The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 665, 16 September 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact jmtice to all man, Ol whatever »ute or pci suasion, ieligiou«or puhticul #■##** Htrc ihall the Trcn the rJJon,E'B right maintain. Unnwsd by ihfluencfe *nd unbribcd by gain.

SATURDAY SEPTMMBER 10, 187 G.

Clothed, and in its right mind, our Auckland cotemporary, the ' Herald,' has come out from among the political tombstones. The return to a sounder state df mind by the * Herald ' is not only satisfactory in itself, but, even more than that, inasmuch as it indicates a healthier tone of public feeling- in the community a large section of which it may fairly bo said to represent. For a respectably conducted morn ing journal to have thrown itself with such perfect abandon, as did the ' Herald,' into tho whirl of a political delirium, instead of calmly and boldly endeavouring to with■tand the flood of popular fesling-, and turn it into a healthier, or, at least, leaa hurtful channel, was matter for regret with all those who look with -respect and confidence to the high mission to which journalism in our larger centres of population is culled, and though, at the eleventh hour, tho 'Herald,' freeing itsolf from the thraldom of hero-worship, has come at last to the recognition of the great principle that the advocacy of measures not men should gway its colunius, wo heartily welcome it to it* choice of a wiser and better part. Our only surprise is that our cotemporary did not sooner see that public opinion, however erratic it may bo for the tinio, must sooner or later come back to tho straight path that, after all, the eternal justness and fitness of things it is which havo the deepest hold of men's minds, and thut when that feoling once more predominates, asitulways has done and will do after periods of intense social or political excite menfc, those who have boen the foremost in misleading the people fall lilt lowest 1a tho xevul&iou vi popu-

lar feeling. Most cordially do wo concur in the opinion expressed by our cotompomry, on Thursday, in reference to the position of the Cabinet, and the attempt nude to oust them by a fluke, that, " In tho public interests and for the public good we should bo iflad to fiud the best mon on both sides of the House devotiug thttiiiaolvos to tho difficult tusk of effecting tho settlement for which all arc loaginjj." The events of the last twenty-four hours have shown, however, how far off we are from any such desirable result. Those who have sown the storm are now reaping- the whirlwind. Bitter factious opposition, regardless of the best interests of the colony, regudless of the high character which the Parliament of New Zealand has hitherto held, and which is now being dragged through the mire of obloquy and shame— regardless of the utter prostration of commercial enterprise and the progressive settlement of tho colony which follow a period of political anarchy such as the present Opposition in the Assembly has produced — regardless of all this, we say, the Opposition have now entered on a lower depth. Our telegrams announce the fact that tho time of thecountry is being ruthlessly sacrificed on th>i altar of party strife, that, unable to bring down a policy or strike a line of improred administration themselves, the Opposition are rabidly and desperately intont on 'preventing any one else from doing so. Sir Julius Vogel was denounced as the enemy of Auckland and no term of opprobrium was too bitter to be used against him. A Ministry peculiarly alive to the interests of that Province succeeds him, and still tho same bliud invective is indulged in — the same opposition fjllawb, and a mere techinical error is seized upon to upset them. Placo, not country, would but too plainly seem to ba the motive action of opposition such as this. It is not tho healthy opposition which keeps party goverument within bounds, not the license which Parliamentary warfare allows »to a party out of power, but the 'licentionsness of a revolutionary convention determined on the overthrow of all Governments save that of their own sweet wills. We venture, how. ever, to say that neither the Housa nor the country will submit to such a course! Beaten on the floor of the House as they undoubtedly will be, the Opposition will sink equally low in the estimation of the public, and not even the opposition j resa, which has led and ttrged them on to this last stage of folly will, we venture to prodict, be feuud upholding them in a course so^Buicidil to th« best interests of the* Colony.

Ecltfsi of the Sux.— A. partial Eclipse of the Sun will bo viiilileon Monday inorniug oommeuain^ at 8 3 a m and ending at 10.17 a m.

W. S N. Company's Mkbceb Agent. — ItwiUb.«n«-n that Mr Neil Heath has been appointed agent of thn W. S. Navigation Company at Mo. cor, io" placa of Mr Hoakiag.

The Political sirumoif Public MKKriKQ. —At the request of several settleri the Chairman of the Hamilton Ea«t Town B ard hat called a public meeting to consider the prawnb political itato of tho (Jolouy.

TitKi plvntino Hamilton East — Trees are now about tj b* plauted oa the ki le wnlliu iq the abovo towiihbip, and »• the f Jncinu ia buin<{ erected, ho^flmen and oth«r« on dark night* should be caruful of coiniog to grief;

Firk at Piako. — We regret to learn that a fire nccirrei at at a home belonging to Mr Wallace, contractor, on tin farm of Mr Woodwsr.l, «n the 6th inst The Himea ■pn-al •) rapidly thai; it was impossible t > cuve a tingle article, aud property to the ralue of over a hundred pound? was destroyed.

Sebd Potatoes.— By an over tight, Mr j (jr. J5. Clark'n ad verti*. ment of aeel potatcos w*a unaltered ia our last, tho price of potafcoen lumug been reduced to £4. The toed off 'red by Mr Clarke ia of I first-rate quality and de^onption, and the prioe at which it is off-ired will certainly render it unueoes ttry f >r tho«s intending to plant to go ouUide the district for aeed.

THE LITB AFFFUT AT WHKttEPAPA - We learn that tbo native K««riti, who vru itfjun-d with » «p*ie by another native, in the late dupute at to the occupation of certain land at Wherepapa, it, ooutrary to expectation, Teoovering. Tho a^greisor, Te Kume, it will bo remembered, w*% by irt-der of the Kin^, «»*rit to Hikurangi to bo triod rosurdmg to Maori law.

A. Yeah of Jcbilke — A*«, and a'ao-a-rtay, we have but a youn< country in New Zealand, and our book* will be full inJ« el, even if wo have not given a receipt iv full ourselves before the tiraa that a centennial will be commemorated in New Z aland. There are a good many nmon^st na who have the iami olass of ciutouit-rs to deal with a* had the Arnrr can merchant, " who," «aya the •' Houton Tim* I *," ••rijiio'-i thi^. this is the (oatsnaial y^ar, for he tayi he hau a number <.f cuhtomera who kettle their ftccimnts only once in 100 year*."

Mb Butt li wri'o3 cleaning mto cir root auorDr into which we fell in our irport in our lait issue, of the meeting of tue Committes of thn Pastoral Association, in wlucli be w.it in ids to »ay that it was the fco ing on " hift" udo of tho country that if tiir Show wai to bu liol'i a yard on tlit* further lido of Ohaupo f ho Beltlern wouUl not exhibit. It wai the fte'fhn of quite another district be referred to. His l>-t er shall nppoar in ow next. We ceo that the 'Herald' whi6h copied our report verbatim without aokiiowledgm -nt hai repeated our mittako.

Political JtHEBl.— The Wellington corespondent at ih« " Orosi" telo:rapli« to that journu) of Tuesday «■ follows: — " Bocae Joke hat been sent to our local contemporary in rof^roncti in Sir G^or^e Grrj totcgrjpliiiiL' to the Imperial Goyernmortt to itop Abolition nnd aave bloodshed 'in Auckltnd And Otngo has been im provi >({ upin it by s statomenb to day that H M 8 ' hm cl« ared out. Nt the in geit nn of the Goreruor, as Sir Geo q Grey munit lo object to h r )"rikoiic a< a mem* of coercion. Tlie mattor must be all a j >U.f. and a poor o ifl at that. Yob it is huiB puD ish.-J. with all * (

Cvmiiridob Harmonic &oaErr.— Tt.c. member* of tlu« uociuty, whu.h numbers now HOme thirty aiibooiibeM, mot for practice, at tho Old Follows' Hall, ou Thurs.Uy laat. A corr».8 t x)iiilciit assaren UK tbat the booiety 1^ making \ery r»pi<l piogro*u tuw«rdd illici-iicy. i'«th m vocal i.v 1 iu*truun>nb..l inu^ic. Tney havo goo-i iu«trata^iil* f a ■<! tin vee of a first-oUas piauo. »ud uro l»i i q the f>'U id^ttoii f.»r the foriuntioii of a cyltiv*ted taste .f >r music lv tLe district, wbiub, l-yo juJ bye, will b) » oipdit >ml a s. urco of much euj .yiuout to the Cambridge community.

PRETAIl AXIOMS KOK A LARGE NATIVE MEisriNG - The meeting of Ngatihaua and other tribe* tpokeu of as thortly to be held at Maungatautari, will take place, we loaru, about the end of the present month. Gr-jat proparatinii are beiug madi by the natives of the locality, a* it is oxii2oted there will be ft large gathering from all pares. Ssveral Jr*y lo^ds of wheat have pusod through Cdinbndg« last week and early in the present week, fiom Mata Mat* aud Taniahere, ea ronto for the Maungataatari Mill, wheie it is to bd ground as floor for consuinpUoii fey the meeting.

LiciNsiuo C .prt, Hamilton.— At a licencing Court hold oh Thur»duy btfoie VV N Seamnckp, Jiinet Runciman mid S S Gruhara, Eaq-s the application by Mr W Walkor for an extension of license, of thoComuiiirci.il Hotel, from 10 p 11 to 1-2 p m, was refused on ilie gr uud that aiich oxteusion wh§ not requiied in Hamilton. An attempt ta o^jposo by the Good Tonaplar body was werruleJ, ns the feven dny'« notioe required by the Act bad not been given. The application of » transfer of lu-eiue from Geor.'e Jfvons to A Crawford of tho Piako Hotel was adjourned, through informality of the aj> pientten to Saturday tbo Hfcli OctobL-r.

Tub Hamilton Pcjxt ArritoicaKs.— Oulv two traders wore nKwivi'd on Thursday by tho Haaiilto i \Vutt To*n Bo»id for the repair* to the approaches on cither side tho river, and both of thefle nppe»red ►o much iv excess of the anticipated ccxrt th.it ill j 13oird did not accept either of them, nor probably will they act furth'r m the mat er till a professional ex.iimnution of the work propna? t has been nmde. It is satisfactory to find tb^t tho Ujunl has cauisd the two d.inueiom ho'o* hlmt MensrK Woods and N It Cox's «iliop«, m the niiin •trectto ba tilltS I in. The whom strcot Irom tliM point downwards needs putting into u tliorogh st.ato of ropatr.

Fl*B AT CaMbridoe.— A tire occurred on Thursday tnornmg in Mr Rileyn bust udsi p.ocnues, Cambridge. The back pirt of the House was occupied by * fam-.ly of the name of Shaw. Mr Sliaw, who wu employed as etoremau by Mi Merrick, had boon ill for the past two or throe' d*ya t * bat, rose up »ud masted -to put out the tire, which was extinguished with oootiiWablo dilTicalty. He then went over to Mr Laurence's, aqA complained of beiujs worse, and gradually «*nk, Mild di«d iv about a quarter of au hour Mr Shaw had uot been very lon>{ iv Cambridge, »nd leave* a young wife and ohitd. He has been much respected, and ia a good Templar of several years staading.

TffE RINKIXG TKvKB has fairly taken possession of ihe peoplo of Hamilton. From early men till dewy eve -ayt' even into keroseny night (a period the poet never die itnud of) the g nusuun 's occupied with perlonners and onlookers und the walls of our erstwhi'o theatre recouuds to tha laughter caused by break lowtu of quite a different character to .tlioao « ith which, our n'gger mmuJroli were wont to enlivou u H imilbou uuJh-iigo. To meet the requiroinen ■ of tbo public a much larger t>| ac ■ i* ucudud, and it has been «ug4«»tod to us that it would pay anyone \vho has such % room to purchase tome hu~f dosau pair of ringing skates and lit tliO'U ut pnr hour to ihuio who m.iy not cfcre to go to the ex;n'neo, so late in the s? uioa as thii, of purohatm^ a p .ir.

Provincialism Condemned. — Th» following i« tbo entire resolution carried uuanimously at a fall meeting of t>hTowu Council of Rtvertoii on Tuesday nii»ht last, an emasculated vohiod of which only was forwarded to ut. Tbo experience of the Southland leUlern is suinctliiDg like that of our own, that no form of centraliHtu 11 half no grinding^ and shamelessly d spotic at the centralming iclfishness of the Provincial Goveiunients has shown itself to be. The resolution waß that : " Thu council duapproves entirely of Mr Macandrcw'* ten (lutiooi or auy form of government which would rtiuscitate Piovincialism, the diat-ict having suffered enough through the neglect and niai-adaiiuutr-tioa of the Provincial Government, and affirms its approval of a By»u>ui of local Loverutnent on th-i bisiu of the Counties B'lli iutroduoid by Sir Julius Vo^el."

Til* AUCKLAND CORIItSrONDKNT of the Brinhaue •Ujurior' has drawn a very dolrful picture of tho prcteut liuanci.i pouti m of New Z^iljiiJ. Id a recant lettor be ».tys : •'• Wuethor us a Governwent or au agglomeration of mdiviuuaN, we arc iii a very laip.ojiiiou* eoudiuou. No* all tbo public mouey it gone, wo find thi railway* i>ob ha.f completed ; but our private mou of cnterprme, not calculating that our railways would u>>t be iinUhmi, went and iavettjri ell tbon own uiouey — ull the mousy the b»nk» would Jeucl them, all th« tnouoy r»:t>ol upou promiisory notes, mortgages, bitlt ol n»lb, ht-us, and lllj like beouritiow — to buy hurts, build hot ;l«, village tpwiisbipi, f»rin.houieo, »nd make private roads :vud whtrvet to wh«r« the termtoi of itati^nn word to be. Other extr»vaga,at acts were committed, for which uuliniahed railway* art) held answerable. Au i these aoupay> ing tumoui enterprises, toother with aa uxirava^aut uiodo of living we have euterod upon, are beginning to «how >kbe oonHCQimnae). We uhall xet over it all, uo doubt ; but m the meantime, if tk were uot for the tender rolntiou which exiit betweju tho luSulvoot Court uud a rockleva duhoocst iudebtodncis, 1 do not know what a good many of v* would do."

The Kaiitai GoLDriELc. —Wo regret to notice uq impatient denre on the pant of some of the L'auranga public to unduly prein on tlie procpjoting of tho Kumm block at the pi dent time, and the more ■o m it is intimated in the "G'tou," wbiuh we belKve would bo a m stake, that Mr Miokay is likely to bo scut to Kiiinm, m order to d«cuio some duputo* betwcau flictioas of the natives respecting prospecting. Th>-mterfi-renuo wbich hai t»koa place, it jait of tb«t kiud whioli i< otaitt got over oy a waiting policy. The laud belongs to the Mnatirakaiii, and the t iterfercnou of tlis Fnirili»uB vtai lota with the European* than with tho M^tirakaus ttiviniblvei. From ioformttiou winch may be implicitly rehrd ou wo hto in a position to ht*to thit the rinrakain who h* I use' l all their effort, but m vairj, to pere'idlo the Ngatirakim not to permit (if procpectiug on their J«nd, vtateii on leaving, that thoy bad now done tbero duly in formally protesting against what th- y consi lerod, as Kuign< a uup*triotio oouduot on the pure of the owner* of the laud, but as they found the lat'or »o detrriumel, thoy should uot push "their wishea and adv a further, and tiiat uhnuld they ou their return find the NV'itinknua «till perHiitin^ in i lie do term rutiou of throwing opu>i their lauoi to ])'Oip-ctnit;, they would withdr<nv all further laturturunoj la tbo mi.t-er. Ktcv tlit- Ji^ium Liucik hau nut ,

been tiiroAn open by the owuim for koldunoing purpo»e«, l«ut only to pro»pectbru. Tim Uml« are to bo alloted to " hapui," aud than each "hapu," or family of a trot, wul hiivo pow«r to make" what terms it cboues wtth piospectora for tho working of the ground, when gold id found. It u very clear theu tbat whore tuero »ro, u^y, perhaps a Uozen ptcio of lautl ia iliiU-reut bands, c&oh of tbo owners of whicb, will he u*tur»lly jealous of the acUou of prospectors iv letorenco to thouiborn, giex', care is uecebsary junt at the preaeut time to prevent cause* of contention arising between tbo owuert of tbe laud themBttlvet, or between portion* of them ami Europeaa prospectors. To biin^ about «ucb ai state ol thiugu vvould l.c pla^iuy into the huids of tbe I'nirakdux, who, on thsir return, mioht liud the JS'gatnakaua far leas difficult to persuade into a policy of isolation than they wtre when they left them.

Thb Rkv. W. Calder, akd Mrs Caldrß arrived last night from Mercer by the ooach.' We taka from ye«terdayu "Orois" the following description of the marriage which took place the preceding day, at St Mathewa Uhurch : — "The bridegroom," says the "Croka," "was the Key. Willuin Ca dar, incumbent of St Poter*«, at Hamilton, lie arrive (id Auckland obout » year a<;o, from Houolulu. lie wai soon after ordained as a clergyman, and for u few weeki the R<tv. R 8 Hauard iv hi« duties. He was then removed to Hamilton. Mr Oalder a a son of tha Ray. Frederick Caldur, head mtster of tbe Grammar School, Chesterfield, England. The bride, who rooontly caojo fioin England to meet Mr Caider, wai Mm Lucy >hiptou, daughter of Mr Thomaa Shiptou, of Cheaterheld. The ui*rri»go »ervicc was a full choral one, Mr iiiowa oftio.atud at the organ. Ilia Lord&hip Btuuop CoA-ie united lliu haypy p*ir, and w»» aststed by the fie*'. X S H«ts*rd, who aUo brought] tbe biide luto church aua gave her away, During the Borvior, Mr BrowQ played tho beautiful an them, •' I h<! voiuo that breithed o'er Edeu." At the conclusion of the cereriieny, Mr Brown perfoimed tho "Wedding M^icb," of MtuloUkohn.