THE LAND QUESTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 360, 30 May 1874, Page 2

THE LAND QUESTION.

(To the Editor.) ■. S lE,— The new Executive ht&. been ftp* pointed ; the reins of Government have passed into other hands (oiight£w€ -to a&s the adjective "befc^er?") A _»tre*t notice ia -your paper of the 6th inst. reminded me very rowh of & soeqe , often acted in .the nursery. Baby Executive, feeling a longing fof'fniajbief in bis puny, little legs, ventnres^to leave the sanctuary independent of any liumon s** sistance. Papa gquatteir, by way of pry venting any harm which might arise out w the exhibition of Btteh uncalled for indepen* dence, offers him a ;^ugar plum (his support)'! if he does exactly what he tells Tiim. Baby^ having' ibeen- peyf octtf .obedient;:»; of courM remunerated with, the-,p»omised plum. T° complete the picture, Ye maj fancy a* a back-ground more red-tapeime j mort eagth^, cumbersome process if we want aof

burin««rH9<MeV J ttferc of that beautiful work -to well-described in a letter in your paper ; agtedts ft Argot:;" ; more support of the , aquHttw^aod Icm protection for the rest of the oolooist* But how will the vital question , whioh at present occupies all the thinking minds in the colony fare in the hands of these gentlemen t How will the land question be settled by them P That this has become the OMttion of the day no one can doubt who of kie Bis paid^hesligbteat attention to public matters.* 'An we to have * repetition of the ■ nusnanigMnent of land laws which in themIseljes are unobjectionable — that mismanagement whioh, characterised the defunct administration — or will the gentlemtn^at the head of affairs at present be inclined to gather experience from the erents related in the letter above Alluded to ? If not, let them read in history, where they will find that .the maladministration of the land laws has proved fatal to goVernnients headed by the .clearest statesmen of their age. In France, maladministration of the land law's finally led to the Revolution of 1792. Prussia by the same cril was brought to the' brink of ruin in 1848. In Russia, a system much like the on* pursued -by the late" Government, the selling- of land to capitalists in Urge blocks, led to serfdom. On this subject more in another letter.. — I am, Ac, . Anii-Shak.