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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 927, 1 June 1878, Page 2

As the continued dropping- of water wears away the proverbial stone, so does constant agitation by the people ast on the mind of their admiuisfcrafcors. A story is told that m the palmy days of the Native Depart* nient, a certain well disDOsed Maori

chief m New Zealand failing to obtain attention at the hands of .. „, i it , " the Orovernraent, casually remarked, that, much as it might pain him to do 80, he felt that injustice to himself and h™ 3 ities ,fa should have to burn a lew Settlers houses and tomahawk a surveyor. The hint was taken, and the wants of that native at with due conation at the hands of the Native JJepartment. As it was with the native chief m the early dq.. of the colony, Hit TO with , certain widow near two thousannd years ago, SO is it now that those who clamour loudest get tj, e most. A short tinift <imr>P n ni'roiiUi* A. same time since a circular was issued by the Government J that no further tenders , for public works would be accepted m consequence of 'the alarminc statu ♦• 4.\ /•« *•• i. w, V* 9 ,.^ Ot the Continent and the probability •f not being able to negotiate (he loan, and amongst the first works to to he ehelvpd has hwrn th.t nf f I,— to ue Bueivea lias been tiimt ot the extension ot the Auckland railway at its extreme north and south ends, Tenderer's tor the Ohaupo-Te Awamatu e.te« S ion had returned to them the^ cbeque| X winch accompanitd their tenders on tho 15 th of May, and wereinformed that no tenders ndd, y»h, ft. eircumstaaoe.,, be accepted, litere was a stoppage too at the other end of the luje, The much talked of extension to Kaipara, which as regards the ma- *. *• *l «^'"ua me ira portance ot the results that would follow cannofc be compared with the prosecution of the Waikato end of z lin B,r t he w r ds i Ttr a..SO. iJllt the people interested ill the Kaipara extension have not sat down patiently under the deprivatZi ™7Jr a m " lI ° tllcir T oi -r jjieard, and to some purpose. In its issue of Thursday, tl^e li Star " pub, lishe3 the folio-wins; telegrams which may be token ob the clirxi»lis..tion » ,i » .i . ,: ... of the frothy agitation which has worked ao powerfully on the Public Works -Department. " Auckland 21)ih May, 1878. r J.\» Mir George Grey, Premier of New Zealand. — What reply am I to make m inquiries ip £q tl|.o uompletiou of Auokland and Ivaipani R tilway ? — Wm, Swanson." "lo the Hon. "Mr Miiuaudrew, Minister of Work-, Wellington. •— Knipara Railway — Great excitement and dismay at delay" in calling tenders. Are tlie repeated promised of Ministers to be fiiptiiQV yu)\iip!il'f—'f. S. .Macfarl:i no."— | Tkcse tclc'iji'ams Glioit'!d th(t folUnyij}^ replies: — ''To SV. Hvf.insor,, I'jsq,, M.H.fi.., Auckland. — Jvaipaia railway IfiudoT.'S havo been is.^iifd to-ckv.— J,

Macandrew." "To J. S. Macfarluuo, Esq., M.11.X. — Kaipara railway advertisement for tenders has been swnt to newspapers to-day. — J. Macandrew."

So much for agitation and the lesson is one whicli our Waikato settlers should take to henvf. Has Te Awamutu, has the Delta ; rio claim for consideration, that so iim* portant a $'prk as tl • repeaterfly J and" so lately promised extension of the" line, for whicli tho money has been vot«d by Parliament, should be quietly shelved on so flimsy .a pretence as the possible difficulty of raising the lust New Zealand Lojii m the London market, aud that too m the face of the announcement made m our telegraphic; columns of to-day thnt nearly two and a -half millions of the (.(Juecnsland loan had been subscribed ! Our Waikato settlers have seen what public agitition and political influence c.»n accomplish when, an m the case of a work of tar leas importance, the Kaipar* exten. sion can be pushed ou m S|.iteof impending war and alleged dubious loans. The experience should not be - thrown away upon them.