(To the Editor.)

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 233, 18 July 1872, Page 6

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — The land sale to Cargill and Anderson is the last straw. The Mount Benger district is irrtrievably ruined, and its once bright prospects for ever blasted. As soon as the present claims are worked out, the whole district will relapse into its primitive desolation, and no sound will be heard in the splendid valley of the Molyneux but the bleat of the squatter's sheep. And this is the settlement of the people on the lands — the ticket which raised Donald Reid to power. Well there is one consolation — although a poor one — for those avlio have to leave the locality where thpy had resolved to live and die. The policy of the Government will retaliate upon the people who have supported their misgovernment. When the.goldiield are depopulated, the Tsiieri, Clutha, and Tokomairiro farmers will find their market gone, the wealth they have acquired melt away, and they will be reduced to the poverty in which the diggers found them. They will then be able to appreciat eat his true value the idol they have set up. AVhen they see that the men they taxed almost beyond endurance, and refused to allow to make their homes in the interior, were the men who kept them alive, and his comfort. While other lands j\re reaping the benefit of the energy, enterprise, and industry banished from Otago, they will repent in sackcloth, ashes, and indigence their suicidal action. Gold Seeker.