THE MILLER'S FLAT BLOCK.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 268, 25 April 1874, Page 3

THE MILLER'S FLAT BLOCK.

Mr. Bastings, when in Naseby, referred in his speech to the cry at Roxburgh that the Government had given the runholder' the good land, and" the people a shingle-bed. A memorial to that effect was got up and sent to the Government. The Warden was accordingly sent to report on this shingle-bed. He took with him the leaders ot the cry, who had a difficulty .to find the block they knew so much, about. Here is the report. The following documents have been published:— , Memo in reply to that on memorial by Roxburgh Land Committee, numbered 14, 167-54, on the subject .of , block, on Henderson's Run, Miller's Flat.

The Warden, in company with Mr. Robert M'Leod, hotelkeeper, and one of the Land Committee, and Mr. Samuel Grogan, one of the public desiring laud, went on the block of land in question, after some difficulty, for neither of the gentlemen mentioned apparently' knew the particular locality of the block, although expressing themselves strongly as to its character. The block was traversed through its length, and breadth, the survey pegs and lines being followed as guide, and the Warden has come to the conclusion that the block surveyed is ou of the best that could be found in the locality, in which opinion the gentlemen above mentioned joined. To use their own words, "We cannot, in justice, say but the land is the best that can bo got, and about the place we wanted it." The memorial is founded on a gross misrepresentation as to nature of land, and apparently got up by people who have never seen it. None of the land on that part of Henderson's run—that is,above the homestead—can be characterised as a shingle block. More luxuriantly-gras-?ed country than the heights nn'd spurs between Cargill and boundary and Menzies Creek, could not be desired. The only drawback to their cultivation is their broken character, and that is not much greater, than the land about Tuapeka, Waitahuna, and Table Hill districts. The surveyor, in his selection, of the block just surveyed, has studied to embrace the portion with the most gradually sloping ridges, and therefore easiest of cultivation. W. La whence Simpson, . . Warden. Clyde, April 9,1874.