can renture near. When the plant becomes matured, the burr which it bears, which is almost the tize of a French boan, and is covered with barbed spikes, becomes easily detached, and adheres tenaoiously to whaterer it comes in contact with. Sheep become corered as with coats of mail, and large beatta also, to a certain extent ; the tails of the latter resembling clubs and their legs those of elephants from the gathering on their fetlocks of this obnoxious thing, their names being frightful to behold. Men aroid these forrests as a pestilence ; but if it should be necessary to ronture through them, the same fate awaits the man as the beast. And in tke face of the fact that a more pestilential scourge could not be admitted m our midst than this tain* Batkuretburr, nothing winterer ij done to eradicat* if.

Opbbative Husbandry. — What might wo not grow in Waikato with snch soil and in iuch a climate if we only trjtd 1 Yesterday Mr. Hyde left at our office a bouquet of full grown hop* the vines of which are growing luxuriouily, selfsown in his garden, on the Ngaraawahia, Road. That hopi, if someone could undertake their culture who thoroughly understood it, might be grown with profit in situations sheltered from the prevailing autumn winds, there is little doubt, but that anyone will h*Te the enterprise to attempt it there is much. Pel-haps bye and bye, when we have flourishing local agricultural asiociations in this Province, and Connected with them experimental farms, on which the culture of a variety of products could be attempted and proved, we may come to find more profitable occupation, at any rate for our smaller farms, than the production of beef and mutton alone.

Hamilton Ca valet Corps.— W« understand that there will be no farther delay in the incorporation of the Hamilton Cavalry Oorpi ai T branch of the To Awamutu ■Corpi, tb 'the proposed formation of which We Aflude'd 'in a previous iesire. Major Jackson hai'be3n in correspondence with the Defenoe Minister on tfre subject, and the Government have granttd th» noceasary permiision for iti beitfg railed, provided its strength b» kept up to pot lew than twenty members. ' In this stipulation Co 'difficulty ' Will be found, oi there are already from twenty to twenty-five men willing to' joia, and' it is contemplated that several more will f oltow their example when the corps is once raised. The drills "will be held in the neighbourhood of Hamilton "with the exception of a half-yearly drill to be held in connection with the Te Awflmutu' Corps. The Inter-PeoviScial JE*tgion J/ljatca. —

The match as, our readera are aware, between Auckland and Ounedin, 'which >?»• ( to 'have decided tbe merits of the craok marksmen of each province miscarried through the Bunedin toain firing at a larger number of birds than those sttot at by the Auckland team. Tbe contest was, therefore, by mutual consent allowed to be considered a drawn one, and 'will be shot over again on Saturday next, the 25tb. Ten' men on each eide and thirteen birds to each man. The following are the geatlemen > selected to represent Auckland en this occasion, namelj, Mesin. J. Eussell, R. Wynyard, S. Morrm, A. A&in, Bishop, I. G- wynne, Middletou, |Mc(Jregor Hay , Kennedy Hill, and R. taing. 'It "Will "be seen that, tf these, threo are Waikato nlen. The remainder of the team, very courteously, bare left to the Waikato portion to say whether tfhe match shall be ahot at Elleralie, or at the Queen's Redoubt, as more convenient for them, place of meeting will, in all probability be Elleralie, as our men won Ida s soon go to Ellerslie when they are about it, as not.

Teb Land and thb!People. — We'ahduld like to see a little more fresn lettlement goiag on in Waikato, We hare got almost toa standstill in this matter. Yet it ii not for want of land, nor yet of raonoy, to settle on it. 'It ariies from the want of these two being brought together ' by a paternal government which, likethe l he*vy fathers in the plays, shall place the hand of otic in that of the other, and say "bleu ye my children go forth and multiply." Now we grumble that while this sort of matchmaking n speciallyoccupying the attention of the G-oTernment in Wellington our landt are left as pming <pinslers and our small capitalist! art forbidden to woo Mr McKirdy 'has now nearly 600 men *t work on his railway contracts, and Mr Otkes nearly 400. Wo are further informed Ihtt many of these mon arc Baring, or have laved Considerable sums of money and arc anxious to lettie on the land if they can. This desire ha* been represented by the contractors to the Gtofrenment and special settlements are to be laid dut, and a large block of land it to 'be taken up on defeircd payments, so that these men may select farms and settle down as ■permanent resident* on homesteads of their own. Now this is as it should be, and we heartly wish' that hundreds may be thus induced so settle in the Province of Wellington, and defying huricaoe and earthru&ko, render themselves independent by the thrifty application of their saringt in thit direction. Cut what is good for Welli»gton Wculd equally benefit Waikato. Here, too, the public ~wjrks policy has enabled a number of smull contractors and others to save 'money, and these 'men are equally anxions as those working for 'Messrs McKirdy ond Oakes to settle ddwn as 'email farmers in the yiciuit? 'of our townships. Ngtiruawahia h a noticeable instance of "this '■Etate of thingi. Thero afe a dumber of tuch 'men there whoare only anxious to obtain possession of small holding*, and round aud'abdut Ngaruiwahia the Q-ovi>rriniont poiie*-es somo SS.OOO acres of land, natmrallv drained, of light character, contiguous to road and water carriage a*ud to the township, and in everyway eminently suited for occupation by "working men in irriall homesteads of from ten to thirty acres. Why not open these lands or some portion of them as special settlement* on easy terras, bona fide settlement and improvements being the chief conditions ? The same thing might be ('one with advautage throughout the eutire district —we lefc7e othSr parts of th« Colony to tdtance thetr own claims — and much land that is noV idle, and much capital that will cither be fooled or frittered uselessly away, mighl be rendered reproductive, to the immediate benefit of hundreds of families, and indirectly to the adta'ntage of the people and colony at large.

A Mobmon'sldbas'of Fashions.— 'Tuo "San Francisco Chronicle snys that Brigbain Young has been airing his opinions on dress, fie thinks that woman should only wear what is useful, and " should forsake evdry neediest fashion and custom that they now piaclise." Thii Tery much married man ban evidently had a dressmaker's (several dressmakers' rather) "■ little 'account" forwarded to bun. He said . — u My 'wires dress very plainly, but I *ome'trrne* 'ask ' them the utility of tome t;f the stripes a..d put"* which I see on their dresses. I remember wiring a lady this question, and inquired' if thay kept the bedbugs and flies away. Well, if they cro that they are useful, but if they do not, what Use are they ? None whatever. Now, isome ladios "will ' buy a cheap dress, say a cheap calico, and they will •pend from five to 'fifteen dollar* 1 worth of timo in making it up, which it wasting so nluch of the substance which God has giren them on the lust of blie eye —(Oh, Brigham !) — nbd "which should bi devoted to a better purpose, 1 'have had an obserratron made to me which I will relate ; I have never done' it, tut "I believe V I will now. It ha* been said to me, ' Vei, Brigham, we have scan ladies go to parties in plain homemade dresses, but erery man was afer the girla who fcad on a hundred dollars' worth Of fol-d#-r»l, and they would dance with every woman and girl except the one in plain dress, and they would let her stay by the wall the whole even* ing.' It may be in some oases, but should not be. 'It adds no beauty to » lady, in my 'opinion, t» adorn her with fine feathers. When I look at a woumn'l look -at her face, which is compbsed of her forehead, cheek, nos#, mouth And ohm, and I like to see it clean, her hair combed neat and 'nice, and her eyes bright and sparkling ; and if they are so, what do I care what »he has on her head, or how or of what material her dress it made? Not the least in tht World. -If a woman is clean in person, and has on Si nice clean dress, she looks a great deal better when washing the dishes, making her butter and cheese, or sweepiug her home, than those who, as I told them >in Prevo, walking the streets with their spanker-jibs Hying. It adds no beauty to a lady or gentleman to have a great many frills On their dresses or coats ; beauty must be sought in the , expression of the countenance, combined with neatness and cleanliness and graceful manners. All the beauty which nature bestows is exhibited, let the dress be ever so plrfin, if the wearer of it be only neat and comely. Do not fine feathers look well ? Yes, thoy are very pretty, but they look just as well upon thete dolls, then fixed-up machiuss which thoy have in stores, m anywhere else ; they certainly add nothing to the beauty of a lady or gentleman, as far as I over saw." On such subjects as feminine beauty and dress, the opinion of a man with our friend Brigham'* experience should be valuable, but we are bold enough to differ with him, and think that pretty suitable dresses add greatly to beauty, just as a pretty jewel is improved by judicious setting. It may be that " beauty unadorned in adorned the most," but we don't believe it. But at the same time we do not think that in order to bo becoming the dres* or ornamtnti muit motiiarilly bt •xpeniir?t