"OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1873.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 185, 17 July 1873, Page 2

"OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1873.

to have been greatly opposed to rapidity of action, In another column wo print the speech of his Excellency the Governor. We trust that the words | put into his Excellency's mouth with regard to the prosperity of the colony will be borne out by facts ; , the statement of the Colonial Treasurer will bo the test. That the colonists in the major part of the > colony have confidence as to its future wo have ' little doubt, but they have not got the damper of the native difficulty at their very doors. We are told that the public works scheme is being rapidly carried out ; if the Waikato Railway is a sample of rapidity we may be allowed to doubt the assertion. Tf circumstances will not admit of a few miles of railway being constructed in a less time than j has been given to the contractors for our line, circum stances are certainly very much opposed to celerity. As regards immigration, circumstances appear also otherwise, those who have been entrusted with this portion of the Ministerial scheme have been very laK. The cessation of opposition on the part of the natives to road making through their land we must admit is not apparent to outsiders. Documents hidden in the depth of the iSa:ive Office may evidence the fact, but, having only results to judge by, we are incapable of observing it. In treating of the one question of all others that interests the settlers in this district the Government in so many woids says, "We do not intend to do anything ; the criminals are left to the ordinary operation of the law." Tardy indeed is the process likely to prove The allusion to the culprits having hidden in districts icmote from European settlements is, or was, simply untrue. We and all our leaders are perfectly aware that Purukutu and his mob were for some time after the commission of their crime within three hours' ride of one of our townships. We equally with the Go\ eminent are averse to precipitate action, but it appears to us that the Government are averse to any action beyond building a few redoubts and maintaining a force on the frontier at great cost ; and wo can only believe that this has been done for the purpose of temporarily satisfying the settlers. The Ministry will have to answer the questions : Ist Is the king farce to be perpetuated ? 2. Is the confiscation boundary to be continued as the arbitrary limit of civilization? We wait with anxiety for Mr McLeans explanation in order that we may clearly understand the position in which we actually stand. We have thorough confidence that this gentleman has the ability to manage native affairs, but fear that reasous outside the question have hampered, and will continue to hamper, his actions. When the murder of Sullivan first took place, the agent of the Go^ eminent, we presume with the consent of his employers, bounced the natives not a little. The natives are too used to that sort cf thing to be easily frightened. Once more wo have tnreatened dire revenge and done nothing. We do not advocate war, but cannot help feeling that more decided action thau has been tho case should have beeu taken ere this. We shall defer further comment on the natne question till after the Native Minister has spoken. An attempt is to be made to reconstruct the Legislative Council ; we presume that if the Government scheme is cairie.l, lion. Legislators will be elected by the people, and not appointed, as at present, by the .Ministry of the day. The establishment of Native Distiict Councils is foreshadowed ; it depends much upon how they are coustituted, and with what powers endowed, whether they will prove beneficial or othorwise. A Native Lands Act is almost as a matter of course part of the programme. It is matter for wonder whether we shall ever be ablo to get an Act that will work satisfactorily. The forthcoming tfill be about the sixth attempt since ISO 3. "Where is the Education Bill ? Shall we never get a Ministry that will undertake to deal with this question ? The speech has given us as much information as is customary, and perhaps it is well for Sir J. Fergnsson that ho is not called upon to support by reasoning and faots the assertions his advisers have made for him.

We were about to congratulate the proprietors of the Nchon Examiner on their enterprise in making their journal a daily in place of atii-weckly. If, however, the undertaking is only to be made to pay by advertising, in the s'yle of Moses &, Sons, we are sorry tint they have increased the number of their issues ; in fact, if the issue of the aid. July is a specimen of its fntuie conduct, we would much sooner write an obiluaty notice of our contemporary. We should be ablo to give him a pood character for ability, although that ability has, of late yeais, been tempered Vy considoiable p >litical acidity. Our contemporary has in&fanced the things a man' who refuses to take his | paper does not care about ; they are forty-one in number. Amongst them we find : "He does not care for our new Governor or Lady Ferpnsson. " "He does not care for a good glass of Nelson ale." "lie does not care for Mr Redwood." "Neither does he caie for ' Lottie.' " We, of the Press, had certainly a right not to expect our profesnon to be brought into disiepute by a writer in the Examiner. In the name of common sense, what has subscribing to the Evamintr to do with one's respect for the Governor or his lady ? And we would ask, is the paper so largely mixed up with the brewers of its native city that (for revenge) the beer of non-subscribers will bo served out to them thick and acid. We are not aware who ' Lottie' maybe; but, if she is a nice young lady, and has any connection with the Pi ess, as represented by the Examiner we can only pity the bad tasto of those who do not seek her smiles at so small a cost. We feel that the Evamincrhna brought disgr. cc rpon itself, and as disgiace to one of a class reflects upon all— upon the Press of New Zealand— we trust that the conductors of no other newspaper will be guilty of following in the footsteps of our touting contemporary. We observe from a future issue to the one alluded to, that the gentleman who is to surprise the world by his ability, has not yet arrived on the scene of his labors. We aie very glad to learn the fact. We are glad to nnnoence that l)r Marshall arrived in the district last evening. It is his intention to practice in the \\ aikato, piovided he is promised sufficient Buppoit. He will visit personally each of the settlements in order that arrangements mutually beneficial to the settlers and himself may be made. We have known this gentlem m for the last ten years ; and, by reference to the Geneial Government Gawlte, it will bo seen that he is registered as a physician, surgeon, and accoucheur. He will meet the inhabitants of Ngaruawahia and the surrounding districts at the Delta Hotel, this evening, at 6.30. Wo have leceived a letter from a correspondent in Hamilton. Ue complains that tho standard lb. as regards butter has been reduced from 16 to 14 and 15 ounces. Ho names tho Btore at which ho procured his supply; we refrain from doing so in the belief that to mention tho circumstance will result in the deficiency complained of being remedied in the future. It has been brought to our notico that tho unlives nre purchasing large quantities of Hintdies. These have bm\ i frequently used as substitutes for percussion cups. Wo suggest, therefore, that no storekeeper should sell more tlmn one small paper box to any natno. Tho settlers, wo uinsider huvo aright to ask storekeepers to sacrifice a lit lie profit in order to aid in securing the general safety of the inhabitants