The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 560, 21 December 1875, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to ail men, Ot whatever state or persuasion, religious or political # # # # * Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence end unbribed by gaiu.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1875.

Who r- teals my purse stools thrash, but he who filches from rae my good name takes thdt which not enriches him, but leaves mo poor indeed. So said Lord Bacon, through the mouth of the player, Will Shakespere, some three centuries ago, and so w ill the good people of Hamilton say to-day, when they learn tir't to .itcominotlate en tain govd'HMfiiu odvi ih it is vci>,i >so.i to ruke aw;.y r.ue naiut LhaL %yoB g.v^'i to Lheu* township by IT3 godfathers and godmothers m the days of ::,•= ii fm"v, mi to x>, .Ire uf it a Biffilla or 3

Bomo flueh abomination. Seriously speaking our respected Postm^sior has received official instruction that it is the intention of tbe Postal authorities to change the name from Hamilton to something else, and a request that he will suggest^ new name for the township. The only reason we can think of is that there is a township of Hamilton or Hamilton's somewhere in the Middle island, and this may give gome little extra trouble to Mr Bis and his clerks, and probably to some other little great man and his clerks ; but who ever hoard of the name of a town being changed for any such reason, or who ever dreamt that official insolence could reach 6uch a climax as to attempt to effect the change in suoh a cavilier manner. Are the people of Hamilton not to be consulted in the matter? Are the deeds issued for tbe district of Hamilton to be upset or rfu«sued to please Me Bis, or Mr Rbynohmi •© Mr anybody else? Is the Highway Bon A«f Jamilton West to be made a guy of honcelorin, as that of Dedwood is now, and. in all public notifications and law suits to be gazetted and styled " Bisville and or Hamilton West f" Is the name of one of the most important townships ©f the Waikato tote changed and the people of the district left uncensulted in the matter? How does the Postmaster know but that ]tbe people "here would wish to call it after their present Road Board chairman and Mayor elept of the futurecity, " Z/ongbottomborougi. P" At any rate they have a right te exercise a voice in the matter, and it is a piece of sheer impertinence on the part of any official — no Government would be guilty ofeuch disqwurteßy — to do as Mr Bis has done. Rut really we see no reason why a change in the name should be made. Haw many post towns are there not of <the same name in Jfngiand, how many in America, and who ever seriously proposed to 'change the name of any one of them in order to save half-worked offioials a little extra trouble, We very much mistake tbe temper of tbe people of Hamilton if they will quietly put up with such high handed deal ing, or the people of Waikato generally, who will we tnx»t«iakethe cause their own, for if wa no Dot stand together in such matters as a whole we shall be at ary offioials or Government* mercy. There is already an Alexandra somewTiere dowu away south, in Otago we believe, and a Newcastle in New South Wale*, and for aught we know the Canterbury people would like to have, Cambridge too. In compliment to the head of the Government we offer the following suggestion for which we shall make no charge. Cam is the name of the river on Yihichmir sister township of the Horotiu is set. Let that town henceforth be called " Camphor " and Hfur.ilton West be called "Borx" and, as Alexandra is clo*e to thehauhaus, "Brimstone" would not bean inappropriile ncme, call Newcastle "Treacle/ and we ehall then hare camphor and borax on the one river and brimstone and treacle ©n the other a eup^heous quartette of names that will certainly not clash eitewheie, and oue which will bring Ui-ck early reminiscences to two at least of the ministry, of a time when they had c omethir.g more useful to do than create confu ior, as ia now propotl, and remove their neigh ooui s land marks. Really the proposed change is so preposterously absurd and ludicrously impertinent that we scarcely know whether to go home and clean our rifle, or whittle up a new goose guM in readiness for a dittle chaff in our next issue.

We regret that we hare not space to republiah from the ' Herald' the very able letter of Mr JCFieth in answer to Mr Macandbew's recent pamphlet and speeches. It is the less necessary, however, to do so as the Waikato settlers are fortunately free from the foul taint of that political heresy, separation. Mr Fibth charges Mr Macandbew and his party with the intense selfishness of their policy i and truly the retention of the land fund is at the bottom of it all. Abolition means sooner or later the making the land fund the common property of the Colony, but unfortunately the less thinking of the Auckland public led away by the utterances of a paper, the organ of, and subsidised by Sib George Grey, have thrown themselves under the wheels of Provincial Juggernaut who is willing" eacrifice the future prospects of the North in the enjoyment of a common land fund with the South, if he can only thereby secure the continuance of Provincialism and of his own power as Superintendent of the Northern Province. Mr Fieth taunts Mr Macandbew deservedly for the selfish views he now advocates, as compared with the manly and statesmanlike stand he took in the session of 1856 against the sale of their land fund by the North to the Middle Island Provinces. How that iniquitous compact has worked Mr Fieth graphically illustrates in an instance which only occurred a short time since. Auckland, the Province of Auckland mind, lately asked for the medest sum of £20,000 to provide, in some sort, school-houses for the whole Province, whilst during the last two years Canterbury has been enabled from its land fund to spend £32.000 in providing three school-houses in the city of Christchurch alone. No wonder that the Middle Island has increased in wealth and population beyond the North uatil the balance of power has been turned, and it has come to claim as a right, greater expenditure, and greater representation than the North at the hands of the legislature. Messrs Macandhew and Bolleston as the superintendents of Otago and Canterbury may naturally in the present transition state of Constitutional Government in New Zealand be expected to favour any policy which will secure to them something more than the peacock's feathers of the Superintendency, and separation would secure to them the land fund for ever; but that Sib Geobgtb Gbey like another Personage should " rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven," that he should seek to deprive Auckland of its birthright, once parted with but now on the point of being restored, in order that he may wield extended power as Superintendent of the whole North Island poor as he would make it— well, we can understand that too — but wo cannot understand that the people of Auckland should assist him in his schemes It is well that one public man at least, has the spirit to come forward and put the case to the electors. MtFibth ! pointing out the future greatness of New Zealand to be accomplished by a United Colony, concludes an able letter as follows :: — • " Should, however, your narrow Provincial predilections influence you so far as to impel you to break up the Colony iv order tkat you may continue selfishly to appropriate the land revenue, which you admit to be colonial re-venue dejure, I warn you that you will be defeated. For the coming elections will show even you that the red herring cries of Separation or Federation will not any longer avail to keep the land revenue of the "Colony for the exclusive use of Canterbury and Olago The great majority of the electors of Auckland, Wellington, Napier, Taranaki, Nelson, M*rl borough, and VVestland mean at last 'to have their rights' of vrhifh they have been so long uujustly deprived. In the coming struggle there will be but one plain issue to be settled. " One Colony, One Revenue." That is the question which the great majority of the electors of the Colony will deoide against you, in accordance with common sense, common justice and sound policy.

Rain and still Eain.-— The rain which commenced on Saturday afternoon has fallen almost continuously throughout Sunday and yesterday. Fortunately it lias been very light or we ohould have had another flood on in the river. As it is, we already hear of mischief done. A considerable landslip iias occurred on fcto Cambridge road about two miles this aide of Cambrid c wliidi which h:iB romplelely blocked uu thu irinlc. iOi'tunately tbt» coach and other conveyances will bft able by making a detour r<» avoid the part of the road obsr-ucteri, ko that rl'O'igb ih- i'iro).\pn3er..M is gr. at, coirnnnnicsi.ivn wri

The Royal Hotel has again changed htnds at NRaruawahia. Mr Hough, the new proprietor, takes charge to«day. Langbridgi and Silver's Abt Union. — W« ere given to -understand that the Art Union which was to haw taken place at ChristniM has been postponed until February. Ngaruawahia School.— The school examinations took place on Thunday lust. The examiners mere pleased with the progress of the children, and •complimented the master on it On the following •day the master -(Mr Glanfield) gave the children a treat, previous to dismissing them for the Christmas vacation. Hamilton Entertainment Committee.— Owing to tie inclemency gf the weather yesterday evening, but few were present though the committee carried out tkeir principle ef never postponing the performance for that cause. A portion of the programme was gone through bat the money was returned at the door. Mr. MoMinn at Ngaruawahia.-- Our report of Mr. McMinn's meeting at Ngaruawahia on Saturday last only came to hand »hortly before midnight, and must necessarily be held over till our next. At the conclusion of lie meeting a vote 6T confidence and promiseof support, proposed by Mr. Fitzpatxick and seconded by Mr. Edgecumbe, wero oarried W acclamation. A Ror;&H Ridb.— EUewhere will be found an interesting and graphic description of hie journey during the late floods from Raglan to Hamilton, from the, pen of Rev Father Golden. If such a journey had only have had to have been performed at such a time by a minister of the crown instead of a minster of the gospel there would have been some jhope of the epeedy undertaking of the construction of the much needed Raglan and Waipa road. DANOEROO3 Hole.— The culvert at Redgrares on the Cambridge Road, has been wa«hed awajby the floods and some hundreds of tons of earth have been washed away with it leaving a large and dangerous gap nearly the width of the road. The Cambridge Highway District B ard with their accustomed promptitude have boarded it round and are only waiting Ike advice «f the Engineer as to what is best to be done befora rr pairing it. We are afraid it will cost a consideeablo sum to place it in proper order. East Hamilton Ckmetbry. — At a meeting held at the Royal Hotel, on Saturday, 18lh December, for the purpose of devising ways and means of improving the present state of the Hamilton East Cemetery, a committee was elected to collect subsriptions aud expend the same ra fencing and othor necessary works. Messrs Cumminp, Coombes, Tipping, Pearson, and Williamson, were elected a committee and they chose as their Chairman, Mr Cumining. Mr Jae Cootubes was appointed lion Secretary. Christmas 8p jets. —Throughout the Waikato at every township boxing day or new years day will be kept up in true old English sporting style, racing, wrestling and athletic sports being everywhere arranged lor, aad in some instances also horae-racing. Fiom Ngaruawnhia we learn that there is every prospect of a good day* pleaiure as a good many first class horses are in the tr*ine-ra hands. The issues of the Waikato Tlmbs next following these holt lays should, if our up country correspondents send us full particular! ae we trust they will present quits a Belle Life appearance. Hamilton West School. — The Rer Mi* Oaliter yisterday distribu'ed the prizes at the Hamilton West school as follows : — For tidine^B : Florence Gumby f Ellen Mayes, and Gertrude Mahon. Regular attendance : John Andrews, Ivate J)avia, and Elizabeth Hill. Attentiveness: Thomas Alexander, Agnes Falshani, Edward Joneß. Upper School — Tidiness : Lily Hunter and Henry Mahon. Attendance . Dougakl Crawford and Elizabeth Young. Attentiveness : Charles Rofly and Alexander Monra Composition : Augustus Scott, James Longbottoui, and Dnncau Maolntyre, — an account of the late flood, written by Muster Long-bottom, was for a boy of seven year?, exceedingly creditable. For Grammar : sth class, Frank Stewart; 4th clas* Johannah Toole. Geography : sth class, DougaEl Crawford ; 4th class, Michael MacSweeney. Dictation '- stli class, W Hill ; 4th class, Johanaab Toole. Arithmetic : 4lh claa-, Robert Stopea ; 6th class, Robert Hill. Multiplication Tabled : 4th cla&s, Fred Odium ; sth class, Joseph. Young. The prize given for the best general behaviour, by the proprietor of the Waikato Times, was awarded to Julia Gutnby. A good conduct prize was also awarded to Dougall Crawford. The examination of the chilflren was conducted in wriling, tlie paper* being numbered, ani tbe names of the children unknown to the examiners. The examiners were Messrs Getting, E Wilson, and Good.