WHATAWHATA.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1122, 2 September 1879, Page 2

WHATAWHATA.

Saturday. Me McMinn addressed the electors of Whatawbata m our Hall, on Tuesday evining last. Mr J. R. Macdonald m the chair. There was rather a small attendance. Our late member commenced by explaining his action, re the Wmt of Jonfidence motion, dis reasons were, that the Government had failed to carry through the Electoral and Triennial Parliaments Bills, which they might have done had they wished. He had no confidence m them, but, ab tbe same time, had the Want of Confidence motion not been brought (and we presume, such a olear majority for the Opposition), he would have still continued to support the Government Mr McMinn touched upon n.ative matters, the Loan Bill, and other leading questions, but m everything ho attacked the Government ; m fact, but for us knowing him so well, the electors might very well have thought that they were being addressed by a Southern gentleman, and this impression waß further strengthened when ■ Mr McMinn said, that, considering all things, he choujht that the North had always revived its fair share of public works, railways, &c. This view, though allowable iv a Canterbury member, seems a strange ono to come from a Waipa man, where, chough the district has' been settled for many years, there is not a decent road to be seeu. Mr McMinn was listened to attentively, 'and, at the conclusion of his address, reoeived a vote of thanks.— Corresponnent. Monday. TnE electors of this part of the Waipa district are very indignant at a representative being provided for them, by the Auckland or any other committee, and, at a meeting of the electors, held on Satu... day, the following resolution was, carried! unanimously :— " That, m the apiruon, of this meeting, the self-styled Grey Committee, iv Te Awqmutu, have misled tb-. liberal Committee iv Auckand, m v tVrf? Qpi f ioU i 5 aUd S6P - no Son why a few local men. >- a any townshin should dictate „ to who^ mLt^o f,' as candidal f or Waipa". After tho political meetings, on Friday evening, the concert came off, anel was a great success. Milny ladist mA gentlemen, m the district fisted, and were warmly applauded. Dancing was kept up until ?- m ;» th c affair heinsr brought to a close ! with three oheers for one of our settlers, who has recently been rash enough to give up that state of freedom, of which bachelors aro said to be so proud, and had given the entertainment, to commemorate the evont. — Correspondent. What idtra-democracy, urged on by the demagogue Kearney, has done for the state of California, which has been cajoled into vetoing its old constitution and adopting anew gqo> may be gathered from the following paragraph taken from the < ban News Letter.' The only hope for California is that the President will veto the new measure : " That our state has drifted into a most serious, crisis* is a fact that cannot be ignored A revolution is upon us, the outcast of? which it is difficult to forete^ Cleay heads, sound judgments, and. wills are needed to guide, awl control the events of the next fisw months. Nevoe having lived ii\ Stance during a revolution, we hpm never seen a state so, com*. pKcly. m the throa of dissolution i tt regard to all existingV^resdg as is this, brod- blessed but man-cuijsed California Everything is ab<« x t to, be tuamed topsyturvy, and who. and what is ta come out ight. uppermost, is what no morial mm Every office m the <tato is about iO be vacated and filled, how, and W vhom, God only knows. .The GownS *4 -M* oulcers go, the judg^^f md small, go, senators and assSmhwT ro, the charters of our dld^^CS fficials, from Mayor i ft the Wr of cad men's estates, go, commissSS of very sort go, cW^es and clerks " 0 ml here is not ft bhft so much as 2 f nrfflS&fcto W hich one of any 1-wS™ ntoiv The rising tide of dSni^f ? is to ™ccim e :l£Z?Z2t c. md even an aged No,l, t«. _*inShff itter leluge. This m^ wo know, but b e ood that there* fe % d»k and di eary w