The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 667, 21 September 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

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THURSDAY SEPTKMBKR 21 I>7<;

We have not seen the Uu ot tue policy of obstruction yet. The Opposition is a many headed monster, and, like the f.ibled hydra, when one head is destroyed, ten others sprout at once from its roots. If we cannot compliment the Opposition ineinlers on anythiug else, we niubt ceitiinly do so on their \ itality. " Cse-ar Germanos hemper vincebat sed nunquam vincit." The 'lOvernment is alwajs conquering tlie Opposition, but never conquers them. Kouted utterly, they rally at the first vantage ground, re-form, and renew the attack. Monday's defeat, one would have imagined crushing enough. The House, by its voting, unmistakably showed its displeasure at the course pursued. Already, however, we learn that the forces are mastering- for another trial of efrongtlr. r~ "At caucus of members of the Opposition, held on Monday, we are told is was i^wlved to make the next fight on M^^Hacundr<'Vs motion, excepting Otago from the operation of the Abolition Act and on Sir George Grey's Permissive Piovincial Bill. That, the Opposition will be again beaten, no one doubts. Indeed, they know this well themselves, for Mr Stout, in his reply to tho Dunedin remonstrance, does not hesitate to admit that " The Abolition party is in a majority." To what use, then, this unceasing hostility, this waste of time, this beating the air with vain dlowh. The question of Abolition was that on which Members went to the hustings only in December and January last, and then, too, after the mind of the Colony, from one end of it to the other, from the beginning to the end of the previous session of Parliament, privately, publicly, at all hours and at all seasons, had been saturated with arguments for and against the question at issue. And yet, forsooth, a small, but active minority are te waste the time of the House month after month, by opening and re-open iug first in one form aud then in another, a question already settled by the constituencies and the House. Nay more, because the 1 Government, and the large majority in the House at one with them on this question, make Abolition a catdinal point iv theii policy, and leftise to remit the question to some other outside tribunal than the supreme will of the people, as embodied in their House oi Representatives, members of the Opposition, as Mr Header Wood did at the Caucus on Monday, must needs complain that they had, on every occasion, been oVerborne by the " high-handed action " of the Government. Are questions to be carried by the voice of the majority, or, by that of the minority? This is the point. By what divine right do the score, or thereabouts, of obstructionists in the Assembly suppose that the order of things is to be reveised iv their particular case? Mr Stout does not hesitate to taunt the 500 electors who remonstrate with himself nnd his coadjutom with being a minority, and answers them with flippant arrogance, in place of argumentative reasoning, yefc, because a large majority of the Assembly, returned to Parliament on a special hustings question, refuse, in their places in Parliament, to stultify themselves and their constituents who sent them there, his party charges them with " highhanded action." As to Mr Keader Wood's deduction that, because this minority cannot have its own way, they should petulantly withdraw from the House, we can only say, that if they possess no keener sense of shame and decorum than they have shown in their action of the last few days, the sooner, for the credit of themselves and the country, they retire from the House, aud from politics altogether, the better it will be.

Amongst other vagaries of tho Opposition during the past few weeks is that of a notice by iVIr Stout, that he intended to move when the estimate* came on. that the " Hansard" staff be done away with. Tho head and front of the offending upon the part of the staff, in, that during the last few days, ■ince the Opposition have been talking against time— wandering all round the conversational compas from the point under consideration to the discussion of the question, as raised by Mr De Latour on Monday, what did, or, did not constitute a gentleman - they have quietly rested on their elbowi. And many thanks the Uppoiition Members who spoke owe to the " Hansard ' stall" for their forbearance. We can well imagine the nonsense and twaddle, the common placo platitudes, the fustian that would be talked on such an occasion, and havo far too lively a regard for the credit of the colony to wish that all tins, even after revision by tho speakers themselves, should be put on record against, not ouly there own, but the credit of the chief |pKi»lt»tive Assembly of tho country The Spartans made their Helots drunk, and caused them to be brought forward before the young men of Sparta, that they might see how foolishly men act, under tho influence of intoxication. The " Hansard" staff

has acted more kindly t l ian the Spar tau parents. It hus thrown a a oil owv the eccentricities of our political helots, and the latter should i'oel correspondingly grateful. As to the proposal to abuli>li " Hansard" that we should most emphaula'ly protest against. Its pages are really the only reliable information that can be obtained as to what bus been actually said or done in the House. Telegraphic agents giro but a veiy poop and nianglrd version, even at best ; but, the Wellington press, with its reporters on the spot, Heaven help us from having to rely upon such a source ! Press telegraph agents, and special correspondents have shown themselves this Session all tarred with the same brush. Does an opposition member speak, the opposition press,' und opposition specials declare his s peach clear, eloquent, and^ incisive. We take up a journal supporting the Government, and we find it stated of tiie same speiker that Mrsoand-so followed wita a few weak and inconsequent remarks c nUining the same amount of abuse and wautofargument; and 'vice versa'; while neither, perhaps, gives the speech itself, or only so much of it as bears outthe critici»n.. In " Hansard," wo find the thing itself, the ' ipsissima verba.' It is the only reliable record the country really has of what members have said in "Parliament, the glossary by which alone we are capable of interpreting that which comes to us a< so much Hindostaneor C'hoctaw, from the telegraph wires. To members themselves it is a safeguard which they could ill afford to dispense with. Another ragary is that of Mr Larnach who proposes to inereaso the honorarium from one hundred and fifty guineas to three hundred pounds. The proposal sounds very like a grua joke doming, as it does, at ihe fag end of a session drawn out to more than ordinary length by the vapid fusion less talk of the party of which Mr Larnach himself is a leading member. If members of the Legislature met to work, instead of waste the time of the country, and their own, a three months session would be am;>ly long enough for all possible business, but to] ask that their hcuorarium tlii'l be doubled becaire they consume double time in doing worse than nothing will only be considered by the couairy as adding insult to injury. The Legislature cost the colony last year, and will again cost it this year £30,000 in round numbers, or the interest on a million of money, yet Mr Larnach sericubly proposes to douDlo our burden.

Bank of Nhw Zealand. — Th» work of c mstructon in the erectiou of th« new Bauk building at Te Awamutu ii going rapidly forward, the contract! r taking *jvery advantage of the fii,e weather.

T* Dramatic Enteriaixmknt.—We woiill rein.ud all I. vert of the biatnouic art iv To Awanritu and the neighborhood that the eutett.intrieut in the Public Hall takes place to-morrow evening

Bankrupt Estate. — A fi-sfc meeting of ctvditors wan held on Monday in the Supieme Court Building, in the «-sute of J*me« Stuart, of < »m bridge, WaiUato Mr Thorne appeared for the debtor The ordinary liquidation resolution was agreed to, and trustee app tinted. An advertisement in re this estate appears in another column.

Tub Te A.wAMPTa Bin, held on Monday night in tho Public Hall, whs a gjeat success. En rylhing went imoothlj and without a |_hitcli, fully one hundred personi being present. Danci q was kept up until an early hour m th* mcning. The refreshments were pro Tided by Mr Canny, and great credi is due to the comtnittoe of mauigeinent for the admirable manner in which the whole of the arrangements were carried out.

A Chait,inoe to Hamilton —A. corrctpondcut from Te Awamutu writes us yesterday that tho 'rontier team are very anxious to hayi one match more wi'h Hamilton before the season c osei. We are incined to think that their wish might very easily be gratified, and that arrang inents might be made at once lor the mutch. Hamilton should be all the more ready to meet the frontier men on their own ground, as the last match was played at their own home quarters. Afi«r recent practice, Hamilton will probably find the Irontiar team a hard nut to .<raok.

The Ai'Cktjlvd Cattlb Show. — FinalJ airaDgempiits have been tntrie by the cc mm it tee f r holding the annual show of the new society in November next. The various ■üb-couimittees were appointed. It wm resolved that certificates of merit should be given fcr oolonial manufactures of different kinds and persons intending to exh'bit mca mutt apply for the requisite space before th<> Ist November— the entrance day —It was also announced tbat the butchers had promised a handsome prize for the best ox, bred and fatteatd ia the province.

Tim late Division. — The following is the division list on the Government ompndnient with Mr Ballances addition, indemnifying Ministers and declaring their seats not vacated :— Ayrs, M ijor Atkinson, Menrs Bbllance, Barff, Bo wen, J E Brown, Bryce, Bunny, Barrington, Cox, Ourtis ] Sir X Douglus ; Meisrs Harper, Henry, Hunter, Himthou.ie, Johnston, Kelly, Kennedy, Kenny, Larnach, Macfurlane, Mandera ; Sir Donald .McLran ; Mfssr* G McLean, Montgomery, Moiris, Murray -Ayi^loy, Orm >n(\ Fyke, Reynolds Kichardson, Richmond, Rolleston, Kussell, Kowe, S<yinour Staff >rd, Stevens, Tribe, Wuson, Whitaker. Williams, aDd Woo cock. Noes, Mrssrs J 0 Brown, Burns, D« Lautour, Diuimn, Fisher; Bir Ge >rge G<ey ; Jo tee, Lumsden, Macmdrew, Mun-av, N«hf, O'Rorke, Reei, Senton, Bheehan, 'Shriouki, Stout, Swanson, Takamo.ina 1 homson, Tole, Tonks, R G Wood, and W Wood. Mnjoiity for Gorerument, 20.

The Hamilton East Pubmo Mketins to discuss Ine present poiit cal aspect of Iho ( o'ony enmo off on Tuesday, though comparatively few persons were present owmg to the knowledge tbat the obstruction policy of the Opposition lind bioken down in the Assembly on the proceeding day The resolutions prepared were not auhmitrod but on Mr Cv ■ uii'ig taking the chmr, Mr McDonald proposed an I Vl r Jones seconded the following resolution wbith wm carried unanimously "That a* the aspect of affairs lias so change* > since this meeting was cullod, we need not at present puns any resolution upon i. Beiore separating it was proposed bv Mr Johns and seconded by Mr 8 S GraliHua and carried unanimously, "That the Chtiirinei] of the »..nou<* Highw-iv Bo.irds be empowered to oon»ene a pub lie mee' ing to consider political matters should the notion of representaiives render such publio notice of their aota desir ill ile. A rote of I hanks to the chairman terminated th« proceedings.

O.VJMNE UaOUUV —A (UIHMI3 JllHl soiiiouh.it rotu.irk.iblH lu-iiarico of can no tsgicMty < ccuricil neur Ohanpo. A lit tie boy lost Ins pocket km uin the scrub, .md u swell parly of luuioe f .itid bi\>thei* and siatei-, ti which the services of a canine friend and chum, only sniie nine month* wl'l, »cits alticued, WMBorgnniscd to s 'trill till* koriih, a lciisi ler.ible cluni)) of ti-oree m whic i it was eU|J|iUd<*d to linve ben o^t. Tlie dog up|jearcl s-me^lut |ni2«ied at tlio ohayncter of thecxhibitio.i any suag-itiuna H-imdo r«;»pectmg lut* presoiic.! of a hzml, a rabi', or *tray c ck plieasnut nut receiving the usw il aiuuuui o'" attention, Aft«r a long and un*uece33ful search, dog and children retui oed home, and the hitter were talk ing over their ill fortune when su deny " foiy" who had lofc them boumled into the ring nod going str.ii'jht up t> the pro|jnetor of the mining knife droppe I it into his hind. The dog winch is little more thim a pep, had never buon trained to retrieve.

Tilfe Wpatheb.— The rain and t'ninder of Sunday ami Monday morning hive been follow o,l by bright clour and frost* 1 weather. Yeaferday morning tho*e who Were up betim. b lound a thick coating o ice on water left ex oaed nut of doois, a recunence of liiuh so Lite in iho se.won n cerlamly not Jtsinblo horn a borti(it tural point of view. " \Vu havo nut heard of any duinnge dorm by the storm on Sundny and eirly t»n morning, though from al qu.vrtei-3 of thedistric it ■•as beeu described a* sonietlnn^ aivful Tlie premiss at the Kewi milla had a narrow es-cape, howevt-r, Capt Beere, n seems, was in bis office during the storm. In one part, of the room weie a number of •teel und irou tools over and among winch the electno fluid played io a manner w'nch soiin-whit electrified the occupant hiinse f, tliough we are happy to say wit, iout causi q aamage either to hvmsolf or his property^

4 Eacc fob Good Timplabb —A carious poiat i.as heen miit-d about the Umttd Kingdom TeuiperaucH ami General Provident luati.ution. This society insures total abntainera, at a lower rate of premium than uxii-abitaiuers, and with xuoh excellcut rffcu ts t i*t actually ih expecta'iju of dea In is above the ieilis4ttou 1/ Wrf«, for i.HUnc-, expected tint .723 of the total abstainers would die in five years and £140 000 be paid to tbe survivors, instead of which only 511 persons di.«i, and only £97,000 was pai.J. On the " general " side of tht offi.se 1206 deaths were anticipated, ani 1330 occurred. Nevrrtheleas, the general bile insures more than the total abstinence ; and whi n the bonus cuma to b« distributed, there was giv»t dissatisfao tion that quite half of it went to tht t mperauco section. At the annual meeting this fact w*B dilated upon with some warmth. But the actuary at oot( set matters li^ht. He pointed out tb»l the distribution of bonus wa* a mere matter of amhmetic. It has nothing te do with principles or practice* ; and then, turning round to the ma'contents, "] cannot help you dying. The fact in, you die faster than thone who don't drink, or they do not die so fast aa you. They are, therefore, entitled to th« larger bonus." The malcoi teiita could not say a wo d more.

The Bill of Indejiniiy now being pa*sed l»y tha Assembly contains ouly three clauses. The first gives tho title of tbe Act. 'Jhe second it as follows:— "2. The »id Harry Albert Atkin-on, Daniel Pollen, Frederick Wbitaker Poual I McLean, J. hn Hall, John Divies Ormoud, Edwurd ft'cbardson, Charles Christ. ph«r Bowbd, and George McLean, ■hall be and are, aud each and every of them (ball be, ai.d whereby, indemnified, Breed, ai.d discharged from and against all p<yialiies, forfeitures, incipacities, and disabilities whatsoever (if any), incurred or to be incurred by them, or pny or ♦-irber of them, for or by reason (f thiir several appointments as aforesaid, or any of them, or for or by reaaon of any mfrin^ement of the Disqualification Act, 1870, the C.vjl List. Act, 1863, Amendment ct, 1873, \ad the AttorueyCrdDeral's Act, 1860 ; or any or either of the said Acrs in relation to tbe said appointniuuttf, or any or either of them, or for or by reason of auy of the matters aforesaid." Tho third clause provi.lo* that the Act shall indemnify the above parties in any action or suit that haa or may be brought a^ainat them.

Cricket —Now that the orickotmsj seasou is rapidly approaching, it m.iy uot bo out of place to remind our crcketera o f theg>eatnooeBBity of thoroughly getti >q rea>y, the ground witbi.ut winch cnck> tj»nuoti>u expected in Waikato. (Jur fricicis reading iv tLc frontier Jiotneti are making every preparation iv this respect. At Alexandra a portion of the Government Paddock has been taken in baud and well rolled, &c. Te Aw«wnutu poueases one of the finest cricketing grounds in the Piovmoe, in fact, we may say the Colony. It w, we hear, tue lutentiun of the •• iWdereis " to arraui^e a match with t. c loo>il players early iv UuLubt-r, so that piactice will aoon have to commence, if our cricket, rs intend to retain their reputation. No doubt, a ludtou with Au<;k an i will event ate this year, and, we feel qmo B uro Waikato c«u produce a team to hold tii'ir owu in cricket, as well as football. We trunt, therefore, our diuketers will awake from tfieir wiuter sle p ami comuaeuce operations at onco. The niaiu thing, as we have «nid btf jre, la the ground, and our firm belmf is, tuut the low scores made by our cricketer*, not only her^, but, in oiherptrtsof the Colony, arochufly at tribu'able to a bad ground and slow wicket.

MONDAT'B BCRPBIBB AND Coi/NTBRMOVEMENT.—The special correspondent of the Crosi explains how it was that iho Oppositim were deJeated on Mmd.y. Ho says :—": — " Wlule be was speaking, the Opposition had been in caucus, «n-l on separating, Mr & Wood is accredited with hating reported that they meant no surrender by whomsoever done. Tliw is nupposed to buy ■ be..n done for tho purpose of matching a Hidden division whi'e the majo ity of .ministerial members were absent, but the government whips were a>aie of the movement, and fora few tnmuies, Sir Robert Doug as, ainids laughter ol the few Oppositionists present, kept tho Uou=e engaged ii, I those of his side had as-mib rd. tiecing thw Mr illslop was auppl c i by Air Stout and others with Tulume* rom the library, aud spoke for 20 minutes wlien Mr O'Korke put the motion for udj urmnenu Thia was nogatited by 31 to 23, and after another half- hour had b^en occupied with a dig. cm-ion as to the lepartiug of the debate, Mr Bui ance's amendmeut was put and curried."

A Reaping and Binding Machinb - '•Tb.-h p s of Urm.r-," ««.g toe 'G*.long Advrrti-oi,' "with reap ct to thf invt-ntion of a woikabie reaping and bindii q maotnue are m » fair w*y of being imiafied. For nearly tiftr-en years Mr James Ferrier, a farmer rending at Coleraiue, bat bo«a engaged m mdlnnij models oi maohines calculated to do the work required After many faUures, and also unyrovfments on likely machines, Mr Ferrier has succeeded in getting °n* °f hm models to do the whole work by ittelf. The model is n<i«r in the bands of Messrs Humble ami Co , of the Vuloau Foundry, Little Maiop street, who are cousiruutiu>!> the reaper and binder, which will l,e publicly teated in abouc a month's time. This new agricultural implement nill uot

>. any 1-ii^er tli m .* t,«o-uorae rea,.ei. < Che mtchmery, jad^u^ from tUe m>.ieij we saw at tho fjaadry, is q nto mipe, , ami tbo ouly ui4uu d l a'juu, tv be <iv' ployed about it will be a dnvr r for tuj i ae. lr will 60 lik« tlu 01 niiary reapii'g machine iv *ppearai!Cj, tLe t e f oD 11^; muuUluory will bo ii^ed ou vue ude, a spindle will dnvo tbe kunea, and lie corn will pa*s over a table .vud f .11 ■ 'iro another p^Hco, wh re it will remain until the bin-iir is tull, nnd theu by ihActiou of tt *piudle it will be tied, passed along tho back of tba iu.iul.im-, aud iall on ti the ground in the rear."

Moderv Fabmj —We quote the follow ing from the • New York WuiM :— "Tue v and ill- Ki.i^iit. A Chriatuu ICntght was pi >yiug at drawpoker witti tue Dey of Algiers lor * iuon.ii oil's r*n iora. Lhti tearless Christian observed hat the Grand Viz er was lookiu* ovei his shou'der and telegr*phiug the qutluy ot uw iia»i<l to the 1) B pwt ; Out, rcpressi.i)/ hi" indignation at tho discovery of this perfily. he deals hia ant*iouist four kuiijB »od Jauk, aud himself thied Acei [ in I two Kuia'l U arts, having previously i t»<ten tho procautiou of placing tiiofouith wt upou hia kuc\ iM..bl«iu tuier drew one uaid and the CnriKtiin warrior two, t-king an early oppurtuuity of replaoia^ •hio of them with the caru ou his ku«e Tue bettiuK vna I .n»j and arduous ; but, tinally, the Chri tiao, not desinug to prolong tho agouv of hii brave opponent, call id him. What, theo, was hu am pns - tha D y brought forth four Kiuga and an the Ace that lie had •.. prudently pUceo on bis own km c; whdo 'us own hand consisted of thro* Aces j. Queen, and the Seven of Dunvmds. With ; tho reuurk that he would i.oo play in a i s-ane where cheating was going ou, tho dis^ußted Christian return d to hit) Kn^li-h Miis.oa, aud aalttd another silver mine. Mor.l — clones y ia iho be-.f; po icy, ana no man knows what A Day may bring forth."

The Raglan district and Waipa Road. — V coneii'oiident writing from Raglan asks, "Ho* it is that with the promi oof making this road by the government in 1873, the settlers of lit district arectill cut off from easy communication with Waikato. Jf people coul i only eot into the district," ho says, " and see it for thrinnelves, settlement would rnpidly spiead. People who como to Raglan, only see Chamberlin's run (deserted hills,) and fancy they have seen tho whole district, and like our lale reoreaontative, give the district a bad name. At Aotea I con*i<ler wt have as fine land as the best part of Waik.i-o, and I ■hail be surprised if erentually we do not get a distinct clans of lon^woo.lei sheep peculiar to the district which, for quantity, quality of wool, and weight of 'Button, will bring us into notoriety and gain for us the justice we so long have been denied. With Aotei Harbour open we could very largely assist in simplying the Auckland market with potatoes, second to none grown in the Province! But at present, what with the ha- boar closed, and want of roads, we are eutnoly prevented from utilizing protitably those numerous resources that nature hua so liberally Mattered around us."

Tbb cost of the actions initiated iigainst Minister* w, wo are glad to see to be made a public charge, Mr Waterhouse having dun»gthe paos<as<e of the Indemnity Bill tbr jugh the Legm a^ivo Uouucil secured tuis mucli. No duuot., whou the Bill is returned with the amnieudtnent, as is the usual course, lo thu Uousa of Representative*, this clause « ill be Agreed to, at indeed it ahould be. There is no doubt, but, that t!i< Minstry, inadvertently we admit, hat infringed the law, anl just au much as tbe A-fctuby wonld b*\e breu bcund to h\v» ii.ilrninili-;(l tli«m peounianly, bad they be-u cast in damagen, so it it but right that tli'iae who initiated what would but havu been a vindicui m of the la* I should not be callud upon to bear tin* cost from their own pr.vato r «aourot«. In tbe beat aud bitt>rne»t ti party ►trugi^le the Gorernmeut will, we tluuk admit so much, and will onlyact^r Cofully iv accepting the attempt made by Mr Watflrhuuae to throw oil upou the troubled waten of political stnf .