NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 163, 7 February 1868, Page 3

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

In giving publicity to any communication having reference to a matter of 'public interest, loe do .not necessa ilyendone ftie opinions contained therein. All letters must be accompanied by the writer's name and address as a guarantee of their authenticity, and to ensure their insertion, must be sent in two days prior to publication. i(To the Editor of the West port Times and Charleston Argus!) Sir,—Will you kindly grant me space to correct a paragraph that appeared in your paper of yesterday, relative to the land granted to the Maories, as well as in vindication of of the surveyors, &c., in -which you stated that, "by each successive surveyor having altered the boundary-pegs of the block, giving rise to inumerable sectional disputes." This, Sir, I most emphatically deny, for both myself and Mr Greenwood have surveyed that block, and agreed exactly. If you enquire a little more into it I think you will find it rests with the Native Commissioner who first surveyed it, I believe with u JPhormiu?n Tenax" in place of a chain, many years back never dreaming of the land in so out of a way conntry would ever become of any value, and likewise by the leases granted not agreeing with the plan sent down by the Commissioner. I am, Sir, J. W. Gr. Beauchamp, Land and Mining Surveyor.