CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 259, 20 February 1874, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We are in receipt of a long letter from Mr. George Oliver, of Ewebum which' wb hare not space to publish; The point of the communication is merely an assertion that there is no agricultural country in Maniototo—an imputation of motives to ourselves, and a polite but direct statement that—** we were in receipt of wmmnmeatiQiis from all parts of the disfcriefc for the. oueuhVsr of laud for settlement, "—we had published an untruth. '-Ehs memorial we publish elsewhere, rapied Oy nearly a hundred residents, reaaotiver slatemeut *,* that we stand ataft© U\ our opinion*" We don't care toWTOt (0 publish tlie very libellous &s*Mw>n as to the estimated loss of one raattanan m taming; neither do we e«K»6 at OWr own cost to publish abuse W <Sffltoatve* W satisfy the spleen of disapIWtetel men. If Hr. Oliver condescends. Xtftittttt Wuputations of motives, and cxtraftftflte fiwworks of the sort, wlrieh we can &|sUrd hm\ do not eoustitute argument, to state Ms own opinion' as to the StfMStSSn agrienltxire and settlement vetftftt pastoral runs and sheep, we shall bfc vfe*y skd to pxiblish it, because it-will represent a valuable opinion from one |W&fft Ot view, Mr. Oliver says we are inconsistent because we so " strougly adproclamation *of a Comrnon- &&& We need not say we did no such thing: We advocated a 'Hundred in preference, as affording to settlers both pasturage and land for homesteads.