THE FREEHOLD OF BLOCK 27.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5011, 3 February 1885, Page 3

THE FREEHOLD OF BLOCK 27.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib, —"Block 27," in your contemporary this morning, re-opens the question on the above subject, which seems to have been shelved by those in whose hands it was entrusted for remedy. There is no

doubt we will wake up some fine day and be politely told to " walk our chalks," to use a well understood phrase by many. Well, I say it, and re-echo the warning of " Block 27," that there will be trouble in store for the land sharks when the time comes to carry oat their nefarious schemes of land* grabbing and " vampireism " on those who have a greater moral right to the tenure of the little bit of land on which they have• made their homes.

. When the time comes, if our rights are <«snuffed out, you will not require to seek the Home paper to find news of the crofter riots and Irish troubles about land—you'll hare them in a.small way repeated here. Oar member, Mr Cadman, some say. is conveniently asleep. I think so, too. Had we entrusted the petitions to our energetic member, Mr Fraser, we would have heard more of it, and our wants and rights " would have been properly attended to. Bat that laudatory bespattering of your Coromandel M.H..R. has spoilt the broth, and the dust thrown in your eyes has secured him his seat in Parliament, for without the vote of Block 27 he would never have sat there. That was all he wanted, and now you may turn to someone else to get you out of the pickle. I hear, by-tbe-bye, that Mr Cadman has, with his partner (who is also an M.H.E.) succeeded in getting a railway tohis Napier ■ bush. As this honorable gentleman acd his mate have been so successful on their own account, I am very anxious to know what Mr Cadmnn has dupe for us, and am therefore patiently awaiting his arrival to hear more about it. As for myself I am so convinced that we will be bamboozled, that I hare refrained from making the slightest alteration on my section, knowing fall, well it would be only bent fitting the incoming " shark." Hoping that the Block will make odd more combined effort to obtain its rights-—I remain, &c, A Gbowli i'bom Block 27.