AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1728, 2 August 1883, Page 2

AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and evict justice to all men, Ot whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political. Here shall the Pres< the People's rifrh' maintain, Unawcd b} influence and unbribcr] by j»ain.

It in gratifying to see that the Jasfc insidious attempt to tamper with the provisions of our educational system has been effectually crushed. Yesterday Mr M. W. Green, who appears to bo haunted with the idea that he is ordained to upset our " godless " system, moved for a return showing the number of parents for and against the introduction of the bible" into the schools. The motion was so strongly opposed that Mr Green asked leave to withdraw it. This, however, was refused, the member for Wai pa remarking that the House ought to adopt a more emphatic plan to mark its disapproval. Subsequently the motion was lost on the voices, and with its disappearance let us hope all attempts to meddle with the Education Act will be abandoned, for this season at any rate.

Oxn hardly knows in what spirit one ought to receive the news of the death of the informer Carey. It is beyond the range of possibility that any honest man can feel genuinely •sorry for a blackguard who only differed from the murderers whose passage to the scaffold he facilitated in that he possessed a meaner and more despicable soul than they. For it must be kept in mind that Carey occupied the position of a director of those ghastly proceedings in which some of his wretched companions unwittingly and even unwillingly found themselves engaged. We do not wish to palliate the crime of these subordinates. There is to our mind absolutely no excuse for murder, ! cold-blooded and deliberate, as was ike assassination of poor Lord Cavcudish. Bat neither rnusfcit be forgotten that the cunning strategists of the Invincibles chose for their tools ignorant, hot-headed youths, and put before them simply two alternatives — either to do their bidding or to suffer death. It has been one of the ,forpmosj> objects of this man Careys .life to enlist the I sympathies of young Irishmen in ; the glorious cause, which he t hadi embraced. ' 'paying blinded with a, lalse p£^9sWn,Vw4 JfflNf* l

latcd ,them with Jfs&stiootrine that the best political, 'argument is murder, he led; them {into- ovime and bftfcrayed then?, i To 1 throw «,w«,y sentimW on sjiph a^ blackguard as this is absurd. C-^But oh the other haud '.ono^migKt, perhaps, have •wished' that 'fie had been allowed time to ruminate on the miserable pist, and to suffer some little remorse,' .if his nature were capable of it, for the evil he had wrought. WeHhink the surviving Tnvinciblos have allowed their zeal to outrun their discretion. To say nothing of sacrificing the life of O'Donnell (who is sure *to bd hanged— and a good job too), tho most refined punishment they could have inflicted upon Carey would have been to allow him to live. Hunted from post to pillar, and from pillar to post, shunned, -as he would have been by every decent man, his life would have grown into a perfect hell of torment, and would have acted as a much stronger deterrent to others from following in his footsteps than his death, however awful its surroundings, could possibly be. For it is simply ridiculous to suppose that the manner of Careys death will shut off the supply of informers. These people are not usually actuated by any desire to further the ends of justice. Their one sole aim is to keep their own necks out of the hangman's noose, and in order to this they will cheerfully run the risk of ending their days in some less public manner. A prospect of present safety is to them of infinitely more consequence than the consideration of an ultimate and? ifc may be, a remote danger. This is the only conclusion we can draw from a review of past events. Carey is by no means the first informer who has died at the hands of the assassin. Moreover, like others, he was prompted solely by consideration for his own safety. The game was almost up before Caroy spolco, and. though his _ evidence simplified the proceedings, there is little doubt that the truth would have oozed out in any case. When men band themselves together for tho perpetration of evil there are sure to be of the number some chicken-hearted beings whose simulated valour cannot outlive thoir immunity from danger. These aro the material of which informers are made. The fate of Carey is no more likely to send treachery out of fashion than the hanging of Brady and Curloy is to discourage the commission of murder when time brings round the opportunity.

The House of Representatives was chiefly occupied in discussing Major Atkinson's motion for the second reading of the Property Tax Bill. Mr Montgomery, Mr Dargaville, .and the Treasurer were the only speakers of note, and the debate was almost void of interest, though it was expected that it would last over the week. The second reading was carried by 49 to 33.

We are requested to draw attention to an alteration in the advertisement of the Comus Club's perfoimance in aid of the Tamsiherc Church. Children, it will be seen, will be admitted at half* price.

We understand that about a month since arrangements were made by the members of the Anglican Church, and their friends, to provide the stipend of an assistant minister for the district. There is much difficulty however in filling the post, and the Bishop has as yet been unable to make any appointment.

, It was somewhat amusing at the i meeting of the Cambridge Town Board on Tuesday last, to listen to the various | titles given to the board by different ! correspondents. " The Cambridge Town ! Council Board," "The Cambridge North Township Boaid," " The Cambridge Kast Town Board," were among those given. For the benefit of all whom it may concern, the title of the board is simply the Cambridge Town Board.

There -will be special collections at 8. Andrew's, Cambridge, S. Peter's, Hamilton, and S. Stephen's, Tamahere, on Sunday next in aid of the Home Mission fund. The object of the mission is the supply of the ministrations of the church to the poorer and less populated districts of the Auckland Diocese. The Synod recommends that collections ho tnade in the Anglican Churches generally on this day.

Mr J. Allwill, whose name as a .raiser of puve bred stock in Waikaco is now well known, arrived in I Waikato from the South yesterday with I his latest purchases in the Btud line. He brings with him the pure-bred Clydesdale entire horse "Young Prince Charle," and tho entire Clydesdale colt "Bonnie Prince Charlie," both of which I he purchased from Mrs Nimmo, "The Grange," East Tai«ri, Otago. Both horses are in capital condition, and boast of excellent pedigreea.

The Rev. G. W. Pepper, a Methodist minister, in a protest asainst landloi'dism in the Witness, a Presbyterian paper published in the north of Ireland, writes :— " There were other objects which awakened a deeper and more impressive interest than even Nature's 1 beauties. They were the groups of halfl] naked, starving men, women and children. One word reveals the cause of all this wretchedness — Landlordism ! Ifc is to be met everywhere, and everywhere it wields triumphant sway 1 It tramples upon the most honoured principles, and mocks all that is most sacred. It perverts the generous emotion of the human heart, and stamps bigotry upon the Ulster Protestant, who ought to glow with the dawning brightness of his emancipation and stretch out his hond to his Catholic fellow-sufferers in the South, It rules in the Exchange ; controls agitations, and animates the very prayers of the Churches. It builds magnificent mansions — splendid but damnable trophies of its power,"

The following extract from the prize list of the Canterbury Pigeon. Poultry and Canary Show, oueued at Chrisfcchurch on the 26th , of July, will shovr how worthily Waikato was represented thereat : — Cochins,— Buff Cochin Cocks— B. C. Mourner. 1 ; W. Sly, 2 ; W. Spicer, 3. | Buff Cochin Hens— B. C. Mounier, 1 ; S. E. Poyntz, 2 and 3. Buff Cochin Cocks (under twelve months) -S.E. Poyntz, 1 and 2. Buff Cochin Hens (under twelve months)— B. 0, Mounier (age six months), I • Edward Strange (age six months), 2." It will thus be seen that Mr Mounier took three out of fche four first prizes awarded. He also gained a tpegial prize given by Mr J. D. Macpherson.

TJie Kawhia correspondent of Mr Aaekfcud morning con temporary says :—: — On Friday, the 20th inst., twenty natives proceeded to fc!i« camp pi the survey party, who had crosßod the Pakpuka Rivev at Aotea, The Maoris swore that if the men did not convey their tents and other things back again to the other side of the Btreatn, that they! would' burn them. , Xlier,e bfting only two or three of the survey pavty at this advanced part of' the rqad ?! an^^fr, Burd ( being ,ajf?fta| * l {e tjniejthey, I suppose, J^pugji^isl^ionT ..tfhe.bgttei: partj of valour,,, and.rat'urned

Raglan, came out to tho camp on Mtftt% day, and I hear tmt he ordered the Mflnj to return to the §Sj* ce where they we|«ij; sent fepm by tfjuijj^ti^M. he H^^l I^' poliow|afi|fronr^pnin «|b-^tne dj.rt io;| AoteL4 The K|^ « Bet °* present «^ Kawlim, KaVinjj Sit on^edngsdtvy, tUt'> 18th|p)r WhathpatiboM *' (C

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1883.

The- Hamilton Foottallflub team for the ilfatch ftjgainat ''Cambridge' i» as | follows : — Messrs Green, Yon Stnrmer, Pilline, Stewart, G. Beale, Thompson, ! x AHwrii>ht, Bindon, Osborne, Gwy.nne, Graham, Hfnton, ~ Hunt, Odium "and' j White. Emergencies— 'B^nMtyn^. T. Beale, Cochrane ancl McKcn«iß. Emer- | gencies are requested to roll up, as one i or two of the team may be detained. Tho following will comprise the Cambridge team -.—Messrs Barton, Blair, Breakoll, Curtis, ' 'Haimdna, Mallard, Bleasel, Rin^, Grey, Hardy, A. Pattersoo. F. Patterson, H. Wilson, Davey. Emergencies -Franklin and Richardson. Mr T. G. Sandes will act aa umpire for Hamilton, and Dr Collins for Cambridge.

The Huntly correspondent of tho W. Z, 'Herald writes :— The following extracts from a letter recived by Mr L. B. Harris, of this district, from the member for Waikato will be read with interest. Mr Whyte writes :<—" The delay in going on wi th the, punt 'over the "Waikatp at Hnntly is owing to ft "difficulty ia procuring a title to some native land on the west side of the river. The Waikato County Council were first asked to arrange the purchase, but declined, asit was not in their district but in the Raglan County. They would take no. stops, jmd so the matter bas been bung np.,", He goe» on to aay that he has been doing what he could to get a bridge 'erected which wouldbe a great advantage 6Ver a pnnt. The only course he can see to do this, however, nfter consulting the Premier and the Minister for Lands, is to get the new Waikato Coal and Steam Company to offer to contribute part of the cost, in which case he thinks the Land Department would also contribute, and for the two counties to apply tinder the Roads and Bridges Construction Act for the rest of the money required. Before this can be done, however, the road fiom the Huntly station across the river over towards Raglan will have to be declared a main road. The Waikato County Council will have to take steps to do this. Meantime the Council have resolved at the meeting on Friday to go on with the purchase of the native land, which will be required either for bridges or punt, if the Government will hold them harmless of low."