WAIKAIA COURTHOUSE.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 412, 25 November 1884, Page 6

WAIKAIA COURTHOUSE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin,— Your correspondent " Landowner " is either ma'ieious or ignorant, fciversdaliy the miserable little village chiefly composed , of a couple »f pubs and their appendages, 13 a p'-vate towusliip outside the goldfields, and therefore impos.-ible j«s the site of a Warden's Court. Waitcaia, on the contrary, i» a Government township, which h?* paid revenue enough to buy out not only Riveudale but th.». bosses of Kiversdale v.s well -the New" Z.i:ilir,d Agricultural Company. It is the eent.ie of somewhere about 50,01 > acres of occupied agricultural land, and a gre^t deal deal more will be in the market directly, further, it m the most pro.ni.<=iug goldtields centre, and is in the tra sition peilod from 1 'digging " to mining, which even Ballarat and iiendigo hare had to undergo; Such a place which will shortly be the termiuua of a railway, is not to be rubbed out br the paluy sneers of new chuni jealousy. Switze.a w alive, »ud will B how itself ahve agaiust all comers. The absurd referer.ee to that most absurd of all public bodies the Wendonside lrogroas (Jouimitt^ makes one laugh. llus body never hrs done and never will do SJIf 111 ' CX f P i blly a 8 P el " n 3 book for its secretary As for it die Aim* or even fado* recogo-sed by the respectable body which represents Waikaia, such an asseifion is a brilliant display cf . fictitious ,power. I recommend our good friends at BiTersdaleto recognise their true position as a wayside halting place 011 the road to Switzera, and as such to be very civil to ail tl eir superior* resident in that locality, otherwise they m*y hud that •« virulent pens " do a» onnd ia Wm kaia.— Yours, &c, ? SWITZFTIS* Waikaia, Not. 22, 188-t.