IN THE STREET.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 102, 23 August 1873, Page 3

IN THE STREET.

It is wonderful what ignorance is sometimes displayed by men, whom from their position one would imagine should be well acquainted with the subject they attempted to speak about. This ignorance was particularly displayed in the House ot .Representatives the other day, when M r O’Conor spoke of the East Coast constituency as a small one numbering about 50. How very nattering to the residents of lauranga and Opotiki, letting alone those Bay ! I consider the vo ces of upwards of 600 electors of some import-,n ee, especially as these electors inhabit, a portion of She colony daily rising in importance, of dial riots which have held their own against many disadvantages, and may now be ranked as of permanent and increasing importance, I was pleaded to see in your last issue some remarks auoui immigration. The promises made jrom tune to time to our representative are looked upon by the majority of your readers as mere “ bunkum,” simply what is termed a stall, and only when the immigrants are act ually in our harbour can we have any faith in the immigration and settlement policy promised to this dial,riot. As to the survey of lands going on, this may hoodwink southern members and those who perhaps hardly know where Tauranga is, but we on trio spot value the information just at what it is worth. It is quite true that an extension of road is being surveyed, * supposed to be for the benefit of the expected immigrants, but as the road is to bo a chum wide, there will bo room for working camps and huts along its route—the onfy way in which I can interpret the fact of the land being surveyed for the use of immigrants now on their way.

And so there is anot her candidate for Provincial honours. Well, the electors are being offered a numerous choice, and it will be their own fault if they do not pick the one they want, I hope it will be one who will get us a fair share of the contemplated gigantic loan. Such a result will tend to confer some honour upon the successful candidate, something too above the mere privilege of dubbing himself M.P.C. °

1 bear your article about the race course is likely to stir up the dormant energieafof some, and 1 hat a public meeting is in contemplation to ventilate the subject. I hope it will bo decided ih if it is necessary to do something j and what ia more, that some one will bo found to do it, for it is not always that a thing may be had simply for the asking. Past action proves that “what ia every one a : u-inesa ta no one a in particular.” pAXTXMia.