AUCKLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4240, 20 September 1875, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

(l>'ROJ[ OUR OWN COHKESPONI>ENT.) ; Spelling Bees have become all theVage. There; was one last night. There was another to-; night; and both were so successful that there! are ."[certain to Tab- many others. The.-:ftS.|;isj great, and the prize5.ar.3,g00d....... The Jj«|t prize: at both has been taken by a young lady of; great accomplishments—daughter of the Rev. ■ Mr Edgar. The secondjj'rize to-night' fell toone of the lads in the Herald office—showing that the:bad spelling of which -.correspondents to newspapers ,ar r e accustomed to complaia is. nj^':alwayß:''^e\;iaMt'' % (>E:'.tha^'.pritttera:-at-.'all; events. Tliesel'Bees".hamb'eenweU attended, 'arid the cause of so muclr funj:'that I ; recommend them. strongly to .your readers' notice. :: The Rev.-P. Aghewgave his second lecture last night. It was even better- than' the first; He has a power of humorous as well as pathetic narrative, which found full vent The story of; poor Johu Muir-was.oae- not to be forgotten., Transported for Bedition; in other words, for: advocating Parliamentary reform, _ and. he f a young, ivhd^arSent; iptMent andjbarrister," was consigned to the purgatory of New South. Wales. The story of his escape, his sufferings, and his death We're"told with deep feeling, and ; moved the audience, as deeply. You. Jhaye a' great treat in store, 'for Mr AgiieW'intends visitiDg'Dunedm;and"y<>ur people will, I trust, =. give him the hea^receptjoij. "Ms abilities and; purpose claim, luat purpose; is,""X am told; to rescue from the'oblivion- into which it'is, fast fading' the history of; events, that indicate .the? terrible effects of government, even ;ot-.crimi-' nala, by the brute force which'formed the onlyidearof government'iu the days' to1 which/he: refers. 'Among thoseio-called criminals; were thousands' whose offences !'wero': purely- poll-1 tical—if offences ...they !'cbiild.,'.. be, or of. the moit; venial/kind. All were herded together. All tore their food' iri pieces; from the .same ;tin: dishes. All' were' put to- ■ gether. into reeking and filthy deria,■•to be tyrannised over by warders and overseers more ; brutal/and only nipre.cunning than themselves. Yet these' things were, ordered, and this,condition of affairs, was. defended-by men calling themselves gentlemen, statesmen,; and Christians. How enormous the gulf between then and now ! How haa.it been bridged, is the question one asks , himself, ■ and ponders over after hearjng~Mr "AgnewV lectures. He is to give his third to-night. The bare facts of his narrative are to bo found in many cases in Parliamentary records, but his personal acquaintance with these, facts, and-his-wonderful memory, enable Mr Agnew to impart to them a fullness of detiil and a vigour of pourtrayal that impart the charm of novelty: even to those already known.' : ■ ■"■'■ ■'■'••■ ''" 'l;"-"'{ ;.. The Vesey-Stewart party—special settlers 'at Kati Katij on the•• eaiit coast of;?this; Province, near Taurariga—areherey and are to be entertained at a banquet under the ■ duspices of -the Orange Lodges to morrow night. lam glad to hear that the attendance wDI not be confined to Orangemen, but :that men of many-coloured creeds will assemble to greet them. This is well, but it would have been better in the opinion of many, if the Orange creed and party had not been s> prominent in the matter. It would j be a great pity to allow these people, fresh from the very hot north of Ireland,, to be under the slightest impression that" sectarian differences prevail here. They are a' very lucky lot of immigrants—luckier than they themselves are perhaps reody at present to admit. - They have' a splendid block of land, and are to be put upon it by the General Government free of expease. I believe a certain amount of -house accommodation is also to be "provided. They bring with them about £30,000 in cash, arid are certainly a fine body of people and a desirable addition to the population. A good many of the old settlers with growing sons look on nevertheless with no great pleasure at the alienation to strangers for nothing of land which they can only get by paying highly., for at Government salesi and with the heartiest wishes for the welfare of the presp.nt body sincerely hope that it is the last of the special settlements on the choicest land in the choicest portion that.; we aretosee.'>. •- ' . ■''■ ''.'■;-■■/.■ ■ '■, '•: ■■ ,-J '_■■ ' The agitation respecting the-Abolition Bill has ceased for a spell. But it is to be sincerely hoped that Minfsters will fiqt be misled. I was never more struck than how: by the wide determination not to;: allow .•■the Bill to be put into operation here if it became law. One of the largest landed proprietors in the neighbourhood of Auckland, a wealthy man and no keen politician, told me only to-day that he was prepared to make grave and serious sacrifices to save the country, as he put it, from falling into the hands of " a mere ring of schemers." I will not mention hia name, though. I doubt not he would readily have agreed to my doing so had I thought of asking hia permission, for he spoke openly enough ; but all people acquainted with Auckland will at once recognise whom I mean, and the weight that attaches to.the statement of a quiet and money-making, but large-tninded man. I asked the gentleman why lie did not

: : —=r ~ ■ .-. i.";,;.j',."^rt- "vrr OPv"|- *'" come forward. His answer was direct. Firßtly> hi 3 health and tastes diiinolined Win for it;i secondly, Le was" satisfied that no talking would ? have any iriHuence on the party that desired for its owii ehVJsito seize theorems. Tlie^Jwere; bent on itj and: could only bo rriet bya'-firm, ■ bold, and open, defiance when the proper time camel I\vas muelrimpressedwitli the earnestness and determination \yith which this gentleman S'xike. I have heard'hundreds declare bitterly that they never; will be ruled by the present. Assembly, that they know too wull its moving spirits; and; have Had too much experience of .- its land jobbery,, Native jobbery, and jobbery.; of all kinds. 'Nor will ihey see the;.slightest; bar put -.in the way of their children's free access to public Hie by any living' man or body of men. Depend upon it a storm is'brewing; here, of which those, who are needlessly pro-j yoking it hay c little idea. If they "only, heard. themselves, their past histories, and.their pre- ; sent proceedings canvassed, with the bitter keen-; ness that I hear, they would hesitate a little | more than they seem at present disposed to do. ij

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