CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 259, 16 January 1873, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

WASTE LANDS BOARD AND CROWN LANDS. (To the Editor.) Sir, — Please accept my thanks for the full and valuable report of the transactions of the above Board, which appeared in your issue of the 2nd inst. By it the public gain an insight inro the manner in which the Board conducts its business. From the report, it appears that the applicant in the Maerewhenua block — Mr JR. Campbell, had previously entered into a compact with Mr. .Reid. I quote from your report the following :—": — " Mr. Campbell said it was distinctly agreed between Mr. Reid and himself, that only land proved to be auriferous should be excluded." The doings of the Board are yet sufficiently new in the memories of the colonists not to require recapitulation, and it is high time that suggestions for a remedy be made. The Colonial Government are either unable or unwilling to protect the people against such wholesale robbery. I base this assertion on iLe line of action tnken by Mr. Gisborne, in the sale of auriferous land at Switzer3. Thus cut off from sympathy from where the people would most naturally look for it, and full of distrust and suspicion in the actions^&^he Waste Lands Board, the people wiraßß^e to work out a change for themselves. With this object in view, I suggest that the Executive body of the Otago Miners' Association send letters to the Press of all countries from which emigrants are expected, giving a true account of the way in which the Government deals with the land, which they vainly imagine they come here to settle, and ultimately hope to acquire as their home, at something like a reasonable price. A Member op the Otago Miners' Association. N.B. — Does the provision made by Mr. Bastings - that land should be advertised previous to sale, include all lands offered for sale 1 January, 4th 1873.

Whooping Cough is prevalent in this district at present. The abolition of Sunday work in the post, office department, is a lively piece of official humbug. It is a well-known fact, that the post-office employis never require to do duty on Sundays, except in coast towns, when an English mail arrives, and there is very little doubt that despite the so-called abolition of Sunday work, English mails will be delivered as hereto* fore should they arrive on Sundays. The late festive season seemed to be well enjoyed by the people of Lawrence. Many pleasant picnics were got up, and numbers visited the various sports and places of interest in the surrounding districts. Some went to Dunedin, and a few strayed as far as the Nuggets. All traces of holiday -making are now over, and everybody has settled down for another year's work. Another plague, in addition to the intense heat and drought, is at present on a visit to Tuapeka. Grasshoppers have never before been so numerous or destructive as they have been this season. Myriads of them are to be seen, and the ravages they are making on growing crops will be productive of much loss to farmers and gardeners. Ho lloway > 8 Pilfa. —Bilious Headache and Depression of Spirits. — Whenever there is an excess of bile, or when the secretion does not naturally pass from the liver, it enters the circulation, vitiates the blood, and gives rise to headache, sickness, weariness, and depression of spirits. This evil is readily corrected by a few doses of these Pills, which work a speedy cure without creating disgust or weakening the stomach — consequences too frequently entailed by the administration of purgatives. Holloway's Pills simultaneously purify and strengthen, They improve the appetite, cleanse the pal. ate, and invigorate the stomach. These Pills act as the most successful alteratives, effecting a silent, yet certain, change for the better in every organ which has become disordered either through luxurious living or other causes.