TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 24, 17 June 1867, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

T.S.—You say that you have been the purchaser and occupier of land in the Wairarapa for more than eleven years, and yet you have not received your Crown Grant, while Dr Eeatherston and other comparatively recent purchasers have received theirs. We know that many of your neighbours are in the same position ; but we do not know on what system the preparation and issue of Crown Grants is regulated. O.P.Q. —The weather in England has- been more severe than it has been since 1837. With reference to that year an almanac published in 1730 contained the following prediction, which was fulfilled to the letter ‘ By t the power to see through the ways of heaven, In the year eighteen hundred and :hirty-seven Will the year pass away without any spring, And on England’s throne shall not sit a king.’ Euamahunga. —We do not know whether the vote for the erection of a bridge over the Euamahunga river at Waihenga was carried, but we do know that the Government will not erect one whether carried or not. The fact is that a larger revenue is required for public works than what the Government receives. There were three ways to obviate the difficulty, one was to diminish the civil expenditure, another was to impose a land tax, a third way would have been to raise a loan. None of these expedients were adopted. The width of the Euamahunga at Waihenga offers no difficulty to the erection of a bridge. There is a bridge about to be suspended over the river Ohio in the United States which is 200 feet longer than that over the Niagara river, and 510 feet longer, than the Menai bridge. The total span will be 1057 feet. A.P.—Jos. Billings says of bargains, that ‘* he who buys what he kant want, will ere long want what he kant buy.” S.J.—To render cloth waterproof rub it over on the wrong side with a mixture made of india-rubber boiled in spirits of wine. A.W.—The best way to clean bits is to rub them well with oil and let them remain for three days in that state. The rust will then rub off, and you can polish with a piece of hard wood. _ Belmont. —We have no doubt that the public money squandered away to improve private property in Highway Districts demands investigation. There are two classes of Highways—one wholly public—the other chiefly private. 4 is manifest that it is the first which should receive chiefly aid from the Government. The large sum of ■£ 15,000 is proposed to be expended this year on road districts, consequently where there are the most road districts, there will be the largest government expenditure. John Manning.—lc wjll probably answer your purpose if we state that we received no communication from you on the subject to which you refer. H.C. —We were delighted to receive a letter from you after so long a silence ; we shall be equally delighted to receive and insert your promised communication. We think it almost a pity that a gentleman of your abilities should bury himself alive, as it were, in such an out of the way part of the world. We agree with you that justice to the outlying districts is not to be expected while Wellington City has such an overwhelming power in the Provincial' Council; and we think with you that the work of educating the people is a worthy undertaking,

which would bo greatly advanced, by the establishment of district municipalities; and years ago we published' an article ip the editorial columns of the “Independent” with the significant title—if we remember rightly—- “ Public Boards, Adult Schools”—in which your views are illustrated and enforced.