OHINEMURI.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1902, 6 February 1875, Page 3

OHINEMURI.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) v Siß—-Yottr contemporary on Ohinemuri gives a wrong version of the case, as it is evident ho wants to mislead the public; and, to put them right, I must endeavour to do. Had the Government allowed Mr Maclsay to have laid off boundary,lines by survey, and proclaimed the field open for mining purposes, he 'would hare settled the affair immediately after lie concluded the purchase with the native*; but the Advertiser wants to cripple private enterprise to please the Government, its best customer in: advertising; but it will not succeed, for every

settler to a man assisted Mr Mackay in his purchase. I ask the Advertiser, who first started the purchase of timber, coal, gum, Jand, &c. P Auckland men > and some of those having powerful influence with the present .Government. Why does not the Advertiser advise the passing of a law on the deferred payment system, giving the public—especially the old settlers—a right to settle on the land by payments being made over eight years, at, say 5s per acre, which would pay a larger revenue than the present system of land sharking at present going on by those gentlemen having influence with the powers that be P —l am, &c, A XovEB or Justice.