HUNDREDS BILL.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1976, 4 September 1869, Page 2

HUNDREDS BILL.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —Will you allow me the privilege of killing two birds with one stone, insomuch as I feel called upon to answer b »th Mr Gillies’s and “Anxiety’s” very elegant remarks and observations upon “my simple yet effective truth.” To the first-named gentleman I would say I doubt if his doctrines are appreciated by the public ; and 1 doubt whether the nom de plume of “ Truth.” which he attempts to ridicule, has ever in land administration ever assumed any attitude but that of untruthfulness and deformity. There has been an iota of fairness and equality in all our previous Land Bills or, if otherwise, why conceal the light under a bushel? And of “Anxiety” I would enquire why, if the measure you support covered all exp- diency, all requirements —why was not fulness of satisfaction given to the mining districts generally, and why was not the s cret divulged that the miners requirements could be met ? Why was committee after committee appealing from the same interest hopelessly repulsed^; why did you not in the knowledge that justice was being trifled with, step forward and support the truth of yo r creation. Sir, the most important link in our colonial prosperity was sacrificed according to your own statements, to your spleen ; but I will be more charitable and assume that the element of power did not exist till now, for if it had not been so, the present bill would not have met with that halo of support on the coldfields which it has ; so you must acknowledge “ Truth has not lost a laurel there.” — L am, &c., Truth. Dunedin, Sept. 1, 1869.