ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 771, 26 January 1877, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed bi/ correspondents. ] - o THE COUNTY COUNCIL’S MEETING PLACE. (TO Tnr, EDITOR OF THE DUNSTAN TIMES.) Sir, — In your last issue I perceive that you hit tho nail in the right place when you entered into facts ami figures respecting tho suitability of Clyde as the meeting place of the County Council. 1 nntice, likewise that tho Cromwell Argus is still “ harping on the same string ” with desperate effort, respecting the disfranchisement of the voters in the Kawarau Riding ; hut the Editor forgets that, though they did not i xcrcifc their power of voting in oheir own Riding they' did so in that of Nevis and Hawca. There are one or two points in your last leader the Argus did not attack, the state of tbc poll at the last General Election being one of them. That point was rather ton knotty for assault, viz., only' eight votes of a majority for the North division over that of the South. Since that election the mining pnpulatioahas decreased in the .Bendigo and Garrick districts, throwing thereby the balance of favor to the Southern Division. Respecting tho empty tenements of Clyde, it certainly does possess a number of dilapidated buildings, which want pullinv down, as they arc not habitable ;hnt, withal, Cromwell has more habitable buddings empty than Clyde. Several landlords of the “City of Dust” would be glad to sec their six and four-roomed houses occupied, which are going to rack and ruin for the. want of good tenants. Where Clyde has one house to let, fit to live in, Cromwell has two. The Editor of the Argus dilates on the prosperity of Cromwell as a commercial centre : all I can say is, I wish such was the case, but we have only to peruse the columns of his own paper, and there we find a wonderful contrast to his statement. There seldom passes a week hut some unfortunate individual or individuals are summoned for debt, and not later than a fortnight agn twelve such cases appeared on the civil list, and last week five, so that we can sdfc’y say imrespect to the prosperity of C orpwell, JfoH not near ns sound as Clyde, aJfMugMbe makes more noise about her waaßfa. »

What will tho Argus any when its editor notices that two thousand live hundred noro acres have been thrown open for mttloraent in tho Southern division, and hat the whole of it lias boon applied for. I'his looks more like permanent prosperity or tho South division; and then look at ■nr charitable institutions, all of them arc olvent with a good balance in hand, showing that tho people of tho South work and lou’t blow so much. Hoping you will still ontinue to give a low growl, like a mastiff '’mild do when trifled with too much by a orrler, so that your contemparary may mow that it is of no use to endeavor to dter facts.—l am, &c., One Who Knows.