ANOTHER CRY FROM MARTIN'S BAY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 248, 31 October 1872, Page 5

ANOTHER CRY FROM MARTIN'S BAY.

(From the Wakattp Mail.)

The cry of starvation at otir West Coast settlement was again repeated in Queenstown, when three other settlers and two Maories arrived on Saturday night, footsore and weary. .The former are Henry Morrisson and. two brothers named Wbod»rate. They brought a message from Mr Porter to Mr J. W. Robertson, of this town, and also laid their complaint before Mr Warden Beetham, who at once telegraphed the Government, stating that the settlers had run out of provisions, and asked that a steamer with relief be sent round to Jamestown without delay,

The reply received was, that the steamer Charles Edward had that day left Nelson for Hokitika and other ports, en route for Martin's Bay. It is, therefore, to be hoped that ere this meets our readers' eyes the necessary relief will have been rendered. We are glad to notice that the Municipal Council have taken some steps to impress upon Government the urgent necessity of at once exploring tho Greenstone Valley, with a view to opening up a line of country where a track or dray road, if necessary, will be available all the year round. It is highly probable, from the testimony of a recent settler, that for an unimportant outlay such a track could be cut. The present and past necessity that exists, and has existed, for offering bonuses to steamers involves an actual loss to the Treasury, whereas any cost that might be incurred in forming a track and opening up the country would be a permanent gain, and tend to promote settlement.