TEVIOT DISTEICT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 83, 11 September 1869, Page 3

TEVIOT DISTEICT.

(To the Editor of tlie Tuapeka Times.)

Sir, — Not often I take upon myself to contribute any item of information to your valuable paper, but having a few weeks past furnished you with a few lines, in which I made reference to the strange conduct of the Q-overnment in their endeavouring to coerce the business people at [Roxburgh whose premises are erected on the main street, into taking out their business licenses, I was rather taken aback to perceive in your succeeding issue that one calling himself " A Eesident " had had the assurance to question the veracity of my statement, and has apparently, with the view of carrying conviction through his statements, given what he is pleased to term a statement of the real state of affairs. To this statement of his I venture, without the slightest compunction, to give a most unqualified denial. In the first place, so far from their being fifty sections (as stated by him) in the township purchased by persons whose places of business were erected on the public street prior to the sale, I find that these parties (four in number) have purchased not more than twelve sections altogether — only four of these sections being in the rear of the business places referred to, and three out of the four belonging to Mr. P. Ormond, whose case is extremely hard, considering that his premises, although abutting on to the street, are mainly in extent on the sections purchased by j him, and who, although his house happens to be partly on the road, had his buildings erected there prior to even the survey as well as the sale of the township. Your correspondent states that the parties referred to have not received notice to take out business licenses or remove their buildings. Does he imagine that because he has not received such a notice that others have not ? wait until his lease expires, and we shall see if he does not then get notice. Again I say such notices have been given to Mr. Ormond and one or two of his neighbours, who have sufficient confidence in the position in which they stand to not comply with the notice so < given. lam not desirous of entering into a personal controversy upon this subject ; but a regard for truth compels me to ask your insertion of the above. — I am, &c, Fact. Eoxburgh, Sept. Bth, 1869.