THE LATE INQUEST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2750, 13 December 1894, Page 2

THE LATE INQUEST.

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TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — Will you be kind enough to give me space in your widely-read paper to veotilate a grievance which, if not a general one, is at any rate affecting every perpetual leasehold settler who took up unsurveyed land. And it occurs in this way: Supposing I took up a section of unsurveyed land on the perpetual lease, if I wanted to change to the lease in perpetuity the survey fee which I would have to deposit at the time of selectiug would be held by the Crown for 999 years, and I don’t think that I would derive much benefit from it, even if I got it*at the expiry of that term. I wili admit that on the short lease I would not get it either, but with that lease 1 could become a purchaser, and then the survey fee would be deducted off the total. 1 think, sir, that if a man is allowed to alter his lease from the one to the other he should be allowed all the privileges that the long leaseholders enjoy ; and it is plain that he don’t, for in the latter case the survey fees go to pay the rent or rents as they become due, while in the other case the survey fee is held for ever at 4 per cent per annum. It looks very strange, in the face of the fact that the Government are about to lend cheap money to t ,l o»e who need it, that they should handicap the class I have referred to jn that particular way. I will not occupy any more of your valuable space at present, but I hope this is not so complicated as not to be understood by any person who hnds himself in the described position. If you, Mr Editor, have not before noticed this legislative error, I hope you will through your columns give us your opinion on it when you grasp the situation.—H am, eto., B. She eh ah. Rangitata Bridge, Dec. U, 1894.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— “ Spero,” in his letter contained in yonr issue of to-day, writes of the publicans (plural) who supplied the deceased man with drink prior to his death, while at the inquest only “ one ” hotel was rpentioued connection with the sad affair c i u fact, Rainy was not in my house during the or night of the date in question, and I have seen little or nothing of him for a long time past. Perhaps “Spero” was the party who supplied the incorrect news to the Timaru Herald, and so on to the Christchurch papers, that it was to my house the poop fellow was taken after he was discovered, A non dc plume is a convenient, even if sometimes a cowardly, means of conveying damaging iuuoudoes, but it would be bettor if he destroyed the draft of letters intended

for anonymous publication, and not to leave them on the public fowl. By taking this precaution be would perhapa avoid notoriety as one who “runs with the hare and rides with the hounds.”—l mb, etc., T. Langdon.