The Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1878.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 70, 17 August 1878, Page 2

The Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1878.

We are glad to find the member for Geraldine is not wanting.in energy with regard to local matters. His efforts to obtain direct communication by shipping with the mother country is bearing good fruit. A supply of good and useful immigrants is required, and that can only bo got by a direct shipment from England. Hitherto all our supplies have been drawn from arrivals at Lyttelton. That means any surplus that may torn am after the lot lias been well picked to supply the wants of Cnristchurch. We know full well what that means. Some of the scum of society always find its way to our shores among the more respectable immigrants, and these worthless outcasts are what often fall to the lot of South Canterbury, hence the large increase in crime amongst us, which has called forth comments on the part of our judges. We are pleased, therefore, to find that Mr -Wakefield has taken up and dealt with this matter so successfully. For this he deserves our best thanks. Another matter also, we, injustice to our mmxnbcr. must refer to. It will be observed tlrat action bad been taken by the Lands Committee- upon the Bill presented by Mr Wakefield for constituting a Harbour Board for Milford to take the place of the Provisional Committee. That Bill had been carefully drawn up by Mr Wakefield, and contained nothing which, as we thought, could be taken exception to by any committee, being merely a code of laws to guide the promoters in any action they- might find it necessary to. take in the matter when Sir John Goode’s final report is laid before the Government. It seems, however, that the Waste Lauds Committee fancied it

was by a side - move putting the thin edge of the wedge in for an endowment of land, hence the rejection of the clause for convey ini' 1 tlio foreshore, and the clause giving the Board power to deal with any endowment of lands that the Assembly may grant for this work. Mr Wakefield, the, mover of the "Bill, was not consulted in the matter as he ought to have been, or this would not have happened. Tt is hut justice to our member to say that he lost no time in rectifying this mistake, and he telegraphs to us that the Bill was to he reconsidered, when he expected the Bill would he passed as it stands. We may be able, by a late telegram, to inform our readers of the result of the recommittal of the Bill. Meantime it is satisfactory to bo able to state that no effort is wanting on the part of our member to make it a success.