SQUATTING AT PELICHET BAY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 292, 26 November 1862, Page 5

SQUATTING AT PELICHET BAY.

{To the Editor of the Daily Times.; , v Sir, -In consequence of my letters which you kindly ; inserted on the lOthinst, and in your Saturday's edition, I Ihe Government have condescended to put up printed • boards, in two places at Pelichet Bay, forbidding any i one erecting permanent buildings on Government :. grounds, without permission, still that has nothing to . do with regard to the present stores erected thereon. ; According to that, I suppose it must be taken for ■ granted, that tlie present stores have got Government j sanction to remain unmolested, and that the legitiI mate traders must grin and bear, ("to wit pay rent .and all taxes,") while they on the reserves can carry ; on business, undersell the taxed trader, and set tho ; Jaw at defiance. One of the storekeepers on the re- ■ serve, says that the ground belongs to the General ;. Government, and Jtliat the Poovincial Government ;. etnnot put them off the reserve. Trusting lam not : troublesome, I am, &c,

Pelichet Bay, 24th Nov.. 1862.

On the evening of the Ist instant Miss Alice Bass, second daughter of Mr Bass M.P., who is residing at Tnlckep, Carigellachie, N. 8., had a narrow escaped She was driving Mrs Holden when the breech band broke; tbe horse ran away, kicked and plunged. Miss. Alice Bass jumped out to avoid a precipice! and was dragged by her dress for some distance. Fortunately the horse was stopped or the consequences might have been serious. She happily escaped with some setere bruises and scratches.— Derby fie-* ■gorf&r^', •:'-■:■■-a-.-f' -^'; ~..,