ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 49, 16 January 1869, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

-oo — — Our Correspondence Column' is ' open.'-t6-"the~ . temperate discussion of, -questions of.. public interest ; but we do not in any 1 way identify • ourselves with the opinions, expressed, by our Correspondents; All letters must- be«accompanied by the writei-'s name find address, .not ; necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee-. of good faith. . " * "'''■' '-~~~' r THE LAND QUESTION (To tJie Editor of tlw.Ty-apeka Times.} SIS Ia — As an instance that 'there is' no clapWap, as- our Superintendent and Mr. Yogel would have it, about. . the now general cry for land on the goldfields/and which is engaging somuch public attention, a block of land ' recently surveyed on the bank of the Molyneux river here, was parlly de-. clared open, on Monday the 28th- uli.^ and in a few i hours every availableacre fit for agriculture, (700 < acres> was taken up by •intending- seMfers-, Surely this simple fact is -sufficient " pi'oof that there is •an anxious desire^ for settlement, but it is not by swob | homeopathic doses of land as the. Go-, vernment are in. the habit of doling, out to us, with such- & paternal hand, that the residents of the district i will be satisfied. "We shall of course takfr what we get, but we shall not forget to keep asking for more, until- such time as the whole district, from the 6n.& extreme to the other, is thrown, open fof. v settlement. It is much to be" deplored : that those wto have the 'management " of the public estate, are so blind to the ' best interests of the Province ; an 4*C am truly soiTy to Bee among them our. Superintendent. What have befcomeror ;airthe bombastic promises. whjcV no made when soliciting pur votc^is hw. favor? he would ' then "/ore the spheres" to give every faculty for set., tfement. What is the/»se. now, that, wo find him in wungton, stating that the cry for lajd for the most part, "claptrap/* am perfectly sato v fied that the ßesent • Governmeot do not want t^ nc<Hira S e settlement on the gold^^ 8 5 a* a^ ©vents it is a fact that ; ja^ever land is doled out, as has bee/™* ecase k ere > is almost forced ej&L them. Jt is to, be_ hoped tha^will soon bo an end to this sijafe of affairs, and so far as I can see, thatwill not be until such time as the present occupiers of the Gavernn***" benches, along with their cb**> s* 1 " 0 driven from office, where #fey have shewn themselves tn^ton* to the~best interests of their adopted country^— l am &c. • ' ~coLOKisr