The Waikato Times. Equal and exact justice to all men. Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political Here shall the Press the People's righ Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1 877.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 754, 17 April 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times. Equal and exact justice to all men. Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political Here shall the Press the People's righ Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1 877.

Day by day the messages received by cablegram from Europe assume a more warlike import, till, now, unless a reaction take placed little room is left between .the present position of affairs and an, actual and positive declai'ation of war. .. The state of things has passed fro ni the region of mere surmise, ponjeoture when once the funds begin to fall and the prices of food to rise. Indeed, to judge from the brief report of utterances m- the British Pcirliament, contained m last night's telegrams, it ' would sfsm that this matter has passed the "'boundary of mediation, and that the acfc'uat result remains to be worked oni between the principals themselves. If thjs be so, then there is but .tooftnuch reason to believe that -war will follow. With the people of these colonies the : chief interest cehtrjs

m the question of' wlikt nations will be drawn into the struggle, and m what combinations. T .<?" At this distance, aud with tlieir limited knowledge of European . diplomacy, few colonists would .'be i' capable of forming auy, but the merest conjectural opinion* . ~