The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 656, 3 August 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

TIWRSIHY. AUGUST 3. 1870.

tinual and exact juntioe to all men, Oi whaterer itatt or persuasion, religious or political • • « • • Hert •hall the Presi the PBOrLB's right Dpaintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain.

Tubs fate of the Whitaker land fund resolutions has been short nnd deoiyve, nnd though the mover went fully into the question from a |K)Utical and constitutional point of view, no more than a siugle night's debate was given to one of the moat important matters which has been brought before the Assembly for years. Sir Julius Vogel and Mr Macandrew on the one aide, and the mover, and Sir George Grey upon the other, were the only members who took psxrt in the debate. It seems to have bean a foregone conclusion with tho House that diicussion should not be provoked, and that the matter should be treated as one that needed less to be considered on its merits than to be cleared out of the road for that which was to conic. Bjtli parties having now buried their dead out of their bight . r-ist on ihmr anna till t) night, when tho first

pi tclied battle of the Session will bo commenced, for the Piako debate and all else that has gone before can really be only looked upon as a skirmish and surprise. It is difficult at a distanco (o understand the motive springs by which parties in the House are influenced, but it does seem as though tho land fund resolutions had been used to weld together the hitherlo disjointed sections of the opposition and separation party, while it wag feared that a too fiee discussion upon them would be equally dangerous in the opposite direction. They havo bren, and will still remain, a Damoclean sword suspended over tho heads of Southern Members, and will doubtless largely influence the result of the seperation debate. We cannot, however, but regret that the laud fund resolutions should have been put to no better purpose. They embodied a bold and statesman like policy. As we have said before, they would have breathed a life into the new local Governmcut Echctne of the Ministry, which, "without them it cannot poqaesa. But it was not to be. The Government have, as a Government and individually, again and again pledged themselves for the mere expediency ot the moment to the localisation of the laud fund, and none possibly — although they btrained every nerve and brought every man into tin field on Tuesday night to defeat the resolutions — repent more bitterly than they do tho necessity which was the lesult ■of their weakness. They cannot but see that the generalisation on the land fund was the natural corollary of Abolition, and that the weak point of the Abolition mored ment of last session was that very temporising for expediency s sake in the localisation of the land revenues. They had thus placed it, however, out of their power to support the i-esolution of Tuesday, and with the votes at their command, must have felt this all the more accutely when an opportunity was then broached which if availed of, and we believe they wore strong enough to have carried the resolutions, would have consolidated and placed on a sure foundation the whole structure of their policy. We have now before us tho political alternative for a united colony and a general land fund, or, as the mombor for the Waikuto expressed it, at Cambridge, "one colony, ono executive, one purse," The separation resolutions which will be moved to-night ar« ht least full and explicit, and really embody the form which in our last issue we pointed out as that which separation was likely to take. It may be that the advocates ot the scheme will be able to show that sush arrangement would be to the benefit of this part of the colony, but with no further light upon the matter than hat been at present vouchsafed, it is diiliuilt to feel sure that it will be so. Ihe North took a leap in the dark in 1856, we cannot but think that it is in much danger of doing tho same in 1876. The arrangement, on the face of it, seemed fair and reasonable then. Who can say what re-action of feeling and opinion may not in a few years time, follow upon a second compact, for really the localisation of tho land fund is at the bottom of the present movement in favour of separation.

Our columns are as impartially open to the fair discussion of the native policy as to any other matter of public interest, but we cannot help thinking that one such incident us the opening of the Kaimai block fop gold-mining purposes is un answer to all such charges as that of Justitia, that the native policy of the Government is calculated to keep back settlement and foslera feeling of hostility between native and Eutopean. We may have cause to complain in common with Justitia of special details in the departmental carrying out of that policy, and, as he does, unhesitatingly to condemn the proposal to resettle portions of the Waikato, either on this or tho other side the Waipa, with natives. No Waikato settler, however, we should imagine, who recollects what th© district was during the Stafford administration, and what ifc is now under the present native policy, but must admit the vast superiority of what is taohnically called a sugar and flour policy over one of irritation and unyielding stei'imeua. Funics have cc tfed, aid out of the secntity which freedom from the alarms of war has given growth to, European settlement has increased and consolidated itself, property Ims increased twenty-fold in ralut*, and men go peacefully, and without thought of a native difficulty at all, where then tho rifle was almost as necessary an adjunct to the plough as the share clearer. Men do not gather grapes of thorns, and wo may therefore presumo that the stock is not wholly rotten which bears such fruit. In the opening of the Kaimai block by Hori Tupea and other natives at Tauranga, we have something rnoro than u negative good as the result of the policy. It is a difficult matter to get natives to sell their lands at tho present time. It is still moro difficult, however to get them to throw open portions known to bo auriferous to the advances of the miner, and this is being successfully accomplished at Tauranga. The native meeting commenced on Monday, and as we predicted it would do, will result in the opening of the goldfleld. The following ox- 1

tract from a letter explanatory of the circumstances has been furwurded to us for publication :—: — BethVh»in. — This it my wor<l to you that you may know that the gnld of Kairnai his been opened, Ngaitinngi were ih • people who opened the gold becau so such has, been their constant word by day nnd year. Thc=e were th« Hapui (suhdiviaionc of tn'o^r) who opened it : Ngrttimitrwhaka, Ns>ati!tjhu, Ngatitmiteningi, N^atikauiarau, and Ngabiti a punga. Ai jet the r;ad, the telegraph, u d tha surrey and s:ile of the laud is not tottleJ.

Crowdfd oct. — The letters of 'S ' oar 1 NgnmawahiV and tho 'Cambridge Farmer* Club' have been unavoidably held over until our mxt. L O L. — An extrnoidinary meeting of tbo Sons of Ulster J-cdge, will be held on Saturday evening uoxt, at the Victoria Hall, Hamilton.

Cambbidqk Nobth Township Election. — A. meeting of the ratepayers h called for to-day at 3 p m, at the National Hotel, to elect a Trustee in the place of Mr Charles Tuck, who has resigned.

Mangapiho and Bangiaohia Lichv. 8IH» Mbkting.— The qunrteilj meeting of the Licen ing Court for the .nbov* district will be held ou luesday the sth proximo, at Alexandra.

Hamilton maib JEratbd Waters AND Lkmoxadb.— Mr Johns, it, will be seen, h»s purchased Jtjio lemonade and oirdial pl.int liitbcrto mod by Me»sr« X Whition and Soni, at Ngarunurahia, and is now erectiug it in Hamilton, with a view to tupping all local requirement! ot the kind.

Waikatot Agkicplturat. and Pastobal Association. — On Tuesday next, the (Ift? of the monthly i»le at Ohnupo, a meeting of tho ineml'er* of the above Association will be held lor tho purpos > of fixing ft day for holding the Society's Show, aud considering a propo-al m ide at tlielaft meeting of the Association th»t tho member* of the Committee should le increased so as to fairly represo .t all parU of tho dittriet.

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. — Al it is the intention of the new proprietary to ipuro ik it her t ouble nor expense 10 ai to ensure tho transmission of the Waikato 'lisiLri at early and us regularly m means of transit and other possible arrangements will permit, \v« shall take it nn a farour if in'oruiation of any irrepuUrity in tha dfllivery of tha paper is at onco lorwnr cd to us, with a Ticvr to ill rocti ticalion.

Noruawamia. SCHOOt. — Two of the immigrant cottages are iti transit from thfrir ori.innl position to tho school reserve, oppo»ite tha B->nk of New Zeiland, to be trnnsformel into a,"flchool house which has b^cu ao lon«; r quired in this dutrict. The contract hiving fallen iwto good hands, (\le-srs Wolls nnd Co,).it"ia hoped that the new icuool will be opened for butmeis on Monday next.

Po«ti, Rails, and tibiwood. — It will bo (seen that Mr Frank Buck land lihs added to the ndvrrtbement jrtreadj appearing in our column! n prica list of post*, null, and timber. If some of his best hardwood firewood camo up tlir river to replace thf • Buckotes,' as it i« pronounced, which as representing iti burning qualities is the abbreviation, we imagine, for ' Bucketowata,' it would saye a gooi doal of ♦ unpleatantness' iti family citvlns, and be conducive to the better obierrance of the third omni-indinent.

Adui/teiutrd Mourks. — The following letter from O d l'rac ical, •ppra'-s in Tue»days • Cross' : — ' >'o* tint we »ru haring 10 much artificial munuro imported into our colon j. and me litvo »lio an accredited aiuhst, surely wi ou»bt to hare every ptrcel bj overjf vessel analysed. If some sj«tem»>tio plan is required, could not tlio AgncuKur.il Society do thii ? I behove such * plan was tuggeited bj thub society but not evirried out ; the why and tho wherefore I know not — at all event* it is not to j late now.

Cambbidgs Fariikbb' Club. — Tho usual mouthly meet in 4 win belri on Tuesday, and thw repot t, in full, will appear in our next. Th« subject of reduction to im[Oit»lion of oftttlu was discussed, and the tollowiug resolution was p*sted, and a cop/ ordered to be telegraphed to ths member far Wa-pa : — ' That tho port« of New Zculuml shall be cloied to the importation from Europe of all animili subject to the foot and mouth disease, ami that all animali ao liable, now on tho way, shoul'l be placed in quarantine, on tin i«land distant at l*a-t ten milrs from tin mainland, for a puuolcf at least three months.'

Mr Sheriff writos informing ua that ho hat to far recovered from tho effects of his late accident, referred to at tJie time of i(8 nccuirence in our local columns, at to be able to w ilk about with the aid of a pair of crutches, ttud dctircs to oxpiess his thank* to Dr B ale fi-r tho great, skill and attention shown to hn case, which was a serereone of compound lruuture of the bone of the leg, and which had remained a cans derablu innc before it was fct. Mr Sheriff also desire* to thank hit attendant and nurse, Mr J Mullions, oflfumlton East., for tho untiring kindness and' piimtuking attenliou thown him in his nii-f jrtune.

Tube Wines. — Tbe other day a (tranter entered a Dertoit winenliop where four 01 fire men were flriuking, ancl'ni a loud voico, inquired for (lie proprietor. Tnat parson oirae foriva i, and Ihe s r ran. ger said : 'I'm hurd up, and I want to soil you a reoeipe. For two dolla 4 I'Jl show jou liow you can male a gallon of boat Catawba wine < ut of tircnty^'cents' worth of dru^s and whisky.' • Would yo\i insult me ?" cnoJ tho dealer. ' I have none but pure wines here ! Get out of my place, eir! 1 Tho man 'got ont,' but hadn't gone far when a boy oime running after him, nnd said, ' Come round lo the back door if yon want to sell that rec p*.'

Waikato Turf Club Annual Meeting. — The (attendance on Tuesday evening wag more Select than numerous at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton East, on the ocea•ion of the annual meeting. Mr R H Hammond having taken the chair, the minuses of the proceeding meeting, and of tint held at Ohaupo, were re»<l and coniirn c ', the business at Ohaupo of wh oh mooting Major George was ehuirrann, consisting only in passing » resolution accopiiug the oiler of a lubaorip'ion and sue for the racecourse made by Mr Cox. Both of tho auditors hating retired during the putt six month*, it was not possible to entor into and pas* tho accounts, and on the motion of Mr Byron, lecondod by Mr Ilay, th« following resolution was put to the meeting, and cariied : — 'That the auditor* having retired, tie mooting immediately proceed to elott auditors to audit the accounts of the past year, and that the present meeting be adjourned to Ohaupo, on thn 12th September, at 2 30 1> ra.' Oa" the motioa of Mr X Hill, seconded by Mr Hay, Messrs Hume and Wait twerc appointed a iditor* and a vote of thinks haring been passed to the chair, the meeting separated.

Thk Cambridge mquor laws.— There ] must be a good many long winded people in Cambridge, if we may judge by the trade advertisements appearing from time to time. One tradesman lately adrer tiici flour ot bo much pet big, cish before delivery, and conriuuei to app'y the same terms in reference to a similar class of gooc'a, and now the publicans ha»e combined to insist upon "grace before grog" in the shipe of a money offering. Mo mori confidontial asides to mine host " thitt'n forme," when tho glus es are brought in. On Monday next tho ' slnte' will bo ftbolibhL>d in the Cambridge barrooms, and thirsty souls mint provide Uiem«elrea with (h«> wherewiihil, lest they be made living examples of the fate of the grenadier of our nursery day.

' .ZEgles,' in t'a« \ Australasian,' thus comments upon the practice of ' liquoring up' : — 'Tiie meaningless Colonial habit of seiziwg any excuie, howorcr inappropnto, for Tiiiting a drinkmg-bar, ii quite inexplicable to for^i-tners. Upon thii point un eminent It ilian bucso thui diicouneil tho other doy in tolerable English :— ' I cannot understand yon people. If de weather is dull or is lino you have a drink — if cold or warm it it nil the same — if, business is Rood or if buainesi is bad again you taka » drink, I Tm in fcijdnoj the oilier day, and who ihould arrive from Mell>ourno but Yon Saudridg*. I toy, ' Yon Sandiidgr, jou look gloomy - how you g'ton V He suy Not at all woll — rerj down hmrtod.' I say* ' Yon Sandridge, Tat ii de matter?' He pr«ss my hand tight tin 1 say, ' Lost my vife — come and have a drink.'

A. Tavneby. — A correspondent in another column draws Attention to the opening that exist* for the eatab ijlnnent of a tannury establishment in Wuikato, and it i* indeed surprising that nothing of the kind has been as yet attempted in either one or other of our tonn^lups, and more especially in tha' of Hamilton Eipt where on© oi the local tradesmen is, wo know, thoroughly and pra tica'ly acqu.nnted with the busine»s. It W po'sible perhaps that Messrs Cnrpentrr and Byron may take the matter m hand in co >junction with their newly estiibli*l»cd fellmongerj at Te Kowhui, near Ngiruavvakia, but «o long as it id undertaken in sumo part of the district it matters little in which. Om oVject is to ventilate the matter and doubtless, at in other case*, pn Tale enterprise will be found somewhere to seize upon the suggestion, and curry it out.

Parliamkntaby Impebtikknob. — Tbo following elegant description of Sir Jnliu» Vogol wts given by Mr Reader Woid m a debate in the Legul.it ire Assembly the other d<iy:-'Su ipoauig I wished to describe the lion, gnntleinan, \iht2ro la nature or in nrt could I find anything whereunto I might liken him ? I could not describe h'm as n ballet-flimcer, for tho most clumßj ballet dancer on the ftage is grace itielf compared with the hon. gentleman. I cMinot cjmpiro him to Tunch undJudy whose wit the hon. gentleman never does emuUto I could not compare bim to a calculator, for he ba« nrither the prcoisioii nor the accuracy of a calculating machine. Where could I go? I ahull hare to travel far nnd wide. I shall not go to a stable, where that handiome and intellectual crea'ure, tlie horse, it domiciled. I shall go to that part where is domiciled in some quiet corner » creature which has neit-er the beauty, nor the giace, nor the intelligence of the horto.

llighlindkrs hare a habit, when talking their English, rich as it i», of interjecting the personal pronoun ' In*' wer« not require-!, tuch as 'The king he hat came, 1 instead of ' fho king ha* come.' Often, in consequence, a eentonce or an expieasioni* rendered, suifieiontlj ludicrous, as Iho icqnol will ihovr. A gentleman •aya be lias had the pleasure of. listening to a oleror man, the Rev. Mr — —(let Ins looility be a secret), and ho recently begun hi» discoiirs* thu* : 'My friends you will fiud the inhj ct of discourse this afternoon in the Frst KpitiU* General of the Apoatltt Pete-, fifth chap er and eighth Terse, in the word*, ' Tlio deril be goefch about like t» roaring lion, Booking whom he may devour.' Now my friends, with your leare we will divide tha subject of our text to day into four heads. Firstly, we shall endeavour"to .ifcertain ' Who the devil ha wns. 1 (Secondly, we fhull inquire into his geographical pou ion, natutly : 'Wlicre the dovil he wad,' ' Whore the deril he was goiug.' Thirdly — and this of a penonal character — ' Wlio the devil he was ireking,' And fourthly and lmtly, we shall ondarouc to iolvc a question which bas nev^r been solrt'd yet, • What the deril he v»a» roaring abjut.'

JlAMitTojr East TFi.roKArnCoacMniacatiuN.- No rep y has yet bron reivived to thenieinorai or the inhabitants of ITa millon East asking fur a separtie i* "<t OlTice and Telegrap'i Htation on that. »i le tlie rivpr, but a case m point sho*inj* tlio rea-onablenesa of such n quost lias lately been brought to our notice. A buiiaovn man roMding in the Eist Township one day la»t week was advised by telegram that hit presence win required at (Juuhridge that day. Th* tol«gram bears the memorandum of harm,; been tvetnred at the T«lej?raph Office, ITanilton West, at 12 51, but it was not until 5 30 the tamo afternoon that tho person to whom the mc*Bign was tout, happening to boon tho West file of tho river, received hit nies» nge, too late of course to comply with the request which it contained. Now, i is easy to understand how groat iq such caies, and they are of froqm'nt occurrence, mutt bo the lo«s and inconvenience to butin 83 men especinlly. Tho f.iult lies not with the Hamilton telegraphist, but limply vrith the sv stein which itnpoies work U| on one official and one boj which it would t.ke at least two extra haii' ls efficiently to perform, coniideriiig that every mei^ago saiit ocroa* the river entails a serious delay in crooning and recros«ing by the punt in the absence of a bridge.

Alexandra Township Board Annual Mketinq. — The annual meeting o^ ralepayers of tbo Alexandra Town«hip wis held at the Public Hall, on Fiiday, July 28' h, i.t 2.30 p in. There was a lar^e at tendance of ratepayers. Owinc; to tho Chairman of those meetings hiving only a catling vote, nm» were willing, though several were proposed, to fill that olfi.-o. At lost Mr Hope reluctantly consented to uct, iuid the following balance sheet was ie id : — Receipt* : balance from lato board, £■4 Us ; Dog Nuisance Act, £6 ; Colonial Government. £21 la 7d ; Impounding Fees, £10 15* ; Provincial Government, L 25; rates collected, £52 16s 2 I ; lundries, 15s ; total, £123 18s 9.1. Expenditure : Koad-forminp, £3 15a 6d ; nuadries, £10 7s 8d; pnutiug and advertising, £2 Hi GJ; bridges an I oulverU, £1 15i ; Wiipa Bridi; , includiug Tempararj Firry, £30 '7s 8d } Dog Nuisance Act, £3 10i ; legal expenses, £18 0$ 8d ; collector* salary, £5 8i ; rent of Public Hal, £1 Is ; sundry expense, £19 15* 6.1 ; balance on hand, £5 19s 8d ; total, £123 18s 9d. There were two or three noisy people* in the Hall who made some foolmh propositions, such as wanting tho whole of the minutes read <fee. Mi' Aubin stated th»t the books were open for inspection, but he would not take the troublo to read all the mi'iitei. Mr McGruthrr proposed and Mr Grant seconded, " That tho accounts, as read, be passed.' This resolution having been enrrird, it was propj&od by Mr oa.ge, »econded» econded by Mr .Boon,

•That the Board bo nbolishtd.' This proposition met wilb laughter, and, oa being put to the meeting, resulted in only three rotes. Mr Sage then proposod, find Mr Burns seconded, • Tint id in the £ on the value to sell be the rate for the year.' Mr Boou proposed, at An amendment, « Ih.il Jd in tie £ be the rate' Mr J D Hill proposed, and Mr Aubm seconded, ' That Id in the £ be tlio rate for the current yoar,' which last amendment was cai nod. by a largn majority. The following gentlemen wore proposed as trustees . Mes*ra Grant, Finch, Hill, flope, Aubin, Boon, McGruther, and Sage. Messrs Grant, Hope, Auhin, McGruther, and Sago were declared elected. Measrt Edwards and Duffus were elected auditors, and Messrs Boon ani Gannons way, fence viewers. The meo'ing closed wish a vote of tuanks to the chairman. The trustees met shortly after, and elected &lr Grant chairman and treasurer, and agreed to hold their first meeting on August 7tb, at 5 p m. — Communicated.