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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 22 August 1883, Page 2

The following anonymous -letter. appears in the last issue ,of .otu' lpcal contemporary, We.draw attention to it aa being the vilest slander wte have yet seen published in any Wairarapii newspaper, We deeply'regret tjiiit'the, press in this district should be degraded to such base usages: There 'isJmW honesty in Mr George. BkeJtham's little finger than there is in the collective bodies of thote who. are banding themselves together to vilify him,; If any man can claim to have been a benefactor to this district, to have,, in season and out of season, lent a brotherly help to the small farmer and the working man,it is MrGEORGEBEETHAM, and we feel that all classes in.this community will repudiate with indignation Ithe slime which is now tarown'at him.: '.'.''

THE LITTLE GAME OF LANDGRAB, To the Editor. '

Sin,—Ab a County settler lam inclined to view the present Cnnaty, ' at) well as general representation, not merely, as imperfect, but also corrupt, I havo been a, political supporter of Mr Bcethari MIH.K., from the beginning of his' Parliamentary career, but 1 regret to see that family influences are leading lim astray. To illustrate what I mean:—After last session Mr Bcelham and some Mends took a'toti'r of in- : speation among the Crown Lands .of this proriuce. Of conrao as a member of the Land Board it was right that Mr Beethain should acquire this information., Among the lands inspected was the Pukotoi- Blank, consisting of about a quarter of a millioa of acres-oniony limestone formation, lightly timbered, undulating country, 'fjie appcaranco of this land mads a certain .gentleman's mouth water, and in coujunctip.>.with a big relative, tho geutkman purchased a property adjoining these lands. Tlio purchasers, whom 1 Bhall call A and B, next went to work as.follows:-! became a County Councillor. B says: " Now you arc in the Council you must get a deviation-of tho road and biing it to our door j make it a Couuty road." No sooner said than done. B turns to another friend and says:'" Yon watch tho Land Board and get tli6 COOO acres at Pnketoi which joins us placed on the next schedule of land to be soldf This is done and A and Bbccoine the.purcriasera. B says to his-last named friend*? " You must now try and got this Puketoißjoqk out up in aections—not amall ones, for that would be inconvenient-r,but big ejections of 1000 to 2000 acres, and they mußt be placed on the sohedulo as cash sections." The. frieud addressed puts on his considering cap Then he consults his political barometer. The meroury is falling. .Theta are signs of a gathering storm. "Ah I BI" he exclaims, " thatmight be dangerous.' I have another and a hotter plan. Suppose Igo to the Old Country and form a company to buy, say 200,000 aores of the Puketoi Block from the Government for a special settlement after tho manner of the Feilding venture. I will manage the Company, and as tho Oovernment wants. money badly, 1 will he able to negotiato a good Darga'ii, and tho family will get a fine block to themselves as a consideration. "Meanwhile A'\V ; ;i pull the County Council strings, and a goo., road will be made through tho block. Of' course Or —— will get a small slice" for firini; t..u balls in the Council." So stands the soheme at present, . .._ .-•];, ...'' Ano'.her matter Ihave taken' notice of is the scab question, I consider Inspector Sutton has been shamefully used by the small political ring that works the Government. The distiict has never 1 had the assistance of a more efficient officer, :but lie Qoes not suit the ring. Why;?; Because be spoils the monopoly of the meat'market by a few settlers. Before Mr Sutton took charge of lhe district, Whareama and the East Coast wero Bhut out from tho Wellington market, that part of the district being declared infected, Mr Button,, however, cleared it, and the supplies from .thero destroyed the.inonopoly that formerly prevailed j hence the action of the ring ts got rid of an officer who was doing his duty only too well. I.am, etc,,: ;■••■'..■ . ■ SjEITLEIt.