CORRESPONDENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 220, 9 December 1854, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Lyitelton Times. Christchurch, 6tk Dec, 1554. Sir, —My attention has been called to a letter in the Lj/ttelton Times of the 2nd inst.. from an anonymous correspondent, who calls himself" An Elector." The writer of that letter asks me, " whether it was during my ephemeral administration, that a despatch was sent here from Auckland, requiring the immediate payment of the whole of our Laud Fund to the General Treasury ?" Although I cannot acknowledge the right of any anonymous writer, who may choose to sign himself "An Elector," to call me to account for my conduct as a representative, I have not the least objection to inform the bashful gentleman in question, that I am not aware whether such a despatch as he describes was ever sein here from Auckland or not ; that I should not have approved of such an one had I been consulted thereupon, and that I used my best endeavours to procure the adoption of the principle of paying into each Provincial Treasury (lie balance of the revenue arising from the disposal of lauds within each Province, alter deducting the expenditure in regard of public lands within the same Province. It was Dr. Featherston, Mr. Hart, and the other Wellington g-nnders of the Sewell-Fitz Gerald ex-ministry, in their quarrel with the Governor, who urged the strict carrying into practice of that provision of the Constitution Act. by which the Governor can legally seize on the"whole of our not land-revenue and spend it on the purchase of land irom die natives in the Northern Provinces. I can confidently assert that none of the members or supporters of the''ephoiner.il administration" would have approved of such an injustice. But I am well aware that Dr. Featherstou repeatedly boasted,, after the breakup of that administration and of the A-M/tnhly, to which break-up he bad so actively and yet covcrtiv contributed, that he bad obtained orders "on the Trea-uries of Nelson and Canterbury for laru-e slices of their land-rewnut', wherewith to" buy land from the muius in the Province of Wellington. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant.