The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 606, 6 April 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Ot whatever state or pei suasion, rfc 1 'gwis or politica' * « # • % Here ahallthePiesi the People's nghftnaint&in, Unawed bj influence *nil unbubed bj gain.

TH UUSDA Y APRIL 6. 1576.

Perhaps Auckland tit a ?'rorince ha^ no worse enemy tban Sir Geirye Gre> . Assuming the position of " delcudi'r ot her rights" hU efforts simply s^r, c to bring down the disfavour of the Gv-uer.r Government upon her We *haVe not space for the repubheation of the mi--morandumind which has -lately been cairied on beiveeu Sir Geoige Grey as 'Superintendent of the Provinco, nud Sir Julius Vogel as member of the Colonial Govornuiont, but thafc this Piovmco hits hucn dragged into u false position by His lionoi, is as plain as that he him&elf -bag found in Sir Julius Vogel his xnvti niusteriu despatch writing. Unfortunately in the absences ot official employment Satan has found work for the idle hands of his Honor, und he Ims occupied himself in those devious ways of tortuous diplomacy by which when Governor of Hhe Colony 'he succeeded in wasting so' large an amount of Imperial ;ind Colonial blood and treasure, and in snatching from the Colony, at the last, the solid results of an unnecessarily protracted and disastrous warfare. That Sir George is ati able despatch writer and a consuinnmte master of fence when, with diplomatic pfcu in rost, ho seeks to make the wui'Bf* appear the better reason, none will dispute, but in two members of Ihe ministry he has 1 at'laat more than met bis match. Unfortunately Sir George is not the ua sufferer, b»t like an unskilful and obstinate commandant who persists infighting the garrison against odds which he can never expect to overcome draws down death, misery, and rum, on the wretched non-coin bataut inhabitants, so ' Sir George sacii6cc9 the true interests of the Province to the indulgence of his owu personu.l prejudices, hatreds, and private ambition. Whilst Taranaki and Nelson can be happily piovided for during the local government interregnum, Auckland, thanks to Sir George Grey, is sent empty away* The "Cross" very fairly puts the case when it says, " A mere war of words, attempts to magnify trifles, — efforts to shift all responsibility df action from shoulders which the electors looked forwird to as the proper Atlus which was to bear the burden of Provincial management -mere despatch writing e»xJing in nothing, political sleiglit-of-lmnd between two masters of fence may bo a flno spec tucle of ingenuity, but it is neither foi edification nor tor profit to the Province. We undertake to say that had old John Williamson still lived, these displays of fruitless fencing would uot have beon attempted, at such a juncture as the present, und Aucklaud would have had f'.u let>s diplomatic lireworks, more to spend, uud moie real snbstantial benefit.*' Foiled at his owu weapons, and humiliated by the scathing- rebukes of tho Cj.onial Tieasurer, Sir George retued from the contest by leturmng to Sir Julius on Alondiy last au unopened telegiain he had received from him oa Ihe piv\ious Satuiday, with the iutimutim that ho declined further oom«s|>ondfMiof\ This ua^ replied to by -the Colonial Treasurer ac follows : — " Sir J Vooel to 8m G Gaw. Wellington, April S, I am not iurpri»eA tt your Honor dreading to rend the reply to your telegram of March 31 5 but 1 am »urpii*ed that, after abstaining from reading it, you liaTfl continued to addicn teicrusi to ujc porsonaily or offioially. I cannot lake notice ot them. I have, through oourtusy, ul« lowed you to adlreu ire, although the Ci» 1 Surricc reguUtioDi make the Colonial Seorotnr^ th« proper chanuijl for your ooiamunjc-iiioci — JOLiyfi Vogjx."