Correspondence

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3653, 10 September 1880, Page 2

Correspondence

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Sib, —It seems there is to be no redress for anyone -that may .differ .in opinion from a corrupt Government and their following; to be a supporter of the Grey Government means persecution in every shape and form. If you are a pet of the present Government you. can' boy land and be supported by cash payments in some indirect way; also ,an- eminent lawyer will be forthcoming to forward and settle your interests with; the natives—as witness Mr Stephenson, hotelkeeper; he had £200 given to him to prospect land at Te Aroha; also Mr Hesketh, the lawyer, was sent down from Auckland to Te Aroha to place him in peaceable posses* sion of a parcel of land he bought from the natives*; he had also the great assist* ance of the Native Department officers to assist an * hotelkeeper to go farming in ardent liquors; and, lastly, the all despotic Government to grant him. a Crown grant, while I bare been driven off land in the same locality which I bought from the natives by the action of the Donald McLenn Government and its officers, and now up to this lime, I have been persecuted for being on Crown grant land by a turbulent young Maori they call Rahi. He stops men, horses and ploughs, send 3 his women to pull survey chains about, and he also goes and consults officers of the Government, and they are so well up to the dark Ways' of their masters' that they give him the most cunning advice to annoy any of Sir G. Grey's supporters, and all. the. same influence goes to support any of the supporters of the present Ministry. The advice I would give them would be to borrow (£10,000,000) ten million* more, and bribe all Sir G. Grey's supporters to leave the colony, and station a man-of-war to keep the old gentleman caged in his island home at Kawau, otherwise the oracle states he will overthrow, the laud robbers of the North Island. I have read of a certain King Pharoah that would not give Foreigners straw to make bricks; they had to procure stubble to do so. Well, what do you think of an.English Colonial Government in the 19th century, they will not give their people even a swamp to drain, or a single acre of fern land to build or plant upon,. and. this precious Government taxes them to bring out Foreigners from Kurope, and the sweepings of the streets and work houses of England, Ireland and Scotland; a Government that makes easy laws to carry on the most monstrous land swindles in the world, also timber and mineral swindles of vast proportions, thereby robbing the Maoris and the colonists of heir just rights. If the said Govern* ment or their agents buy a Big Pump, they direct their agents to swallow up in water nearly £100,000 stealing j if they take att interest in a million acres of Jtad, they direct the waole paraphernalia m the Native Department to purchase it; if they hare a co-partnership affair in a new coal field, they divert the railway sleepers from tke Thames Valley to construct roads to the said coal pits; so that like -King Pharoah they may starve out the Thames people, just because they have become supporters of a Liberal chief. But if the public will but open their eyes to their true interests and their families, and support our great Liberal chief, Sir George Grey, he will destroy that structure whose Hall and foundation has been founded on a swindling heap of sand. English papers please copy a true tale o£ a bad set of robbers—worse than Ned Kelly and his gang.—Yours, &c, U. ALLEY.