The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Issue 659, 20 July 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

ilipialanrl oxact justice to all men, 01 wnau-voi »iirti:oi persuasion, religious or political

# # # * * Here blmlltlioVren tho Pmrue's right maintain, Uaawftl by influence and uubnbrii by gain.

TH CrliXC r IiX bA YJUL Y 20. 1576.

ThK Auckland Piiainux of Oppositionists !ia.s been dallying with the Delilah of Oui.^o until it has come to be charmed out of uiiii oi lli© loading features of -a North Island policy — '' f^' lie -Land Fund for the Colony." t'Jity lu^-iolluiglm* c<iu4ed tt.o many of our Auckland men, as a very neo jv s-ity*-of their existence a*, a piny, >o saciiiLe the welfare ot the North in tins matlt!' toOtaganand Canterbiuy sutfci "*{.«.. At. nwoii u time, fcba JModerato i'&rly in the Pro* moe of Auckland, and they arc numy, who, o» tho one hand, will neither pm then i'uith upon extreme opposition as rcpiosenWi bj. Wir Or Grey and hi.s initii<nliato toHov.er«, r>oi, on the other hand, upon Vie tfovcr. linirni, which, not daring to look the luatfer hi the i.ice, truckles to Southern votesiu j\ Southern inriuencc — theinodeiate party, \\i> s.iy. will \,a only too glad to find that Air Wh. taker, who saay to coubidered as coi.iimn _-l to neither section in the Houbc, hns gn en nonce of a motion which will bung true question of the disposal of the land land to a definite ibsuo. Mr VVlntuker was specially strong- on this point at tl.o nomination at Caioxui'uJgo, ia Janu >ry la.s , and we rtpriui, from tl.e \Vaika>o 'loifc.s, what he s.iid on thut occasion "n j t* i»'i ence ,to this nutter. "in glancing j»L U,e quejitiou of the land iand, itiey had iuat. ij cotibider tbo position in which the iiidtler btood. In hll Jblugii-h Colonies, tho waslc lands theon'tio.illy ai d t ractically !)elongcd to tho (Jro^vu. Jis right was involute. Neither the Piovitices nor the (Jolony, as such, had any claim. Tlie CiOvvn, hotf'ev**r, having bc^i) other Trise provided for, handed them over to the k Colou) — not to hue Pioviucas, or any locality — but, to the '.Stony, Tl,e I'iowii, as fjVbt ji».&s>t;i>M)i, li«id aLMiidontd And given o\ti th« right to theiu to the Colony. And what had thu ( ( oiuny doi c with them. U had passed a lot, ot resolutions in respuel lo them. Theio w.is tiio •o called. 'coiw|jac(,' oi']Bs'j, pio\iding that the lai.d iui d bhould become P"iu vincial revenvie, but one clause ot thj^t Act expressly declared that if ihe Jmp&nal Puriiajnent did not give it its sanction, it .•should be no aiore tliMi waste paper. The ln.perial Parliiinu-nL had never jet given tMh Bauotion, and tho Act oi Ibsb' whs not worth the parchment it was printed ou. Ihe very act canied with it its own nalliticaiion. It va-> nonsense to call a demand to set aside this Act a bleach of . faith. It-provided for its own destruction. In 18f>& au Act was passed appropriating the fund 3 in certain directions, but this Act, hko any ctjifvr, could nave hot'n legally repealed in the next ststuon. Tiio (j( j would have been nothing wrong, nothing illegal in doing so. lie would yet. give the House the opportunity of so acting." And he has done so, as will be seen by tie tdegiaphie report of our special corn-fa, pondunt .il Wellington. In tho extract we ha^e yuan above of jS3 r WhiluJiei's npcech ai, C.anbridge, the case of Anckl'and and the iVn-th lslaud is stated. There m.iy be moie eloquent pleaders than Mr Whitiiker uL the New Zi'alnud bar, tliere may be men \vhoha\e n»ade other special phases ot' legal knowledge their peeuliai htucfy wiiosc opinions therein may wvry •weight against his, but there ia not one who posscshcs his knowledge and »icu•nen in quefcuons of conslitutional law. On this point we have firm faith in the incoutrovt-rtibilUy of his opinions, and on ouch a niattu they are not likeiy to be lightly staked. £t now leinixms to be seen •whether tlie Government, are worthy of the occasion, VV 7 ill they stand aloof whjle eiiliur part} tiiid HiiKives blows in the suenji oelow, re'tily to descend when violorj dcclarCK mid sido witlithe stz'Oiijer pirfcv, nrwill they hf.jtesmen-like, aw no groat tuan lias ever at some one time escaped the iioct-s-jity of doing, throw craven expediency to the winds, s*e tin ■ wiier pjth nod follow it, wijnninj{ a- crowning victory if succeiaful, and, even ,f defeated, falling back covered witb honor ? A great act of national justic hus ,iow to be at ln?,t accorded to the suppliant North, or the oowhijig act of a lon^ re'iru of injustice to be consummated. We cannot -^ !■<.«, th' OutMiiii' it, exept s 5 ';n>f!. - iK.^ to t Ap'cijo'ioy, and with a v iew u cou

cih&ie JSnutlu'rh voie-> can do other tb.ixi* 1 support the motion of Z\T i W'lnUi er. li is acoi'Jinj ij i'ic pro} 'liiti-m ot ,Aboli- • inn Hsi'h -ji'iv, mint*, n i-j thu (,'~<\\[ which v ill 3 nvc 't ti.i iiK' Mid Vi'.ihtv ii ved'-, V» c jKibli^u ilbOvLtiie the lvsola' iou.- of : Air Ws.kj'fiel.l, which ure Haul io h.t\e bt< "> put foiv.Mnl ah a fooler at thi< p'OH'|>tJi-y oi Air StAftbrd. Tlie Question, however, is 'not one winch admits of corr.p oirtis.c. Eithor tlio laud fund is colonial revenue or it is Ti</t. 7f itis not, wo can scaroerV ho^.e lhat tlio ';outh vill purfc ci on ■■vithT the half. If on the other hand it, is of li^lifc the propert} ot the colonis's ah a whole, find not merely of tho localities in wlnuh it, liii[)pens to be raised, then the colony would, by accepting 1 leva vh m it| li^ht, be only peipefcuating the mtfe-op pottage- policy which has so lony kopt it from the ciij>.ymeiit of its jast inlio: nance. [i^inci' v>iumg theabovo, a late tfjlot^iHUi mtorm. us that the Ministry intend jo(ii % •nj; issue vi'h Mr "VVhitakcr on his motion.) This act of hostility to the North Island/ and especially to this proviuce, will g-^' lu-ihor to &liake the contidt'iice of tlie t'loctors ot' Waikato in tho piese;it Govurfl* sneiLlj tl an all the charges thit li.vve be«r. inad<3 ngainst the iNafcive Minister could possibly have offp«»te f l, had e^ervone-^of them been proved beyond a doubt.] '

KRiuKeiotf oy Bousing.— Traders for tho extension of the business preinyita occupied, bj Mr J Mosos, Hamilton, are called for. Taotaoboa Hiohway ThaTßicr Bo.uiD.-r-The annual meeting ot ratepayers will be lirlJ at tlie Nutional Hotel, Cambridge, oa Thursday, the 27th instant, at 2.50 p m. The CxiAiRMAS of the Mangapiko Highway District advertißra calling for tenders for performing the j'jinfc duties of Valuator, Secretary, and Collector to the Board. .Legal, — It will be teen by advertisement that Mr F A Whitaker and Mr Lewii O Neil, solidtors, hajee entered into partnership uuclor tlio sfyleor firm of Whituker and O'JNeil and will carry on busiuesa at Hamilton. Tamahrbe Highway Disikict Mebtiko. — The ratepayers of the above district will meet on Friday, tomorrow afternoon, for tho purpose of holding their annual meeting, at the residence Mr Patrick Leslie. Timbbk. — Settlers and residents up country requiring building timber ars informed that the same is cut to order by Jle«*i'i Wright Brothers, in tho Te Bahu bush, and that orders inav be loit with Mr W Sloane, of Te Awarnutu. Futtit Tbee Sali, Cambridgjc. — Mr 8 Bright will hold the first tree sale of the season, from the nurseries of Mr John Sharp, ooneistrog cf fruit, ornamental and forest trees, on Saturday neit, at Kirkwoods Hotel, Cambridge. Raj-cuaohia District BoABD.-The annual xaoeting of ratepayers, which should hare been held on the-Sth iust, bu been adjouruod until the 29th inst, when it is convened for the purpose of transacting the usual buiiuose, in the Te Awamutu Public hall. AiaiANDiu. Public Hah..— W» would draw the attention of subaoriberi to the Alexandra Public H*U, that the meeting to elect a Committee for the ensuing year, and pass lass year's »«couiits, will be held on Saturday afternoon next. Hamhwk Ookcbet.— We would remind our render* thai the Hamilton Entertainment Com* nuttt-e'a mvntbly coucerl tulces place this evening in tho Gymnasium, It will be seen by tko advertisement uppodruu; in to-day's issue that th« charge of adniisuon has been roducod fiom two shilling:) to on? b hilling. HATEiyjoi£'6LuiP. - Many olour readers will be glad to learn that a new bridge is about . o be at once erected over tho Cruet at Havelock'o leap, and will, for such a reason, willingly submit to (tie iv convenience of the closing oT the road, betcri'ed Ohaupo and Alexandra, for a weak from the 24th inst. Te Awatilutc Pastures. — A living advertiaement of the rvclmcss and graamg cvpubili' ios of the pistures of Te Awamudu was to be seen I venteruay, in the streets of Hamilton, in tho shape of as fine a mob of fat cattle as ever were sent to the Auckland Market, the property of Mc«*rs Tayler Liothere, of Te Atvamutu. The cattle were large frumeJ, but well bred animals, aad literally rolling in fat. Their marching commissariat for the road, a full loaded wagon of clover hay, followed the herd. Nkwoastib Hiau wat District BoARD.—The annual meeting of ratepayer* was held on Mon 'Jay atternoon, Mr Byron in the chair. The report and balance sheet, the latter showing receipt* to the amount of L 270 7s 8d ; and expandilura, L 233 14s 2d, were read and adopted. A. rate of one penny in the pound was struck, and the following gentlemen were elected tiustees: Mwjor "Wiltoni (Chairman) ; Messrs Byron; (Ticuiurer) Day, Harris and Bindle. tdesira Hume and James were elected Auditors »nd Meaßrs Barton and T V ITilzp&trick, flsace Tiewers. BrACiwrn a Mothib. — A correspondent sends vi the following from Cambridge :—": — " Would jou please insert this letter and oblige a few in»Bd« of Exeter Hall : There lias been a report \iote that a most diabolical outrage <*i 3 committed on Society by a man assaulting hia mother at Cambridge on Monday tho loth. inst. Mr Editor, we see that the cat-o'-nine-tails is Ueed at homo on men for assaulting their wires, Hoping that this will be the means of bringing tin* case under tho notice of our, worthy RM. All information can be easily obtaiued ai the fact is patent." Cxaibkes o» Ratepykrs Mxbtikgs.— A flaw in the Act was, on Saturday, xuadn appnraut at th« Kivikiriroa Annual Meeting of Ratepayers. First one gentleman, and then another pi-o-poo?d as chairman, and eaoh in turn decl-ned to Lake the chair, for the reason that, by doing so ho would loss his deliberative vote, having simply the right, as chairman, to exeroiac a casting vole if it came to an equal division. Now, at first sight, it may appear as if such privilege were quite sufficient, since the vote of no man turns the Scale until either side is equally balance*}, but, it mutt be remembered Vtyat a ratepa> er possesses more than one vote, accOrdmg to the amount for which he is rated, and that, thfersfo.ro, any ratepayer placed in the chair loses sill plurality of votes to which he may be entitled, exer rising simply a carting vote, not as a ratepayer, but, »s obairpian. This, we tako to be an objection, as it secures no good purpoM that we con see, and servos to dtter men, the very men generally who, from their posii-ion. th«r fellow ratepayer* are most incliuad to vote into the chair, from accepting tho oflice. Hamilton "West Schooi Bvildithi. — The School Committeo hare been hard at work during the paat week collecting subscriptions in aid of the cost of erection of a public school house for Hamilton Wost. sum of L 175 for that "" purpose is ready to bo kanded over by the Central Borad jo soon as the local committoe shall have rinsed L 75. The site is granted, and all that is needed now is some L 35, u earn of £40 bavin* been raised by the Committee, chiefly rby JVf r Martin, siuce the commencomeut of the canvas on Monday. The object is one which should mcd no advocacy, especially in the case of loiiiclentu and landowners in the diitriot. The larrakin nuisance is not altogether unfelt even in country districts vuch as those of Waikato, and though we oaa scarcely hope to reclaim those yonigaters whom it included, it is possible by tho civ Using influences of education to out off the supply to their ranks: There are few, spitti of the odious poll-tax, last legacy of Prqvincialism which makes man's bile rise at tho word ' Edncation,' but bavo given freely to the fund being now raised, and we trust to learn by th« end of (be week that the balance has been M'lbcnh-J, when tpnfltrs for t l i«i ffechon ot tue school LL r »u»o will bo ~t once c-tlleifor^

>t I'm: LMbi 1 ! 01. ikj\ • Iiu ton M.vicu.— \T« learn, -from the Oros tl?a* a meeting of tha cubMr.her* +n fho ab >\ e ereiit. was held in Mr lei^i.al -i ofli v, onMondaj*f>rnooti. Present : V.ti.i-E J Uusxull •(o'latMMrtii), Whuiker, S jilci'i, jV.! '..lletoii, Z M Cl'uk and Is.iaci — After n llv i * J ■> u^s^n on iho tup o\!nUt<d jh Mr k.ii. ,'s ui'iuvr.f^ndiits value, Mi llumn mover 1 , • I 1I 1 lit ho eic.etiry bo empowered to wri'c to l i.i- SGCC ,i.j of iho DimeviMi Club, asking for tne cup wo i by thuii^nd Mating Mm*, the cup «.{ Mr Kohn'u wii« not cpnsulercd raluu foi theirs moii'jJr.'-^AIr JL'lilloL^&ecoi.dod the mt»UM»«g Tiia- CopdMt of the ]>tfnediii ueciotary jJSIJBh iv refisMnce to the cup, and in ncXKs> ing tiiu busmen, »as 8 okcu oi ingSlrong ter'ini, ,onrt on the sa^reeiicii^f the aWlhyjabn, &h« following waa taukod o^Hfc|bo moWKfcL ' That the meeting expreuaa l^Hßiiity to'^^jwitar d the reason for th« set-IRary's oondno«J.^Kie motion «9 ameuded, was Unanimously oaffie<l# Some conver.iation thea cns^M-on the manner in TshieTitha liunp tor tiie ipp should bo coni^uctod; "whether the handioap should be by fpoijits ap distance, lifter a long ducuseion, it »Tva« resrived to h»ndicap Ihejjiiiootcrs 07 dint&nce A FUggeition frora^lir Slorfin thtt the cup he rafllod off. instead of ahof for, jb^t beinsj supftjoited, lapsed. — The mooting thfJti ■epaiated. ■ THK AHMUAIi MEETiNpOy THE RATHPAYKRi 0? 'JCJfI CAMShIDSR StJfrK XOWKBHIF JJiSTBICi 1 Wdshfld on Aloud^y lust, Vt\<> 17fch iustant,'Ot tho J^Jioßa^JJoUl^ Jlr S 'Bright was voted -to the ctofcir. Alfh'oujjjjh'the atteisdunce wa^laj^e, thi> meeting ltwt of a most^quiet and frdorly drsojiplion. The advfrtisera^nt oallinj^" tbo uiueflog having b»en read, the Treasurer read tls bi^inrte shaft, and accounts for the p*ist y^ar, fioui which it apjioars that the total /eci'ipts amoudted to £139 2s 4d, aud tha expenditure fi>r foruitjig road--, £31 Is Od 5 metalling and ohinjoefluig, £2 2a 6d ; other works, .t;7O ]9s 3d ; catnmfMon fop aollecting rates, £4 12a salai-ial and rent, £5 12s (M ; punting and ..dv.-rtii.ng, £6 fk Od ; sundnos £L8 Wl*4i, to^al, £13'J 2* 4>l, with kibi.idet r-mouutirig to Jtl63. 'lhe ChtiirmAn of tlic" outgoing Bf>ard thon read the l^purt oi the Trustees. On the motion of Mr Camp, tho report and b dance shcot were adopted. Mr Tuck pioposed that the ra"e ior the ensuing ye»r bj Id in the £ on the value to cell, which was BPCunded aud curried. Tne following gentlemen wore then nominated lor trustee*: —Messrs Clooieutx, Tuck, Colliß3, lio-io, Kewi t, KirWwood and Ifoagliton. Thr T^ing resulted in the cleo^ion of Messrs Clements, luck, Rose, Houghlon and ilewitt. Messrt Urookct and Miller were e'eefced auditors, and 4lc3sra Camp and Athol, ionce vi'wera for the ensuing year. The customary voe of thankt conuluded i'-.a mcjlm^ Ai a meeting of the new board, held aftrruarde, Mr Clements was elected chairman, pad Mr iii-witt, treasurer.