The Waikato Times. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1877.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 854, 6 December 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

THUR SDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1877.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Oi whatever stuce or persudsiou, religious • r political • • • • * ilere shall the Presi the PEOPi.B'a rig t maintain, Unawed by intlueacß and unbribed iiv '/"in

MEMBERS are already leaving by* twoa and throes fjr their homes, and the Government are runnlig their measures through as quickly an , possible and with little opposition. The principal measures lelt, the Wast Lauds Sale Bill and the ( Financial Arrangements Bilf, wore put through last night. The Oolonial Tressurer, Mr Ltrnach, has left m ill htalth, his duties devolving upon Colonel Whitmore. His budget, however, would j appear to be no more hea'.thy , than himself. The colony was not a little startled to letrn the great 1 deficiency of revenue as compared J with expenditure set forth by Mr ■ Larnach m his'Fiuauoiai Statement, ( some £700,0U0 per annum. It now , turns out tbat tbe deficit is purely a 1 miaake on the part of Mr Liruacb, who put do-vn Provincial liabiliiies i as animal expenditure, a ranre matter 1 1 of half a million, but tortun*tely ou j «. tbe right sidu of the ledger. [', The liability is an exceptional one, . J and should be met by loan. Tbia c little error of accounts mast be a a zmt Soy Major Atkinson to oraek. <

That gentleman was told by prominent members of the Government when m Opposition that he knew nothing of fiutfjioe--Uiat; his figure* wore aU'' "wrong, his .- 1 it. m » n s delusive, . and it was pretty broadly insinuated that they were even worse. The new Treasurer was to expose all this, but like Bnlaatn, Mr Larnach, iustead of cursing his enemy, has altogether blessed him. H« accepts his estim.ites, adopts his statement, and m trying to make somethiug original ont of them, blundersto the tune of half-a-million m the Colony's animal Labilities !