LOCAL PETITIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2026, 2 July 1885, Page 2

LOCAL PETITIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

(li\ II I r'.KVKII — <!*! CI U ('OKiaM'OMH NT ) Wf i r mi. roy, Wcdne-d.^ . Mil .T. 15. Wli\ri- li.i- ])iostMitc(l .1 petition fiom .f.is. Mill-, and 170 otluus, praying that I'Vi^'ii-i >n\ b.itti-ij', Tv Aiulm, in.vv bi> coniu'ctud with thf county ti.imw.iy. lit 1 his !iKo |)ri«'iited a jiotition fiom Stnmol G'ncLi'tt, o'Hiipl.iiiiiiig of h,i\nij,' brt'ii w lonely di>>piHu-«ifd <>f a ceit.nn i>ieco of land.

KI'ITU'H KIR (tORIK)V — 111 lepl)' to .1 letkr fioni the poet Whittici about (Jenir.il (Soidon, Loid Tennyson Ins wnttcn as follows :— " ])c,\r Mr Whit tv r,— Your ic(|iic"-t has been forwaidoil to me, and 1 heiein send you an epitaph for (roidou in our Westminster Abbey — * c fioni his cenotaph : - ' W.iuini of (rod, in m\ fnend not hero below Hut somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan ; Thou live-, in all heart*, foi all men know Tins eaith hath boine im simplei, nobler man.' "' An'otiii k p'>iy upon Mi Gladstone's familiar nime—- the CO \[ 11-jvene it, and you have M.0.1* , which being interpieted mean" " Miudercr ot Goidon." A Ni.u York Hruvu>\ Boston special gnrs an account; of the spre.ui of socialism in Ma^achus&etts among the followers of Robert Owen, Josiah W.nren, and Benjamin R. TacUcr. Ho says :—": — " Disoiplt s of the latter aie multiplying all over the eoimtiy. Jle is vciy practical, not demonstiative oi noisy, and dcsiies simply that the States should, he lcmovcd, thinking a sine and stionger social organisation Mould grow up naturally. He is, opposed to Communism ; believes that a man should own only so much land as he can use; that he should own no land to be lented or to be held foi speculative purposes ; b"lio\e 3 in absolute fieedom of tiade, and that any individual has as much natural light to id<ne money -is he has to iasue cotton, cloth, or flour. These are also the views interpreted by the State hatei s of Massachusetts and their disciples all over the country. Boston is the head centie of these ideas. Among those mentioned as active agents disseminatint; Amrchist principles is Allen P. Kelly, foimely connected Mith the San Ki<uiciaco and Ynginia City press. He and his wife now own and edit the Lowell Sunday Bell. K< Hey is an associate editor of Tucker's Liberty, and is a strong believer in the Anaichistic faith. Mrs Kelly is cveiy bit ns much an Anarchist as her husband. There aic the Til ton girls— Josephine* and Kloia. They have done much to spiead the principle of anarchy, and ha\c canvassed the whole of the United Statet, fiom beyond the Mississippi to the Atlantic Helling Anarchistic pamphlets, disposing of nearly L'oo,ooo m t is way " Tendei-i aie cilled foi cutting timber, kt , foi the W.ukato Timber Company. Mi H. (Jowper, auctioucm, Canibi idgo, m ikes an liupoi t.mt business- announcenient in ,iuothei column. Mi J. S. J Auckland's ()h.ui])o Luc Slock S.do is .idvciti.sed for Tuesday ne\t. Mcmbeisof the Hamilton Lawn Tennis C'lul) who havo not paid their subsciiptions 1 aie ictpiested to do so. Mi T. (i. S.mdes, rniantity sunovoi, notifies that the quantities for the Pitniu liudtfe aio now ready. Me-,sis W. >]. Hunter and Co., will sell at Cambiidgo, on Thuisdiiy the !>th inst., fat heifeM, fnt cattle, sheep, \c. On Saturday the- 11th, the,\ will hold then usual hniso sale at Cambridge, when they will offer throe useful horses, two strong harnpss horse*, (fraught horses, dr.iy, harnos, saddlery, &c, &c.