The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1873.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 245, 4 December 1873, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1873.

Our AleuiMclni corns, omlei.t si\s Hi.it tht> race committee there held a meet iim sit the Alcxtwi Ira H ilel, on 'liu\-duj «'\i'ni gl»»t, inul roiimt it ii- rtw-iin to:illo>- some of the race-.tiewon-ly .'proponed. If; is diluViiit to fix raws to plea-e ew-r\b>dy. I hope t'l.U tie eoir.niifice Imvo nppio.iclic.l the views i,[ the general publiculr.tic iii.ncr tins Hint; than tau\ did 1 ist. Tiie number of r<-pre*fi lat.ves allowed to the different districts for tlie 1871 Colonial Pi i7e-fi.ing is as, follow* :— Viiekhinl, 5; Watrun nn-T Waiuku, 3; Waikato, 2 ; Tarnnab, 2 ; Putoi iiml W.injmiii, 2; Eangitike., 1; lluttaiul IWirm, 2; \V.''lin M 'tu!-, 2; Gre\lown and Mjisterton, 1: Xapier and Wuirua, I ; Poverty Bay, 1 ; Tauranjia and O.jottk), 1.: .Thinnc*. 4; Nelson iind Mnrlborough, 1 j Can-lerbu-y, 3*; Otago,B; \V. ntlond, 1 ; Armed Constabulary, 3. It the agricultural dinner at Christchurch, Mr Vogl*l is reported to bare naid— ' lam quite free fo admit that the railway policy with which »iv own mime lias been so much identified, was fiiM, min.ilod in tiic 2'rovince of Canterbury. (Cheer*) To Mr Moorchnuse (prolong! cheers) realh belongs (he inception of the great railway policy lor' New Zealand. Thpro was ii ltm^ interval between that initiation and the progees* wlncli was given to it and the subsequent resumption of the p..lii-y some four years since, but to Mr Mooreliouse belongs the credit of proposing to the Province iho initiation of rmlwnys ujio • a^cale which was larger in iti magnitude nt (lie time it wns'pronoscd tluui thp piesen' railway scheme c-f the Colony. (Hear, hear, and cheers ) When I h.ar ppot* te t ] c t.dk of the ambition of n ;oung colony gomg in lor a trunk svsiom of nulwnt from one cud of the colony to the oilier, I cannot help remembering that when H e I rovince of Canto bury numbered Ip«s tlinn 9,000 souls, then >t n*a« proposed, and the proposition w »s heartily agreed J to ; of cou^e there were grumblers, in there always will be. (Laughter.) A population of less than 9,000 committed uscll to the expenditure of a quarter |of a million lor the construction of a railw ay seven miles in length ! That was a | more ambitious proposal than tne system of railways now being carried out, nnd I hope that the success in the one case m»y be tlie precursor of success in the other. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) But Idn not ti nk-th it the policy of Mr Mooiehois-" yet be.n fullillcd. a d L am not speaking now in reference to Canterbury but ot Kew Zealand »enerally. His policy was to male railways, not for the mere purpose of malinga profit, but for the' purpose of opening up I he countn." List session Q ( the General Assembly nn act wiu passed, " Ihe Protection ot Animals Act, 1573 " The Act'tjlaees'iii I the hands of the Superintendent of e>ch provuice' tlio power to rtcfinp the period durinji which game shall be shot, proTided that Jccenw shall only he given between the fir«t day of May and tl-e 31st day of July. Last year, lfc will be rempmbered, that only two months, June and July, were dedared the shooting season. Tne tanners in this district complain very much of the dauinse dono to their crops by the pheasniits, and they have now become so numerous that w -f3f 3 etter s l ots r '" a " hilherlOjOiid more of them visit the Uaikato, the country will be overrun with "them. We • riiJt, therefore, that the Superintendent will see the adv ability of allowing shooting during the full period J*'" o d by the Act. Tv th.H dibtricfc thete is a great Biirp'in of ciek birds, so much bo that they arc ton^nntly fiuhtniir over tne nest 1 ? and destroying the eggs Clause 24 of the Act privules for this evil ; it enacts as follows: — "The Superiniendent may authorize any person or the servants of nny person by his direction or permis-ion to kill or destroy any nnimal which in his opinion is calculated to become injurious to the owner of nny properly or any male- pheasants whic'i shall be on the property of such person upon reasonable evidence to the satisfaction ol tlie Superintendent that such male pheasants ate in excels of the reqmmients of bucli applicant fir breeding purposes." We wou'cl suggest also that the amount of the license, at any rate for the districts distant from the centres of populal ion, should be reduced to £1 Is. We nre confident, that no loss of revenue would ensue therefrom, as many more would be taken oul. The pheasnnts in this district nvc far 100 nutncroiH, and there is not the slightest fear, at present at any rate, of their being destroyed too rapidly. We are informed that Tapthnna was not d.reclly the inMijiatorof Mr Todds murder; this much he did, "however, when the murder had taken pace, he look the field with nil his men, and caused considerable anxiety in Alexandra and the neighborhood by his clo^e proximity, lie has gone to Ruili with the nrowed intention of trjing to induce Tawhiao nnd Manuwhiri to meet the Governor at Ngnrun nab in in'the Autumn. According to Maori custom Tapi> linna vr >uM be a fit person to bring about a wur, and also to make a peace.