TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTHLAND TIMES.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 79, 2 December 1864, Page 3

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTHLAND TIMES.

818, — i-i n.-nngr seen in your columns a, ivw uays since an extract from the Glasgoio Mail, of a most deplorable picture of the sufferings of a certain, individual in Invercargill, and his -wonderful tenmfle circuit. It is very fortunate that the said party did not reach as far as Riverton. There he would have se»n some broad acres of wheat and bats, and we ourselves can testify to having seen sixty bushels grown to the acre, and we do not remember during the last fourteen years to have seen a single instance of our crops not ripening. Wa beg to say, for the information of this " chiel amangus," that had he- been in Riverton to-day he would have marvelled greatly to have seen as fine a crop of barley cut down as the eya could wish to see — over five feet high. Then, again, as for vegetables, I think from the sense he has displayed in his lengthy epistle of grievances, that his own head and a Biverton cabbage would not be dear at a shilling ; and as regards the climate and health of the inhabitants, we saw this morning our oldest identity, trho is now -verging on eighty years, and nearly forby year* a residenfcer here, carrying a 501 b. bag of Sour up Palmerafconstreet to his home three miles in the country. Should his eye glance on old Toby, another forty years' residenter, and whose brow has weathered over seventy summers, he would consider that our medical men are taking the right step in leaving. "We cannot venture to follow up all his mishaps and grievances, but we can say that in this district there is corn and beef in plenty. Apologising for occupying so much of your space, — "We remain, yours, &c, RIYEKTONIANS. Eiverton, 28th Nov., 1864. P.S. — As the "chiel" states, "fruit there is none," we tender our invitation to him, through you, to a treat to a gooseberry fool.