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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 218, 2 May 1873, Page 7

The following remarks made by our contemporary, the £ Tuapeka Times,' are not flattering to the House of Bepresentatives :—" It is notorious that the ££ people " of New Zealand are either not represented at all, or are misrepresented in the House of Representatives. The landed aristocracy, as we feel constrained to term the pastoral tenants of the Crown, since it is very evident that unless some radical change in land legislation is made, the present lessees will, at no distant date, become possessors of their holdings in fee simple, return able men to look after their interests—men who by virtue of their education, intelligence, and force of character, and sometimes by more questionable means, sway the destinies of the Colony. Against these the noble army of inca pables, who annually waste three months on the shores of Cook's Straits, have no chance whatever. They are compelled to succumb to the various powerful influences under which they are brought, and legislate to suit the end of their squatting leaders—that is the very few of them who understand the end and aim of the enactments they pass the majority beingdriven like sheep."— £ Tuapeka Times.' A correspondent of the £ "Wanganui Chronicle' says one publican at Foxton took £I,BOO at the last sittings of the Native Lands Court there. One thousand and fifty-five persons have lodged claims during the past three months to have their names placed on the Electoral Poll for the Puller district.