THE SUPERINTENDENCY.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2482, 30 January 1871, Page 2

THE SUPERINTENDENCY.

To the Editor of the Evening Star,

Sir, —In passing a few days ago through a mining townsship, where the presence of Mr Reid had lately enlivened its usual monotony, aind where I was told he had re* ceived a' most enthusiastic reception, I was grieved to find many blindly ignorant of the real political question which should be taken into account and well considered by the electors at the forthcoming election for Superintendent j even the loading men in the district appeared to me, from their conversation and argument, to be supremely ignorant < f the Public Works and Immigration Act, and if they had over read it it must have been through a pair of “donothing obstructive spectacles," as they appeared to me to have swallowed with a gusto all the absurd twaddle talked to them by Mr Reid about L 3 to the North Island ami LI to the Middle, seizure of our land r. venue, &c., all of which assertions must bo allowed by anyone who has read the Aot as being about as truthful as that five and five make nine.

Water supply on the Goldfields, it must be admitted is one of the most urgent wants in this Province; but I wish theminingcommunity to consider seriously—Are they likely

to have this work carried out if Mr Reid is elected Superintendent? Mr Raid has (ledared that he is opposed to the pres lit Government, and opposed to the labile Works and Immigration Act, unless modified to suit iiis ideas. Is he likely to have this done ? and how long will it take him lo do it? In the meantime mines of wealth remain rile and lost to the miner, wlieiyas if advantage had been taken of the Act as it is law, reservoirs might have been at once c > at meted. A, In erstand, surveys were ordered by Mr Macau-'Tew in anticipation of the Government scheme, and that bail it not been for Mr Reid and bis party, one of the greatest of these works, the Tuaneka Basin (for which I believe sp - cifications, &c., have for some time been prepared), would now be in course of construction. In conclusion, I trust the mining community hare not be n, nor wdl they he, gulled by the'false conclusions drawn hy Mr Reid and painted to them in such plausible s .phistry. Yours, &c., A Mimng Shareholder.