ECHOES FROM THE CAEE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1460, 10 November 1881, Page 4

EC HOES FROM THE CAEE.

Our Auckland volunteers do not seem anxious to proceed to Piiriha'ci, lo "put tlu> fo.ir of death" into Te Whiti, Tohu, and tho rest of tho duskiea there. Thny Biiy that, if theie is any lighting to bo done, they are leady and willing to go, but that they aie not going to leave their businesses aud fheir situations to go down to tho Waimate Plains to make roads for mx bhilhugs p r day. Thpil conduct is not very patriotic, us they know, or at any rate they ought to know, that the best way to avoid bloodshed is to have such a body of troops on the Plains as would conwnce the JVLioiia of the futility of my attempt at armed rpsistance. However, I do not bUmo thorn very much for their want of patriotism, as home of them know by bitter expeiienoe the sad results of going into the field. They know that, dm ing the Waikito war, scores of onr volunteers perished, not by the bullets or tomahawks of the Maoris, but through exposure to rain and cold, through having to eat food not fit for human consumption, and through having to drink bad water. Many a family in Auckland mourned the loss of one of its members, though few, ?f any, fell by tho hands of their human, foes. List week, the Observer furnished its readers with what is called, " The Elector's Vade Mecum," being a list of declared or probable candidates for the various electoral districts, with a brief notice of what each has done or left undone. The majority of them wero of so complimentary a character that they misht have been taken for obituary notices. For instance Doctor Doubleshuffle is " let down" very lightly. The notice of him concludes with the lemaiks, "as a politic m isompwhat inconsistent and impriiotioil, bat well-mo.mm ' " Somewhat inponsi^t.'iir, ! Oh 1 yo <roh' Hurely the wronjf woid must Invc b°cn u'-e 1 by accident, and for "somewhat," it should read " vory." R-wler 'Wood is HpoViMi of as lioing " acou^ed of selfbcekino; and iiisinrfnty." Only "accused." I should hive siid, " found guilty by inoontrovcitiblo evidence." Han is, who will bo mightily offended beciu-o his title of " ]\Eijor" is omitted, is described as being " modest and nnnv euming " Gieat Cresat's ghoit! what next ? The present members for W.iikato and Wai pa are vciy f.mly treated, but M.ijor Jackson is priised overmuch, while^poor McMinn is completely ignoied. Bupli is greatness. One of the most "fetching 1 ' things I have seen lately is the following letter, clipped from a South nn newspaper,

A DISCLMMKR. 10 1 111 I MIIOK Sik,— l sec by this morning's paper fh it jou announce me as a candid tte tor kcc^l.itiw honors I distinctly dcn> tins, is I ,im piituiilu ,i> to the company I keep, .uul ffooiliiL->s only knows wli.it a crowd I should m -ot w th in P irli nmnt— Land •iluirks, M ion p ikoli i>, and minis.— l am, &c , "\Vm Lu\ion. W niton, rgtli Oct., 1881 J> S.— No jellow .i^onj for me. believe tn i' the writer is ;vi adept at imbibtion" and Billing-gati . He le.illy ouglit to reconsider hid dotcimiuation and book election as 11 Gieyite. What a splendid companion ho would make for Speight, if th.it worthy should happ n io b> le-eltcted. So the ] r of the Kully G u>g ha- broken dc.wn, an 1 wo will liavo t\.c gentlemen p >^ng as in irtyis and piob.ibh instituting act 0 1> foi libel agaiu4 -ill and undiy, th<£ row.sp ipers vJinh li.ivc nfenedto them as the' Kelly Gang," so the piopiietor, editor and pubh-hei «t tl>o Waikvto Timxs li.ul buttei Keip .1 good look-out fot .1 griitlemin w IMI .1 number of pieces of blue paper in his hand. lam pictty tatV, as I am not " worth powder and shot." No ! lam not safe, as they may pios n cute vie ciimiually, and I m.iy involuntaiilj seek the seclusion th.it Mount Eden grants. (A plague on Gilbeit and his opeian ! It is about time that people stopped th.it "Piunforo" gag.) Well ! Ido not object to going to gaol, piovidcd wo all go together, as J will go any w hem in good company. Wh.it a time we would have ! and how we would bore the readcisof the Waikato, Tim*..s when we were icleascd, with full, true and particular accounts of what we did, and what we did not do, in g<iol. One of Speight's speeches would bo light reading in comparison. Well ! I will havo my last fling at the Kelly Ci<ing before I am " run in," and say that I am extremely soriy that the prosecution has biokeu down. I havo said my say and now for Constable X 93. Tho llmtld contains tlio information that the Postm.ister-Genei.il ofYictoii.i lias ai ringed for tho use of postage ftampa for duty purposes. A vciy pioper thing to do, and our PostmasterGeneral ought to follow fcr-p good example *,et him, as it is a creat nuis.incc liaving different stamps for post'i^o and duty Thero is no practio.il adv.int.igo in the prepent aysrem, its only use being to show tho iespcctive amounts earned by the two depaifcments, and we can du-penso with j that information, i consideration of tho increase in public convenience. Yes, we ought to follow Viotoii 1 in that 10specfc, and she should follow us in the introduction of a penny letter postage. If a letter is posted in any office in Victoria, to bo delivered from the .s.ime office, it requires a twopenny e-tamp. In that respect, if in no other, we are in advance of Victoria, thongh she does claim to be the most advaLCcd of the Australian colonies. Messrs J. C. Firth, James Mickay, and James Babor, and others less well-known, havo been writing letters to the newspapers, condemning the Government for their action in connection with the Parihaka difficulty, arguing that Te Whiti and his followers should bo let alone Would it nob bo much better if theso gentlemen would apply the "let alone" policy to the Government, instead of Te Whiti ? The Hall Ministry have arrived at the conclusion that it is time that Te Whiti and his followers were compelled to elect whether they will be peaceable subjects of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, or take the consequence of defying the law, and every loyal Riibject ought to approve of tbe action of the Mimstiy, instead of carping tit it. Sir John Lamb, who, whatever his friends or enemies may say about him, is a man of phrewd practical common, sense, put the matter very plainly in a letter which appeared in the Herald on Tuesday. Ho says, "If the natives will live at peace, let it be so, but they must be made to understand that we cannot tolerate the uncertainty that has been going on 60 long. Every effort has been made to satisfy those natives by the Government, but without avail, and now the iron hand of the law must be employed, and, if necessary enforced with arras. The"o always will bp objectors to any forwaid movement, but, I lepe.lt asrain, Piict this Maoii sc.ire once and for all." Good man ! John, you are right this time. The dispute between the City Council and the Harbour Board about the strpots on the reclaimed land, has been settled by Judge Gillie-", who was appointed by tbe Government to aibitrate belwen the two bodies. Tlie question at issue was whether the City Council or the Harbour 13oard should form and maintain tbe street, and Mr Justice Gillies has decided that the former should do so. Public opinion endorses tbe Judge's decision, as the Council has levied rates on the lessees of the allotments abutting on those Btreeta, so it is only fair that they should form and maintain the stseete. Good news for the Fenians ! The price of Nobel's Dynamite has been re-

duced to half-a-crown a. pound.' Thu3 for the moderate sum of two shillings and sixpence, the Fenims can obtain sufficient dynamite to destroy hundreds, if not thousands of pounds worth of property. In these hard times, when everything must be done at the dnapest possible i.ite, this is undoubtedly good news for the Fenians. May they buy dynamite at this low late and blow thomsehes up •with it, is the sincere wi-h of St. Mungo.