CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 283, 7 August 1874, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Wb do not hold ourselves in any wny responsible for the opinions and sentiments expressed by correspondents. All communications must bo accompanied by * the correct unmo and address of the writer, not necessarily lor publication, but as a guarantee of good fuith. LAND FOR NASEBY. (To the 'Editor of the Mortrr Ida Chboniolb.) Sib, —It is all very well for your correspondent " Peter Law " to try and drive us up to the Wetherburn, ten miles from Naseby, when there is land much nearer, and more suitable in all respectH, for farming. There can be nft doubt which is the most suitable block,ibat near where the road crosses the Eweburn or where it crosses the Wetherburn. The laud on the Eweburn is nearer to Naseby, and is at a lower elevation from the sea level. Anyone who doubts this can prove it for himself on a clear day by the help of a spirit level, a tape measure, and a straightedged rule; or, in settled weather, a pocket barometer. During the short days the ' Sun ' appears earlier at Eweburn than at Wetherburn, the slopes of Ida intercepting it. The sun sets earlier at Wetherburn in winter than at Eweburn, the Wetherburn being close under the Kough Kidge: Witness the length of time the snow remains on the Wetherburn flat compared to the Eweburn. From the nature of the ground, water could be brought on to the land at Eweburn crossing from the head race in a plough furrow. The terraces below the road at Wetherburn crossing rise too abruptly to allow of wnter being brought on to them without nn expensive race. And, further, there is not enough good land where the three runs meet. The land on the company's run in the corner known as Champion's Flat is all good. Messrs. Holland's is the slope of a mountain, and Messrs. Chapman's is too small on the creek flat, and the terraces are too dry. The Eweburn land is more suitable in every way. If a block of 5000 acres of land is declared open on the Wetherburn, I doubt whether nve people will take up land. It a block of 5000 acres is declared open on the Eweburn, I believe half of it will be taken up in the first three months. —I am, &c. f Ageicola.