Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 7010, 4 January 1877, Page 3

Correspondence.

Sib, — I apppar to have hurt Mr Mandeno's feelings considerably, by beiug credited with a sentence at 'the meeting of the Cambridge Farmers Club that I did not titter. -I might have implied as much, and. your reporter thought it a fact and wrote it bb such, not with the inten> tion of making mischief, I am convinced ; I'tit? Sir. 1 have not time or 'inclination to split straws with Te Awamum. Suffice it that Te Awrauiutu hw had three opportunities to cement .Waikato in show and three times she has : f ailed to do so.

At the time Mr Mandeno alludes to, when the appointed body for carrying out a rotatory show agreed that the plaxse should be decided by purchase, providing Te Awamutu did not quite approve of the plan, Cambridge having purchased the right of holding the show and giving the euuue to Hamilton, that it might follow on from H in alphabetical order ae proposed. Had Te Awamutu the welfare of Waikafco at heart phe would have yielded gracefully. Seeing that one side of the country had yielded so much, it only required "her assent and the matter was settled, and it was with that view and no other that I moved a resolution to that effect, nearly five years since ; but no, if the whole of Waikato cennot bow to Te Awamutu, she will have nothing *o do with it. Then was started the Central Waikato Association. The original society, being desirous of giving the Central a good opportunity to prove their capability to Start and work out a Bhow worthy of Waikato, stood aside for three years, when I think dt was .proved to their own satisfaction that they were not equal to th« occasion. Had they tried to be a little more . tractable they would assent 'to a_ Spring show, but aven that could not ba ield until near midsummer. Now, Sir, to put the stroke toifc, if it goes one inch beyaridi Ohanpd •' Te Awatnut ii •.^wilM«wer-p6bhing!to' do with it i • "I am not a judge of these matterß. The Waikato Afjricahural un-1 Pastoral Aaso-

ci^tion may be a living body nfc tlii- date. jThat I know not ; bufth-n it insist be iiiemM'nbtre:! that at the mee ing 4ov the .final arran'.'pmenta of the late pliow it w«9 aV>*ave doubt in the mindfl of the committtee whether of «the two it we >e more crepiiable to let the show goon or have no show at nil. It^ink it b hovee those who are deeply inter fit ed in these mitle-s to mjtke sure of bavin;? <ono show in 'Wfrkiftor nn'il noyr is the time to be cerhiinronthe Buhjefdt.' • ' '•"■* -> •'- --•Mr -Mai deno thinks the Gambitige" Farmers Club have jVTigbi? to hbld u show if it think' lit, seeing they are as organs ised body, icmi posed' of members residing in Pukekura, Taotaoroa, Mtttamata, I i»ko, Tamahere, and Humil- . ton East and Wes% which should represent a considerable portion of Wai* kato. 1 think the duo will %o doing nothing more than i s duty >if it under fakes the arrangement rf a show for Waikatq, to be hpld in a /seasonable montho|, the spnirig, .1877. In moving that .a sjiow shouid^b.e held at Cam-ridge, it waaon the. ground ■that a working comnifittpe^ fould be'«eiedted ffbm the members of; the dlub :.that would surpass any bo. y of dbiegtkt^.LhatiCo'ul.ti-be sekoted -from. the, various ttectlementa pi Waikato, . hot thftt-. nirn "6( greater ability : .^^ coxi'd Sjb r.found, ■ but- tliey-could not be found to work with " the-HB^ina unity, of , 'feeling .which wqitld,, exist between men that : . 'are. : -meeting:, month after month, : striving to advance the agricultural interest of >Waikat;>., Should "the-club undurtike -to«establish a show and succeed, which. I am -convinced will be .the-(Case. if all its members gp in with a will, and if at &ny time it. should prove desirab'e to . move - it . to Baother place t)ie ; club, I doubt not, will yield it willingJy. ApoJogi-ing for treap rasing so largely on -you r valuable -spaoa, i am, &c, GeOHGE E CLAEK. • --::

[Mr Clark will have-fipen that as Bdba : : as aware of it we hastened to setthe matter r of the iflißpirint risht,to which he alludes at the opening of "the above letter.— E».. VV.I] '