The Waikato Times. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1877.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 817, 11 September 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1877.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatever state or persuasion, religious o political # # # * ..#.■:,■• Here shall the Presi the People's right maintain, Unaweil by influence and unbribed by gain

Quern Deits vult perdere prius dementat is a warning that might be thundered at the present time m the ears of both Government and Opposition at Wellington. To use a homely phrase, " there is not a pin to chose between the two." One would think by the report of the proceedings which, m re the Hawke's Bay land transactions, took place m the Hottse on Thursday aid again on Friday night, that tlie miracle of exorcising the unclean spirits from the unfortunate man possessed of devils had been performed again m Wellington, and thatthistioie theyhadbeen permitted to enter, not into a herd of swine, but the assembled legislators of the Colony. • The scene has been described as worse than ever occurred m the old days of the Auckland City Council. No charge appears to have been too coarse, no language too offensive to have been used by the one party to exasperate—by the other, iv retaliation when smarting from the wounds received. One and all who took part m the debate seem to have resigued themselves to a perfect gatnrnalia of reckless accusation and passionate invective. Unbridled license reigned supreme, and the fair fame of the Parliament of New Zealand was trodden under* foot, f And now comes the cry that a crisis is imminent, that the Ministry is m serious danger. A worse cry has been heard for some weeks past. The good name of the Colony, the good name of the Parliament of New Zealand, the good government of the people are m danger. This is a far more important crisis; but the very men who held m their hands the fate of all three, cared nothing for any one of them when weighed m the balance with their own petty personal feelings arid intense egotism. The Goverument party, it is said, i$ disintegrating from ihe want of sufficient cohesive jiowes- to keep ii together. lt.niLrhfc, indeed, have been pointed out thi.t tlio weakness <>f the Ministry itself, within itsef, springs from the same cause. This has been very observable on more than one important oco ihiom. But if this be so m the case ><f the' Ministry, how much more «o is it. uoc uppli able to the case of tiie Opposition V "JL\.e Auckland ftnd CHngo O^ositipu parses

can no more fuse together than oil and, water. They have no common An Opposition without a policy ) is no power m the House. A.nd so the progress of the session titarbhes on. On the one side is a Government too weak to carry through its measures— whose very followers would have tun. cd their, arms against it, had it not more than once deferred to the wishes of its opponents. On the other side, an Opposition which dare not and cannot combine m a common effort to supplant its opponent on legitimate grounds, because, like Canning's needy knif 3-grioder, it is forced to cry, "Policy, policy, I have .none to offer." If ever matters came to a deadlock m the Assembly it is at the present time, when the real ; business of the Colony is tossed like! a shuttlecock between two such! battledores! Whatever the result of Mr Rees'mptipn, whether it bring defeat to the Government or the Opposition, unless it serve to end the disgraceful character ..; of the conduct of Parliament, nothing will have been gained. Weak as parties are, however, and - powerless for good, their capacity for mischief is unbounded. What is sport lor the boys is death to the frogs; It is bad to have lost the prestige which the !N>w Zealand Parliament can never again lay claim to, but;it:is Wors.e;tp see the ship of state lying, on her- beam-ends while the N crew, breaking into the spirit room, "give loose to every excess, and convert . the hold . into a pandemonium? If ever there was a time when the Press of the Colony, oblivions of Privilege, disregaidless of that sanctity of Parliament which it§, members themselves ha ye been the first to. violate and dishonor, should speak with no uncertain voice and m no gently measured tone, it is now. It is now that it should hold the mirror up to truths and show these of representative government who so disgrace the name of senators, of gentleman, aye, even; of men, that they are acting the part,, not of .the . representatives of the people m its highest Legislature, but are imitating the vices and the weaknesses of the worst phases of Provincial Councils m their worst times. When a week ; ago this journal pointed out that the present conduct of the House, if persisted m, bade fair to drive, as m America, the best men from political life, we stood alone m our general condemnation. We are rejoiced to see that our Auckland morning contemporary, m his yesterdays issue, has taken up the cause of political morality, and ere a week : be past, we trust to see that the press of the Colony has shown itself equal to the occasion, and called forth a flood of public Opinion that will sweep clean from henceforth the Augean mass of political impurity which, m- the present session, has befoulmed of the Lower House of Parliament m New I Zealand. <

A Soisee and musical entertainment will be given to-morrow, at Kihikihi, m aid of the Sabbath School fund. Tea will be on the table at 6.30 p.m. Mr R W Lacon of Alexandra has been gazetted a deputy reg : strar of births, deaths, and marriages for the Alexandra district. , Tesdbbs for fie erection of a store m Hood-street, West Hamilton, are called for by Mr T H White, the architect, and will be received up to Monday next, the 1 7.feh hist. • ' Lice Assurance. — The chief agent and inspector of the New Zealand Government Life Assurance, Mr George Thome, Jan., and the sub-ag«n»y Mr McMurdo, arrived m Waikato yesterday, Mr MoMurdo will visit the various settlements. • The Pope held a conidstory at Borne on the 25th of June last, at which his Holiness presented cardinals hats to several newly appointed Cardinals. Afterwards the Pop* appointed several Archbishops and Bishops, amongst the former of whom was Dr Olareyne, as Archbishop of Auckland. ANOTHBn LIBEL CASE AGUINST THE Government. — The Wellington Correspondent, of the 'Herald' informs' his readers that Mr John Sheehan has > instructed hia solicitor to take action against tho Government for a libel against him contained m the • Waka Maori ' some time ago. c Feeding the Yotma Pelicans.— Nineteen ticket sellers, at a salary of 50a per week each, have been lately appointed to travel with the trains on the Canterbury railway. It is calculated ,that the value of the tickets sold by them may with gooi fortune, reach a hilf, aad, with great great fortune two-thirds, r of the amount disbursed for, their salaries. This Niftvcm-iii! Station. — It is satisfactory to learn that the very reasonable request' of the people of Ngaruawahia and the travelling public generally, and which has been Btrpngly urged by this j iirnal, that a station platform at that place should be erected has been granted by the Government. The stiafciQu itself was placed some half mile on the Hamilton side of the town. A' letter from the Ministerof Public Works was received by Mr JBdgecumbe, on Saturday, stating that m compliance with the representations made to him by the people of Ngaruawahia, desiring the immediate erection of. the platform, to that effect had beetT-jfoven. Mb ; ,Trbwhebllar, of Hamilton, has got his new buiscuit factory into full swino, and is, as will be Been elsewhere, prepared to turn out all' kinda of fancy buiscuits, either wholesale or retail, to t.lie trade or private families. These |- biscuits' as supplied by hia predecessor, MrT J Jlins, were so well known in-thi neighbourhood of ilomiltor itsei as to need no word of r c >mineridation, and i-i Mr Trewheeltor's hwds thsy fully maintain' their excellence. To settlers, I how ver, up country and m other VViiikato ssttlememis wo can coufidently n-eommcnd tbem.HsbeingaSKOol in qunlity anl us cheap m price as the be-t article vi the same kind that can be procured elsewhere, m *.! which ea.es it 13 desirable for ihe settl.ra Ip keepthoir moaey iv lUe .district,

Thb Waikato Stlajcbhs —Ib will be 3een by advertisement that *,h9 Waikato Steam - Navigation Comp my have so timed the departure of the boats as to meet, the up trains to Auckland. ■ : - AMOS&aT the passengera through- Hamilton, yesterday, was the Rev 8 J Neil, of Cambridge, who goes^to take charge of the Prepbyterian Ohui&ijrat jhe rixaraes. ilr Neiil- w^l take *fci " the good .wished and- esteem, not^djily of bis pvyn.im'*ediate 7 floiofc, but of a', large section of the Waikato community. We have been informed that theoharge of larrikinism reported to iis as having happened on "Friday evening is not so bad as was represented. Ihe boy was playing with other children with a skipping rop«, and one of the girls taunted him wish some previous aot~of delinquency, when he simply drew the rope, back, and the girl fell, making her nose bleed. The act was not a premeditated one, but done simply on the. spur of the moment. ;;r The Taupo Lakd ArFAiB.--Mr Cox, who went down South the ptlier day, has returned. He itwaswhdov Mr Ormond quoted as having stoted that Sir Gedr.ee Grey, when Governor, > bad demanded a share m the 300,000 acres of Taupo land, and had, finding that his name had been mentioned, returned >t once, m order' as he says to be m the " fore-front of the battle." He sticks to Ms; assertion, notwith standing air George? Grey's denial thereof; and so to-morrow jyill, I fancy, be a very warm day in'ittie House. The more,B the pity. — ' *t Herald" correspondent. - _ .•,..■,,■ The Ministerial P&sition. —The Auckland v flerald'B T ~Wellin«tan^orreKi pondent of ' yesterday,} state's- that both Wellington evening papers of Saturday, say tint Ministers are m an awakward predicament, and there is a broad talk of probable defeat. But again .. that m the debate to-mtcrpw (Monday) on Mr Rees's motion, there may be evolved facts which may al er present probabilifi93. That there will be a-hot debate I do not doubt, and if the /statements i. which are current should be ratted—and. Mi' Oox is a determined, unflinching speaker when he likes— no one can lay what the division may bel " '" - - ' _- Another 'OF the Dusky Chiidbef ot New Zealand, has come to grief, Wiremu Mgche or Marsh, has idr some time past been affected with a disease, which at (times vhits his paler face brethren, viz, that of mistaking other peoples rtroperty for his own. His countrymen said he was mad, abd so no doubt be jvas, for no sane wan woud put his head through a glass door of a dwell* iogA.QUse/at 2 a.m. m the morning, singing^ut jkapai te pakeha, kapai te kaikai,.' j'tbis frightened the peaceful slumbareta within, and caused them to abandon /their dwelling m terror unutterable. Wiremu'a madness having now ! continued sometime aud displayed itself m a playful attempt to burn a building at Te /Awamutu, appropriating pakebas glengary caps, and the more heinous one °pf enveloping himself m the Colonels coak, those stern guardians of th/peace, the police, stepped m and Wiretou found it a far easier way through tiie portal of tlao ;lo"ck-up at Cambiidg , than thrjagh tfVat glass doori Whe(i brought before the R.M., Sergeant MoGover'u suggested that for the safety of the hardy pioneers of Cambridge, this child' of nature, should be forwarded to the sylvan glades of Eden, where so long as be confined himself to knocking the stones about his madness could have full play, and where he would associate with companions suffering from the same disease. Cowardly Outrage,— Oh'the evening of Tuesday last Mr Allan, who resides on the east side of ihe bridge at Ngaruawahia* had his cow, a valuable one, : shpt.bj some evil-diaposed tscoundrel. The ball entered the shoulder from behind and fractured the brisket bone. Inflammation having set m, the poor beast had to be killed.'. Mr Allan ia a good neighbour, and a most inoffensive person. It is supposed the cow got into some person's garden, and was shot. Several of the neighbourhood beard a shot fired on the night m question between S and 9 o'clock. The police, we understand, are busy making enquiries, but as yet without effect. An Acctdeitt to the evening down train from Auckland to Newcastle occurred on Friday evening, cause d by collision wi h a cow, which was making a survey of the line below Tanpiri. The ruminations of puir crummie were rudely put aa end to by the engine, and steaks, sirloins, ribs, shins, and sundry roasting and boiling piecei mere sent flying m every direction. The engine, however, having been designed simply as alooomo tj.ve and not as a patent slaughterer and cutter-up, was acafoelv equal to the unusual strain put upon it, rfrid went' off ihe line, taking with ie the tender but •not t c carriages, nor even the engineer. He was jerked viotehtlj by the first concussion over to the safe side of the line, and feeling anou;. to see if he was dead, to his horror laid hold of what he supposed to be some either of his own mortal remains or those of oue of the passengers. Opening his eyes, however, he found it i nothing more than a warm round of beef . Luckily none of the passengers were hurt. I The ladies went on to Mr Ralph's house for the night, and the gentlemen remained with the engineer and railway employees to assist m getting the engine and tender on the line. This was not done under several hours work, and the train did not arrive m \ewcajtle -.fell early next morn, ing. At the Rbsidbet Magistrates Court Hamilton, A on Saturday, Yelveiton William O'Connel was' brought up on remand, charged with making a false deola-ratioa-io the -Begestrar of. marriages m Auckland. In consequence of orders received from the Ministers of Justice the case was remanded to Auckland. Mr Whitaker said thit he could not refrain from comment on the interference of the Minister of Justice m this ose. Mr Mullions had come to himself and asked for his opinion. "He had told him that it was an offence. against the public, aud the Government officers should lay the information. The Government refusedb o lay the information, and said that Mr Mullions must do so. Upon that, he,Mr Whitaker. had advised Mr Mullions to lay the information m Hamilton, where he, ;the accused, and aU.the witnesses, except Mr Wayland, the Registrar,resided, The proceedings wete eommenoed accordingly, and then the Minister of Justice steps m and commands" the Magistral toramand this private piosecution to Auckland to the great inconvenienoe of the- prosecutor. He thought that m the 'first plaoe .Ihe public authorities ought to |have laid the information, and that after having fo ced a a private person to do so they should hay • abstnined from interference. Mr Hiy objected on the part of the accused. H • did not ace that the Govcrnoiai.t shou d interfere m tho matter to the inconvenience of ull parties. . . Importkd MEAHNoa.— Our Australian Calogratn,, published m our issue of Thurs uy la^t, noticed the hgh price realised toy pure-ored merinos »t r •cent .vlei bourn* Tue ' Hawkes B*y How-d' of a late date*-anno nces the »mv.a of several anim«ls fi-.-m faiom

hat another shipment of pure-bred nerii.o3, tom Tasmania, will .arrive by ihe Tftupo to day. There are about 100 >f them m all; 120 atarted^but, w^regret, id hear, several of them WyiQotbo* the jassage to New Ze^Und^wh.ch was ,-•; cry rough one. . They apnaist or ; twa oW<Joe ofthem te she,p fcom,M^ Jibaoa'B famous flook frpa Jjhe W*W™k i&Wbri, which- are commg Mr. fcing's charge, hehaving vwited Tasmani^ v order to purchase ; th^ second , ofc 'ta a^Bbipaient from^lr Headjams ! amous flock, and is oprinng under the jharae of Mr Headlam, juur. They, we relieve, are for sale. Since publishing. ,ur.,notioe. of the sheep whioh have wrived for the Maraekakaho station, we iave received -ome farther particulars m recwd to them, which any be embodied i» follows :-By the Kiwi, pa. Thursday,, two rams aHd six een ewe hoggets (Tasmanian merino) arrived at the Spit. They have drawn considerable i attention from those here conversant with this diaBfiption of stock, and have given ma to congratulations at the good fortune of the importer m haying been, able ijoapcure for this island sheep of such a markedly hieh stamp. The generally - admitted complaint of the inferiority of our merino stock will he m a fair way, of removal, if a few importations of atud stock of the dMJCi'iption we now notice can be continued; but it . would be top much to expect that another such lot could be spared for export by any breeder. We know there are settlers whi w uli willingly pay liberally for ftrat oUas she p but money alone will not secure this ; it requires not only judgment m selection, but also the kindly spirit of the true lover of a well bred animal to inductother breeders to part with favorite stock These the province Has found combined m a gentleman whose modesty is rather offended at what we think should be mentioned — his name— Mr Archibald M'Lean, manager for R. D. M'Leau, Eaq.; Maraekakahu, who, to secure the exact class of sheeo wanted, has visited the moat noted flocks m Victoria. and Tasmania, and from Mr Jamas Gibson's wellknown flock • of the latter island, as xperts here who have examined the sheep consider, he has been fully success, ful m his mission. So much so, that it may be considered a marked day m the history of our merinos— that of the arrival here of what we have no hesitation in- saying is the best lot of Merino sheep that have ever been r imported into New Zealand.. Of the two rams, one, Bellevue, grandson of Sir Thomas, is a four-tooth, a very remarkable . animal for weight, length, quality, and evenneas of fieuce. The other is a ram hoggett, about 12 months old, named Sir Tbomas the Third, by Sir Thomas the Second, by Sir Thomas, who was purchased by Mr Cumming, of Victoria, from Mr Gibaon, for 680 guineas. For Sir Thomas the Second Mr Gibson has beenoffared, and declined, 1000 guineas. Sir Thomas the Third, now imported here, is considered unsnr* pass«d for symmetry of form, and beauty, quality and quantity of wool— literally • from noie to toes.' These rams are so evenly clad on all point 9 that they are truly a valuable addition to the flocks of any oountry. In regard to the 16 ewe hoggetts from the same breeder, they possess features of the same excellence, A. few of them; we might say; are hard to be surpassed m any flock m the colonies. We have ao doubt but that, at the next show, they will be m condition to, show that New Zealand pastures will do justice to these magnificent animals.