CORRESPONDENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 208, 28 October 1854, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times. Sir, —I am very sorry to find that I have made so great a mistake in my calculations of the expense of the Sumner Road. How this mistake arose I cannot now say. I think it right to add that my feeling in favour of the Sumner Road did not arise merely from supposing that it could be completed for so small a sum as about £13,000. I am still of opinion, and believe it is the opinion of most people, that it would be a great pity to make such a Road as Mr. Hughes', and there can be no doubt that as soon as the Land Question is settled, there will be plenty of money to finish the only Road, that can meet the present wants of the settlement, and aid in the developement of its resources. I am your obedient servant, Robust Taylor. Lyttelton, Oct. 57, 1854.

To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times. Sib, —1 have been for some time in expectation of seeing published, in one or other if n wt both of the local papers, the Waste Lands' Act now in force, together with the two bills vela- % ting to Waste Lands introduced into the Hou£j of Representatives by Mr. Fitz Gerald in the two Sessions respectively, and also the amendments proposed by my father to those measures. As I have been severely censured on severai public occasions for my voles on ihose proposed measures, I am anxious that they should be before the public previously to my explaining those votes to my constituents. I imagine the primary importance of the subject of the Waste Lands would justify you to your readers for printing the documents above mentioned, which the electors of this Province have hitherto had no opportunity of considering. May I bpg you to inform me whether you intend soon to publish the said documents, —and all together if possible, so that they may be compared? If lack of will, or inability, prevents both papers from publishing them, I must take other steps for making them known to the electors. Your very obedient servant, E. Jerningham Wakjsfield Christchurch, Oct. 23rd, 1854. [We really cannot inform Mr. Wakefield or any one else, as to what documents we shall be able to publish from week to week. Far less can we bo expected to saywhen or how they will be published. Mr. Wakefield may be assured that we are as anxious as he can be that all documents of public interest and importance, the Waste Lands' Bills amongst others, should be in the hands of the public of this Province as soon as possible —Ed. L. T.]