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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1143, 23 October 1879, Page 2

,^Dhe firsfeMinist'ferial^pp^iutineiit madfe'; MW Gfp-iimcnef >as eagerlg hold; of bpjhe Opposition Press, tjof; damage I Itno^turns. out tbail^i Mr Hall|e'associ4% iof thY ; Jnhiefs. Justice, suffd .^at^preSent^iv acting 'in| : vi)uncdm, i and wlio has been appointed Regis- 7 trar of the Supreme Court, Wellington, is no relation whatever of the Premier. :: "^To-Day's -Show.— Mr " Langb"ridge7tlie editor and compiler of the "Waikato Handbook," will be afc tho Cambridge .Show to-day^fpr .the purpose of meeting ■"o-cwitry"*Cettlers^"t6't>b*tain"fnf6Yma'ti6n"fo!p'-pubHcationiandenrpUing^subsci-ibers. The subscriptiou is £1, which thcliulcsa descrip-tiou-.of the subscriber's landed^ or business 2)J:pp'erti/:;^,u6. a dl£zen liandlfoofes. ,Jhis ia a very moderata fee, and we feel sure that the enterprise will be heartily^. supported. The cost of the work' will beveiyconsiberable, and ; as -it will be di tributcd gratuitously, the" proprietor depends entirely upon subscriptions to recoup, him. We believe that e^&vy bona Jide settler will gladly pay th'e pound, and what is a good deal more to the point, obtain " value received I ' for his money.— Feri sapj : Me Reader Wood and. his Constituents.—We' learn; from Tuesday's • Star,' that an impromptu meeting of Mr Reader Wood's committee was h'eldlnitlie, Masonic Hotel, Devonpdrt, the previous' night.; 'Mr Ei W. Allison wab voted to the chair; arid stated that the meeting appeared to have been called' to consider the present. political aspect «f affairs at Wellington. Mr Bennet, who has just returned from Wellington, stated what he had seen and heard both inside and outside ( the .Bouse of Parliament. . After free discussion, it warf unanimously resolved! to ; send -the ■. following message to the member "for Waitemata (tteader Wood, Esq.), to. which thirteen persons present attached,' their'; na_mes,,but this mOrning one of the signee's scratched his name off the list, leaving twelve.: — "General impression ' here that Hall's ' Government would be more favourable to Aucklandthan one formed by Macandrew. : Considered advisable that Auckland members should ■ support Hall, i -on' condition of passing Liberal measures, giving two Auckland -Members seats m Cabinet, and* justJshare m public works loan."i (Here\ followed signatures;) Mr; Tanner suggested that- a publiG uxdeting ishould be called for the following night, "and duly advertised; This .was^approyedy but the opinion was that there was no sufficient time. ... . _. „„_ r. . : NGAEUA.WAHIA . ALLOTMENTS.—^On 'lueS- . day, Mr ; Arthur. sold,. at his auction mart, Queen-street, -lots ! 347 \ and 334; > of/ the town of Newcastle, for £15.each;i-- ■ r ' There will' be" no ; company drill' of; the Hamilton Light^lnf aiitry 'to -night' in con- ' sequence of 1 the ! ' Cambridge ! ghow, but, there iwill be, a/ drill fdr ßecruits. • Vr '-,' !;' ; i^» Frank Edgecumbe, it will, be recollected that some little time since' „ off , Crown. . land that he was. surveying, . near ; Lake „ Waikare. : The late Government instructed him> to 'go 'on with ' the survey higher j up the Waikato; but he ! has met: with a hosile ! idterf ererice" between • Huntleyand Rarigiriri, th'eti'ig. stations also having been destroyed last Sunday. The Political -Position.— lie conversion of .the, Auckland. press has been slow, : but it. has come at last. ' What we. wrote a fortnight back \-ujponj. the : ; political position at Wellington is, it will be seen, forcing itself upon the consideration of the ' Auckland Star' — the suicidal rashness of the Auckland members m playing into-fche handsof -Mr Macandrew. Tuesday's « ; StaY' says:— "The defelt of MiHall secured, what is. to. follow ? Mr Macandrew will undertake the formation of a Ministry, and .has already received promises of such recruits' from Otago as would give him a working majority. If : this imeans anything, it means an accession of power to Otago,. and it behoves the Auckland members to consider whether, from past experience, they can believe that Mr Macandrew f can satisfy the just claims which this Province has against the public works fund. Wo say, unhesitatingly, that we 1 have no such faith. Why was Sir George Grey thrown overboard ? Was.it to advance Liberalism, or was it to further the ends of Otago, and of some Otago members to whom the ex-Premier was personally objectionable ? The ques?' tion furnishes its own answer. With tne retirement of Sir George Grey, and the adoption of the liberal programme by both parties,: the Auc.land members were released anid at perfect liberty to make the best bargain they can for Auckland. It is a struggle'ori the part of ' Otago for ascendancy; by Auckland for justice. Let the question be' fairly faced. The Auckland members will have much to answer for if after commanding the position as they do now, they allow themselves to be sold by •Mr Macandrew. The Provincial/District can show a legitimate and irrefutable claim to. something like a million sterling — an amount m which ;it has been wronged by public works neglected, and bogus votes that were never intended to be spent. . We ; want that -claim fairly recognised, and compensated for. If Mr Macandrew does not recognise it, Mr Whitaker has declared on the hustings that he does, and we presume the elevation to office has not changed his opinion. The uckiarid members must get "justice wherever they can obtain it, and their sole duty: now is to .take steps that will guarantee the protection of the works which are legitimately due to this province, and .on which its whole future depends. ' '.' . i.'.. ." ' ' ' When we stated, m our last,. that the train commenced ;:■" running,'' on the Hamilton Extension Railway line, on Monday, we used a ; term scarcely applic- 1 able. Since thenj we have seen the solitary car, with its , pair .of horses, .promoted from the plough, pursuing its funeral pace between the two stations, and a more complete and ridiculous parody on : railway locomotion we never witnessed, i The omriib'usses leave Hamilton for the old station, and take and bring back the bulk of the passengers arriving m Hamilton,^ from the Junction- Station/ iii time to drop their passengers at the Hotels, and return to the new station, m Victoria street, for any one that came the through passage into Hamilton. An Accident happened on Tuesday, to "a young man named. Dixpn, from which he had a narrow escape of his' life, f-iorse and rider fell into a deep arid un- ; protected drain, on the East side the borough, the horse falling back upon Mr Dixon. Fortunately, the animal; he was •riding, 1 was a light one, and after a con'sidefable amount of struggling, Dixon managed to. wriggle out of his dangerous position, considerably l bruised, and-hav-•ing both boots torn from off his feet. The 'horse was afterwards got out alive, '■when assistance came to hand. Ahpngst the exhibits at the Cambridge Cattle >how, to-day, will be a collection of Herbert H. .smith's ovens, ranges and stoves, including the very popular New Zealand Eclipse Cottage Stove.. Mr ■ mith has obtained a well earned celebrity throughout the Auckland district for his ovens, and stoves, which are not only equal m capability to. all that he claims for them, but, for strength and durability, cannot be surpassed. Me H..H. Smith will attend at the Cambridge Show, today, to answer all engines from persons

wishing to purchase, and until 1 o'clock ou to-morrow at the National Hotel, and I and later on that day Friday at the H amiland at Mr Edgocumb's office. ,'-'"tiiE Te \ iioha Block. — At the meeting oj^the Auckland Waste Lands Board on -TiiiiiMay, notice was received that the eastern \ portion of the block had been brougnt under the jurisdiction of the Board.; ■ The total area of the new block wasSpated at 22,000 acres. A considerabhf portion is reserved for native purposes, :'&%!' 3600 acres for an endowment for a High School at the Thames. It was resolved at the Board that 1000 acres should be .reser.ved.as, a^domain jgund. the, mountain to prevent its" being disfigured or denuded. » A 1 proposal that 4000 v acres:: already surveyed- should be sold half for • . cash, and half . on .deferred .payments-was held over till a more^libefal land till than that of the late Government should' 'be" passed.,. That tEe^nativesare anxious for the settleWentCf'^hfe blockmay be gathered fromHhe f ollowing'letDer ilenfc through Mr A. Porter, of the Thames Council to the Government: — "Sir,— We, the under-' signed (natives) ,' take advantage 1 of. your presence amongst us to request that you. will m your place is. the Thames' County Council., remove, the erroneous ..opinion which seems to exist that vf,e are .jfrbstruo-j. ting. settlement. We \are/ not like the' dog 'in manger, but are willing ariel anxious to assist m every way the settlement of Europeans m our midst. . We are the .owners of a 'reserve known as Te • Kawaiia,' of some 250 acres, which we?are told is the most suitable place for a township on the banks of the Waihou -Jtiver; and.we r wish it generally known that we are prepared to enter into, reasonable arrangements -^itE tEe Government' for sale or lease of said township^ lands.. We ; have already given the Government a reserve of tEree acres for landing purposes, iwEicEj-'if riot consideredJa.- tEe rigEt place;* can :be; re-selected, m any' part of tEe block.; We larei also _; willing to grant, (failing purcEase by tEe Government) any .reasonable quantity of, land :tEat. may be required for roads, 'bridges; ; &c. More tEan tEis we do not tEing it neeesssary to Bay,vlnpr isEbuld we Ea've jsaid'^tMs mucE Ead we not had reason to believe tEat we and our intentions Eave been misrepresen-•ted.'-r(Signed),'Reha Apeeahava; Aihe Pipene;— Te AroEa, 1 lltE October/ 1879."