Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3460, 27 January 1880, Page 2

Correspondence.

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(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—ln your issue of the 20th ""you state that Mr Alley's claim was obtaiued for the Government by Mr Jas. Mackay. Whoaver informed you of the above circumstance ever taking placet his statement was utterly false. Mr James Mackay and Mr Preece, the late native land purchase agent, told me I should Ret it—the Euakaka small lot of land—and if I get no redress from a one-sided ! Government, I will lay my olaim before the Supreme Court. I may say lam an old colonist, and yet* I could never get a single acre of native land put through the Native Lands Court. There is actually no law binding on the monopolists; their influence is beyond both Houses of Parliament, the Governor and all the Courts of the colony; and their great medium for evil is that huge and unwieldy machine, the Native Department; through it they can buy land from tha natives ; throught it they can send solicitors and there agents to close with all offers for their friends, whether the purchasers be themselves, or their friends, \joveßraireiifc--srudorisg, late Magistrates,, Bank Managers, cr iwdtTTCtual that belongs to their Eing. Well we have a Supreme Court, and some folks say it is free from corruption. I hope it may be so, for I shall try its virtuous judgment re the Euakaka block of land, , as I bought it honourably and justly; and I will shew that Mr Jas. Mackay was to get half of it in consideration of his paying a share of the purchase money, and guaranteed to get me a title for the land that had been surveyed, and a certificate of title given to four parties for the said piece of land. I may say I waited on Mr Heaketii, but that gentleman had instructions to take no one's case into consideration, only Messrs Burt and Stephenson's. The public must see those gentlemen do not belong to the public—they belong to the Land Monopolisers of the colony. The Thames public are the alien class of the colony, they neither get land, roads macadamized, or rail, but still, sir, they must pay far the making of all roads in the colony. lam &c,

IL Alley.

Hikutaia, January 22nd 1880. P.B.— I will give you a few letters re land purchases, and the names of some gentlemen if you will give me space in your paper for the insertion of them. I will also get a good report of those lands and go to Wellington next year, and lay all before the Government and Parliament Assembled. I will have justice, even if I have to get a petition sent to the Queen, find the leading newspapers of theUnited Kingdom and America. Would it be any use appealing to the Czar of all the Bussias ? - .