The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 759, 28 April 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

j%ualand-exact justicevtoiallmen, :; [ Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political J '- #; : # '■;>\_'* i A A*' '■': *■'-' Here shall the Pres-j the People's right . '.')' maintain, Unawetl by influence and^unbribed-by gain SATURDAY, APRIL 1877. I

We p'ttblish/telsewhere, Aw tabulated |foririi' ' the" agricultural - returns for i •the'^seyeral elfecstpi^l ' diyisiqns of the Auokland Prpyi-neial:^District, showing the amount of iland in cultivation^ and .t ( he , manner --of- cropping. When the' returns were ; issued last year, we ;had /to -i congratulate the people, of . Waikato on ; the, position in .lie Proyipce held by: their district.. .Then, it stood- second. to 4he older district of Franklin, ; and others trod.closeiup])h it's heSls in the race of progress. , .A -single lyear has, however, niuchialtere^d %e condition cpf. -.mattery. .; Waikato,. represented by .its. , -twtt.> divisions,'. Waipai and Waika|fco, if it has not. parsed ahead to sometiii^g- like :^r,ne«pik . f^d-oecki struggle, ..and-lefi, other! .competitors long behind in the race. .That this l Svould biejiie, r case, .-we/; predipted. in ' : pu|^iotice of la^.^ea^^tupn,, m i f^tayslast^.' "^There". app'pars^'on, 'the pfaoe-:bf fthe, returns,". We- then said, : • » ;a most indisputable l evidence ' that i the rx&ty&ir,* "or ' nexiovrp ]ysicp at* furthest, "the s ' WsLi-^tx^^i^triicsi^i i will take first rank in agricultural: - toeaM 'arid pi pdiiction of ;a*nj; in Ike ; Provinceji an'd' this ia 1' to 1 6e "seen *_n ; large amount of lancl.broken up,; „bnti,nofc ,uncler ,caitiyati6n,',iini.thi3 : asr compared' with eyeri i : The returns published ! in our advertising columns shoV the qorrectnegs of those . reijiacks* : And the. Barne* argument, 'in favour of \ progressive movement .op the part Waikato exi"sis how'^is %hen. Last ; year there were nearly (3000 acres in Waikato broken up, but unsown i.against 7 ? 956 acres in thereat of the Province. ' This year^ the return shows in Waikato in this state, or anincrease Of fifty per cent/' In spyf n grasses^ tjhe increase has 'been "_"rbm ' 7l,67l b 89,63.8iacres ;.,while the total number of acres under crop which last year was *7'5,06? acres" is now 92,720 acres, or an advance of some 25 par cent... 1n '1877 : tire' nithiber of holdings are 554 as'against 519 in the preceding year^ J An'd } as : compared witH othei 1 parts of the Provincial district^ Waikato shows favorably. We put the East Coast, with its 52,000 acres of natural grasses out of competition altogether, but. taking Franklin as the premier district, we find that where last year Waikato had only 75,067 acres under crop against 85,296 acres- in Franklin/ this year the difference is harrowed from 10,000 to 2,000 acres, i the tiotal of Waikato being ,9.2,720 acres against 94,184 acres in Franklin.. A perusal of „ijbe table will prove interesting and instructive to our readers.