The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 606, 8 April 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Etjual and exact justice to all men, Ot whatever state or periuntou, roligbui or political * # # • # Here -thfcU the Tren the Tkopus's right maintain, UnaweU by inßuence and unbnbed by gam.

SATURDAY APRILS, 1876.

The announcement -in our advertising columns of a eale of Government lands in Waikato to bo held in Auckland, will occasion some little dissatisfaction in the minds of Waikato settlers, with respect to the place- in which the sale ia to be held, namely Auckland. We should have imagined that the district of Waikato was of sufficient importance, and likely to furnish ho Urge a per-centageof purchasers, as to have rendered it not only just, but f dvieafcle in a business point of view, to have held the sale, not in Auckland, but in some part of the district itself. Auckland rneu intending to purchaie, might be expected, of necessity, to need to visit and inspect the lots, but it i a involving Wsiikato settlers who desire to purchi.se in unnecessary expense to cause them 'to attend the sale in Auckland. The exper:- e of the journey and the loss of time, w.,n,d put -a heavy per-centage on a tenor tv/euty pound purchase. The public, however, will spo with satisfaction that the authorities have sanctioned a more nufiieiont dffecripHcm of tho lota to be offered lor sale, than appeared in any pieccdiug iflsuf. 8,, ra -iny lots in the Rangaun, go many in tho Hamilton, or so many iv the Kihikihi district whs no satisfactory description. It was doing ju BLi 8 Lip c neither to the laud nor to the portion of the public

immediately interested in the sale. Had tho numbers of the Jots even been given it would have been something. ° The mortgagee who advertises a forfeitod propoi'v and wants to buy it in for an oM >ong does as much aa (hat, but the auctioneer who sta lies bin client's interact iloes more. Aa it was, without the numbers even of the lota being mentione 1. Smith or Brown, who may have been saving money for years to purchase land adjoining his own, might never have known than it had been open to sale till Rome other party who had purchased it at the coming land sale gave him notice to fence. By not describiug*the laud, so that people in the district who may long have had their eyea on it as intending purchasers, might know that it wis n the market, the Government were just excluding 1 from the sale the very people who would naturally have been the chief com petirors, and who, we do not hesitate to say, have- the beat claim to anything which savourscf preemptive rights, if any such rights were at all recognisable. The error, baa, however been rectified, and the description iv full appears in auother column.

Aoobrespundint in another column Tery properly oalli attention to tho aooeuitj, now that all polnble new naraet ho.ro be»n added to the oleo toral rolli. cf ceeing that none remain oo which hare not » right to be there. -Hitherto in YAiktto tint has been matter of littla moment. Abi«ntee« and eiectcn wei-o both penonally well known to the Ilßturning Officer and his i deputie* at elections, ts well m to Mioae who acted as poll-*gente for the oanJidatea, and the j chance of successful penonation was that reduced to a minimum, but with the influx of immigrant* and new tsttlen which has of late taken place, j thi« it all changed, and it it carUin thifc of the formur there will be v«ry many r Pgntc-ed for Wftin»and Waikato, who, whon I he next election I occurs, will b« fir enough sway, cirt who whon hero had not eTen tho iiece«3ary qualj. ftcfttion. Wo ava told that iccrea of iuch aie registered, that in one caiefive o^cupanti of one tertt nrc, each one of them, registered t; to many householders. If this be so there is good reatou for the apprehension expressed by our correspondent As ho lays, the noxfc duty coniist* in purging the roll of *11 those who have nc r.jjht to be there. Tho Registration Officer har now the apphoatiom of all wouid-b* rotcn tnA from theie a list will be compiled at onco *nd oiposed during the month of April on the door* of the Hamilton Court House. Tho Registration O.Ucer or any elsotop of the district for which the rofcer clai.ni to be on th» roll -may olijoot to ac tmny names at he likei, in a net form, of which well all bo at roa ly lopurtply prmtad copies as we were of tho applied ion fo>'tni. These objections mtut be nnt in during tho month of Apri . Usually the Be-g-stmtion Officer caofi.ies himself to sinking off the mines of siiuh as he knnwi to be dead, I«\Tinj» toflectors gcne'-ally to deal with unjust cla"i)«, and cinsMenne; the paltry Mtuuuoi'itron pife.i to thJ Res;isti'.Mion OlTioer of U r aipa nnd VVaiinto^or tho ue,-fo 'qj vi.-o of his duties, we 4ioulil not be bii.*pi'i«cd if ho confined his attenlion Hrtlelv to oojeeijrg to tho m»>rcs of decoa^od yoti*r*. It will »o<l,, howovi'i', with the eloor^n to see (hat objection! are m» le to the nwies of all those wlio lira r.ob furly qu-ilifird to vote. In »rtan}' disirictH As^oci'itiom f>r tuis ptirpofe »vn 'urmpd, and it would be well if such wnr-o done hene It is quite eTidont, if n?en having iv> ii\od interoft in the clique" whatey.^r,! that is, non-liou^e.ioldeis liare bc*on rr^isteicl, probabiy »t ihaimtnneo of •mploye.s, tliat this h>»s been dono for do <lfgininute pinvo3e, a.id we are R««ur«<! that ifch^been done. It will he ea«y (o p T-tmatotuoh ni'Mi by an I hre. - Any d nen ot etn.ntrri l>mu*ht into the jis'^r-ct tni^jht be tak u u tiiHVound of sorersl ' pol mg «tatiotis and with )j!o>er but Aimple diegm-o made to record tl.j vot's of ten limos their uu>nber. We happen to know 0 little of h.»\T election! haro been wo.-kedin ct'irf pa-is of the Province, and now that the ■progress of the Waiiuto i<t giving «copa for inch exercise of electo'oarenug tilent, it is timo t'lHtpreventtre mofiirm were tuken. Ihe nutter is one of such importance that we ihall ft fa r aiii return to it

■Ra^gtsiiu bai been crootod an Educational Dutrict witlnniiie meatwng of t!io .Act. Pateranqx— The teacher of thts school wi)J in future be paid at thereto of £J2O per aunum. Haeai>ipi.— Tho Central* Biv.rd of JEdu. a' urn hare decided to make. Fliwipipi a separate school dis.rmtfrooc NGiUivrpoußi. Ngvkuawadia School— A corre«rr.-dent wrices staling thu <the appointment of Mit> G.ff nejai llutreac of tins school, q vesgoiicr.il *iti«faction. BANKnnrr Stock.— "\\.> c!i.»> t ntteiriion torn advertisement to bo fjitud el-ewiicie ic^aniiriq the bankrupt, stock cf di apery to bo off red f<)r balr at Hamilton, conuiMMji'iiig on Monday ■&• xt. oba Man- Lino it Mkktno — Tim brethren of No 9, Sen* of Ulster L O \i, will meet this avqning for the transaction of bu-nnetw m the Viotori t HaU, Hamilton- West, at half past «ot«i o'clock. Kicixsts to the FnoNT !— Tbe football soaion will be inaugurated this » f toinoon bj » §or»tch g»ime on t-ho Hnmilfcon Cricket Ground, wheu oil feruo kiukesto are requested to put *in an* appefti'unco. Good TiurtAas floißKß.— The attention of tlie bakeri and confectioners is called to th» advertisement in another column, pallia^ tor ♦ endpM for the supply of refreshments at the Good Tomplars Soiree, od Easter Tuendaj ADJOUHUMENT Off TBB CaMBRIOGH H M Coubt. — Thii Court woa unaroulably srljonrued from yesterday (in consequence of the .Resident Mngi*trat« being occupied with the rorision of tbo jury lint) until Friday, thi 2lst instant. H'J.'ue Rivjbiono* thk Jury Lie: for tbe W.ikafco D strict took place yeuteVd'iy, at the Court Homo, Hamilton, before N B Soarancke, Kiq, R M, Gordon, 0 V Tisdall, and Samuel Tbocias Seddon, Esq», JPi. Fifty natuf« were »t runt out a« not being eligible «u aooo'mt of coma reMthng beyond the d'Blriot, and other* ha lag ot»» xge. Six oT3i"s«ioni were interted AcoiDENi jit Ranoihiri. — We regrofc to learn that au accident happened on Tliur«dny to a man named •Mca.ntully, working on Martini roDtract. The horse 4i« wai drying fell hearily upon him, and it w«* (uppatad that his tbigii wns dulocated. He was forwarded yesterday to Aucklund by the oarly train from Mercer. Monet Chanoiks iw th» Tjcmpxi— The Churchwardens of St Petera, Hamdion atteudeJ at the Church on Thurnday efening for the purpose of allotting tht seats to those «?ho had applied for sittings in the New Church smco Sunday last. Tb* priority of ohoic* was oarnad out occording to tlie orders of the ve*try and fare gen- ral iftt-sfaotion. FHoroGitAPHio Vnwi or the Lakb Ooitnthy.— Mr Low, ,photogrtpor, of ITarailton, h»s jw«t refcurnfd from tbe Bfot Lake Country, where he has taken (.overal of the more interesting Tiewa which (.bound in that region of nature'^ wonders. CoDies of these neatly mounttd for framing, may be purchased at tho studio, 'Viotona Street, Hamdton. EnocATtoyAu- At tlio meeting of th« Central Board of Education, hold on Thursday it was agrsed that the HHrapipi.»nd Ng»h'inepou-i should bo separate districts on condiuon that tbe teaoliors in both be piid according to scale. Tho lequcsL that tho Pafprangi itiss'cr bo paid at the rate of £120 a yenr-wa» Ernntnd, the salary to dste from January l«t. The appointment of M>» Girtboy ns n«9istant teacher and teacher of nredl»work to th« Ngaruawshia seh. ol was approve 1. The applicitioo of Rangirifi to bs mid* « tsparate diirrickiraj granted.

Moehng's Combination Troupe. — The member* of {his Troupe of ncrobits, songsters, and negro delineator*, announce pvrformancei this I'venuig at iVgaraawnliia, and on Monday ami Tuesday evenings next tit Hamilton. The pro pravnme on each occasion will be attractive and (xoeclmgly vaiied in its chaiacbe' 1 ; And a* wo perceive the southern pre-a ipeaks in high prai3e of t!w enlcrl.nnnvnt* gi? en by the Morting com pnny, Borac pleasant evemngs' nmuaemrnt mny the anticipated during tbfir stay in the W/nkato " Oat.ookam," What dobs it mhaw ?— A correspondent writes, asking vi •' what the mi«<*hief wo mean by heading our cable uiesiagfli " Calograms." The word co epelt is not. at lie imagine!, * typographical error, but an amendment on th» bnrbaroui compound halfQrrek half English, cable-griiui All Greok or all English is the correct thinj;, and therefore m -common with iome other public journals, we intend to «jaut in bringing a less cflensire word to educated t±rs into vie in place of the present mongrel term Kalon is the Greek -word for oaUa as gramma \a the greek -word for a letter. Not .but that there it precedent for the mixed compound of Greek and 'Engi'nh words to be found in the family name of the celebrated British lisngmnu, Calcrtft, derived from kalon, % rope, and craft, a trade or profession v JJeTertheless, we have almoat c< muoh objection to the " cablo" in the word we Oesire to be abolished, at to tho " rope" in connection with the illustrious rc-preientaure of British Justice aboTe referred to. Htfßii/roN Wb3T Public Hiti-^The unqualified success of tho performaiice giren by the Hamilton Entertainment Commtttee-on Monday , oTenicg, point* not only untnittakeably to the '< neceasity of proriding a Publio Hall for Hamilton, but to the profitable character of euch a •peculation. Not only wa« the Court> Borne filled, but many were unable to obtain admittance and scores who would hare willingly paid the entrance money had to content tbemjoWes with lisloaiug to the performance at the open windovre. The sum of £14 vras taken ano the ex etnei were ne irly nil. We Cnd upon enquiry thit ahdTCo in the Public Iltll Ccinpaay to tfcr eit.'ntof £210wereaubiertbodfor whentbo formation of the Company wai wgitatwd at the end of last year, and we really cinnot see but that the Company might Tory fairly commence operations, string the rem&imig 160 shares unallotted, and buiid a hali, -evan though as a Company they have to boirow a third of the cost of •rection With such names as they have on the Computiy'a ih»r« list, rhoy would hire no difficulty in doing this oncul'ing up the subscribed capital, and U'icg it as fur as it would go ; the balance could reader bo rawe I on the uncompleted bui'dni(^ to tluiiii it Th« enterf-unmMit Committee has bought and nearly paid for feerenty guinea piano out of the proceeds of their monthly enterI m'nnsonts. With the available talent ar.d lusines^ like Bianageroent the Public Hall Company might Tory easily clear off the debt at the Entertainment Committee haw done theiri bj monthly enteitamments.