ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 296, 1 December 1862, Page 5

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

fTH.^ SWERINTBNDENT AND THE WASTE LANDS. ( To the Editor of the Otago Daily Times .) JW 1" understood that the Provincial Council, which is about to meet, will be called upon to consider certain prop , Be d alterations in the Sales Ordinance. 1 trust that wbi.ft so, credit will beS to mind the very JSwfc2*fiol?f wS ti£ bupermte^ie^oonf n the Province seems entirely J W^-fta* any legislation which aims at effecting what the laws or potitictii economy oppose will be utterly futile and had better not be attested. 111 proclaim Hundreds.—l'll open the land tQ the people,' cried Major Richardson when he stood Store the country a candidate for the yfnc© oTsSJ! mtendent By this m^n^e *&^ taSinau^S a splendid e-a of prosperity for the Province He was to. haws chained"the'Hiinholder, and introduced an Millenium. Indeed, those who at t£ period did not look upon the Major as a real gift fvora Heaven to Otago, certaiuly thought less of him than the Major did of himself. '• MHi **^ ..J ell > wf ha. yei now enjoyed, fte Bluing for some SiLfV^^^ rUKiI latitude have we ,WW tpi Where are the cozy cottages — Wfi to whiA the dirge of the- Flockmaster. Where? answers Echo, grinning! within her cave. "In the brain of'his Honor 188 » cries the genius of Humbug Aye and Smp a ti™ncaml ng $£«Wf Qsbe vJ&cftd for some time jek i m^rjcitffcure becomes a profita°&s¥»i land oaunot be procured elsewhere than iv Otago; when meu cease to be governed by such instincts as govern them now; then, and noG till then will he happy era dawn for which las Honor's soul doth yearn. He must ,wa& m so must we, mi those cQndit^na which, «Wci can giveitWtK^ evol X£ d te?twe «fi pro^ss L^nd lMbMtt sold ab.uuda&tly j tena of thousands °*a.SP»k fte best and richest portion of the public estate, fewa passed Into private possession. By whom has it been purchased'{ By capitalists of epurafit Tliey bought and they will hold. Jv^ e^actlj St ! was seen by men of vpulcl be. the case. ! "But it w au-Jl *#nd that flows good to no one." i me nonsense of the Superintendent has ; wo-ked evil to the Hrovince : good W'i.ucUvul^H The S shrewd men oi Glasgow," he;- b,Htto/ her whu«fcy dea!^ ul^in tl^ go,S, They devise, over tl\eu- to^^ft ¥k«« oj- territorial acquisition! i u#&°.sV« JsuoVthQy c°vet most. Thither a^euts ;aro dispatched. They arrive just in time lhe great Apost'e of Hundreds f»us t,viamuhed wichlus daclriue, and an opportu.ife i% afforded them to accompush their uifesiQ^. Ti^s. \^ absentees al owed to siick i^oift the Province, that which/when taken i-. oai h^-.llajives poor indeed. Qtaio. d v^ued ; o.'-ter We r l-.loi>i, poverty aiid em.u u iatian la warm of tax-^therera. mil ftuA, <4y£m j and oerself-accijs^i^i^, litt^soJl»cjs inthe recollection oi having y^e-i ' 4 b<j of a tawdry Ehetoric. %re the North every bit of the Great Hundred has been sold. lam one of a very few non-capitalists who iUceeeJel in securing a few acres to settle uno« lam in tact what I subscribe myself, £ufc 4i, a t bdiient do I derive from the v^r\tw\ Jnaljtq&on ? If I let my cow loose up.Q\\ vo# i\e4gU.bQr%j section. I' feel conscious oi a^)p a v»at,liiS Nvta.l belong to another. ihevQ is not a.n iciv of Common in the district. Adthere is the tine Cane [ which tonria the harbor. JMature seom3 to have in- | tended it to be reserved for the use of the inhabitants. [ 1 lie idea strikes every stringer who visits the ptfacvi • yet it. too, has baen allowed toge£ i^to \litx clutches of speculators. Bi\t wl\at. i\\\ l v w Honor ' b.are ior the Wort^ orv^atd^dh&.^ow^baut ie; ho had never IQ«\ fc> £ fc beou usef>ul him as a ■■blubpplqth. Wtoii'it had served that purpose,- it ce>*sed to interest him. sins of omission and of commission of tha buperintendent, in eoimcctioa with the administration of the public lands, ai?; indeed neither f«V in number nor small in magnitude. T^c sa"?i'iftee that has been made is atti^bufybk ci^har'to'aots of his own or to wQ riemetmlLed % others influenced by his prjE^lplek The pi-Qclamntion of the new Southern Hundred, by which great trusts of the finest agricultural land in the Province has been permitted tgnajsa. into the hands of the previous lessees, or of speculators, although the result of a. Rajyed by the Provincial Qo.i\no& to. Uw inspi, ration. M We. rau-st■ reclaim, fronj the U«nuholde» in the^puth a lajge extent of CAm\try wherewith to } vi& &$ to, |ett^e. \n the Province," exclaimect the. \yl3eacre who iufeix>duced the measure. "We mst^defed, nwsponded by their votes a majority of the Oouncil. Did the diggers snap at the bait ? Have the diggers settled? "No," says the chucklim? capitalist, spreading his digits fan-like from thfc tip ot lus proboscis, •« and when they wajatfo, The. Superintand^ ifc %eem.3 km issued a eatechetieal c^cujar; w t&e subject of the disposal °J **\« waste lands. To whom has it been addreased) To Agriculturisfa and Bunholders indiscnmmately ? Certainly not. I have not met with a single Runholder who has b^en ap honored. Those whose opinion^ ara invited are men who may be expected tft to th^preiadioes f.^ec^t^vsj. Aw^T%hteo J usp^6 <s eeUi4 W**ss■ fis ltlc of PO- 1"^1 ""AQra.!il3r fe adopt { When wiU. his Honor cease to, de^l in sh.^3 When will ; ins itonorle^m %t h,p. have not thatrqpacity w -^ JSn^S-J tofeiva thorn even a temporary siicc^ 1 IV> ajsk tha agdeulturists of the Taieri, 'Toko^ mainr^ and'the Clutha what size runs should be limited to—what the average rate per acre which the goodwill of runs tharhave been sold have rQa.U§cd.--is to ask them to give advice on matte-jfafthey c>.n know nothing about. The Suner\ntaad^lj. inkht as. well ash them .to aqa.d^jtej tl\e drcle and giid'-aftt.per-petq^l raot^pn/and expect them i(y do it. Thbre would be iusu as mucg sgnso in his asking them ! I V(nat effect the capture of Garibaldi is likely to have ou the rise and. fall of the MoJyneux; or the:defeat of the Taipins^ by the allied forces of France and England on the blight of-cabbages-!■?.■.'- He;-^u\d be 'sure'tb.obtaixas:uiteHigeht;;"an>we^4c)^he'p l Me'set;of queries as to the Qt^ar. V^l^it tlik; m,enxbers of his Honor's, i^sUhxuk. of his travel!^ away item then\ to such, a queiir quarter for iufopia^tion I and advice regarding the itntortant, interests of the Province: and what the members of tha Provincial Gou^cil will, th,iul^' of b}s nr«-iudging a matter to %? wJ^WW-ta tfew qoaaAaeradon on evideoee

JL obfc.i-i.ed' there cany.be little doubt, if they are men worthy of the position they occupy. S s^dya»n(*«rpri«rf at the step taker, by the Superunendeutjßothi.ueinaanti^froru him would surprise them except-a dispu^ionau-and unnS. diced That would indeed nstonish them as much .is findinl S aSr n tl'° rilS ' a'"'fi^ on thirties. WHh re*S £Ju£"S? aat »wquerti.n»-|l,atuHl not require settlement for year* to come, O< 4 ono » Why Lot wait and get the benefit of the experie.u-e which tht interval may afford 1 Besides, » ha{ u"it«?e fa unnecessarily fretting and veiing intowsta t «t «w aokno^edged to be important to the Ufa«of 32 Province. No class in the community am Uwe by sist ot the opportunity of meddling, it will be lonk*l upon as a gain to the country eJ Oxeiistien's remark to his B on regarding lh* mod; cum of wisdom with which the wrtdVSwMd may well be applied to us. What was true in 2 ■days of Sweden's great Chancellor in true in our omi daj,-.especially true as regards our Government How is it that wisdom is so rarely found £Th£h places ? I S up po6 e it is that she is diffident and X her modest accents arc drowned by the "great swelling words of vanity." We are toll -.hat :_':. " Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread " Me aaalagous to the one which overtakes the niS ?al hen- The heritage of the people, is being- sacriK?l • and the pnest of the sacrifice V «n Bnuirfc* t£ itRepresentatives should interfere. They will he in cited to dQ so, I«n sure, if they cast their e ves acrSs X*a' 7 hl V' 1 t|ler« see Gamblers, Sd hS? 8 ' n a*d i Rl^ 1 1 10ldina Capitalists, holdS High Carnival with the publio I^3 and Demagogues have provided the: feasti ■ If we are to have a Saturnalia We of a similar kind, it too w[n WlSf°?f^v m% by s,e!f^ led fiends of WjeUe When thinW over these matter, how naturailv wG SSSTv'T 11?* a f? tal siffc has Manhood sS^ Xurawkij Nov. 24, JBQ2, Cockatoo. *■-' -t-