GOVERNMENT BUNGLING!:.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 385, 26 August 1874, Page 3

GOVERNMENT BUNGLING!:.

(To the Editor.) Sit?,— The dilatory movements -of our Government in any case regarding mining mattere, or in the slightest touching upon the interests of the working classes of the population, have evidently reached their climax, and it is not to be wondered at if the squatters attempt to draw the best advantage they can from the good opportunity offered to them to increase their already too great power. Seeing the Maerewhenua oase is as far as ever removed from a settlement, Mr. Glassford, with the insatiable rapacity characteristic of hia race, has summoned the Tinkers miners. Should the case be decided in his favorj the miners might as well leave the country, because they in that case could be compelled to be the squatters' most humble servants, crouching to them and receiving- as favors that which is no more than their well earned right. For the miner to- depend for his hard earned daily, livelihood upon the mercy of the squatters, however, wonld be equal to starvation, as these gentlemen would be too ready to offer them ,a scorpion if they were to ask them for a fiah. The glaring injustice of the preposterous demands of Mr. • Glassford shows what the squatters are . capable of. A pretty pass indeed have tiiese gentlemen brought us to now. Not satisfied with- the good margin of, profit th^jr wool sales must leave them, they stretch out their covetous hands af ter. the property of „ other classes, who have done more for the well-being of the country than they ever have done or ever will do, unless they turn all New Zealand into one vast, sheep-pen. But let us hope these gentlemen will remember that the pinnacle of power is not always the safest place to stand ?bn, and that according to an/old adage, "There is no road without a turning," in fact that the higher the fall the easiejr the neck is broken.— l am. &c. • . Ajiti-Shaij.

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