The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2347, 26 July 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1887.

Kiju.il and exact insure fu all men, Ut uli.ii-s;>e.er sUio 01 pcrsuat.uni, i.-li-ious ui

Tub apafliy displayed in to the J’oiiiii'.d .Reform Association dot's not say much foe the earnestness of the people of Waikato. A few weeks a"o the; cry for retrenchment, which lias keen heal'd all over hew Zealand, reverberated from side to side of this district, and every eleOtor appeared to bo quite determined to tic every candidate for his down to a policy of economy. W'c are loth to think that all this patriotism lias evaporated, hut really wo can come ‘to no other conclusion. J taintless, i lie fact that (he candidates for Waikato have froelv and

Milnnt'U'ily pledged themselves to clip tile civil service expenditure tins hud a "rent, den I to do with it, but this adonis no excuse fur the half luoutedness displayed. .It

is !iot .-uillicimit that our mi'inhors .sliimh! op to Wellington willing to *'*arnoini.-.o they should go there hound to do ihfii' utmost in that direel ion, and nothing less than this should saii.-iy IliP fleetors. On matters of minor importance we may with [irolit allow (hem to exoreisn their own judgment, Imt upon the important (jiifsiiou of relrencluucut limy should ho pledged as tigliiiy us possible. Wo trust, thou, the members oi the Association iu various parts of (he two (doctora;e.tvill awake to the iiiipoidaiieo of liu occasion and, without loss of lame, obtain from every candidate a disfSma and. (hj llniu) pledge upon tins T.m.nion.