THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 358, 23 May 1874, Page 3

THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

[To the Editor.) Sib, — What on earth are our Provincial Councillors doing, or trying to do; They appear to me like a lot of schoolboys quarreling over marbles. Instead of performing their task like men, they are talking against time, and exhibiting their petty jealousies and squabbling over the lands. It must be patent to any one who has. been in the Province a few years, and has watched the manoeuvres of the .various parties,, that whatever hind laws are made, there must be some incompeteney in carrying these laws into operation, or wilful mismanagement or something else. I honestly believe that our Provincial Councillors would find that more good would accrue to the province and to themselves if they would lay aside all this grovelling, and legislate earnestly for the good of the people, and let sound morality guide their actions. Why not look to our roads through the interior of the Province and see that they are constructed, and the loads opened for bona fide settlement, so that the inland country may be a benefit to the seaport, and the lands settled on by those who would be able to raise for themselves happy homes, and thus enrich the country, and foster trade in every branch. If this were done, the great ridiculous immigration scheme would collapse, as sufficient inducement would then be offered for bona fide settlement on the lands for those who would cultivate them. Our province would then possess what would induce small capitalists and an abundance of labor to nock to our shores. We require a few of the English farmers with a little capital, and to get them we must see something better emanating from our legislators. I think if the people of this Province unitedly put a stop to the claptrapism, so common amongst our would-be legislators, and -selected men who possessed a little honor and integrity; with a fair amount of intelligence, more good would accrue to the Colony. At the present time I feel inclined to exclaim, of the lot of them — Unclean! unclean ! — I am, &c., Pbacticai. Fabmeb.