Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3770, 27 January 1881, Page 3

Correspondence.

(To the Editor of tbe Evening Stae.)

Sic, —I hare just returned from paying a visit to that young, fair, and prosperous province of Napier, and I, as.one of the settlers that helped to raise her to prosperity, pray that' she may go on and ! prosper. Her valleys, hills, and plains are covered with the finest of cattle and sheep of the first quality. The province is a net work of roads and bridges ; her swamps, in both port and town, have been reclaimed ; her pot of a harbour has been reclaimed largely by the Colonial funds ; and two large wharves have been run out into the bay at Tery great colonial expense, which bids defiance to those treacherous north-casters that have strewed the beach with the wreck of many a ship. All this I have seen. All the above works ar& carried out in the young province of;£Napier; but, alas! alas ! when I retufti to this old province of Auckland whaj^db I see ? Although nature has beenjjnuch more lavish with her than her young sister Napier. Here we have large open plains which, if properly cultivated, would carry millions of people-JfcOur hills are clothed with the finest^,^timber. We descend into the bowels of the earth, and'we bring forth the richest of minerals—gold, coal, iron, &c, and,- with "all these advantages, I want to know from old colonists what is the reason ye so lag behind all the other provinces of the Islands P There must be some evil cause lurking at the bottom. Why not get some eminent men to try and find out this pestiferous cancer and root it out. If it be a selfish deipotic. power, why not root it out of creation. Then, again, have we that power within ourselves or our institutions to do so ? I say we have that power, and we only want to find it out and apply it, and np despotic power can withstand it. We have the brain power; we lack unityenergy backed by that combined physical power that, rightly-used, would destroy all such miserable despots as Mayors, County Chairmen, etc., that look upon their constituents as so many fools. Men of the Thames I again call upon you to use your power, and drive the locusts forth from power ; they are debasing our institutions, and laying this portion ot an old province a mere waste. They have brought us to be a by-w^rd and a shame amonjj the provinces of N ew Zealand. I doubt if -we have the ten righteous men to save the Islands. Men of Few, Zealand, support the nine, and we well yet overthrow the Ahabs and Jezebels of New Zealand! Aye, overthrow the whited:sepulchre that's eating the vitals and heart out-of New Zealand.

Men of New Zealand, our great brain power is Sir George Grry, and the other few that rally round him. Let us all rally round our true banner, and by our unity of action their overthrow is complete. We will annihilate them much easier than Jehu rubbed out Ahab and his land robbing crew—ages ago. I say rub out the monster land, timber and mineral swindling crew of New Zealand, and the kings and princes of railroads, and let us have a Jessop or a Grey that can span a continent from tbe Atlantic to the Pacific, or, like Sir Or. Grey, that would scan these islands in a lew years, and give all you old settlers farms out of the wilderness that the land jobbers have made of New Zealand, and at the present time they are making their ill-gotten gains—-the land—a decoy to induce the English to,come ;out and pay for their ill-gotten, unlawful, unjust public lands. Why call these lands public lands if a few men can-buy all up ? When the rich Englishmen is had up by the brigands on the Continent of Kurope (they say it isj their legal claim), so with land here; Instead of being called public lands, the niost appropriate name to give the lands is to call it by the name of tbe brigands' lands. Sir, such men want banishment to some barren or lonely island, where they would spend their ""days together, and filling up their greed to satiety Robinson Crusoe fashion; but to be left as lawmakers, its out of all question, for no lawbreakers should" be allowed to tamper with law-making, or they will drive us all into insolvency, for communities, .like individuals/can put the last straw on the camel's back. Men' of New Zealand, if ye want your nation to become insolvent, ye will keep the present men in power a few years longer, and I have no doubt they will accomplish your ruin, whichwill end in bankruptcy. Drive them forth as our Saviour swept the Temple of Jerusalem out, for they are making our House of Assembly a den of thieves. The country is alive, and its young national heart cannot bear to be downtrodden any longer; the national *war cry is being raised, their death knell is being sounded throughout New Zealand. Drive them forth out of your Houses of Assembly, and put good men and true to take their place, and may God favour our just cause. —I am, &c, H. Alley. Hikutaja, Jan. 25th, 1881. v