A GROWL mOM THE UPPER COUNTEY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3856, 9 May 1881, Page 3

A GROWL mOM THE UPPER COUNTEY.

•(To the Editor of Hie Erening Star.) Sw,—TUe senior member for/ihe; Thw&t* has delivered his post-sertionaC sp*ee>. and of cou<ae his hearers Mv.e • bWft'liMHj edified,, but wlial we up here, waft 10-kn^w is what kM he.done for the district he 1 represents, lle^aysbad land WM#.iip.fe for the poor hard working m«n. He forgo! the tact that he never opened one acre, of l»nd for settlement in tfic district ..while in office,, good or bad, \ajrid there can-be no r but he. might hfT.eppened thousands of ; acres of. *oo<! lfthdAip here if be hid wished. awL then these happy hornet and' smiling children might have been found! When lie give Broomhall the' £5000 to dear out,.he ; ioij!ht'have nifeh some of those he addressed the other evening land on whicji they and their families might hare settled*;'«itho«t sending for Grant and Foster! and tha 7000 immigrants that he intend* to-find liontes for; but then of court*'thrift* Waste Lnnd Board fellows' ~Ve all like Mitchell- they ought to be ejected:-1 'Up IdQubt.-,ihat v uld change their ijafare/. I, *,bi)dc>r. who .the big -land BDaTk-h?. reTexred to is up here who as soon a/be wants a railway will have, it. If 'tfe refers to J. .C. Firth, there is no man in the North Island that is doing the amount of work cft'hie'et&tt i in fact, he erop|9«vmor^"\?PW than-tf&Kirr ihree special settlrttierit^ Hot: a htindrecl miles from ijbe -Xhsroes. > In fact, while one man iT^alliing. the other one is benefiting , tb« ( ||rei(ai»|.jj*«#r«tion^ the other—wel), I don'iitltTMJW.. «ho—in the words of the poe4," Taik- is cheap, but-it'-takcs money to lbny- w-hisirey /'—l am, &c., ' > , Stfobits: