AROWHENUA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1775, 11 August 1888, Page 2

AROWHENUA.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir Mr Eli tor will you kindly give a space in your v.luab'e paper for me to Auk a few qu'stions on a urtical in your iaue of the forth inst Mr Editor 1 thought yon where a st'iut cli liberal but I find yon are a rink 'ory is it 1 beral to try to take the mine of a neighboring town iiway to enli»nc<> y.mr own is it libreal to try to take the management of a neighboring town out of tha ; r own hands appropriate io to your own brctuie you whant a mare and counce'ora io imkfl your own town look big is it libreal to t-Bke away the privilnge s from ilie poor poople in oure town of keeping u pig horse or coir it will be so if maid a borough to pleas a few is it libreal fur you to back up a few to fence and to keep up fences acroa the roale or public highways now Mr Editor the roads are my roads and my childeren birthrite aud the ratepayeis and thare childeren birthrite as son* as they whare born day or night and no one has o right to put obstichs in the Vi>y is it libreal for you to tell a few to hold government land wich ihey have fenced and to keep the fences up when it be'ong to me and my childeren and tho ratepayers and thare childeren therefore any man that backs up or holds the people land is not a libreal or is he a free cit'zin for he is liab'e to be brouht before court of justice any day for appropriating the peop'e land to his own use is it libreal to clep and cut my letter to about half and give others in full Mr Editor as I am about to retire„from office and leav*» room for the maney I hope that you will be librel enngh to give spice enough in your valuable piper to print every woord io my letters in it now Mr Editor for the advmtnges is it liberal to wish all the benifit for your own town for you have not said a word about Arowhenua or in wich way they will be benifitad as for people comiog from the north to settle io buesness in temuka there is only one that is not to full a>(ready and that is a native lax mill ns y r -u have moor of that in your than any other it might do well Mr Edi'or is i* libreal for you to oil your adopted town i little village shorty it must Lave been verrey painful to the sonsative minds of the uppr ten of the lower town to haw to ask the people of »rowheoua to help them up arung of the lader to thare mare and counselship for beg Hey must to get two th'rds of the ratepayers if ruy neighbors wish to cut thare noses of to spite ther face to please a few arstocrotic tliev can then I cm say as you says Mr Bi'litor sarv« right f ,r I have nietlier horse pig cow so Mr Eiitor it would not hart me or benifit me all that I hive done is for the benifit of my neighbors and verrpy lut'e for myself to prove this I most tnakrt a saitement when I first came amongst my preasaut neighbors I found they had stipt paying rent for two years beoause they could not get to know if they would ever get it thar own I negated a petlician to parlemeut and call-d a meeting to divus it the firs' night Mr J boltnr ilm second Mr W fawdrey Mr 3 B liter a id my self we for ne-1 a commit be a.<d the third night, they nearly aU came and we lent tho fi r petieiion to- parlerne.it on deferred payment in New Zinland and it was past in 79 and tlure in hundreds no* living in ther owq houses on defered paymont next I called a meeting toformarowhonua into a town boar i how you and your party opend the tneetiog and ca'ed your own is to well kauwn that of course was libreal that meetiig was mine and was the cause of temuka being maid a town towa boarl but in spita of great obsticals [ m lid arowhenua a town d'strict and my nighbors have two acres of land at thare own price closi to thare own door I took none ua ill there was no application for any and then only 40 pirch now Mr Editor is it libreal on your part to asist ind do your bast to distroy that wich have cost me so much ti'ne and money to benifit my neighbors for I never gained sixpence now Mr editor you remiuds me of asayiDg I heard years ago run vilhe the Inre und hold wich the hounds so I I,think it is with you you may remember I

my surpiise when you fir«t told me you wuR a libreal yours truly G Eduelub BGCA

[We are a Tory because we corrected the spoiling and the grammar and omitted supeifluous nutter io Mr Edgeler's letter >ibout the children and the dock, To be Liberal we are asked to "print every word of this letter." We have dona so. Mr Edgeler accuses ua of having opposed the meeting called by him to form Arowhenua into a Town District. That is pretty cool, after all the trouble we took to assist the meeting, and after die meeting giving us a special vote of thanks for having given that assistance. Those who i had anything to do with those meet-1 in<{S will see how untruthful Mr Edgeler's accusation is. We also aseiated Mr Edgeler in his election, and now he turns round on un. It is not trua that we told anyone to hold land which did Mot belong to hirr ; neither are any of the other accusation? made true. If Mr Edgeler wants any more lei tars to appear he must tell the truth, and do it in a oiyil and polite manner. We are not so liberal at to allow Mr Edgeler to make groundless charges against us in these columns. We feel as keen an interest in Arowhenua as we do in Temuki, and we think to amalgamate both towns would bo to their mutual advantage. Let not Mr Edgeler flitter himself that the people of Temuka are anxious to amalgamate. We anticipate greater opposition from them than from the .Arowhenua people. It would be altogether to the advantage of Arowhenua to amalgamate now, because when Arowhenua spends the little money she has Temuka will not have anything to do with her then. Arowhenua would do well to think of this. As regards any interest we may have in the matter, we would get more out of the two Boards than one, but we are looking to what would be the best for all—especially what would be best for Arowhenua. We shall decline to insert any future letter from Mr Edgeler, which exceeds in length half of the foregoing,—Tie Editob.}