The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 661, 15 August 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

TUESDAY. AUOUaT 15, H,(i

Equatl anit exact justice to all men, Ot whatever sute orper»u«ton, religious or JJyiltiCill « • * • * Herr »h»H the Pren th> Prui-le's right uia.niain, Unnweil by influence and unbribc.l by pain.

The meeting held at the Mechanics' Institute on Friday last, to consider the political situation, Was the strangest mixture of rightly directed cainesLnest and absurdity thnt wo ever recollect to hava seen. Jt seems to have been conducted by men thoroughly in earnest in fighting to t.be lust the great principle of justice to the I^ortli, but too yo-nio-ami inexperienced to giasp any tangible m°.ans of obtaining that most desirable end. The speakera nil delivered themselves a* men who recognise ;hat truth is just ahead of them, but", who grup& helplessly in tbe dark to find it. The greatest con^'iutional question of the day, as i- ir George Grey calls it, the right of province': or states to enter a kdm.'iMon and at their own time to withdraw from it, the .Magna Chart*, and even that most terrible of all evils — civil war, are grouped with a discussion aa to the relative ability of the North and South LJacd Jo contend in the friendly ri\Alry of cricket and football. White feeling that a wrong has been doiKitho Not Ui, the speakers at the meeting appear to have been utterly unable to grasp the great subject they were called together to consider. They wandered from stem realities to insignificant, nothings, and so crosse 1 the narrow boundaries between pathos and bathos without the slightest fear of consequences. Still, an wo have sail, it was a meetiug of earnest, determined men, and as such merit* our gravest attention. That the determination of the South to withhold from us even the slightest raousure of justice has aroused tieice and vindictive feeling* in the mind* of mot*

persona in the Province of Auckland, cannot be deived. And it is well that it has done so. The pevip'e that wonld tamely submit to have their riyhts tilched from them, and their huinb\e petitions for justice treated with cotjiempfuou-i indifFereaoe, are not fit to boentiustel w.t'i politicfd privileges. All honor to the people of this provincj for manfully and firmly rt^istin < to the last the oppression, with which the South are grinding us down. The tyranny of a m ljority is the wors' spocies of tyranny, &\vl Andrew Johnson, late President of the United States, who knew well what he was talking 1 about. The only question is, what means can be adopted to relieve us of our troubles ? It were worse th in folly to talk of armed resistance ; it w< 4 re equally foolish to ask our representatives to leave the House, and render us the laughing stock of the Empire. History furnishes us with numberless examples where people have suffered injustice for years, and by skilful and unwearied efforts have succeeded at last in working out their freedom. And shall we, who are making our first attempt, be discouraged or forced into rash and ill-advised action, which will place us at a disadvantage before all calm and right thinking men, and turn into ridicule the efforts we are making to obtain justice 1 Let us take a lesson from Hruce's famous spider. Constitutional reforms are not effected by childish petulance, nor are they the work of a day. An abuse like that we compldin of, v? hieh has existed for twenty years, cannot be corrected in a day. We write thus, not because we deprecate legitimate earnestness in the cause. We feel as deeply and as strongly as anyone who attended Friday's meeting. It U for this reason that we desire that no outrage should take placa upon common benss, which lies at fie root of the question. We are quite prepared (and we boldly state that we speak the popular feeling in this district) to join hand iv hand with the people iv other parts of the Piovince m extorting from the Sjuth our fair share of the proceeds ot the land of the colony. But we are sure this •ud will never be attained by hints at violence. If we have been beaten this session it may have been because our organisation was inoom plete, our knowledge and grasp of the subject not large euoj^li, our diplomacy at fault. And it must be remembered thai this land fund question formed ho part of the Opposition pro^iamrae when the session commenced, and therefore the disposition of our forces has probably not been as good as it might have been, if we had entered the campaign in a complete state of preparation. Let us fight the battle again next session, and if defeated, every succeeding session until we do succeed. And success must ultimately be ours. Our cause is founded upon the eternal principles of justice, and Vogel aud Grey may pass away but those principles must always remain. The day of reckoning must come, and then we shall never regret that we followed the voioe of prudence and reason instead of listening to the dictates of our anger and passions. One thing let us never forget : no combiuation ever was a success where the cry was a man and not a principle. If one says I am of Grey, and another I am of Win taker, and a third I am of Wood, faction must be the inevitable result, aud defeat of the general cause a certainty. In a struggle for the establishing of principle we can all unite, while we shall all differ as to our opinious of men. Let us then take up the great principle of the land of the colony for the people of tliD colony, and by using every I constitutional means and maintaining the fight with unflagging peraeverance, we shall carry it through to a triumphantly successful iBbue.

A Waikato Claim. mt to tub SpanI C H TnuojfE. — Wo are quite cerUin that a'l our leadjri, and espt-c ally th mo> I idie* who are the fortunate |iroprie'ors of marriageable daughters will feel th> keenest mt re-t in our nnnounctnent thtt anew claim mt to tie Spanish throne his iirunn and if at the prfsent ttrne in our inulst It will prooably be well known that there hi* from time to t'tnfl been ngin^ in Soain n fierce into ntcine wiirbetwsen tu<» supporters of nral cluiramts to succeed to the monarchy of thar. King lorn. The etileman who has just rec ived inrelliiience o r his osi'ion as the direct lineal do condanl of the elder branch of the Bomb ni, w had h'thorrod e'ned to ]\%ve be-n of unmist ike tblj Mi «sian excrar'ion. He is vroll and favourably known to the Waikato people, and his perfect, imi'ation of the rich diilecfc of the iuh«hitnnigof thn County Kfrry, sitnute in [relnnd, has often times rouvultud rvti the bai-oUc audicno^a before whom his woll-kri)wn ixood nature has cms d hi-n to «p ear. It is therefor* with great pleasure (hat we inform oar renders Hint nn ajre'l female telitivo of this gentleman, w'io lias devoted the greater portion, of hor lifo to ua nvellinc; the crob em of Spania-i #uccesBi >v, ha« t ucuoedrd 'n discovering thaf o-i thdfamiltf «ido of his genealo.y <«n imigrant fn>ra Spain duriiig is troublom times haibepii d scj\er d to have been a daughter of the ri^lit v' o<-oapant of the t.hr imo of Spa n. B,'ie had married a ici'n of the male branch of thi< pent euian's gonealo^ical tree, and .in course of time the descendants of the issu* have b'CDm", from continued re^iW. enoe in (lie Count j Kerry, to newhat hiberni"is.'d, which accoo'it.s for mu h thar. miihr otherwise be unaoc unt b!e in the '.-filial character of th^ subject ol this n-if'ce. We have not heard whither the title of * Don ' which in right b -lon g tj all penons of n ble Spanish blood has yet been adopted by him, < r in which of I he cn>at Eurjpeai cnpitaU h • i itends to nogotitte th»" 'oans nocr^^irv to establish hi-) undoubted M'le to h-t niHgnilicent inlm itunco, but we iiall rerlainly plao« our re idera in pasi^Rsion of the earliest iaftratAtion on tk s interesting topic.

Mklbophtk Opr Swpep — V« will bo ppcn by u iver'i*ftiTi -nt IWr X Kirkwool of the National Ilotol, Cambmige, lihi i.pi'nei Uns u val annual f\reep on <he •: out Victorian evant, 2)0 members at 10 i eacb.

Flmiiltv>n West ScnooL^-With re-fe-enca to the lett r of ' Ga^gon do Bureau' which appeared -jn our last, vro a o rpqiiestel l>y Mr Dnnvr* to a'ote that Bine* tin nivsint Education Comtnittfe ha»e h Id office no h ili Itvs h ive been a\ven t5 the cluMren rxcept a week in midwin^r, to wliioh bo^h m»stor »nd schoolar<! by u a»e of the school regulation* were enti led.

Walk eh 8 Gully — At a meeting of !h<» Pukekura District Board brld on Friday, it wtu decided toe ill for lenders for the erection of a bridge over W aikor's Gully As will bo scon by the artrertisem nt, it is cxpi'ctei tint the wood and iron of the o! 1 Cambridge bruise will bo utilise I vi tbc erec'ioi of the same. At th.i same nvetin;> Mr A Wallace np- \ Diiolfor le ire to plant tree^ on a by e " rotd witliin tie diMrio ,a request which was at once granted. J

PARLI AMEN TART FAFKRi — We hay« to thank the Govflrninpnt Printer for copies of Hansard and appendix to journal of the House to folio H, but as yet, nine • the cnmmeaietn'nr, of the session not a single draft oopy of a bill intro luce I into the House bus been forwarded to t'lis j mrnal We see from the House proceeding that a ' Native Landi Purchsse BiU'hisbffen introducd, bit important a- the chiir«c t .er of such ft Bill must b * to this constitutney we are utterly ignorant of its vatuxe and contents.

Tub HiMtLToy Pusr. — When do the loc*l nufchurities, we won.^r. intend <o take tlie mittprof th« punt a >proache< in hand and make them secure, or are they waiting for a ' frightful accident ' to occur, in o der to b'ing pressure uion th.i Government aid bio* the later the r»"e I th»re ta f>r & brilge to connrd W.iikato with Waipa, the one h» f ut tliis fiiia district with thn other. Now, m ich as we should be to ma leg.tnuttt) pressure put upon the Q-it. riiioeut, we sho ild be aorrv, unl ■• s a cabinet ministfr or two were th-? oolv passeu/ers oa the punt at. the time, that it should be d me in this wisp, for scriouslj s caking there is not a lino the punt. cro«e* from one side to the other, but it is at the rsk of human li p. At br>t i sid's the nrer the supj ort^J of th > wond'»n app oiclie* tiave giren'naj beow, nndjit is nothing but the downward p-e »ure of tin chun which works np>n then that korp< them ia pbce. Og the ent side the Ling son the fl >or even h.ive given wav, b'lt on the west side of the rivi-r the structu c is i possible, the more rotten ot iln twi, However inconfenient it ta ij be to stop the t^affia fora time, this hvi better be dote to preveao acuiddnt t.iaa as a ooasecjuence ot It.

WiHS AND BUMOTJR9 OF WATt. — T ll« ' Thousand ar.ne I mou" of tho ' SUr' are warned to be retdy and ke^p th«ir p>wder dry for the approaching revolution. Notbing is said th a tin-» übou 1 . scuttling the ' R.nyleader.' Pr^bibly that nny b<left to the Government to do after th ■ rebollioi is put down Sernmly. however, the Anok'*nd 'Star' of Wedneid y treat* its re>iJi %r s to t'u followi is; nureean : — ''There is a ' snull* diff-rence, and n greit di tinction b-.-tween u r'bellio'i and » revolution. Wo will nit idmit that, there is the S'ightetifc wish in province to 'fbel — that is to tako up ar nt auaiiist flic ♦ lawful authority 1 of her Mtjeata the Qu en. We m*y, lio.re»er. ask with ein.eji/tiev, id the Q-i>nei'al U-o-vernoie'it a * lawful authority ; a lawabiding auihontj ;' follow r* ot'the 1 iws of the land, or are they breaker* of the laws assent fd toby thu Qi*on b* thn good 41-T-rntnunt of Ne » Z^lanrl, mid tyr»ntn in po»rr Now, whi; u t'm m.*anmg of revolution T ft if rot it ion, motion in an orbit ; ' a change in the contti uiion of thecmntry; it is a rorolution ihit we all tvtttit from *.hn North Caoe to Stewart'* Is'xnd Sh"ll it be a peaceful revolution? That depen 's upon th<) conduct of tlto memberi at the settlements about Cook* Straits. In tho meantime, it behoves t'.e genuine colouul t> be firm, aivl the volunteers to remember their motto—' Read;, aye ready, and knep your powder diy.' "

THB AOENT • GKNBEAL3HIP. — The Lvttleton ' Times ' thus allu les to the disruption of partj whic'i the filling up (ho above offi c may posMb y ciuse :—: — 11 JL'hn death of Dr Fe ithorslon, th.> late Agent-General, in Lindon, leaves tin mo&t coveted of .ill appointments in the sjiffc of the Ministry vnont. To re>eivs a large sularj wiih n«xt to nothing io rlo for it, to life in a country where all the latest appliances of art, science, literature, philooopiir, amusemert anl social onj >y mint abound, and to occupy there a position of gr.-at oonside'atnn, i* .1 uriz-t cer ainly worth hiring. It is H»serted that thor" is but one of our public nvn fit for thi-i hi»h ap omtnwut, and tint b» is one no *.i'u-*t*«l that hoc.m carna m n, ittd that h> will undoubtedly do «i. We refei of oourso to 3ir Julius Vogel. Thu prophecy may. perhaps, be roi iied. 1( it were, the effect ou the politics of th? country would be diiastroui. In nil probability the Mi-ii«try would soon fall, an 1 ihu work of the colony fjr thin and the next *e--sion wouLl b j thnwi mt > c nnplf.e couf.ision. The o -11< a<(iic o' i>i Julius V\>;ie! ar« poliiu'iaos of !i>*;h character, and of at lt>a«t fiir c.ipucit\, but wi'hout ibtir thd-f jmt. n<w th> envying on of Ihe work of the cos ion would be playing liuml«*t without the chavnet >r of Hiinlft. Wiih a, d.-bt of over nin*"iron unl.lm^of mon-y, a d with an impe*ativtt npc«*ity for borrowing y t a little more, we need the ablest fi>ia»>ier we cm find «t the lu-1 n ot public nffir-t, and that; man without doubt: a-no.u a'l tho^e « ho have T^tcoiie to the tron* in Now Z-iland, is Sir Julius Vo?d. With to hravv u debt as them is now on our ■hou den, we cinnot aff ji\l to mate t lie experiuient of aopintine; umeivlv respeptable p jlit-cian as Treasurer. W•ne'd an expene iced nautical man to take a ndip safely from the breakers on a leo Bh re, but the master of a Tnam a bumbarg-i raigbt bring a vessel to an'oho at the B.uff in oilm weatder. The present Pri-rai j r u not "in old man, but in tin primp ol li «, and though his health is slightly ioipiiyed, hit mon+il and bodily pr.wers ire certainly n«it bo far orer a«ked tliit he cmnot any I nger do splendrd serrioi to the colony. He ought not to ask for a dierau<»> from duties whiuh he, better than any other runn we have, cm duc'iarge, merely in ord<r thit he may b« into a positioa of ci»e uidoomlortindeel, and one ouL vmrd j commanding hi*n rsspect, but really far 1(84 di;r ifieil than that he holds *t preient,. R Iward Buik'3 io d v* "Jbout eighty yens a^o that ' the days of o'uva'rv are p»st, he ign of rconoinUts a-d oa'cuUtor* has commenced.' That is not exm-tly what wo fi <d. The eminent state^m -n' of Great Britain in this een'ury, Pit:. Pox, Wellington, Grey. P«l, and Palmers -m, may be *aid to hive diod in harness anl never to hare refuse i the best services of mind and b idy to their c >un ry when tho*e ierricea wero requi cd. Wi'h impnre'l health still, Gladstone, Bright, Disraeli, and many other pubic mo>i wh > could be named, toil on witi.our attempting to (rrade the respot xi! ili i«s whii-h hif»h intellect, lar^e experiuce, and un daunted oi>ur»gn imp >■>(}. It will not be wll for our abl'it public men if t'ipy ihnnk from following the example let by ■tateamen like tbeat.