CORRESPONDENCE

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 81, 20 December 1884, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE

Under no circumstances is the Editor responsible for the matter contained in correspondence.

' (to the editor.) Sir, — In a report which appeared in the Auckland Herald of Nov. 21st of a mveti.ig of tlie Crown Lam Is Board, Auckland, on tue day previous, the i'ol lowing paragraph appears : '• Grants for Deferre i Riymeut Selections. — Messrs Alaxweil aitii Cramp, deferred payment selectors at TuaUau, applied to have their payments capitaliseii, ami Crown grunts 101 their sections issued. Chairman said the Land Aet,pnssed at Jiejast session extended tne time for issuing grants for deferred payment sections to six years From date >f selection, instead of three as formerly. The Board decided to inform applicants they could not comply with application, as they had not been six years in occupation ;" from ehich it appears that only tuo.-e who may have applied to have their payments capitalised prior to the passing of this Act will be able to now do so under six years instead of three. Tne new arrangement appears so unjast that I should feel greatly obliged if yon could throw some further light on the subject, through the medium of your valuable paper and oblige yours, A Dkferked Payment Settler. Te Aroha West, Declb', 1864. [The published report referred to is somewhat calculated to mislead. The effect of the Legislation of last session (hi the point raised by our correspondent simply amounts to this : That capitalisation is stil! permitted after the selector has held iris selection for the space of three years, but the Crown grant will not, under any circumstance, issue until the expiration of six yeais.— Ed. A.N ]

A statistician has been calculating anew the mortality of the globe, lta has discovered the nusnbjr of deaths to be 67 every minute, 97,790 every day, or 35,639,835 every yaw. The births exceed the deaths by three per minute, running to 100,000 every day, and 36;792,000 every ynir.