ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 754, 6 July 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Sir, —rending the next issue of the Southern Cross, in which, if permitted, I intend to relate the facts of the case—will you permit me through your columns, to deny, in the most unqualified terms, the truth of an accusation which has been preferred against me in the leading article of the above named paper, of this day's date, and which charges me with " assisting others to personate voters," and with having "persisted in promoting an intended fraud" of this kind in the case of a Native until the formal questions as to identity were put by the Returning Officer. Yours &c, T. S. Forsaith. July 5,1053.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander, Sir, —Looking to the forthcoming Elections for Representatives of the Province, the Electors have now to consider the propriety of choosing men, free from any party bios, and whatever pledges may be asked or given, none can be of more consequence than a graduating tax upwards on unoccupied lands—next* a total objection to absolute grants for grazing purposes, and a limitation of a given number of acres for agricultural purposes. Witlwmt attention to these main points, the Cheap Land Regulations will swamp the Colony by placing all its waste lands in the hands of the few Auckland monopolists,—like a New Zealand Company in themselves—(Messrs. Gibson, Self, Willets, and Co.) —who, by the aid of English Capital, will extinguish native titles over large tracts of country, and claim the priority of Crown Grants, at the 10s. price, by occupation of sheep, under the specious pretence of furnishing a staple return in wool—and thus keeping the money capital in the country. The effect of this however, though it may serve the purposes of “The Company,” by enabling them to realise a good return in sheep feeding, will, if secured to them by Crown Grants, enable them to re-sell these lands to intending bona fide agriculturalists, either inEnglandoron arrival, who will have to pay an extra price under the supposed a Ivantage ofimproved 'land, clearing the deeds, surveying by Mr. Sanderson, &c., and the great adcantagc of having no vexatious delays on arrival in A uckland. Whether this system will lie approved, by coming Immigrants, or whether they will prefer choosing their own labour in making tbeir homesteads, remains to be seen ; but for my part, I should prefer to see the country covered by independent, and especially industrious Men, in preference to Sheep. Yours, &c. ... Ax Agriculturist.