ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, March 9th, 1853.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 794, 12 March 1853, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator . Wellington, March 9th, 1853.

Sift, — As one of the .mechanics of this colony, and a recent settler, I beg to tender yon my tincere thanks for year unflinching exposure of the serioas wrong we and our children are enduriug from the monopoly of all the available hods in this country. I cordially agree with you that the period has vow arrived when we should be np and stirring, and unite as one man, casting aside all political differences, to rescue and preserve our own adopted l«ad from being wrested from us by a band of selfish monopolists, no matter from what quarter of the globa they may come. What signifies to us to read in your able journal of this day that " the last instalment of the Ahuriri district is paid to the natives," when wt art informed that the whole of thai HKtUe^iftrict it' already betpoke, if not already occtrpwd^ By a fe# wealthy flockmastert and stockkeepers. The preference doubtless, if any, is due to the first or earliest colonists for their courage, enterprise, and the uuceasing anxiety they have experienced through the various trials and disappointments they bave undergone ; but we who have recently been induced to quit our native land, some from the high coloured statements which are written home du> ring a period of very fine weather, but chiefly from the false representations glowingly set forth by Companies and Associations, all holding out most prominently the great advantages we should derive from sheep* farming, when we come, lo and behold ! after all the sacrifices we have made, and the risks we have ebcountered in reaching these shores, we find the whole of the sheep runs and available lands already forestalled, and nothing remains .but to submit to the exactions of Associations or absentee speculators, by occupying fern or bush land at £3 per acre. , But, Sir, I hope a new era awaits New Zealand if we do not despise your warnings, but at once organize and protect our interest in the forthcoming election by securing men for our representatives who will pledge themselves to uproot and destroy all monopoly, and preserve our inheritance. And if his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief will avail himself of the power

be possesses under the new Constitution by immediately reducing tbe price of land, if be will open np the country by tbe formation of roads and establishing of townships, bis Excellency will be entitled to the everlasting gratitode of tbe settlers, and we can then conscienciously write home to oar relatives and friends and earnestly persnade them to emigrate to New Zealand. I am, Sir, your's obediently, A MECHANIC.