ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 69, 3 July 1863, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

[TO DO K OT HOLD OURSELVES RESPONSIBLrJ J FOII THE OPINTONB EXPRESSED BY OUaf J COBWSSPONDENTB. I M (To the Editor of the Invercargill Timci) ifl Btß,— Allow me, through the medium of jour H >urnal^ to expose the system of payments on thof I lain North Jioad, for which Messrs Campbell and! I tooertson are contractors. MM The truck system, as you will see by the pastil ook which I have shown you, is the dearest andH lie worst yet brought under the notice of a iour.H There never has been a regular pay day, eitherfl >rtnightly or otherwise. If men ask for their H ages, they have, as in my case, to come to In- IB ercargill, a distance of thirty miles, to receive!* lev money. ■■ let me put my own case. I, with my mates 1 1 line down from Fox's in the latter end of March rl id took Borne piece work from Mr Robertson!! I j> to the 19th of March we only received the sum! I Ll3 Is (Jd in cash, leaving L 29 9s BJd duojl Inch went on until 6th of June, when w« w) vl ittkd up with. In a few days after som# ml MB bom Robertson was unable to pay, threatajedj ,', IH nil down his store, whereupon he went to p .^H nt and asked me to let him have as much ret wney as I could. I gave him L4O, for wfcch] ;^^H a\ethe acknowledgment which I leave i( yd J^H osse&idh: 'I had at the time a contract undef^B ira which nmounted to a little orer L 37, vJhbh I^B ot completed on the 17th of Juno. Mr j ,obert.fl| ion gave us a final settlement on that c ening,^B md promised to send that amount, togetttr with^fl ha cash lent, -on the following Friday or S turday it farthest by his partner's brother, Mr '. orraan^H Campbell. We waited until Saturday, ai 1 there^fl ■ame no Campbell. Monday, Tuesday, an Wed<^H icsday, we expected the " Campbells wei Coir.^H "£!"— however, he did put in an appeal ace onBB Wednesday night, and had the cheek to sat to our^B ace that he knew nothing about our bi liness ;HB hat he had never promised to bring our noney^^B n whiuh he was contradicted by sever; i then^H itanding round. The only satisfaction tat we^H :onld get was, that by going to Invei argill.^H \ here his brother had as much money as horse^H :oi(ld draw, we would be pnid. Now, Sir, what I complain of is the ha^ng toj^H ome to town, a distance so great, for mon y dua^H .nd payable on the works by right. I ask 1 Mr^H "ampiell, when I received a cheque from I m on^H he Bank of New South Wales, whether he i ould^H tllow me anything for expenses, loss of tim &c!j^H iVhen he very cavalierly said No, and to I tha^H >ther nen who came down with me that he rould^H :ake care that I should not get work in £ uth-^^| nod tcher under a contractor or the Goern«^H nent.j A pretty pass it has come to wit I the^^| 3over :ncnt and contractors of Southland, rhcn^^| ;hey c n be coorecd by such a man. ' By iserting this letter, you will do a gOoJdeal^^B fownr i ameliorating the con<Uiion of thasanovrHH in the mployment of those model contractoa. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, William J. Poweu,. ffm\ W on Bush Inn. ]4 ft^| I the Editor of (he Invercargill Timi ftfl r< i \—\n justice to the inhabitants r^ I in \ neighborhood of Esk and TA ffl =»M %$, y-'O\)d you be kind enough fyj 111 nflf cpacejl your valuable paptr. — ifijfl fif v r^^inregard to the state of t ljfl stid It is pitiable to see people t -«-v fffl kut^ocp in the mud. I believe witl. H $MW agfition that they are the two worst stfittii^H in ,^n. There is no distinction betweeihefjlH c traffic and the passenger; now, if ai of KH oi Town Board members would passaatVH w and see the state they are in, I bi>ve Bfl tl >vould immediately bring the mattwe- Bfl fi the Board and get something do] to M t n; it would cost very little to make aM- II px in thewoist parts of them, even ij 9^| k only a few cart loads of flax, it wo be BH f reat benefit to the inhabitants re ' Q g XH /) I am, &c, I^Bj /! AKESIDEI\ ( Uvercargill, 2nd July, 1863. ' |^|