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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 41, 3 October 1891, Page 2

Thb following extract from the Post should proye of special interest to our readers : — Mr J. "W. Baker, Commissioner of Crown Lands, made the following statement at the monthly meeting of the Land Board : — " I see it is stated in one of the evening papers that the Minister of Lands has ordered ' that in future no deferred payment selector shall be permitted to capitalise his payments.' As such a statement if not corrected would be misleading, I beg to state no such instructions have been given to the Crown Lands Department here. A question has arisen whether a deferred payment selector, who is able and asks to complete the purchase of his land, is entitled to have his final payment capitalised without his applying for it to be done, which has hitherto by the order been done. I consulted with the he -d of the Lands Department, and it was decided final payments must be made in full, unless the selector had previously given notice of his intention to ask relief under the 126 th section of ' The Land Act, 1885/ as it is evident this clause was intended to give relief to deferred payment selectors who could not meet their payments, and was not intended to apply to selectors who were in a position to complote the purchase of their land." Men are not measnred in the colonies by the same standard as they are in the Old Country. Take for example Lord Randolph Churchill, who was, and no doubt, still is a very great man in public and private estimation in England, yet out in Africa where the little man has gone on "an expedition '• he is. very " small potatoes on the hill " indeed. It appears that with the view of covering a porti >n of his travelling expenses, Lord Randolph is subsided by an English paper to contribute articles or letters telling all about what "he sees, or feels, or henra. " Like all novices at that kiud of work he has made a glorious mess of it, and we learn by cablegram that the Boers were highly indignant at the comments made on theru, and the Transva* l , in Lord Randolph letters to the Datly Graphic, and relieved their wounded and agitated feelings by burning his Lordship in effigy. Very poor satisfaction, but probably consoling. Most readers of English papers already know that this fussy little " special " was reported to have made a nuisance of himself on shipboard going out to the Cape, but the charitably disposed put down these statements as the outcome of small mindedness on the part of some " toadying Britishers" who were travelling at the same time, and whose advances had been repelled by his lordship. But, after all, they must have been only too true, because, as we have now seen, even the Boers who were quite prepared, and did> give to one they had heard so much of, a hearty welcome, yet his lordship took all they had to giye him, and requited their kindness by holding his hosts up to undeserved ridicule. Of course the English admirers of Lord Randolph will sympathise with him for his vicarious burning, but we think the verdict of independent men will be " Serve him right. " In answer to numerous enquiries we haye to state thatthefamous" penny postage ;' does not come into operation until April Ist X892, and not eyen then unless the Ministry choose,