PROPOSED CAMBRIDGE COUNTY.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 989, 24 October 1878, Page 3

PROPOSED CAMBRIDGE COUNTY.

Stß,—On careful perilsal of your account of the meeting held at Cambridge on Saturday last, it must bc evident to tbe meanest comprehension thnt thc fate of the Ministry is sealed! What Government could dare to hold office 'whilst antagonistic to the welfare of that truly wonderful district? The' unanimity which characterises the Cambridge -people is, surprising. Anything .tending ,t,o promote their prosperity at the expense of the Waikato district generally they are prb r pared to vote for tb a nian, regardingtheir neighboring .settlers* as mere outsiders, worthy of.no consideration. Is there to. be a cattle show? There is only one place in all Waikato at which it "can be held— Cambridge. A ploughing mateh ? — it must be within three miles of Cambridge. A race meeting f— the principal, ' if not the only one, must be at Cambridge. Perish all Waikato ! Long live Cambridge ! Cambridge's latest desideratum is'to become a County.' Picking, the eyes out of Waikato, Piako, aud Waipa Coun-. ..ties, and graciously including . them within the halo of its own magnificence. Its great desire is to shine before an ' astonished world — a County comma ilf aut. . , What matter .if -the thve.e afore^ai^. Coun,;.tica refuse to, be ..thus, dismembered, and oppose- the project of depriving jthem of their best lands f Cambridge is unanimous', and such opposition " must be treated as-of aminor kind, and. not legitimate, altogether , outside the area,, of. the new . County." The Waikato County, at " present', maintains over 60 ' miles of the Great South Road, which is.used by the fauffiSounties, and if the Cambridge and - T-amahere Ridings.are taken to form part of ' the new County, the unfortunate . Waikato County will still have to maintain the sariie roadi having many heavy • bridges on it — less about nine miles— after losing half its revenue. If. Cambridge, by reason of its importunity, succeeds in obtaining its request, the . Counties of Waipa and Piako will also be heuvy losers. All these " outsiders," •as Cambridge politely terms them, are equally concerned in the formation of the proposed new County, and had a general poll been taken, the " 270 odd electors" would have "••sen ill a hopeless minority. An utterly corrupt and timeserving Government having refused their modest and irrefragably just petition, the leading lights of Cambridge are augi ily blazing forth -with even inore than th*?ir usual • effulgence. Is it right -and just that an almost unanimous petition, emanating from tho most modest and liberal minded settlers who ever owned laud in a district whose fertility is tho criterion of all the soil in the universe, should thus be contnmcliously shelved by u' perverse • and gainsaying Ministry ? — a petition so evidently fair and just, that it has beeu signed by " 270 odd electors," who have mush to gain and nothing to lose by adhibiting their signatures to a petition, as manifestly fair and just as that of one of three- copartners in a block of land petitioning for the law to afford him the pick of the said block, and treating the counter-petition of his co-partners as an. opposition from outsiders, who should have no voice in ' the matter. The thing, »ir. is preposterous. Magna est Cambridge et 2>revalebit. The inhabitants of this great centre arc,, in all matters tending to their own aggrandisement, as unanimous as a lot of schoolboys,.clamouring for a holiday. And if they are unanimous, who shall dare to yjnterfero? ..." "'"' Messrs ~Clark ; arid Kirkwood' could .not get everything their own way in the Waikato County Council, . and being Avorthy representatives :of - ;the Constituency of. Cambridge, it follows, as a matter-of-course, that tliey must have a council of their own— their staunch silly, Mr Leslie (whose geographical position does not prevent him throwing in his lot i with Cambridge) and tho " 270 odd electors " uniting to maintain that it is a monstrous tiling that Government will not let them have their own way. ' Sir, let it riot be. said that thc Cambridge people have to wrest, their rights seriatim from the narrow minded outsiders by whom they aro surrounded. Let ns tather face the inevitable, and manfully assist in placing Cambridge in that poaition which Providence so evidently intended it to ocenpy Ifit be impossible to form" it into a separate colouy, let ib at least be g.-aetted a County and. the seat of Government removed to it forthwith. Let ic be penal to ho!d any show, match, or race meeting anywhere else within the North Island. • Lot it be felony for any person or, | ersons to hold ot maintain that any land, s'ock, or produce Ht to be seien exists or can exist with ut the confines of tho paid County. Aod let all measures ->(f ctinc or likely to effect tht* said Oouoty be laid before the committee appointed Ust Saturday, for rat'ficatlon. 1 would also suggest that the said committee bd appointed to draft a position embodying the above points, wbich peti. ion will . donbtlesß be evtn more unanimously signed in the Cambridge district than the one at present before thf- (Government, pod the Ministry cannot fail to be equally ' jropresßeo with the modesty and jusa'c? of the r.qu ,?t.— l *m ; &o, Ouwimiß.

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