The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 603, 25 October 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1880.

The approaching sale on the Waimate Plains will be the [first sale that has taken place of land in that locality, but not the first that has been advertised for sale. The Grey Ministry, it will be remembered, attempted to put this land in the market two years ago. It was thought by the late Cabinet that half a million of money would be realised by its sale, and so they ventured on Tom Tiddler's ground, only to be kicked off again, in the person of their surveyors, by the angry Maori. Though Grey was a father to the natives, and Sheehan a charmer of them, the pleadings of the one, and the wiles of the other were of no avail. It has jbeen left for their successors, the Hall Ministry, who have no special influence with the natives, to sell without let or hindrance the land from which the Grey Ministry were driven. The reason why the former Ministers have succeeded where the latter failed is simply because they run straight, whereas their predecessors ran crooked. The Maories at Waimate can trust the Hon, John Bryce to protect their interests. They could not put this confidence in Mr Sheehan, because ho was too careless a man in business matters, or in Sir George Grey, because he has an unfortunate knack of saying one thing and meaning another. The present Ministry prepared the way for the peaceable occupation of the Plains by European settlors when they appointed the Native Commissioners to inquire into native grievances, and by honorably fulfilling the recommendations of the Commissioners. The consequence is that in a spot where the late Ministry brewed loss, strife, and confusion, the present Ministry are founding a settlement which will permanently enrich the colony, while at the same timo it is healing the soreness which formerly existed between the native population aud the Government, 127 sections of Waimate lands will be sold this month on deferred and immediate payments, The sections on deferred payments will be obtainable at the Laud Offices Carlyle and Hawera on and after the 25th inst,, at £5 per acre, and the land on immediate payments will be sold by public auction on the 29 th inst., at an upset price of £1 per acre. We trust to see every section offered taken up.