Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addiclus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1348, 13 June 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addiclus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872.

In the Provincial Council yesterday, Capt. Russell's Te Ante Tolf-gate Bill and Mr Kentledge's Harbor Bridge Bill were discussed at great length, The former was thrown out, and the latter passed its second leading. Our full report will appear in due course. The Council sat till 10.30 last night.

An accident, occurred yesterday to Mr Johnston's baker's cart. As lie was proceeding up the cutting from the old Union Bank towards Mr Towgoods house, the care ran oil" the road- He pimped olFand saved himself, but horse and cart rolled together down the steep bank opposite the Roman Catholic Chapel. The horse was uninjured, but the body of the cart was broken off Jrom the springs.

A motion has been passed in the Provincial Council that the sum of <£3o b 9 placed on the Estimates for the purpose of erecting a lock-up on the Eastern Spit.

We take the following from the Evening Post, Ist June :—The manner in which the Provincial Government of Otago has allowed a large block of valuable land, eminently suitable for agricultural purposes, and which might have been transformed into a flourishing settlement, to pass into the hands of the greatest of all the cormorant landjobbers, should prove a warning to ihe colonists of New Zealand to prevent such an occurrence again, in any part of either island. Clai k's success has eniboluened other speculators to attempt emulation, and we hear of a gentleman resident in Canterbury, and nearly connected with a Government official of high standing being now engaged in an attempt to secure for himself a tract of country in this i-land even larger and more valuable than the Moa block. This land i*-in the immediate vicinity of Tuhua, where gold is alleged to have

been discovered, and where, in fact, it is absolutely known to exist in larger or smaller quantities over a large extent of country, This block, known as !Mum Mutu, is of great extent, rich and level, supplied with timber,, and affording every facility for prosperous settlement. It is the property of the natives, but by one of the usual Native Office or Napier side winds, the ovvner* Jiave been moved to sell, and it is expected that an effort will be made to it through a Land Court, to. sit.very shortly, when the gentleman vr alluded to be niepavecl to

purchase. We have no reliahle information as to the actual extent of this block, which spreads round the base of Ruapehu, but the acreage is summed by hundreds of thousands. Should the ranges at the head of the Wanganui, Waikato, and other rivers prove auriferous, as there is every prospect of their doing, this level land would prove invaluable for settlement, and allowing it to fall into the hands of one speculator is an injury both to the colonists an;l the cause of colonization. If the Maoris wish to sell, or can be induced to do so, Government alone should be come the purchaser, on behalf of the people. We trust sufficient enquiry will be awakened with reference to the matter, to prevent the perpetration of such a job.