A SIGN OF THE “TIMES.”

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 277, 12 June 1865, Page 2

A SIGN OF THE “TIMES.”

To the Editor of the JlawJce's Hay Titties Sib—l observe in the columns of your contemporary that some of the sheep upon the plains are beginning to fear that they will have to turn out of their rich and fattening pastures, and are in consequence crying out “ Bah!” It is at all events a good sign, as it shows that there is yet some hope for the people, that public rights and public weal has at least a chance of asserting its place to the discomfiture of law-breaking selfishness. It strikes me as strange that the bleating animal should evade the real question of legality and public good to seize upon a mere matter of detail, and one, too, altogether foreign to the subject. It is quite certain that there is ample room for the consideration of questions such as this, apart from that of the enforcement of a wise esisting law, and room for differences of opinion on them, too, when there is none on the main question. I must eaj 1 differ from you on this, and would

have the Government make no term a with the natives short of purchase. To say that the natives would not sell if they were deprived of their existing income from the illegal leases is absurd, and only what we might expect from a sheep, Hading his interest in the maintenance of the squatting system. ANTI-SQUATTEE.