The waikato Times TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1878.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 931, 11 June 1878, Page 2

The waikato Times

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1878.

Equal and -exact justice to all men, _ Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.

Here sliall the Press the People's right maintain, :■ ■ ; :< Unawed by , influence and unbribed by gain. •••.•:;.•;

The consideration- of the . Hamilton scab casts was to form 'part: of the business last night of the Cambridge Farmer's' Club, and there is little doubt but we shall find ■ wlieD, the report reaches us that tho justification of the Waikato flocks will have been earnestly taken m hand by that body, for there is a very general feeling throughout the district that the late trial m the Auckland Police Court resulted m a most unmistakeable miscarriage of justice. •Scab was never proved to have existed m thtf skin produced, and the Court refused to allow tbe case to stand or fall upon the fact whether the insect could bo then and there found .- or not by the ; prosecutor, though defendant's solicitor offered to throw up the defence if Mr Lewis could show the* Existence of the in-; sects m the skin. The flock froiir whence tnese 'sheep sent to Auckland were drafted, as we have lately annoiweed, has since beet| inspected by Mr jiunciman and tv/b other experienced persons, and declared free from scab. Mr Jolly has more than once challenged Mr Lewis to redeem his promise— that, }f the sheep were ■thus passed by the lo^al inspector, he would himself come .to Waikato and prove the existence* .of scab among them. ; Tffia ; challenge was re-published m the Auckland papers more than n ' week ago, yet Mi* Lewis has tu.keix no notice' of tho matter. The question, however, must be fovc«'l to s»u is -me. Subscriptions we Am gkid to learw will be forthcoming for & '■' refutation fund" from'iill p^ts of the W'ajicutp, and Mr Lewis, the Auckland Sheep Inspector will fiud that the charge winch he has made against a Waikato Hock, whiuh directly affects every flock m the district, will have to be substantiated, or an admission

made by him of the mistake m Juj^^P^which led to so unfounded iPwsfjuarge. \The flockowners of lVV|il?a^o will we trust be sat^'ecl^^ith nothing leis. ,The coi®itte^f the Waikato Pastoral an<||pgijff|Uunil Association meets at Ohaup^ito-day, and will no doubt ,also^ v a|i|^presentMtivos of the agriciiMfrai and pastoral interests m Waikato discuss the matter and the i-uieuns. to be taken for the vindicaiton of the district. What we would suggest is that a commission be appointed, say of from three to six of the mosb experienced sheep farmers m the district ;to visit Mr Jolly's flock with the local inspector Mr Ranciman, and m conjunction with that gentleman to make a minute examination of the sheep, as, \vellas of the skin (still preserved) of ?the alleged -scabby sheep seized by, Mr. Lewis, at^ Aucklane. ' The ; jlpcai ; , bodies taking lup the matter will then have grounds ■of : their' own proving; ta go upon, m whatever, course it may seem best to adopt.' ' '' ■'■ ; '