DUNEDIN

Dunstan Times, Issue 317, 22 May 1868, Page 2

DUNEDIN

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Monday, May 18lh The short sighted policy of tbe and the difficulties they have thrown in the way of progress on the Gnldfieldn, appears to havo brought about a oombiue-l system of action on the part of the diffi'rent miniug commuuitio*, to assort their

rights to an equal portion of the expaiuliture of the revenue with Dunedin, or Otago as it is known here, I may siy that those of the business people who acknowledge the value of t!i3 miners are rejoiced at the stand you have taken with respect to placing the people upon the land, your movement has be.m successful and fif teen thousand acres of ground—live thousand out of Messrs. Givig and Tnvnbull's and a similar area out of each of the Haws. Ghssford's ltuns ought toput the Dunstan District in a gd>d position, and make Clyde as it ought to be the chief commercial town Northern Districts. If you keep on ajitating, you will.geta bridge across tin Shotover, and the punts on the line of road to the Wakatipu, taken over by the Government, ■or subsidize.! so that the high rates at present charged will not be a prohibition to traffic and conseqently a loss to your District by keeping away population, through the enormous prices of the necessaries of life. The proceedings in the Council on Friday night last beat everything. The Council was little Letter than a Bear Garden. The language used by members scarcely would have been equalled at Bi'lingsgate. It was a regular fight between the squtters and the people, and a struggle on the part of Executive to retain office. Tlih Executive found their position so weak that they had to send after two country members, who had left for home. These gentleman have since put in an appearance. Mr. Haughton, on Monday, presented a petition from Messrs. Owens, Edwards, ami Bridge, owners of the Kawarau Punts, for compensation for losses sustained through the malpractices of the Government in not opening the road for some six months alter they had agreed to do so. the Banshee sails on Thursday for the Figi Islands. There is a rumor of a tri-weekly newspaper being started at the "Star" office. The Superintendent Iris sent to Wellington recommending Macutown a :d Cardrona to be polling-places, as lormerly.