CROWN LANDS ASSESSMENT.

Kumara Times, Issue 2082, 2 May 1883, Page 2

CROWN LANDS ASSESSMENT.

. [to the editor.] Sir—ln my last note on this subject I stated that Mr Seddon's ,long letter was full of emptiness; but his latest production is nothing short of confusion worse confounded. The characteristic traits proverbial in Mr Seddon are fully exemplified in it, as whenever his zeal overcomes his judgment—or, in vulgar parlance, he has got a " hold of the wrong end of the stick "—in order to gull the uninitiated, he issues forth a rigmarole devoid of sense or of any thing else relative to the point at issue between himself and his adversary; hence his latest emanation of what he styles law and fact. As one other trait in my friend's character is that he never gives in till he is properly potted, and in order to effect that and to save your readers from another of his legal doses, I now change my tactics by offering to deposit one guinea in your hands in .backing my former assertion, that neither the " Rating Act," 1882," nor the " Crown and Native Lands Rating Act," nor any other Act, authorised the local valuer, and Judge of the Assessment Court to include in the Borough list, Crown land and Crown property within the Borough at the time that Mr Seddon endeavoured to induce Dr. Giles to do so; on condition that Mr Seddon deposits another guinea to back his contrary opinion ; the loser to pay for legal opinion in the matter, and his guinea to go to the Hospital.— I am, &c, D. Hannan. May 1, 1883. [While we have attached more importance to the previous communications on this subject from both of our correspondents than "Nemesis" seems to do, and trust that they will be the means of ensuring a certain amount of good to the borough, we are of opinion that enough has been written for the purpose. The correspondence has come to that stage, as newspaper correspondence generally does, when the writers, having exhausted argument, wander away from the subject and become personal. We shall duly acknowledge thegaiueas, if they come to us, one for the Hospital; but we must decline any more letters on." Crown Lauds Assessment."— Ed. K.T.]