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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4372, 8 January 1883, Page 2

New Zea.ia.nx> politicians in power should be warned by the retribution which has fallen upon their brethren in New South Wales, in connection with their dealings with Grown Lands. The practice of acquiring and enabling their friends to obtain directly or by agents valuable blocks of land, is really a pleasant and a profitable recreation. It has long been a deeply marked impression on the public mind that the companies and associations to' which the majority of the members of the present Ministry directly belong, or are indirectly connected with, have acquired and are still endeavoring to obtain a complete bold over all the available valuable land in the colony. It is clearly a ease of making "hay while the sun shinea." The time must and will come when existing land laws will be swept away and the old and oft repeated cry "the land for the people will be a thing capable of accomplishment. In the meantime the land rings and companies, before alluded to, are doing their utmost to "grab' 1 the acres ere it is too late. In many districts the old system of securing the good front blocks is being followed, giving the holder of them almost absolute command over the back blocks, which of course are of infinitely more value to him than an outsider. We would warn the various political land jobbers to be careful in their actions, lest the fale of the New South Wales Ministry ma}' befall them. The loose handling of the land regulations, the subdued eagerness displayed to let friends into Piako, and other Northern plums, the concessions to individuals who have been philanthropic enough to take up worthless blocks' of land, for purely patriotic purposes, have all been made public from time to time through the medium of the Press, and these things have helped to load the patient camel until the burden has almost come to " the. last straw."