HOME RULE AT TE AROHA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 431, 25 December 1889, Page 2

HOME RULE AT TE AROHA.

(To the Editor). Sir,— Your correspondent, " Cyclops," opens an important application of the principles of Home Kale to our own affairs, in his sensible letter in the News of 11th inst. Probably he oyerlooks the fact th»t it was under the GoTernraent of Sirs G. Grey, and Stout, and Messrs Ballance, Larnach, and Sheehan, that this iniquity, so inconsistent with all their professions, was perpetrated against colonization at Te Aroua and Waio* rongom >i. Is it not singular that we should find the levellers or political ilist fadists of New Zealand, practisW. " e . tllQ wrongdoing so justly con'inwW, G Tories at Home, and we 'deninsf iv * Ballance, Stout, and Co., /md meirli&e Mie lanii for tfl e Irish crying out" fbF w % % tbe y tnink Euro * teuantry, whileheiHj . be Crown and ! peans are^ only fit" to x , tbe law of Ma6ri- tenants, and tBW\ here 011 entail shemld perpetaa# vl of a^ Country wrongs in the wors&'foK c entailed Maori landed aristocracy)* w. ' the Europeans" are to bo by the^ degraded into " hewers of- wood aii^ drawers of water." Foor inducement to» come 15,000 miles cerfcaialy.— I anyfetc»\ Aj-ax;

(To the Editor). Sir, — I not'oeJ iv your paper a fesV 1 days ago a letter reflecting on our landlord. Now I can assure you ha has done many good- turns to his tenants and others in a quiet way, auJ with respect to any real cases of hardship, so far as I am aware of, that have been brought diiectly under his notice, he has shown a disposition to make any reasonable concessions. I speak this from uiy own knowledge, having had to interview him both on behalf of myself and others, and in these instance shave had the grievances safcis--fi»ctorily adjusted. Of course, our landlord is feeling the hard times the same as we all dp, I think it would be better for persons having a grievance that can be rectified to see him before writing to the pnpeis. I write this as a matter of justice,-- 1 am, &c,