BLUE SPUR RESERVE QUESTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 27 June 1868, Page 3

BLUE SPUR RESERVE QUESTION.

(To the Editor of the Tuapeka Times.) Sir, — Allow me space for a few remarks in your' journal respect i is r a curtailed anamorphosis letter pubi.siieu in the " Bruce Herald " of the 17th n.ht., from a Blue Spur correspondent. The purport of the letter is as follows : —At p. meeting of the water-race holders, hi Id on the 2nd inst., Mr. S. Hales presiding., it appears it was resolved to draw up a B emorial, and despatch it with a deputation as quickly as possible' for presentation to his Honor the Superintendent. It would occupy too much of your paper to dwell on the merits of their object. However, the deputation in the course of a few days returned ; and on the 13th inst. another ..meeting was held, to give a detailed account of what had taken place before his Honor. The facts of their fatiguing journey are simple. The Government could not do anything for them until they had received the necessary information from Wellington. j Now, sir, all these meetings were private and secret — held in a private residence. Had these parties received, or beim likely to receive, any injuries, why not call a public meeting? They would then have received the public sympathy, which they cannot expect by going about sneakingly, and holding private meetings behind the screen. That which is right and proper never need be done in secret. ■ So, seeing their chances were doubtful of there ever being a reserve, they went in for a road, determined to have revenge for their disappointment ; pounced upon myself and Mills and Co. like a pack of wolves would" upon two stray sheep after a snow storm, for destroying a narrow track, which they call a road. Allowing it to be. a road, it has been destroyed over twelve months ago. Mankind has a very strong sense of the injuries, that are done to the species. The villain in a tragedy or romance is as much the object of our indignation as the hero is that of our sympathy and affection. We detest lago as much as we esteem Othello ; and delight as much in the punishment of the one as we grieve at the distress of the other. But though mankind have so strong a fellow feeling with the injuries that are done to him, he does not always resent them the more that the sufferer appears to resent them. Upon most occasions, the greater his patience, his mildness, his humanity — provided it does not appear that he wants spirit, or that fear was the motive of his j forbearance — the higher the resentment against the person who injured him ; the amiableness of the character exaspe- ' rates their *ense ef the atrocity of the j injury. A person becomes contemptible who " tamely sits still and submits to wrongful injuries without attempting either to ■ repel or revenge them. We cannot enter into his indifference and insensibility. We call his behaviour mean-spiritedness, and are as really pro- ! yoked. Even the public to see their mean-spiritedness resented, and resented by the person who suffered from it. They cry with .fury to defend pr to revenge himself. By inserting the above, you will oblige yours, &c, T. F. Morris.