Correspondence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 352, 15 March 1856, Page 6

Correspondence.

- r ,ne Editor of the Ly Helton Times. Sir. —I find we have in our infantine sen lenient a real tax-payer, who would fain suffer to continue unnecessary sinecures * rather than lesort to the "unpleasant lengths" of abolishing them by my short process. I thank him heartily for his quotation, for though our labourers are better paid than Sam Slick's, slill, I think thai Sam shews that we could effect a good deal inroads, bridges, and education by every official that might peradveiiture be squashed. Our means are small, and whilst I would desire to see every hard-icorkinrj official wt.ll paid, still I think we could lessen our Provincial staff without interfering with the Well-being of the settlement in reference to its Government. The evil we labour uiiflf-r is having a purse for official hands to dip into at will, whereby it is scarcely perceived how the money goes, nor how »"ich is I'Jt for th-, legitimate wants of the seJilomunt And as to any control by the I roviucia! Council over the expenditure you known is por/ecily farcical. The money is voted, and \\ m j s „„ em , of ; t as ,-.„..,; tuc-y are co-ic.tihml. W.; have „nlv to r.'fer t;> your issue of lUr . mv inst . to " pm . eivc 1!»j .ollown.sf contrast by way of illustration. Air Khod.-s in Cm.m-il on the 6th i-st is "V r l«ol "an. »"v assistance towards the 6'aicaUo.i of -10 ,children at Okairfs Bay

owing; (o a deficiency, not of r/ood will, but of funds : whilst Mr. Cookson on the 7th moves that llis Honor be addressed, "t o increase the salary ami allowance to His Honor." In this instance. [ would desire it to he expressly understood that 1 apply the contrast to principle and not to persons. My desire is to awaken public attention to the subject of ways and means, in order that it may form part o!" the study of every settler in this Province, ami then \\v. shall have no fears in future that, sinecures will be permitted to exist. I remain, sir, Yours truly, SIIAOROON. 13lhMavc:i.