SALE OF LAND AT MILLERS FLAT,

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 335, 4 March 1874, Page 2

SALE OF LAND AT MILLERS FLAT,

(Fiwri a Correspondent^.

The Government are about to perpetrate another outrage on the feelings of the people of this unfortunate district by arranging, in some mysterious manner, to sell privately to the runholder of Millers Flat Station, the fine block of land promised to. be opened for settlement, embracing some 2000 acres of the best agricultural land in the province ; and surveying for settlement a block of land absolutely worthless for anything but grazing purposes, and very little good oven for that, being chiefly bare rock. The sale of the promised block will be such a gross breach of faith on the part of the Provincial Government, as would scarcely be credited. There is a most intense feeling of disgust and indignation throughout the district on the matter, and who can wonder at it, when we see the outrageous manner in which the interests of the residents are completely disregarded. It is not the interests, of the inhabitants, but those of the runholdefc that are invariably consulted in this district. Your own member, Mr. Bastings, comes iv for a share of the general feeling, and I think he k deserving of it. I distinctly heard him, when he was on his round through, the goldfields with Mr. Turnbull, in reply to anxious enquiries regarding this particular block Of land, fell some of the residents '(and he- seemed very anxious to allay their fears on the matter) that the best |md would be surveyed for settlement-; and that the 2000 acres intended to be given to the runholder was unfit for any-

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thing but pasturage, being very high hilly ground, &c. When the people are,; bo often deceived and- trifled with, it ia possible that some day there may be a limit to their endurance.