The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 664, 23 September 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and rxact justice to all men, Oi whatever Htut» orpeiiuaMon, religious 01 politioal Here shall the Preii the Tv.ovtv.'a right maintain Un.iwcl hv influence and utibribnl \iy (tain.

SATURDAY SEPTE&BJ2R 23 l«i

Il would seem tbut tho amendment introduced into the Indemnity Bill by tho Legislative Council, goes further than thu telegram published in our last would load'as to suppose. It not only guarantees tho party iaii iatingprocecdingfl in i he Supreme Cuurt Hguinst any of the Ministry from liability of costn, should the .Act. bo pleaded in extenuation ami defence) but, provides that tho dofunduutH should pay their own costs in such aw>, and tho costs of plaintiff a-lio. And -this is no more than rig'it. Tho membois of tbo Ministry may be thankful jT they' got off so ea.-ily. Puidiam'ent steps iv and saves them from the extreme flouser|iipiicc^ of .111 ,icb which flvon, if in. 4'h. •'!-,' « tl , ,11,^ *,] Wo -1,, ,;,!,; ,

, ,\»» rt^fi-itcl tv> hivf sci u any imp of ti" Mmis'iy ci'-t in he.ny ; <h 111.11,"^ uiuier th«* cictiiusfanc-i-.N Tnev 1i al over-.tc|)p".l tlio law, but | not-hintf of neuchery oi connptiun , It^i be cluirqa.! »i^ vii. u ii.s k them' in .•'.Vn-cition with their " i.vi*» pas.' \ S'ii, " isjiioiuu»ift lfgtn nov. ox- ;j ■ •ns.tt " is si [iroverb with which, of I men, our le|fol»it.»i-* should bt- | well acquainteJ, -\^C" wo -CJin'noi j think that tht>y will li.ivb been j hariily dealt v. ith, if. in tho inttter , of o )sts, they be m.ulo to feel thej j have.net wiiljtecl aa cujit»ons!y ami, as circmnspoctly as they might ha\e clone. To tell the truth, wo do not like this contiuuous aud constantly lecumng "resort" to an indemnity bill, whiclh of lato yeai-s, has begun to -form a regular iealuro iv ouv Farli.iuieutury pioceediugs, and tho Hction of tho Legislative Council iv ; tbo ]>roscnt instance isj Itkely to luive a salutary eifoct, us making U«Bi alternative less pleasant and caay* tli an it 'has hitherto been. M&ttertf, it will be seen, have gone so far in the Supitmio Court that, the question of coats is likely to be -something moro than iioiuiual. Of course, if tho defendants elect to try the case upon ita legal. merits, without resort to the protection afforded by the Act of Indemnity, and win the case, it would hn right pnbngl> Hi-*t SiiGeorge should pay cu3te, but not so if they plead, as a Bet oft', an act passed subsequently to the initiation of proceedings against them. X vprncins to be seen iv what manner the Government nnd their party will accept tho amendment introduced into the Bill by the Upper House, , but, as a matter of justice and good i taste, we trnst to find that thoy will ! afford it a ready acquiescence. Since writing the above wo learn by last mght'd telogroms thaf the Lower House has accopted the amendment.

When wo come to consider tho wealth and importance of the Waikato district, that it is the second principal producing portion of the Provinoe of A uoklund and the chi? f oiistomor of the local capital, it in S hard to understand that so little has been aud is being 1 done for it by the Government — that it receives so small a share of Public Works ex- \ petiditure. The xgriculturtl statistic* for the Province, for tho ye.ir 1d76, which . wtre iecpntly lepubished in our columns show that during the few years that it h.ts been occupied by Europeans the Waikuto district has made rapid progress in settlement. Theoiilydustnctin the Province- which is equal i o it in production and amount of land broken up aud in cultivation is that of Franklin, settled fully threo times an long and with nearly double tlie number of holdings. Yet Waikato treads closely on the heels of Franklin and in some matter* passes it, and bi'ls fair in a year or two to. ahoot far ahead of it. This is to be seen iu-thw large amount ol land broken up, bnt r.ot under cultivation, in the Waikato, as compared with even Franklin. Of such land there are this year nearly 6,000 acres in Waikato, while for all other districts iv tho Province the gross quantity is only 7,98G| acres. This speaks we'll for; the industry of our Bottlers, and especially considering that the number of holdings in all Waikato is less than half that of Franklin, less than that of Marsden, and not greatly in excess even of Rodney. The leading district in tho Province for bulk ot land under crop is the East Coast, but us grass is included this is easily accounted for. Tho East Coast possesses 93,740 acies under crop against 85,690 in Frauklin, and 75,067 m Waikato, bnt a slight fxdiuiuatiou into tho re turns will show that it is to its uatural grasses, not to the enterprise of its bettlers, that it takes the lead in the. greatest number of 'acres under crop, for if we turn to the columns showing the return of land under hay, we shall find that while Franklin and Waikato show ■ 4,212 and 4,589 acres respectively, with all its 01,920 acres of grass the j^ast Coast district -'has bnt 78.2 acres under hay. lv all other crops however, than grass, the East Const has bnt I,B2o acres; vrbile of wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, and crops other than hay, Waikato had 3,39G act cs. It is not however to agricultural produco Waikato owe 3 its wealth aud importance. As a pastoral district it is second to nono in tho Province, and for a nowly settled district, whore sheep nre kept^as stock upon a farm not as tho cole occupants of runs, it is making a sto.idy .hhl respect ible advance in the growth of wool. Though having a ! less acreage of grass than cither Franklin or the East Coast — tho next yoar or two will place the buhmce in the other direction— even now it probably fattens as many head of stock as both districts combined. The Auckland- meat, nutrkot is largly supplied from our Waikato pastures, much of which will fatten an. ox to the acre. As a proof of this we may quote the returns of cattle sont from Waikuto to Auckland between the 31st of December la.it and the 31st Jnly. This return duos not include a, number of fat oatile sent overland to the Thames. Referring to our back columns wo find that during the fiisfc seven mouths of the present your, Waikato foi'Attrdoi to Auckland j ist ],'J4B head of fat bens>bs, after supplying ! ita own requirenrmls. OfMieop we '•have no tall}', but its wool export we « re able to arrive- at from tho freight lr'turns of the W X N Company. JY.'j.i '•* ]i" pj n -r l^P i" v {mi! '

l. k >i(j,-Gv.!T lulti ul «»)!, weighing mm* tons sin 1 v. il<'t>d .t between JL"lo,oC'>au<l .£ll,OOO were shipped by W.iik.uo steamers tbi^-iu klatiiL Tins h at least ;i faiiiJKn'^AiaJw uhd tluMo>, n<!b in tsfc peiioiFof aT generation, but only of a tew years. It is cs'jet.fciullyone of theso country j .•i-herfff! A" well witered i j?p«n, foi-tilo" cVuuttT# ttt&ifcisda 'of wbi<?h uro almost idl iaj-ho baiid^-ttf tiio "Etivopeana" or "tfio'Cfovernment, all that Jtfieeda iaeiuy iutei'-coniinuni-■cation .ftod direct comtuunie.it ion \\itk ce'uficS of to aww it j-api(}ly -*o 4)« "filled, up with prosperous and tliriving liomeatcads. Thete 4s -ampta ' scopo 4b r tho fcajAtalist ««3king -liis tlipusanda, and th^ smaller aotttov i\h hundreds of acres/- ft good climate* a, good soil, anil a country Btifl further capable ~of dxteusiou towards Tauri»n?a and Uie Thames, and ultimately beyond , thu southern frontier, And yet with so many capabilities, with so wido a tield for pnloniSTtTOn -«-ml --««*>» It-tm^t,. bat littlohas been dotio by the Governvuent for the district Our sliure of the publio burden, Of the inteiest and sinking fund on the millions borrowed for public works, will, aa the district fills tip, be a veiy laige proportion of the whole, but our present Bharo^of the expenditure of those millions h<is been comparatively little. Year after j'eur goes by, yet our railway is unfinished. We ask iv vain for bridges on main lines of roads j while portions of our district, and often the most fertile ones, are for want of toads aud bridges completely cut off from tho centres of population, and as littlo known, as cared for.

Te Aw\MUTTT <'ATTLR S4LKH. — 'I hero will be, wo aru luforuif I, k largo mu»fer of store and dairy cattle entered at the iiist of Mr Ken»rdy Hill's itt'nlhly »a es to bo held ac I'd AwauuuQ oti Tumday next.

FnttMrrtm* Sal* Te Awamoto. —Mr Kruno ly 11 Hit will hu ■••hd, i* ii>atrucbed (>y Mr Tiioujj'i-oa to »"'l * four roomed houMfl -nitd -Taluihle a'ioitncnt iv ti o town of Te Awtmu'u. a «<> lilt hnaselinlil tnruiture tnil^ff^u'S, inimeditfly nfter the in on Illy- OKttlu •■U« to bf held iv I c Aw«tuatu, oa tho 26tli intfcaof, Tumdny iiexfc,

Mr Gxo Neat.is Advbktiskmeh f flour op our first pt^e, ehouM ica>i >0 I,' 17s p r 10 Ibi ; 9, per 501 bo N.i 2. 15-SrG ' per 1001b, flour havin|; * I ran rod lO< per lon and thu u.terntioji not h*\inx be^n mailo before om' first mvi last pa^'.-i of tod*y'» iwue werA struck off.

Maori TBirucra — I lc i« not often M»oi i wiret prov«-«uo!i!Pnitful vtneitotkeir hm--bau<i«, at was th« oantMiuriug the nceui vie ting aUJVlauuga autari. W inlst thu meetioK wu proaenii.ig, 'a tnaori wiinau uavo lurth to two gir a «ul » boy Th« f' inner were very du^ifpuve and did not live. Tbe boy in fclive, aud mutlior and i hild " are doing wall."

CLTDifIDALK Stallion for Waikato. — We leforn from MrK^ert Kirkw o.J <liat li« lius rtciwd, ymterduy a telosjrun f--oui l)|xbt(lu>, whore hii brother Mi* G Kirkwo 'd then w;i3, sta'ing that 'ho woulJ atari to day for Auckland with a tir->t-fititirj Cijduidulo, and will b<> in W.nkato with • him iv about ten diyV tune, will r>o doubt be plexserf to learn thia, ai Mr Kirk rood's woliknown judgment in borsofl. sli, will b»a recormnenrlution to any unuual he may biing into tho district.

TUB SIUW ST7B3CBIPTION,— Wp under ifand that one of the threo Hamilton Good Temp'ar Lodg's the Onward to Victory, rnisodthe handsome kum of £B to wards tho fu»d For the rolief of thu widow •ml child oftho I»te Mr .Shaw, of C»nabridge. If the otlicp Goo^l Poiuplar Lodges in Wuikuto will act with liuvnar liboralily tlie amount colh c ed, with that contributed by the "alcoholic Jie&thon," u ill bo of rery matori »l a«iist«noo to Mri Shew in bet* bereaved condition.

Ota go and Aboxitkw. Moke waste or time — Our speci '1 correspondent on Wednesday night left us uninformed as to the actual fato of Mr Macandrew's reiolutton, " Thai the Abo'itjon Act olial n-muiu m aboyanco in Olago u -lil tho people of Oi ago de -Minin* as to the form ef tolf goiorum >j nt most |uft»ble • for them." Our ■ reader* oould gither from the teleqrum that it was iu»t or lapacd, but nothing .uoro. It now appear* th>t the House wont to a division -upon it, when- if. wn* l"*t l>y a m«j iritj of tuirleeu, there bcin^ t wouty-'our m favour o> t ho vebolution and bfurfcy s>rea against it. Ono would Lave thought thit lO'Unuiulaknb c an expression of opini-m would ha»e bt-cn sufficient fjr tio PDvmcitl par y. but.it is not so. • With no-t-tter hopo of Bucoias, it will bo teen thit thu s>'conil reading of his Provincial Permissive £111 will be prucoeded with in a fo\v dtiyi, notice to that effect baring boeu gireu hj the movor. Hawks »hould 'not piok out hawk's ceo, nor nog rat dog> are both of thoui apt pr»Terli« wbioh «re furoihly brought to our -mind at the present time. We have lufoHO rernarUod upon the > xtiraordinary coiino pMrmi^d by bio Aucklau-1 MtiUibera of thu Opposition, in niTuriiig ait bitter au (ippodiuim to » Miuutry avowedly fnoi.dly to Auokland, as the> did to its.pred<cesaors. it would -ccm <vi though tbev firmly Ixl oved in tho ol i Doooyhroolt Vnr ruaxiui, wvii aliyht alteration — " Where you HoeaMiniktvriiil hoid, hit it. 'I ho Auckland "Herald," n its li-sii" of Wednesday, says:—" lh»re).ruHen»ti^o of an Auckland constituency, w>itiu{£ to a fii mi h. ro says: ' Kvery man. wno has tlio l>est merents ot Uw-Uhiid »t ho*r! shouM do all in ihw lO^erto r tiiu 'Mr Whitakcr in tiffiot-. li« is the c.n'y ««fegi>ard for A»ck a id, and a i!uaiante-i i^-it tho Und f'intt will h« preB^f^f-<l, jot feir (i orge. G oy, M. Rf-<>B, Mr Wood, «iid others are lfuguml wit>) thu Otagolob to u>n hnu o> t Tut-y a>e livmvt "Owe; th>y «r- U'lii^ tt.e i HUnderoinftmmiMat Mr Wmuker, whilth«» oonniiiu Otigo rigu»<« ketpq-uet, and uon«' qutnttly »u auob .i frotin^ a* to male trui to obtain thtir lands. SinS 'in' or 'h 0 a<jO «n«n preteu-IKI to b« friejidJy to Vr Wlutaker, t-ut oii'y «.j lot q as th-y ttioui'lit bo, unull a«fi*t ih-uj to neb tin numerous cml iwuient bis cass d — bi In which would •mallow np tho «stato of thn onlouy. It ii too much to «xpeqb M< Whitiker to v rtmaiii hubjout to such a''Hflo fnm the very men who should sup. port him. Ha lonka teni'ily dn»j.u s t'd 1 i I iUII • > « I.'"

A (JuI'.SfIStfPONDiCNT, "I'd* Boii't Publio<, M «nu>* us yeitorday fruit !'«' A < am.it u, tit KirßMur to "II nl«iftti»m," I a \<\ in teterence tv tiio nu,e t-d rdf^j*^) * t t, 111 1 « • Lmt-mii'ljC&cndilJpfpUm. ft^N^ViS pulrhcan'rt I c^jHMn* *jk JWttowjiAip. gro t part of '■Bitter, wftttX 1 r » l * JJ"^ "Vfcprci»eire it t«) on, hii proptT cunts*, auil tbiit of thofo who »i»h for u Heuoml hotel, to mduoe f^ir competition, is, to )o Igo a nilelv «u>n«<l locoioiial a ntiuy Tli*T*"gTßjrfTi of" c6uifT£mt*ligiin*t th » landlord, at the Dcxt qu.trtpjJy licensing | meeting. We cannot publish d-t»ilB of ci.mplainfc in our ooluinns t\ B, I. imys:— "*it 1» not.traf, »s ■* Modefatoi ' states, that if the distnot wai canvassed, tb« "great mnrjority Would vrto ai ainst aoother hoteJ, ao, yfhdn Mr Canncy uitiva6sed the dittrict, bo got eignaluioa from all tho J P. 'ft, aud, I may aay, all. (lio leading aettlen of (bo plica 1 grant -, him tbora aro noiirnmpi at wofic kere, bat, thore is a Mao i trado and an ex-j? pensive bush trade. Amj, I>nivy furlhont that there *ro buddings of evoryi ilfßonption going op «yery -day in Te A wain ut iv l'be B.*nk of Now Zo.il md^ for one These buildings canjjot 1.0 put np wiiJlimt "bar.de, and they have to Htop .it an hold, »nd it is a matter of con■idiration (o them wbat accommodation i» available In conolusioD, let mo a->k '• Moflor»t!on " why there are two hotel" m Kiluk hi when it i3only a quarter iho size of 'IV Awamatu."