CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 266, 17 May 1865, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Hawke's Bay Times.

We snail always feel pleasure In affording space for the free discussion of all subject* affecting.the prosperity ana (.rogrcss of the proviuce and colony, not endorsing any opinions Expressed in this portion of our colm.ns and always reserving to oumeltes the right to curtail any expression wanting in courtesy on tiie pait of the waiter. - ; ■ car All communications mu't be accompanifd by tli» name and address of the writer in confidence, and as a. guarantee of good faith. .

Sin,—l.et mo call attention to the 7th “ Condition of Sale"'on the stli day of July rest, as requiring cadi lessee to pay the expenses of lease and counterpart. Private vendors may of course make wbat conditions of sale they please; the detriment of an unusual condition being simply their own loss. In the ease of Government vendors there is a distinction which'l'wish to point out. 1 he hurl hen of conditions of sale is usually taken into account by the bidders, who will naturally bid so much less for leaseholds as may be equivalent to the cost of a counterpart lease, when required at the expense of the purchaser.’ y 0 \v this is a very unusual condition, as the eost of a coiitcrpart properly belongs to the lessor, for w hose convenience it is made.

The effect in the present case, assuming that such counterparts are to bo prepared by the Provincial Solicitor is, that ihe costs thereof ivill virtually eomeout of the public purse, in the shapeof a reduced bidding. Whereas if tills condition were omitted, the Provincial Solicitor might bo expected to prepare the counterpurls as part of his official duly. Otherwise, I cannot understand what work his salary is intended to cover. cilice indeed I lie office of Public Prosecutor has been remunerated by special fees, I fail to see upon what grounds an increase of salary should have been voted to the Provincial Solicjior, cote in poraneously as it would seem, with a diminution of provincial work, and an increase of perquisites.' I am 4c., h. A. CAELYON. Gwavas, May 10, 1865.

• ; . 3* To the Editor of the Hawlce't Bay Timet, ' !

SiH.—i was perfectly astonished on reading the remarks of Fair Play in the Herald of today. It is wise,to let a bad cause alone, inasmuch as (lie more it is spoken about the worse it becomes. Fair Play wishes to impress upon the people that a certain public house in town is both orderly and well-conducted. Strangely enough he admits that the “parlies who evinced any disposition to noisiness were not lodgers, but gentlemen who bail nothing but their own inclination to induce then> to bestow their idleness at the Commercial;” i here was some noise it appears. The- residents of the locality in question know but too well the nuisance ot this' “ well-conducted” house—midnight orgies, singing ? no screaming fortissima, striking of sticks to increase the din, are’ wellknown facts. Gambling openly indulged in; if not now, but a very short time ago. I. for one, Sir, believe all the policemen says in evidence, and only wonder that the active person at the head of the police has not before now suppressed what every one informed of the fact knows 100 well to. be a nuisance. What the J.P.’s are about in not more particularly investigating the proceedings ofjsuch places is something unaccountable; TEKTfAS.