UNHAPPY THOUGHTS V. HAPPY THOUGHTS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2595, 2 May 1877, Page 2

UNHAPPY THOUGHTS V. HAPPY THOUGHTS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sic, —The writer of Happy Thoughts is evidently sniggering after i Miss Dash, and I have a few words to say to him of a practical nature, which may, perhapi, open his eyes, as we say in the colonies, "as to how things is," and"as he is a stranger here, or new.chum, .with a remittance from home or expected, his ideas at present have only led him to observe the pleasures and to avoid all the drtdgery of colonial life. "Happy thought—Suppose you look around and see if you can select a nice spot of ground to squat upon, instead of the skating rink' floor." Do you not think Miss Dash will, think yo« are taking a step in the right direction, preparatory to proposing. Another happy thought— Go to Stephenson's, and inquire all about the land question; put down your name, and become a free selector, Acting on this idea proceed at once with a friend of the same turn of mind, wishing to settle on land in the district, and am greatly astonished' and interested'in the conversation, admiring the deep research of our bost, and his excellent P. 8., and were told that the Waste Lands Board is constituted of Government nominees ; that Whitaker is at 'the head and can pull the strings as he likes, get' up a bogus row with the Maoris, erect booms, pahs, stop the navigation of the river, put off the lands courts indefinitely. Unhappy thought—What for ? Simply that great speculators and others in the ring may get all the lands at a nominal figure into their hands to sell again at a future day to some Broomhallites'or Stewartites at £5 to £10 per acre, whilst the residents of this Province waste their time in fruitless "efforts" to obtain land"wiverebn to settle and-.-make a home.-, for-,- themselves and families, at the same time contributing in the-shape of taxes and, rates, to support a heptarchy more powerful" than that of the seven Saxon kings, and which, like the rata, is sucking the yery vitals of an industrious "population. , "Tai h<>" is in Maori to wait;,.if Miss Daßhisan aboriginal she will understand the word, and I shall be: spared the infliction of an explanation as to when she may anticipate the happy thought of — Yours truly, " ' .Helvelitn.