DUNEDIN HARBOR.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 295, 24 October 1874, Page 3

DUNEDIN HARBOR.

fTo M% E'Ulor of the Mopxt Ida Chronicle.) the residents on the Goldfi.'lds are badly treated. They are overridden and d.iwii-trodden by .Provincialism, and all the weaith getting portion of our, population ; while, for fear of law suits for river polluHon, much idle < apiial and remunerative .labor are compelled to •ay idle. On the 'other hand, there is a most. oppressive taxation. [ remember, too, that our - Goldfields consumers pay much heavier prices than the rich tnwii residents for,most imported' articles of consumption,, added to an enormo'is price of carriage, which Ihey (the townspeople) do nothing "to render lighter. Assuredly the more money people get. the more ihey crave after it. This remark is especially applicable to some of ihe big guns of the Southern Capital.' Provincialism is the bugbear, for it-is through that that.many of the acts of .injustice arc perpetrated, as under a cloa'-.

■ You ought, to form-yourselves info a perfect phalanx to uproot. Provincialism, and fight the proud possessing hank shareholder* andjimporters with their own weapons. -And first, I would throw out, without a single vote, any political candidates (whether for Provincial or General Assembly honors)"-who would not pledge ihemse'ves in the most unequivocal manner to do all in'their power to upset the most irrational bugbear that ever disgraced a country, by which your Goldfields residents are , being - constantly fleeced. . - • < .

I would further -meet Dunfdin selfishness by a sort of impact onlhe coojieraHve principle, to obtain your supplies direct from Melbourne, having the goods landed at Port Chalmers, and forwarded direct, from the ship side; and if all your storekeepers would not or could not conform thereto, I would haie-Vigilance Committees to watch*s.aud inform the people, so that they might-deal only withsuch as do; if tune coniform, then establish co-opei at iv.e stores. Jf, however, the Melbourne merchants ue,re aware of the necessity, they would "quickly establish stores. If a few delegates were appointed to visit Melbourne, merchants in plenfj' could be found to.carry out their wishes, and they would -find so much.difference exists .between -Melbourne - prices, and Dunedin ones as speedily to repay the expenses of. the delegate. Then you would be likely, to restore the-prond Dune inites sometime* for-reflection, and rlli_• 111. obtain a little more justice. ' I have .seen in tile cities of slave occupied countries that, when a slave gei's his liberty, the height of his glory is to become pos- - sessed of his fellow-man— sometimes his fellow in bonds, and. that invariably freed slaves become, worse taskmaster's than tb,e, white men. '1 hisis applicable here, and' itrihe metropolis'of Tt applies to' .more than'the' employers .of labor.—l auij &c., ~.,..' " * ""'"*' . >'• .. WitL-or the Wisp.