CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 296, 10 August 1865, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We shall always feel pleasure in affording space for the free discussion of ail subjects affecting the prosperity and progress of the province and colony, not endorsing any opinions expressed in this portion of our columns and always reserving to ourselves the right to curtail any expression wanting in courtesv on the part of ths writer. »* All communications must bo accompanied by the name and address of the writer in confidence, and as a guarantee of good faith.

[To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Times.]

Sie, —Having noticed a letter in the Hawke's Bag Herald of the 25th July, by one who styles himself “ A well-wisher of the saber industrious man,” I beg to make a few remarks thereon. He speaks of there being a number of both men and women in Auckland who are warding employment. “ Iff says he, “from twenty to thirty arrived here every three months, they would easily find employment at good wages.” It is quite a delusion, and will have the effect of bringing men down here under false pretences. For, in the first place, Hawke s Bay is a sheep farming district, there is only work for a limited number of men. except in shearing time, and then the squatters prefer Maoris; (or rather, they are so beholden to them, that they are obliged to employ them.) lam living on a station some distance from Napier, and constantly men are calliny looking for work and cannot get any. A squatter, next station to us, told his manager the oilier week that he could engage plenty of men in Town at £lO a-year, and that on no account he was to give mere than £SO per annum. So, —I think a working man would find but a poor chance in Hawke s Bay. And as for the government having obtained the lease of some of the finest agricultural land in New Zealand, what benefit will- it be to the working, or persons with small capital ! IVho would come here and improve a piece of land for 21 0r22 years, and then hand it back to the Maoris I or if, in the meantime, the government bought it, have it sold by public competition—so that you would have to buy your own labor if you tvished to retain it. — lam, Cfc., A Wohkxng Alas. Okawa, August 1, 1865.

[To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay TimesJ Sib, — I would mffgest to the Provincial Government of Hawke's -Bag the necessity that exists of having a lock-up erected immediately at the Eastern Spit, Napier. Dag bg dag the Spit grows larger, population increases, and (I am loth to. add) the heinous—l might almost sag , the national crime of drunkenness, is also sadly on the increase. Yet there is nothing done to protect the people, — get there is no place of safety in which to, confine refractory worshippers of lUcciiU &! Fancy the police having to lug a drunken man for woman, as the case may be ; I am sorry to say there are “ indulgers" of bathsexes, even in this embryo toivnship) all the way up to the lock-up in Napier, from either of the two “ establishments ” on the Spit—especially if the day happens to he exceedingly hot one in the middle of summer. It is a task I would not envy. Hoping something will be done quickly. I am, Cms. Napier, August 10, 1865.