SOMETHING LIKE A MONOPOLY.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 147, 7 July 1883, Page 243

SOMETHING LIKE A MONOPOLY.

; - '■• Iluwf'vci- loudly ihe iLmicr.it.ie. eleuie-ut and t.he advocates of liind n itionalization .in New -Zeliiimi ni:i.y Cry out. ngansl. the .tendency to inoiH>p<>li->e large 'tiloirk.s of land, this is a inalter '". in wluc'i «e^iinnot hold a candle to" Queensland. '''f^V'ui* " I'M-' s wiH lowers'" of that tropical home'of I' f)n> -iliiynipr and nigger are gifted wit.h an tj^ ;i .^Kin.!,H MH-iicity beside' whicli the'puny nihbliu'gs '^(.f our Ni j " sharks sink into insignificance. rile New Zealand fish is infyet. only a, small Kp'T^s of .groiitu'l shark, wliile tlie Q.ueei sland kind is ;i' perfect leviathan of the deep, *wifh a,^ . , ( 'M,)i;icii v for swallowing whole con'ineuis at a mouthful without any serious effort. In the r N . *, '■" <*

■Warreg'o ancl J Gregory North District; sixteen thousand and thirty seven square miles' are held by four firms.' Only think of it. Teh million, two' hundred and sixty three thousands, sice, hundred and eighty acres held by four firms, consisting'of six individuals, 'or, nearly one million and three quarters of a million acres per, man ! In another part, of Queensland the Scottish Australian Inrestm'eht Company holds, 7,195, square miles; the, Queensland National ■ Bank, 5,64/7 square miles • 'aud the Darling Downs and Western Eatid Mortgage Company, 3,635 square miles.- Teh niillions) five hundred and forty five, thousands; two huhdred Mid eighty acres' mopped up by three 'syndicates.. Here is a promising field for Sir Q-ebrge Grey if he could be''indijced> to sink his patriotic, love of New Zealand, and his. solicitude for unborn :Vgenerati6ns of New.Zea: landers/ • • ' '■'„, ■ ; — «>~ — ' ' ' .. ■