AGRICULTURAL LEASING.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 238, 22 August 1872, Page 8

AGRICULTURAL LEASING.

(To the Editor. ) Sir,— Your correspondent, " Cockatoo/in your issue of. the Ist inst., puts forth some valuable information on the above subject, and advocates a course of policy :^oat ftocyjld it be adopted, which will no doubt before this reaches you bring forth suitable replies from some of the sixteen, objectors he personifies in the, matter, or from some other abler pens than . mine. Tet I trust you will allow m.c to sympathize with the poor " Cockatoo, v in his dilemma, for he surely is tbe object, of universal sympathy. He resembles the ancient dove, for. he oan find no place for the sole of his foot, in all these 90,000 acres. These rapacious birds of pr,ey, the miners, will no longer allow a poor harmless " Cockatoo " to nestle in their midst. But the interest's of the district, and of the pro- i vince generally should no longer be sacrificed to their clamour., , Instead of prowling about looking for an -auriferous agricultural lease, let him put his lamentation -and his policy in his mouth, and fly to the window of the • chamber ot Reid and Bradsbaw, who no-doubt will stretcH forth their hands j and take, 'him ih.^'" ' He may say to | them then that the policy they are adopting and his put together -would effectually clip the talons, of those vultures, j;he miners, so- that they need no .longer be: afraid, whilevßeul and Brad- { sbaw.dividenoutthose-lafids, over which the aforesaid vultures have nqw libs-ity to' roami "into Wcree,' 20,000 acres, or any number af thousand acre blocks as their. friend's,.; the land mon-opolists,-may require. • 'I«et him plant his brethren with, their. leasehold titles, i righkup-to-tne boundary- pegs of the j claims,- This sheltered' hy the strong" bulwarks ""of cdttfp^^atibn, * firmly fastenec|. by red tape, a]j Btco.uHes8 tco.uHes would cfrisfi, ,' "■ Still charge, the^ miners twenty sKfllings. a^ year- for miners!- ■ rights; though tjie. sum be .equivalent to what' agriculturists pay, for,- eight acres, No" longer nlitow them- the one .'.'aojee] for rtssiilencfe' ; areas, tor'" tn.e^r cpi^tribute', notningto, the i^venu l e.jn.i»e§pect of ines : laud. so, oppUjpi^dj^and' "bft£'. Jittle,. ioihej gerieraLi^so v uroeSiof the oouatry.c 0 WjhjAfr ;sjgnsßS; tjhe £7,13^436- wirfcb'^'gQld^

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iKeye.nWf.or. expoKtl duUtyroirc ttfev^ame'? Ev&i .though Me ivfekftf &f ! 4Hfe' -gold ek-porfed is witftyn Smaj] /faction,, of 'being equal' to 1 , th& 'vailije^ o£ Vftll the, v other fe^prts:put 'tpgejbhe^ ;tlf o ,pvoducei % s i}Q privileges,' ' , ; Tql\> the)iJ. 'tj|a,t-,they.^l l?e allo.WeU to rim two head ' of* cattje } • but myself 1 aiid' "cockatoo"' ciomjffeers will fence and cultivate the lalad wherevefthey fehonlii run. Let us" have a protection.' tarriff bb cereals and keep export duty on gold. , Such "is the grand policy that will save the country fro, in being left a desert, as it was found j and also will b.ring the gradual, but sure, desertion of these cla'fncfrous intruders, who seem to have given up their Immigrating habits and become desirous of settling in the land ;,'but the impregnable b.ai'4e r ahead mentioned thaj; Ayill.be set around them will not easily yield to, an assault, and there will- be no jescape but' by flight. — I am, &o.\ * yuLTUBE. Clyde,, August 15th