THIS POLITICAL CRISIS. Last night's Meetings.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 637, 20 June 1876, Page 2

THIS POLITICAL CRISIS. Last night's Meetings.

Fuom one end of Wuikato to the other the greatest excitement has been occasioned by tlie intelligence which reached us on Satuulay morning, and which was rcpnblished in an extra edition of the Waika.to Times, aiul transmitted to all parts of the district on Saturday and Sunday, that a motion conveying a censure on tho government brought forward by Sir George Grey, immodiatoly on the termination of the formal opening of the House, and when as yel some thirty ,of the members of Assembly had not taken their seats, was only avortcd by* the casting voto of the Speaker. The /<?<?«/ d' attacqtte chosen by tho opposition was not the question of the session but a^ido issue, that vexed matter, tho WailoCto swamp sale. We felfc that it was essentially a SVaibito question, and apart from a debiro to famish a mere matter of news to ovory part of tho district as quickly as possible, we telegraphed to the Hotel keepors at all places where our extra would not 1 cucb, reunostiug- that the telegram mightj be posted at their doors for public infovMutiou, that Ibd pebple"of Waikato might huv.o thoQppoi'Uiuily of haviug their voieo heard in the nnftbor and their opinion as to tho character of tho Puko land sab pub' on record as so .no guide to now ruombors of Uw Afsombly a.s to Iha aclvivl b>na fiJes of that traasaction tis regards the public iutece.-i(u o[ tho Colony. .AaJ this id all Lho more necessary as the torm •" Swamp l.tud-s 1 ' uith Soubhem members - holds a very diif uvnt signitit;:*h'ou to 'that which it presents to tlio Northern settler, the Kw.impii of the Middle Island being a very ilithn'enfc cla«s of lands to those of tho Aoi tii, sue!), iudtodjiam is bhisrjty one of tho i/iako, now uucler consideration. Tlutnks .to the publicity givou to the jiarliameutaiy pro'^elia^srof Friday ni^lUi

iii all | iii-ls oft!,-? Woi'v.iio, ilic people of thi'. laifM^nnd im;>.>r L tint district lnv" b^<n enabled n c : one in, m to como forward and plac" on i"Y)r4 thrir opinions and wlJilii's at Ft cri-licjl a moment. Yhcro is no m\st»kiu<^ (In- t^no of tho meeting* hoM fi:-nnl(."-"ou,]y 1 isi rvcnincj in all Uio ] prinfiji-il Wn.'ups of Wai !ca lo which; were lurfrrly .-rt^'rl •(! bv (horom'iVnfq an-1 ■xe'tl' 1 ! 1 ". -vul .it w'iw-'i tlie^c lias b^e 1 biifc c:ib o >i.iio-i (■ic-iiiji«?inl that i* is tt tri minljil (otho isitciv.s's of tlio Cj'onv'fcliaf. ; tlio Government sliould be ousted* by a 1 fluke, oti a mn-jßtdo issue finch ns that-of tlie Vialco Swnmp sale, wliilo the grfat quostion of Abolition and ihcsnbstit tion u£ a new form of self-government in place' of Pi-o\!n3!.ili«:n rewviins unsoltle^. On the Swamp *csfcion itself, Ilic people of Wai lea lo, — those who am, host able to under?) 1 and the character of thn transaction, v/hocro most interests 1 in its being carl'ietl out for the public good, and who would naturally ha the loudest to exclaim against any improper and unfair sale of it to persons -outside the district, — are just thoso who at orfce testify to its being 1 an exceedingly excellent business transaction on the part of the government, and «n act most conducive to the interests of the district and Colony. In a new House, amongst many "who were strangers to the transaction, Sir Gee Grey played a bold and showy game on Friday evening-. There is no doubt, however, that by now tho eyes of many have boen openod to the deceit which he then put upon thorn and Ii&vo learned the difference between a iMiddle Island swamp j and such a one as the Piako. If they havo ! not, the opinion of tho Waikato settlers unmistakeably expressed last night will have surely undeceived them, and they will have learned how utterly absurd is the statement of .Sir George Grey that that has been sold to a few favoured individuals which oould have been profitably occupied by hundreds of families. The lie dirocb from so important a district of tho Proviocs whose mouthpiece he professes to bo, will bo a body blow that must knock the wind out of tho leader of Opposition.