The Waikato Times. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1877.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 835, 25 October 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1877.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Ot whatever state or persuasion, religious o political

tlere shall the Pres-j the People's right maintain, (Jnawed'by ji}.fjueace and unbribed by gain

.Our Alexandra correspondent,, no doubt, echoes the opinion of the public of his district when he asks what the government are about, that such works' as the VJ/aipa and Raglan road and the Alexandra and i\ ewcastle road are left unsaved for, while the whole force of the Armed Constabulary in "Waikato is kept employed upon the construction of the ro#d between Cambridge and Taupp. The latter js a work of political importance, and it lis matte'r pf no ljtths satisfaction that thetnen can.be employed upon it at all; but there is no reason, that we can see, why the other works referred to should not be carried on concurrently, and some portion pf the force be employed in Western Waikato, if hj has been thought advisable to make Aleir andra a station at all, it seems scarcely in keeping to remove so many of the men so fat away from it as they necessarily must be when employed in road-making in the direction of f&sßßf fr force of six;y men are now p afc'typrk; on Jhe Cambridge and Taupo riiad, which leaves only live men of the force remaining in Alexandra. Last yeai not more than two-thirds the number of-men were employed on the commencejpenfc of the Cambridge and * Taupo road, .and sjtarted work much later in the season, yet they opened up nearly twenty miles of road under more than ordinary difficulties. A similar force would have been sufficient during the present season, and h.avo left a strong working party for thV roads referred toon the Waipa. These are beyond 1 the loca,l efforts of highway boards to undertake/ anol in the case otthe Baglan ftnd W >ipa road the Government has again and again promised to carry out the work, and must have spent nearly I in surveys, to quiet the settler's,' as would haye half made the road for iheuv There "is, "too, no longer the excuse for delay, that no agreement could be come to as to the best line of road. The last survey, made for the Government by Mi« JPalnier, has some time removed that" stumbling block, Government, however, were content to let the matter rest. ' Nothing practical has been done, nor do we believe that anything wa3 ever seriously intended to be done in furtherinu- this wprk beyond the mere survey of theljine, . Witfr.a change in the.administrdti.9l> we may hque, we tru«t, lor better things, aid, little inclined as the late Native Minister was to allow the seyvfoßS of the Armed Ccustabul-try stationed in the district to be utilised for the execution of public works of this kind; a very different policy may be expected f/rom his successor, Mr Sheehan. > As an Auckland man, and one whose feelings strongly }n~ iluence him to advance the interests 'of this portion of the North Island, the present Native Minister, wo feel sure, would. giye bis earnest atteniion to the application of the get tiers in this 1 natter, and it is therefore desirable that' special representations should be made to him in reference to jt, It cannot bo expected that in taking wep> portfolio a newly-made Minister can become o-f once conversant with all these matters of, detail, and for what the new' Native ! jy|in.ist;er maj k U ow ; till juforra^tipn'

is furnished him on the nmttov, the present disposition of the road p'arty of the A. C. Force in Waikato may be the uiost desirable. It will be for those interested to point out that it is nob so—that ths settlers of the Waipa and of Raglan have a ulaim upon their services which the Government, has"fully Acknowledged, but has failed to practically satisfy.