FAIR PLAY.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2133, 8 March 1870, Page 2

FAIR PLAY.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir—X observe in the Times of Thursday last, what is given forth as a copy of the letter of a Glasgow correspondent of the Bruce Herald. In this matter, however, as in most others, your contemporary only gives to the public that which is necessary to carry out his own peculiar creerl. 1 observe he has omitted to insert a few lines of this letter —no doubt a pure accident—but still perhajjs you will be good enough to let the metropolitan public have the benefit of them. In the following paragraph, the Times leaves out the last three sentences, commencing with the words, “His impression is”:— “ A. week or two ago one of Messrs P. Hendesson and Co.’s vessels left for your port with only eighty-three passengers, and not a single cabin or second-cabin passenger amongst them. T happened to be on board a day or two before sailing, and met with one of the most intelligent and active emigration agents in Scotland, and who I understand do .-s the largest business in that line. He informs me that he expects that your Colony will be erased out of the list of names of places suitable for emigration by and bye ; and I can assu.e yon he has no good word to say for your authorities in their management of your land His impression is that if the Hundreds Regulation Bill is enforced, then he may bid farewell to Otago as a place for emigration. He also says that it does seem very strange that while in all the Colonies the authorities are doing what they can to ouen up the land for settlement, in order to'induce a steady flow of really useful emigrants, Otago should take an opposit course, and endeavor to lock up her land. Are they aware that at no former period was there a larger number of emigrants in this country on the out-look for future homes 7” After the extraordinary misrepresentations which, month after month, were published in the Times’ summary for Europe with reference ta the public feeling upon the subject of the Hundreds Regulation Bill, it is not to be wondered at that that journal should shrink from publishing the fact of the very opposite views being entertained by one of the most active and intelligent emigration agents in Scotland. Neither can it be very palatable to the Times to know that the opinion of this class of gentlemen in Great Britain is that if the Bill referred to is enforced, then they may bid farewell to Otago as a place for emigration. By your giving the above a place, you will oblige A Taieki Settler.