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Evening Star, Issue 3236, 4 July 1873, Page 4

PUBLIC NOTICES. £5 REWARD. f WHEREAS some person or persons did, last evening, TEAR DOWN the Day* bills of the Princess Theatre: £5 Reward will be paid by Messrs Qeddes and Willis to anyone giving such information as will lead to the conviction of the offender or offenders. ARRIVED per James Nicol Fleming, a first-class Saleswoman, drapery or fancy goods. Testimonials. “ A.8.,” Star Office. , NOTICE. JAMES SMITH (Late Smith and Marshall), BEGS respectfully to acquaint his numerous friends and the public generally, that he has opened those new premises in George street, known as Gilchrist’s Buildings, as FAMILY GROCER AND PROVISION MERCHANT, Where he hopes, by strict attention to business and keeping first class articles, to merit the patronge formerly accorded to him in town and country. Note the Address— GILCHRIST’S BUILDINGS, George-street, Dunedin.

URNS ID E BONE MILLS, Greek Island. TOWNSEND AND BAXTER. Office: BAXTER’S BOND, DUNEDIN SAYINGS BANK, THE Trustees invite Applications for Loans, in sums of LIOO and upwards, on freehold security. For rate of interest and further particulars, apply to EDMUND SMITH, Manager. ILD WILL ENDERBY. TO ENGINEERS, BUILDERS, CARPENTERS, and ethers who use Rules, &c. ITT PFRCIVAL desires to call the attenYY . tion of the above to his splendid Stock of Box and Ivory Rules, Scales, Tapes, and all descriptions of Mathematical Instruments, manufactured expressly for him by the best makers, and just imported per last mail. He has also on hand, Theodolites, Sextants, Field Glasses, Microscopes, Telescopes, barometers, &c, PERCIVAL, Optician, George st., Dunedin. EVERY DUNEDIN RESIDENT, MERCHANT (WHOLESALE AND RETAIL), AND WORKING MAN. Dunedin. READ THIS !

THE Bruce Herald says :—“A new block of land has just been surveyed in the Waipahee district, very superior to that of which Mr Tolmie in the last session of the Provincial Council declared * he would not have it as a gift,’ Not thus would he speak of Block VII., every acre of which is firstrate agricultural land, and through which the trunk line of railway has been surveyed and marked off. It lies very convenient to Mr Toltnie’s enormous freehold estate in the neighborhood, and now solely employed as a sheep-walk. Its addition to Mr Tolmie’s estate would vastly augment the value of bis property, and no doubt he will be greatly tempted to make good his possession of it. Perhaps it has been with this view that the land has been at present surveyed. But there are others’ interests that must be considered as well as Mr Tolmie’s ; and very fortunately does it happen that the Council is in session at present, as it affords the opportunity of steps being taken to have this valuable block of land conserved for its proper purpose—the settlement of an industrious population. And no better spot could be selected for the inauguration of the deferred payment system. If his Honor be sincere in opening up land on this system, and if the Council are prepared to see it brought into rightful existence, they have both a splendid opportunity—the one of proving his sincerity, and the other of having their wishes accomplished. His Honor and the Tolmie Executive selected lauds for occupation on the deferred payment principle, which they knew yrere open at any time to agricultural leases, and where they were aware they would not be-taken up in such quantity as would allow, for a long time to come, other and more suitable lands for settlement to be brought into the market on this system. Of course, the events that brought the late Council to so sudden a close prevented this dodge of the land monopoly Executive being exposed, and their reai opposition to occupation of land on deferred payments set before the public. No doubt, opportunity will be found before the Council rises for their conduct in this respect being properly dealt with, and other and more suitable lands ordered to be set aside under this system. Far short of their duty will the members of the Council come, if they do not attend to this matter, and if they do not secure that this fine block of land is not so dealt with as to be preserved from the monopolising grasp of one individual, and made the happy home of many industrious families. Ere long the line of railway will be constructed through its entire length, giving to it a value that will tempt any monopolist who now secures it to throw it into farms, to be sold or leased, to whose advantage? but with little to the State, at whose expense the railway is to be constructed, we need not stay to answer. A few individuals have already attained vast possessions in the neighborhood, staying the progress of settlement in the quarter. Of these, Mr Tolmie is master of not the smallest, and fears are already entertained that he has set bis heart upon adding the new block to what he already holds, and that arrangements have been made, or are likely to be made, for his wishes being gratified. For the good of the district it is hoped that immediate action will be taken by the Council to prevent this block passing into his or any other single hand. The public interest demands this, for though sheep aid in increasing our exports, they do not tend to increase our imports, from which so large a portion of revenue is derived, and through which it is that the circulating medium is kept in motion throughout the country. What sheep fail to do, an increasing population settling upon the land, and bringing it into cultivation, accomplishes, leading to an increase of revenue, adding to the trade of the country, and so increasing its wealth. To us it has ever appeared most suicidal policy on the part of our leading Dunedin merchants to give their support to his Honor’s sheep-increasing policy, to the detriment of settlement on the lands of the Province. Common sense might teach them that settlement of the land by an industrious population means but increase of trade and commerce. Many thousand sheep may be tended by one man, who needs but little of that on which depend the merchant’s profits. Far otherwise is it with the farmer, employing many hands, and dependent continually on what the merchant is engaged in supplying. Self-interest, as well as the general prosperity of the community, should make every Dunedin merchant the unwavering enemy of land monopoly, and the unflinching advocate of every facility being afforded for the bona Jide settlement of the waste lands of the Crown. We shall watch what course the business members of the Council take in the matter of land occupation under the deferred payment system. We trust that some of them will he the first in supporting that block VII, Waipahee district, be so occupied. "—finite Herald leader,