TEDDY WAKEFIELD’S HOME CORRESPONDENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 2961, 15 August 1872, Page 4

TEDDY WAKEFIELD’S HOME CORRESPONDENCE.

The following letter appears in Loyd’s Weekly Newspaper .-—Annals of the Poor.— New Zealand. To the Editor.—Sir, —I am only just in time to acknowledge the receipt of a dozen copies of your valuable journal of the 10th December, 1871, in which you inserted my letter of the Ist September of the same year, as to the price of bread in New Zealand. The tariff 1 then told you of, as proposed to the Parliament of New Zealand, , was carried by a large majority of protectionists and revenue-mongers, with the additional burden of a halfpenny a pound on rice—nominally catching the “heathen Chinee,” who are flocking to our Southern goldfields, but really making the meal of many a poor white man and his family obnoxiously dearer. My children are regular “ heathens” at rice; so are most of my neighbors and their children. Many working men are out of employment all through this colony, except at sheep-sheering and at harvest time. The rest of the year they have to feed on loaves raised from 7d to 8d the 41b. loaf (a fact as I predicted) by this oppressive tariff, and on rice, thus enormously augmented in price, to keep up an army of officials, increasing every day, and to keep up the most reckless, extravagant, and corrupt government that ever British people lived under. Many thanks to you for exposing their now carried out intern tontions. I will write at greater lenght next mail.—l am, &c., E. Jerningham Wakefield, Member of the House of Representatives of New Zealand. P. S, —I have suggested that your paper should be regul; r'.y tiled in the very good but rather officially aristocratic library of our pretentious and expensive Parliament.