The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 673, 12 September 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men, 01 vshate\cr «t.iu 01 persuasion, religious 01 jwlitjeitl « * * * * Here «h*ll the Treat the People's right innin'.iiii Unawpit hv iiuluoncc and nnbribod by gain.

TOISaOA Y bKPTEMBSH 12 IS7G

In its issne of the Ist instant, the "Thames Advertiser" takes us to task for an article which appeared in our columns on the subject of the mission of the Delegates from the Th'imps to the House of Assembly, in Wellington. Our contempor.uy waxes facetious over what ho con ■aiders our littleness. He says, we souuded the trumpet "of alarm," in reference to a proposed absorption of the Waikato aud Ptako lands into the lhainos County, and intimates that it (meaning the trumpet's sound) will never travel beyond the swamp lands of the Piako. Now, vre can assure our consumptive contemporary that we never sound our trnmpet for one penny. Two pe.ice is the sum requisite to ensure a perusal of tbevust. store ot information accorded to the enquiring mind through oar coiamns. And, we can assure the "Advertiser" th.it we travel, sometimes, beyond " Billey Rowe.'s" famous swamp. Wo live under the shadow of ths great native difficulty, and, the 4t King " is our near neighbour" and intimate jioqnaintance. The destiny of the Colony is more closely allied with the district we represent, than with asottlemont which the discovery of gold raised to prominence, and which, to-morrow, on the refusal of the varth to }ield more treasure, may again bo cast into obscurity. We do, as alle^fd l»y tho " Advertiser," take thi«>c-c aims under "our especial caie and c^ntiol," and, we are justi. fied in so doing. As we have befoie said, tho K«ttlets in Wai pa and Piako wu from us, and of us, and wedo-iiot des.re that their destmus shall bo botind up with a community whole -for i uues are liable to ti c fluctuations w'nob. u re an essential feature in gold mining. It may not be. ■" altogether," trie fact, as ataitd in the* Advertiser," that the Thames Delegates v\ent to Wellington for this .purpose, but, we may once for all assure our contempor.uy that our sources of information are by no means so insignificant as hi-} uiui and that we are iv a position to stale tliat the idea of incorporating tlie Waitoa and Upper Thames with tli© u Grahamstown " Connty h\d obtained a hold upon the minds of the Thames people. But, we can assuie oar contemporary that we will assist, wiih all our power, as we have ever done, tho attempt to construct a Thames and Waikato railway, and, nowhere in the article referred to have we discountenanced the id* a. Such a work would be one of great usefulness, and in its character. Tiese columns, which we fear our contemporary does not study with the attention they merit, have teemed with exhortations \o tho Government to carry out the project. But, our objection ib to the absorption of agricultuial lands into r purely mining county to the extent indicated The "Advertiser "looks at the Wnitoa in the light of an outlet for -tho occasional surplus population of the Thames. We would rather send such a surplus population a* lately applied to the Government for free passiges to some other part of tho habitable globe, and Iceep the country as an " outlet" for our own surplus population, which has, up to the present, shewn itself to be eminently fitted to undertake the task of successfully settling it. It really is quite a tre it to htar tho cry of "justice to a community long labouring undtr great disadvantages," raised by a district as favored as the Thames, as a pica for sending delegates to Wellington, to filoh from «s our just inheiitaDCP. Why, they have had grants for Pumping As-.ocin-lions, Water-work*, and a host of minor matters, out of the publ : c funds, whilst we, in Waikato, ha\e never either Halted or received from the Provincial or Coloni il authorities us much as would suffice to put in quo of the least expensive "drives" of the favoured "Waiotahi flat" claims, and only ask for a chance to spread ourselves over adjoining country. However, we warn our contemporary that we shall not allow our " trumpet to cease sounding the alarm," until we aro certain that the Waitoa and Piako lan Is are included within a Waikato county, and safe from the varying chances ot a com- ; ncun'ty sue') -»< i* represents.