The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 623, 18 May 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Oi whatever sute or pcrsuasiou, religlmioc political *#* « ' * Here shall the Prcsi tlis Pkopi.b's right maintain, Unavred by influence nn<l unbribed by gain.

There is a feature which strikes us as peculiarly significant in. the Agricultural statistics of the Province of Auckland for 1876, and that is, the small increase in the number of holdings during the year. There were in 1875 3,910 holdings, and in ano*thcr j ear the number was only increased by 02. In a now country where comparatively so little land is occupied, and during a period in which a largo amount o* money has been spent on public works, and special encouragement lias been afforded to settlement by the throwing open of considerable areas of land, as at Raglan and elsewhere, under tho Homestead Act, we might naturally have looked for more rapid progress in the settlement of the waste lands of the ProvinceIt is a matter of regret, howov.er, and to none more so than to the actual set'Jcr-s themselves, that this state of things prevails in this part of the Colony. Wherever we look around us settlement is the exception, find brown fern and unlillo'd waste-land 'the rule. Hundreds of thousands of acres, very often tho best iv the district, lie untouched iv their primitive I state, rendering the work of settlement all the more difficult to thoso who undertake it, and proving" a check on public ns well as. private progress. In .Waifcato this is as much ihecase as elsawhcrc, and will, we fear, continue, so long as the samo disinclination to engage in agricultural pursuits is shown, not duly by new arrivals in the country, but by the older inhabitants of Auckland. Everything is racrificcd to elFoct a footing in the town. Businesses of all kinds are overcrowded, any sacrifice, any shift is put up -with rather than accopt tbo position which, of all others, one- would suppose, would come the most natural to a new colonist, that of going forth into the country to occupy and possess it in a literal sense. Why this diould be so, wo cannot imagine, for there aro fewer occupations which present an attraction to tho bulk of mankind, and, it might be thought especially to these immigrants irom the mother couutry greater than thcacquisation of land of their own, and the independent position which its >. occupation affords. Yet such persons will risk their capital in .any «othor venture, in miuing shares, iv business compotitiou which is aheady overcrowded, and where it ia simply a toss up between success and a composition with creditors at no distant date, rather than in the safe and 'legitimate cultivation of the land. Nor is this feeling 1 conKnedoalytoiminigrants,but&ctuate3 settlers of longer standing. A disposition on the part of old colonists to bring up their suns to rjentool poverty as dorks ia merchant's oiUcos, banks, mv\ othfv public institution:,, or (.o lill au\ p t'Uv o(hcc in

C'jvornrnj'jb cl.;p'iifctnonh, rather tlmn to pKiCJ Vujvi on Jaiul which they themselves n..iyo\vn, i/out tooajy uvut. An-lyol time can Lh no raoiv fife mvostmeiit ov rnoie independent >ifo thnri that of the wp-coun-tiy .'jtitllcr fanning Jn'sowu land. Commercial l.urricmi %\ Inch rattle down mercantile house , j.l»oat the oar,-, of their occupants, pass harinles i -ly over him. Periods of depression bat lightly affect him. Summer brings him harvest and his cattle increase and multiply the while, and when the storm haa passed, he is lifctlo or none the worse. Perhaps wo havo no better instance of this than in the slow but solid progress of the Northern settlements of this Province. 'An Auckland contemporary, the "Herald," has lately employed a special reporter who has visited every Northern district from the Mahnrangi .settlement to the oxbreme jTorbh. The country is one intimately known somo years back to the writer, and was •worthy of the character it for many yoars bore of preseatinpf a picture of poverty and industry struggling against heavy drawbacks. But the recent visit has shown a state of things to now exist most cheering, not only to the individuals uiore immediately concerned, but to the community itself. Perseverance and toil have met their reward, and the settlers of the North are in a. fkr dif-ferr-nt position td-dtvy to that of. a v few years si tice. They h ive grown from smal 1 beginnings into positive wealth ; their cattle have increased and mnltipliod, steum communication has enabled them to find a ready market for feheir produce, and taken* as a whole these northern settlements are in aa sound and healthy a position ac need 1)0 desired, proving most convincingly that which wo wonld fain s«3 more generally recognised by new arrivals and older colonial 1 : in Auckland, that the real source of oil vvcalth, the safest, the -mo>t honorable and legitimate onterpriaa in the colony, is the occupation and reclamation of it-3 wast© lands.

Te Awamutu Catatii' Corps.— Wo would remind member* -of tho above corps that the umal naif- yearly drill and training will* oouaoioiica on ilonday next. ,

Native Lak&3 Coiwt, oAitßßiDOE.»— Tlie lands passed through the Court, lately held afc Cambridge^ were all ritmted in tho Mnta Mata or Upper Thames district, and though there wore several applications for fwrfc-.ficatei tho wiiola orea did not extend to 23,003 acres.

v Fkver at Cambridge.— We are i?lad to l«arn that Mr Reynold! nnd his eon mo recovering, though elowjy, from the elToeta of the fever by which they have bean lately prostrated. During the Jast £l-w montlis, wo understand, no Jobs thnn fifty -c»6C« of lyplioid and awainp fevw ha?o occurred in that district.

Hospital tor Waikato— A petition is in courso of cigimturo in several of tbo township* in tho Wailrato, requesting tho Govornwifnt to mako use of one of tho large buildings, ether in Ngarmwahia 01 Hamilton, as a publio hospital. At tho Into hour at which this information ha* •reached U 3 it is impjipiblo to alluda to it inovo fully, but in a future issuo we will giro tho fullest particulars.

Ti:e Webklx Templah Colons," published in Auckland, is now the recognised orgau of tho Good Templar body in this province. Tho second number is boforo us, and shows the now periodl- ■ eftl to bo a verypreaentabb and well compiled tomperatjeo journal, a deoided improvement on (ho matter put toyjther for puWitfatiou*'w t eklj' in the "Cross." Thero ia a fuip amount of reading matter 'or those interested in O>od Toraplary, and it provide c, rfcord of the business of branch lodges throughout tho province.

t Church and Stitb.-T!)? commemoration of tha Queea's Uirtlidny aud of the anniversary of tho Oangn-g'itional Chnrch, Hamilton Ea^fc, will talro phot) oil tho evening of the 24th instant, in tlio Congregational Church of tbab township. The soiree will commonoi) ab six o'clock, affcor which the remainder of tho evening will bo devoted to music, vooul and instrument d. As thjO best available taloot in tbc district has been secured for tho occasion, tho concert; and soiree will, no doubt, prove ac groat a financial success as tbe ono or two popular entertaimenta which have preceded it.

' RKrOttTKD HITOIt m THB IiuOLITIO^EILI..— Tho wish' we trust ia parent to the .thought wirh tlie Auckland " Herald," whoa it com'nonccß a leading article with the folio wine; 'paragraph. Such a hitch would be a serious calamity to tha colony :~" 'An impression i=> guiuing ground — wo know not with what ju-tice — that thero ii a hitch with reference to the Abohti Act, and thnt tho Secretary of Strxto fir the Colonies delays recommending tho Eoyal a*sont to if. m pawed. Tbo impression is probubly duo to tlio fiUnco observed on this point, anJ to (ho doubts generally entertained at tlio timo as to the legality of tho Act or the power of tho Aksomb,lj to pas« it."

Oub FaoTi-EB Conua(-PvWDEMT3.— The very valuablo nitivo icf irmatioa which wj liavo lately published from Alexandr4 and To Awamutu correspondents would seem to Invo provoked tho iro of moro than en« imhvi"(iuil of iho PakehaAlaoii tribo, who htwe hitU*rto matngod to korp tho monoply of newspaper corrfspondeiico on native matters araougst thoin'elvcs,' airl -who reiant with jaalously tho 'Ironoliiug upon what they consider their peculiar province by oUiora. Much, liowcroi*, as thoy miy diaputa and doubC it, our correspondents — and notably an Alexandra correspondent — is in a position to wntd with moro authority and correctness on native matters ' than any Ptikeha-Maori possibly* can, who is just told S3 much and no moro of what is going ou as tho natives wish shall appo^r in print, and who from hia very position daro not express an independent opinion and tell all that it ii desired shall be known.

Mu T. C. Hammond, ib will bo seen, has taken the premises knbw n as "Vanity Fair," io the main street, Hamilton Weit, which ho will open on the 20th instant as a repository for the s*lo ■cf fancy gaods of a very superior description, and an an oflloo for the transaction of hi* businesi as , accountant And general commission agent. - Mr Hammond is so well and favorably known in this ,«captcity as a roan of business, and ono in whom every confidence may bo placed', that it is unnecessary to further allude to such matters on this occasion. As agent for the talo of TTamily Bibles and standard works, on tko deferred payraont system, Mr Hammond has been particularly suo cessful during Iho past spring and summer, having sold moro than £300 worth of J3ible3 alone in the Waikato. flio works thus procurable are many of them of nterling merit, woll bound and .printed, and reasonable) in price. Wo haye no doubt that Mr Hammond, with tha advantage whioh felieao now premisea will afford him, will j increase his already largo oonnoction.

H>Hob to a Waikato Man.— The following Jolegram, which \ro eh|> from the " Herald " of tlio lGth instant, will bo soon with pleasure by many of our roarers. Tlio sympathetic fooling expressed by tbo good folk of Tuurangn will bo heartily reciprocated in this district, where -Major Hoborts is so well known and widoly reipeo;o.J : — "A grand presentation took placa ot tlio Oourt-hoiiso this morning on the occasion of Major Roberts, Resident Magistrate, leaving tho Tauranga district. Ca plain Norris and ftLv T Wrigley were accompanied in making tho presentation by uluao«t ovary ruauoctnblo citizen in t ho place, among whom were Mr Vosey Stcwurt, Mr William Kolly, &c, &p. On behulf of tho Eiibicriborj, they preaeuted M.»jor Roberta with a valuable gold watch and chain, to which Major Roberta made a suitable and touching roply. Major itobcrtf loaves on Wednesday f.ir liis new ► pi. no of duty .it. T.uipj, cn'rjui^ willi him the hciitldt syui|).ithiLS ot all lvu Taurui^a tricii Is.

Fat Cau'lb.— Tho nob of nojuf. thirty hcil of cittlo whioh p.-nsei through ilamiiton ci Monday, for Auckland, wore uotu the iarni of Me Culuy of Cambridge.

The Phopojud Native Muirrisa. — Tin " Tier ild" tikos ti»e following view of XawhiaVs J rofiisiil to allow Tapihana to visit Auc viand. la our '_oxt wo slull prob \bly ho in a position to speak inoro authoritatively on tliese matters : — 44 On Saturday we stalod that Te 'Papihana wa« on lu3 way flown to Auckland to see the G-o-vcrnor, and drew favourable auguries from tho fact. lapih'Hia is a chief of much influence. lie was taken, prisoner at Biii!?iriri, and was afterwards in the hulk in Auckland harbour. L£o has always beeii accounted »s one of the extroma party, but, on the occasion of thovisit of Sir D. McLean to Kawhia ho was found to bd in a somewhat friendly spirit. It was expected that somcthinggood n.ightroiultfrom hi»vibit to Auckland, but it sooJis that Tawhiao' has interpose-l his Teto, and has forbid him from coming. Wo preshnio ho will ob.'y the mandate. This action would seem to show an uuf riondly ipirit on the part of tha Maori King, and a desire that intcrcourao should not be established with the Governor and the Native Minister. We are afraid' thai the long talked of conference between the Govenhor and Tawhiao, which was expected to take place before tho meeting of Parliament, must be held to bo indefinitely postponed."

Important to Floczuastess. — Tb his been always a difficulty when a ewe die* in lambing to geb another ewe to tako liar lambs, llubbinq; the intended foster child irith tho slcn of fie intended fester mother's deid lamb has bron recommended, bat moio often Ihau not doos not •urcaed. 'The following is so simplo a plan that it should be considered a wrinkle worth storing up in -the mamory of every shcopowner in Wai- ; kato -against the casualties of next lambing season. We take ifc lrom tho " Tajmuniin ":— w A. well-known agriculturalist ha* for Bomo years practised a plan of inducing fostor anthers among*t h-fe valuable stock of Lincolns to adopt offspring *iot their or/a -without Jisutation or trouble to tho •hepherds. The method was fir«t publiihed in in American paper, and immp'y this — to rub the palnvof tlio hand full of giu on tho nose and mouth of tho - dam ; rub a little out of the »arne 'bottle along the -bi<?k of the younc; animal to be adopted, place them together, and the relationship n oomple'e in evo.y instance. 'Jhe valuable nd vantages of this simple procesj will bo uppiirent to those who haro to, do duty witli loug-wool sheep, whore, as is so frequently tho caee, a ewe dies, and loaves perhaps a piir of fine lninbs, while probably another owe loses her lamb, \r\vm exchango of maternal aff.*cfc<on ij instantly brought about by tho giu, t> the swing and successful renriDg of what otherwise would be two troublesome posts- at best. Mr Dedery's stoctcran at Como haa this iea?on applied tho charm to a cart mire — with a two juonths' foal at foot— who. without suspicion <>i foul pl:iy, oa applying the same treatment not hero 1 a twentyfour hours' Iji\ aivl wont off with tho prir e»idently delighted to find herself with twins, notwithatnnding that tho discrepancy of size in tho couplet; wut rather lvmnrkablo. The motJior- ' less foal is by Velocity out of Daphne. Tho uinra Daptine died shortly after (oaling. She ?/a3 a favoarite' thorough bred rnttre, so much va,'ued for foaling t-hat sbo. had provioutly visited Victoria to meet Tim Whifflor, and h*d also been to L?o. The saving of the foal by the giu speil will bo some consolation for tho loss of tho uvn'6.

THURSDAY, MAT 13, IS7G.