The Waikato Times. TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1878.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 889, 5 March 1878, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1878.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatever state ©r persuasion, religious or political. * * * • * Here shall the Press the Pbotob's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribod by gain.

The statement made by Sir .Stafford jNurthcolo that if the peace con-;Ji> ions between Russia and Turkey were found to be injurious to British interests the Government was fully prepared to vindicate Great Britain'* rights seems to bu accepted by moat people as a final y expressed uViirniimritm of the British I'overn-iik-Uij to a:aud no more nonsense ;nui Ku.ssut. We must, ho evei read to mind the fact that «a much' una hi eu Haul by other member* of IJje Gwvemnunt and again during the }ast s<x tnonili/& but we still Hud tiufel'iiid baeiangiiiridßllJt.g, stuu.injou and off, and -unable ',O bring herself 10 ihe determination of placing down her foot ami saying to Ku*sui, half, a''century ago she wiiu d have none, 80 far whalt thuu g> a d i\o f-.rtiier. But it wwl corny to* this at last, iuive no doubt. The piuok and the Mpii-it «n tie indomitrtble *-n ,u----raiit;* of the IBs ii %hj r.«c«.? are aa now as tlit'y wure ill tile warn of Aiujjoieuu Ui- Uttiuro tUuoi, au4 tue

nation ia far nice wealthy, n» <rc able to bear the pressure of w iithan it has ever been. There will Im no doubt as to the result, but British like we shall take the worst possible moment, and enter on a war under disadvantages which, need never have been encountered. Less than a year ago war, by the show of a bold. and determined policy on the part of Britain, might hare been, averted. Russia was not then prepared to have openly defied' Great Britian. Her plans and schemes were not sufficiently matured. Thanks to Mr Gladstone and the philo-Russian party at home, that opportunity of " stomping out" the ambition of Russia has been allowed to pass, and interference now means not peace, but war. Divided councils in the nation, and a division of popular opinion have kept Britain in check, while Russia was busily maturing her plans, and not in Britain only bub in Russia, too, has there been a divided opinion upon the expediency of war, but the successes which Britain has allowed her rival to obtain, the reluctance which her people and government have shown to active interference will have done much to strengthen the war party in Russia. Time, too, has been afforded to enable the Russians first to conquer the Turk and then take him by +he hand as a friend and ally. It will be a carious spectacle now to see Russia and Turkey, late at each others throats, joiued in common cause against British troops, when but for the vacillating inactive policy of the Government the Turks directed by British officers might have formed a large proportion of our armies.

In oar last issue, we noticed the removal to Auckland, en route for Hawkes Bay, of one hundred and eighty eight ewe hoggets from the farm of Major Jackson, of Kangiaohia, which had been purchased at the high price of J£B 10s per head. Our Waikato bred sheep, have, for some time past found favoar in the eyes of southern flockmasters. Pure bred rams from the flocks of Majur Jackson, and those ot nearly pure blood from the flock of Mr Leslie uf Taniahere, have commanded large prices irom time to time, and, only so late as the middle of last month, we find in the notice of a ram fair held at Napier,. the record of the sale of two of Messrs McLean and Go's rams, late the property of Messrs Kussell and Jackson, the oae for &!3 and the other for £22. We have never, however, had to record so large a sale as that just made by Major Jackson and that too, not of rams bat of ewes, and the tact should be instructive to our settlers as showing how m«ch better it is to hare a small©* flock of first class animals than ke overstock themselves with sheep that are hu oniy lor boiling d;wu, or idtle more. A wall bred auiuaai eats no more than a mongrel, and, the hist cost over, is titty ioid u.ore ra:U;ibie. lli re is the sale of a years pro iuce, v/bich migtic nave been raised anu Kept upou a mere " cockatoo" farm suid tor a suui ot £l,otfts, an••', thai voo, while many shoe, owners in the aiborict are looking for ward to boiling down as their best market. A man must haw mutton aud Wuoi lo *eii, at once, it urny be said, and iMuuot w*it to stock bis farm by degrees from tho small stud oi pure oic« sheep whicu bis means wotid ouly allow him tu purcuase fur a ooaiu This la true enough, but wuiidt he is vioutg che ouo thing he might be doing ihe otuer also, it m easy to keep Ulterior bred rams irom me pure bred ewes, and whilst ue is growing mutton and wool in quantity, as now, he may be ail «he »vniie getting together irom a sinali stock the superior bred flock Which shall ultimately iepi*ce theai. The xaut is, tnere is no district for U.aiuLe auu pasture can cumpete with this of Waikato lor tue raising oi first class sneop, and if oar settiets i»»d themselves out to make it so, ah Major Jucksou indeed has done, it might ouootne the stud nursery troin whence the large southern runs would import new blood.