YOU ARE WRONG.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1734, 12 July 1884, Page 2

YOU ARE WRONG.

TO THE EDITOE. Sir,—Your leader of yesterday's issue in which yon assort that the Miatua settlers generally have been compelled to place themselves in the hands of the moneylenders is incorrect. You cannot instance three cases where money is now lent in the Miatua block. Further, with the excep> tion of one or two speculators who bought at £2 per acre and sold at from £6 to £ls per acre, none of the settlers are making their sections freehold in order to borrow on them. While I do not think you intentionally intended to harm us, yet your remarks ate calculated to damage the district and those in it.

I am, &(j, Wm Kidblewhite. A Pahiatua Settler. [We have excellent authority for the statement we made and believe it to be • •••' reliable:—Ed. W.P.] To the Editor. Sir,—No one will after this date, presume to express an opinion on the Sutton question, as I observe tint the matter is cleared up in a letter in last evening's Star, signed if. E, Meredith. It is refreshing to see a grandson of "The British Officer" to the front. I am, &0,, Waterloo.

| To the Editor, Sir,—ln your issue of Thursday you take very great pains to inform your readers what Mr Beetham has done for us. I am sure that Mr Beetham feels that he owes you a debt to gratitude for placing so prominently before the electors the very many mercies they have received jit his band. If yew will allow ipe, I would like to make a few brief comments upon the way in which we have derived these mercies. Firstly, our beautiful Courthouse. Who got it for us ? You say Mr Beetham, but I aay the Masterfon Borough Council. Had it not been f n the persistent recommendations of this body to the Minisler- of Justice, I question whether this beautiful Courthouse would have been in existence to-day, Secondly, the Post and Telegraph Offices.-. Is it not a fact that the Postal and Telegraph Department found that it was an actual necessity to erect these buildings for the duo convenience of the publicand their departmental work. Thirdly, is it not a fact also that the £IOO you say Mr Beetham got for our Hospital last year was apart of a general grant for the colony, given and distributed by and with the consent of a majority of the House of Representatives. And, fourthly, you say that Mr Beetham has helped us from time to time with our school, our library, our Town Lands Trust, our Park Trust, and numerous other institutions. All this I admit, but at whpse instigation were all these things done. I say, sir, they were done at the instigation oi the various Trustees, and committees of. these institutions, and not as you bave put it, and him only. I do not wish to be ungrateful, but its plain to my mind that had Mr Beetham declined to have advocated the requirements of these various institutions he would not have been worthy of the seat he held at the will of the people, He does not appear to have done anything for us but what he was asked to do. This being the case, sir, we have nothing to thank him for : the labourer has been well paid for his hire,-'and you have failed to prove that your glittering gold is preferable to solid Bilver. My previous remarks apply as certainly to what yon say

about the moneys we have received through him for the construction of roada and bridges, with this exception: that more of these moneys have been spent in ereoting costly bridges to private properties, &0,, than is warrantable under the oiroumstanccs; so that the gain you attempt to make out the gain the district has had is, after all, questionable.

I am, &c„ Voter. [" Voter" is .wrong in his facts, but then it is very easy for a man who writes under a non deplume to mis-state with impunity. -Ed. W.D,] ' * '