DUMMYISM EXPOSED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3688, 16 December 1890, Page 2

DUMMYISM EXPOSED.

j , ------ " ™ ; 'j Mr Oolem&n Phillips 1 Soiomo. 1 / - 1 TlmLyttelton Tinlts, reforritig to i tbo - case recently' heard before the 3 Wellington Land Board saya :-A t case before-: tho Wellington Waste . 5; Lands Board^maJje?'jather.iuggesi.Y ■ tiro." reading,--: It - caso of -ft i gentloman of the name qt-Phillips-r- < 3 Mr ColSmah PhillipsT' •Mri'hillipa is' i i station, but. is =botter known as ut J having co&pile'J, r H to■ „ compile,; i'Bldß-*Book—pronoun6ed j' by the ytp,^bo ; fasoin^iDg, n ' Every iprjipov h 1 consult .this volume 1 ancl 'its'' Very excellent map,' buried,, originally; in the Appendices to Hkiiihfdm 1875, ■ and reproduced in the same series of light |-literatdrp { tei i J'eM Ja't^. * immeof'tioleinanPlnllipi i 1 There was to have'been a' great l| Polynesian' .as the ™ outcome ofthe/ascinating Blue Book. \ and of some BtAtutisal.trans|otions in •' the NeivJ,^eaiauf : ; PaTt|amerit e and _ as'., they o of 3 ® in th'e e' so many..better,measures, have been OBHsequently Mrbplemaii.. I Phillips, instead tJoutli A 6 Seas r went;toDry; River< ill :the ; more 1 h prosaic Wairarapa,; and booame the II hero of theiittle story. n engaging the' attention i of, the Waste il Lands Board of his part of the world. >r >Mr Coleman Phillips, according to - •* his own i siouers" for' tli'e 1 jireseni; njjpeailto'b't) a ' !i little too. astonished to believe,'seems " i to have ft'wi^ibub'6d i 'forHMMSii'i '«' of settlement,* When the Dry River * Ration was in'dMiited with' Wellera - at tho rate of forty a day, 'his ardour, y took 1 deflnitd; shape—Mr-jColemaif | >f rourid..^ ''l ppened„up n were accordingly v, e preaame,' the price h'a had. suggested;/ id to suit the pbckptV ; of Ikvpittgafi a viz, fiye'slullmgS per &cr6. ; Uiifor'tuii'i >f ately, says'Mr ' Oolemaii Phillips, 1 id t d narrating tho liist'pry of his' pbiian'-;' J ; thropic efforts, the lanpad'heen cutV w up into very small Being ■' ig second class land, would, :;i n; liad they taken 1 the allotments, been ie in dangerof starvation. Being princely e. ia his ideas, Mr Colemau Phillips if a.remedy that the land ;o should be offeredln lots 1 dfsooo :e as the only way to make it pay. And- * then,' iljill. in the. ihtoest; 1 ijf 11 ■d that he would - sonjQ id this land himself; ; arid; Bp s, warmer had his ardour grown by. this ii ;e time that he became very'arixioufl'to.i •y be a purchaser liitaself. ! ; 1 ' Bilt" the« re' difficulty, was apparently iti'superto'.'' ly The law, which is as plain' aether ie nose ; on your %e, ,barj|d.,tl , e,,way/;t' m So Phillips betook liimself to tha , ip Minister of Lands,"Mr Gy.E Richard--11, son, :in full reliance on that (jeiitle-. ly man's ardour iu the cause of settle' " |y merit, which he knew ! to'' M ! eqtitif, ie even .to': his". omi'-yj'te- 1 ' * according to Mr Thillipji j1 him .to, the ila\v,) ihe;Law. and ]. nothing! but the Law. 'But aeon-, id veniont Under-Secre'tary being handy 1 in made a suggestion which MrPliilliptfr lo being innocent at]d unyprsed,. in; the ways of tho 'Wicked world/foiintl'io ba. Ie both new and unexpected,ag \0 i, as the very "thiflg ■' fcJ' his purj. pose., The', Under-Sepretary,., (at a) least, so ! our- hero alleges) is gested that Mr Phillips might a, make use of his sisters and his in cousms and his aunts. ;Mr Coleman iy Phillips, not at the moment having id any sisters or cousins or 'aunts'ofhia,' j. own, mado use of the: sisters and;, j. cousins and nuritrof his partner, Mr it Joseph. . Thus a movement,•'begun ie ' n '' l0 t interests of' the urifortunaita' id travslling unemployed, cuiininited in 1 ' ;o the ownership of floveral ladies whoso, id new property seems to liavo become part of the Dry River run. •y no doubt a most •y distorted version of the true story, , e having got to the ears of the Waste in Lands Board, the settlers of Mr di pieman Phillips' philanthropic ig choice were summoned to appear y before the Board. Mr Phillips thereupon appeared for them, informing it tho Board that everything was in it perfect order, arid exactly as it ought a to he, as he would presently explain it I® co i a /satisfaction. i& Mr Plnlhps told his story, substantially ns we have sketched it abovo, He added that this method of settlement which he liad advooatfigl and brought about, had provod W'ijfc' dieappomtnig, Ho had spent largo su , ms in clearing the W, . hut , the price ol labor had got'So : liiglrthat he had come to the conclusion that ® he would noA spend any more money, If reiteration lias any comoboratiro | value, tho plea of Mr, Coleman Pliillips must be entirely itreaisjtißle. But that point is not very material r in view of the conclusiah at which ' Mr Coleman Phillips seems to have arrived. It *vfts that the ladies who ! had' been- '.summoned \before)>tho ' Boaitl had come' to : t!ie ■ ' that the business, into which he had - introduced thorn, q( landed settle--1 ment (in conjunction with tho Dry River run) being, even with his dismterfld aid, ; unprofitable, tho best thing thoy''could 'do would _ pe to give back their Reotiona into 'ho hands 4 tho Board, Odb wonders at this point whether Mr Cplemaii Phillips has ever heard the story of the coon who said to Colonel Sliok, tho deadly marksman," Donk shoot, Colonel; I'm coming down." If he has, one further wonders if he .: , thinks it likoly that when the coon reached term firm be tried to earn the blind side of the Colonel by declaring that his only reason for coming down was thai" it diM pay to remain up therethat, irfM ho had been thinking of coining downlong hefora the Colonel 'had fo"uud r hhu out in his allotment with that murderous gleaming, horrid barrel of his,. In efifect, this linowaaindiqated by Mr Coleman Phillips, who'said that he was ready to do a great deal | the cause of settlement, but he [tlpght that paying nine shillings a day for clearing land was just 'a hetlt too much, ' '

Mo,„ ° ram ftom iq ix.cuW.says:—" The, locusts havtjC been creating terrible havoc of' iate. For tftany years past they j havo I notv visited us in such numbers,' but for the past, fortnight : vast armies of them have been moving in a northwest direction. Fox i miles / the /' grass and horbago havo all " but disappeared,' and scores of gardens have been rained. Vines,' wtlv strong healthy.'leavbs. andf - fiuit bearing; Have beeii eaten,? tli&> stumps bejng, left, 1 and fruit trees* have been' bereft .of'foliage.:'Vegotables of all iiuds jiave been, (W tioyed, and tho'OlliiieJa.gdrdeis aijj a thing of - tbo past/.. wheat ina-ny'orehardly wMthcutting^i:: ; ;i:; tlio wit of the peat, Hot'ooqt«nt'

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