MEMORIAL TO THE GOVERNMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1242, 15 June 1880, Page 2

MEMORIAL TO THE GOVERNMENT.

I A MhM-KivL i^ being largely signed in the Oh-iupo distiict, promoted by Sam Steele, Es^. , chairman of the Hamilton I£i«jrliw.iy Dibtiict Board. The following is the text : — in the Hun Juhu H.ill, Premier- Ihe petition of the undersigned lcsidents of the Conntic, <it AWupa and "\\ aik ito show eth, — That wnuoas by locout importations of cattle into tliOM- district* tlio disease ot pleuro-pneumonia. wis b»o<ij;hr into the rountn ; and whereas it wis considerel nete^sarv to prc\ cut tlie spread "I the d.oi-.isf t!i it the bouHi Auckland Cattle Distiut sho-ild be proelamcd, and a Cattle Po.ud and Depuh Cattle Inspectors gazetted • i-ul whereas su. h JSon-d and the Inspectors ha\e I .r-^powLn, giun tiiein, and wheieas by fully everrioint^ ud ;jo\< oik, ot b^ incompetence, being 1 n\vr 7c.iloas, or otherwise, incalculable damages can lie done to <i comni'inity ; and whereas we ha\e been mtortiicd on good authority that some Laltlo the piopcil" of the Piako Land Associ. ation weie e\aiuined m Auckland by Deputy Cattle Inspector Greatrcx Nadcii on a Thursday, <i';d d-v Kited < lean, and on the following Saturdiy \\licn examined by him in this district decLi.ed infected ; and whereas we arc further informed tluit the fai m of Mr Duncan JlcXicol, ofOh.iupo, was dec Hied injected, and one animal killed which pi o\ ed to be healthy, owing to the roport ot the Inspectors, the farm was kept closed and remain;, so to this date ; that subsequently the faim was again \isited by the Inspectors Gre.itrt\ Xaden and John Runciman and lns,)Citui Geise, and two animals killed which were •ijso declared healthy bv two medical men of high standing (also by Inspector Gerse) who were present and examined the lungs, and whose report is attached hereto ; and whereas we are informed that on the first visit to McNicol's farm Inspector Naden offered to bet with John McNicol that he would find pleuro-pneumonia in the farm; and further, that Inspector Ruuciman did likewise offer to bet he could point out an animal which was diseased ; and wheJeas, owing to the action of the Inspectors the whole County of Waipa was declaicd infected, while the disease had only been pio\ed to exist on one farm (Durko's), thereby causing great inconvenience to e\cry cattle-owner and loss to many; and whereas we are of opinion that the said Inspectors, after expressing themselves so strongly in icgaid to McNicol s cattle could not act impartially, and would naturally desire to sec their statements picned, cannot be competent to discharge their duties : and whereas we cannot place any confidence in future in the said Inspectors — we your petitioners most respectfully beg that you will take the necessrry steps for their removal from office, and as in duty bound, &c.

There is a sunshine of the mind, a happy temper of disposition, which far outweiirhs all oxternal advantages ; but this sunshine oi the mind the man of honor aud probity alone experiences. No br'be Can purchase it for the unjust ; no blick duvicop, no mean arts, can pluck it from the upright.

Death of Captain Boynton. — Paul Boynton has gone over to the majority ; at any rate that is the report which reaches us from the other side of the Atlantic. The performer with tho mysterious "rubber dress" has had a very strange career. Inured to hardship aud privation from his earliest days on the great lakes of his country, it required little persuasion to lead him to become the champion of the "life-saver." Next, perhaps, to our own wonder, Captain Webb, he was about the finest swimmer ever been ; he was a veritable otter of the human species. Besides his expertnesa as a swimmer, Boynton was also a dead shot and a splendid trapper of wild animals. He had been in many places, seen many things, and mixed with many men j but he had an unfortunate weak. I ness : he could never "put money in. big I purse " and keep it there.