ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 705, 15 January 1853, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New Zealander, Mr. Editor, — Twice each week in your Journal, also in the Southern Cross , appears an advertisement offering a reward for the discovery of Gold. As one of the Subscribers to the reward fund, may I ask is not Gold discovered, and have not the Government confirmed the fact by the appointment of a Gold Commissioner, and the issue of Licenses ? '• 1 think the Reward Committee might with great propriety withdraw their advertisement, collect the subscriptions, and hand over the reward to tiic discoverer. A Subscriber,

To the Editor of the New-Zealandeh. Sir, —The Southern Cross is marvellously indignant to-day because every one who resists the New Zealand Company’s unjust claim is not equally vehement in denouncing Sir George Grey’s treatment of the Land Claimants. Speaking of the latter, lie asks, “ Do they not work us quite as deep if not a deeper injury than the frauds of the New Zealand Company!” I like consistency, all the more because one can find so little of it now-a-days. May I ask a question in my turn. How was it that the Cross, which upholds Mr. Joseph Robinson’s protest with thunder and daggers against the Government, could spare no advocacy, or nothing better than a sneer, for Mr. Adam Chisholm and his Protest in an analogous case l . A few passages from the records of the famous Papakura case would perhaps afford a satisfactory answer to my question. This seems much of a piece with the consistency of a man who, in hollow affectation of loyal attachment to Britain’s Crown, would sanction the coarse abuse of an American Captain for not hoisting a British flag- at tlie Regatta, although there was not one on board Ins ship, and lie had besides placoU tlie vessel and all tlie arvangements entirely in the hands of the Regatta Committee ; and yet, who would insult the loyal feeling of a public audience by obstinately retaining his seat while every one else present stood up during the singing of the National Anthem, according to a custom which I am happy to state prevails not only as you say “ at home,” but also throughout the British Colonies.—Yours, &c. January 15, 1853. Q,.