GOVEUNMRNT DOMAIN.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 35, 16 December 1843, Page 3

GOVERNMENT DOMAIN.

' (To the Editor of the Southern Cross.) Sin, — It bas often struck me that there has been great want of regard to the nature of the ground in laying down roads and other bound-tries, particularly tint piece of ground for the Government Domain ; certainly a more beautiful patch of ground is not to be found, possessing so many natural advantages ; commanding most delightful views ; a fine situation for a Government House, Botanical Gardens, and beautiful walks not to be surpassed ; the boundary of this Domain is denned by nature in a very distinct manner by little brooks or streams of water on both sides from the high ground, and terminates in a swamp or low ground at the boundary of the town land ; the distant boundary by high ground, or ridge sloping both wcys; the whole forming the shape of a pear, the small end laying nearest the town. Can it be conceived that this piece of ground, which ought to have been held sacred, and which would have become the pride of the town, and the boast of the country (New Zealand) if properly planned and laid out ? Is it possible to imagine that it has been broken in upon, and the work of destruction fairly commenced by running a fence, I was going to say, in a straight line ending in nearly the centre of it ; but it is not a straight line, but one of those lines or characteristic crooks, for which the place is so notorious and famed, as if to shew by mathematical genius, how much of natural beauty at fell sweep he could destroy ? It is to be hoped the Governor will arrive soon, so as to put a stop to the work of destruction upon the beauties of nature ; it is a saying that idle hand* will find time for doing mischief ;' the question very naturally occurs, what is to be dons with this piece of ground so cut out of the Government Domain by the Surveyor General and Superintendent of it?— Shall it be Eold, so that it shall fall into the hands of the present officer administering the Government for services performed ? I am, &c, A FARMER. December 16, 1843.