The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1959, 27 January 1885, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE

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TUESDAY, JA.V. 27, 18SJ.

A \ i:ry timely article appeared in the Auckland Herald .1 few day;ago, advocating the establishment of a High School for the SVaikato. Our contemporary | ointed out that such a school was wanted not only, nor indeed chiefly, by the residents of this district, and hinted that its chief support would come from Auckland itself. Tho want of a High School, by which of course we moan a properly appointed one — similar in fact to tho-^e existing in Auckland and other largo centres — is much felt by many in Waikato, who at present are obliged to utilise the schools in other places Tho Herald shows that in England the city schools have become day schools, while the boarders go into the country, and that a similar course will have to be followed here. But we may safely assume that the need of a High School has been fully demonstrated. The question is not, Ought we to have it ? but rather, How aro wo to get it ' And upon this question a great deal remains to be said. In the tir^t place it is very evident th.it an endowment must be secured. We ought, of course, to have been blessed with ltrgc endowments years ago, but wo have not been so favoured, and it is no use now indulging in regrets. There is plenty of Crown land in the basin of tho Waikato. and some of it ought to be available for the purpose stated. To secure tins should bo the first object ; the question of site, and other minor details might conveniently ho considered afterwards. We trust, then, that no time will be, lost in approaching the (Government through the members for Waikato and Wai pa, whose cordial assistance can be relied upon. Upon the general question of u high school we have already spoken on previous occasions, and shall yet have something to .say. Meantime we counsel prompt and energetic action.

Ykt another dynamite outrage is reported from London. This time the grand old Tower of London, so ricli in historic memories, and the House of Commons have been selected, and the wonder probably is that both buildings were not injured to a much greater extent than seems to have been the ease. Apart from the wanton destruction of valuable property, and the danger to which .still more valuable lives are exposed, the cowards who sneak to their v> ork under archways and in cellars are inflicting irreparable injury upon the people of that country for whose sake they have sacrificed their tit'e to be called men. The true friends of Ireland will blush with shame when they read the accounts of what the dvnamitards are doing, but that is not all, nor perhaps the worst. The frtquent recurrence of these outrages, and the sense of clanger engendered thereby, must sooner or later breed in the English people a desire for vengeance, and this vengeance will, of a certainty, be directed not against the dynamitards only, who are not known, but against the whole Irish population of England This contingency was pointed out long ago by the lato Mr A. M. Sullivan, a true Irish patriot, in a remirkable letter addressed to the Rossa mob in Ameiica, whom he denounced as the real enemies of Ireland, and but for whom many reformsyet withheld might have been obtained. Mr Sullivan is dead, and the blackguards whom he cowed for a period have forgotten his good advice. They may yet regret that their memories were so short. Let us hone so.