To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, December 4, 1848.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 349, 6 December 1848, Page 3

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, December 4, 1848.

Sir, — Allow me, through your medium, to ask the Committee of Landholders, with reference to the claim of M'Hardie, myself, and others, whether indeed they mean to compensate those only who, with the exception of the term of hostilities, haye had uninterrupted possession, and exclude those who, until this strange intention had been mooted by some p/ofessed friend of our claims in last Saturday's Independent, had ever b«en deemed by themselves and others the preferable claimants? Though the interest is but comparatively a small one, who is there that loves to be the subject of an inconsistency, such as here supposed, in a matter of compensation for the lengthened want of possession, that such as were totally denied it, to whom it was found impossible, should suffer in their rightful claim under a distinction between themselves and actual occupants, for the occurrence of a contingency against which it is ridiculous for any act of the Company to imply, in the most remote degree, the shadow of an. obligation to protect us ? A CiAIMAHX.