The Waikato Times. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1877.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 818, 13 September 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1877.

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Honorable Members bave come forth from among the tombs, clothed and m their right minds. The storm of Thursday and Friday last has cleared the political atmosphere, and the House has settled down at last, we are told, to the serious business of the session. And, it was time it did so. Ministers on a division negatived Mr Rees' motion for a committee of enquiry into the Hawkes Bay land transac. tions, by a majority of seven, where the Opposition had confidently relied upon the opposite result,, and it is said that a direct "no confidence " motion would give them a still larger majority. There is rumour, it is true, of such a motion being tabled, but it is scarcely likely that the much talked of Middle Party will venture on this move, even if they can secure the active cooperation of the Grey party with them. Most certainly no other course than a direct vote of confidence will find favour with any but those of the most extreme opinions either within or without the House. , There' have been enough, and more than enough pi attempts to frwp apd

/annoy, and the party which raises another such attempt without a reasonable prospect of success to warrant, its doing so, will have to brave a storm of adverse popular •opinion from dite end-of,thfe. colony to the other; There is^mjuch.necessary work to do, and scant time to do it m. Scarcely a^Measure of importance has been carried-throogh, not a single ' financial bill fairly entered upon, and the House has been .sitting" for ; x two months out; of the three which members' 'will at most accord to the work of the session.

;^E '^oint^d out whoii Mr Thorne l^^^>w^s,ca,nYaßsing the district on behalf of tlie Crdvernment Life Assurance Department the advantage to most men, especially to the working classes, of availing themselves of the opportunity of thus providing, m case of "death, foi* those dependant upon them. MrJThorne, we are glad to learn, was very successful, having fcakei over fiffc^iyes m the Waikato during 'his shoirtT: istay. " The field, however, was merely skimmed oyer, and we may therefore predict a still more successful harvest to Mr McMurdo. who, after a f shbrt interval, ; is npyv prepared to g'odver the ground again.; The advantages of li/e Msii-. ranee are so patent that we need scarcely refer to ; them. Most agents have foiihd it easier to convince people of the^ advantages of the system, than to argue them out of the apathy and love of procrastination which, really are, m nine cases- ©ut of ten, the stumbling blocks that ] stand between them and their good resolves. But as it is the uncertainty of life which makes it worth while to insure at all, the very same cause should obtain against procrastination m doing so. .it is, however, no use arguing with such as these, or scarcely with those young men .without tie ' dependant upon them, who say, " What is the use of my insuring ; I Ifave no wife and children lo leave the money to." No man, however, is safe from the toils of matrimony. Defiant as he may be, the time comes at last, when, helpless and stricken,, as with a sudden fever, he throws up the sponge arid resigns himself to the inevitable, and is led, as. a lamb, to' the slaugh — we beg pardon— altar. Then he appreciates the fact that m" earlier years he insured, for it becomes with any prudent man a necessity, and he feels the benefit m the lightness of the premium compared with what he would have had to have paid had he left the matter of insurance until now. But it is to the working and professional man, whose income ceases with his life, that life assurance brings the greatest boon, and especially to the working man. Only last week the Auckland Press noticed the death of a workman engaged on one of the contracts going, oh m that city, with the too frequent sequence— a wife and family unprovided for, and the last alternative, a public subscription to assist them. Daring the last two years or more we have had several such cases m Waikato. "Beady help has been afforded to meet pressing necessities, but what has it Been compared with the hundred or couple 'of hundred pounds that the most tiifling selfdenial on the part, of the husband or family might have secured-— to say nothing of the humiliation submitted to by the latter. For a fraction over a penny a day the father and hus- r band's life may, at thirty years of age,' be insured for .£IOO at death. iWha^iaboufer's family but can afford this >or double or treble the amount for a corresponding sum % And here, as. we have before pointed out, the in- ! surance agent's best supporters and coadjutors should t be wives, and mothers of families, it is they who, when the head of the family, neglects this matter, should, with the same persistency thdy would use to obtain some coveted article of dress, urge this duty upon him till he is either shamed or worried into it, and even, if needs be, "take the bother and trouble of carrying it out m detail off his hands..