THE VESEY STEWART BROOMHALL CONTROVERSY.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1270, 19 August 1880, Page 2

THE VESEY STEWART BROOMHALL CONTROVERSY .

A newspaper correspondence lias taken jil.ice between Mr. Broomhall and Mr. Vescy Stew.iit relativ f to the price of land in New Zealand The following letter by Mr. Broomhall, in reply to one from Mr. Vesoy Stewart in the Times explains itself : — "Burcott, Surbiton, Surrey, June 25, Sir,— The letter ot Mr. Vesey Stewart, which appears in the Times of th's morning, must be taken txm q ratio &«H* because he called on me within the last month and stated that the Go vermncntof New Zealand had given to him 29,000 or 25,000 acres of land in the county of Tauranga, on the sole condition of his providing a certain number of emigrants, and that he ■was now in this country endeavouring to sell the land and provide the emigrants, and as I had ridden over the land, and knew it on my tour through the colony, Mr. Stewart desired me to certify as to its quality, &c Mr. Stewart says that the price of unimproved land varies from £3 to £6 per acre in the southern district of Auckland. Tauranga is in the southern district of Auckland and I submit that so long as the Government makfs free grarts, the sole condition being the importation of emigrants and a certain amount of cultivation, and so long as the Government announces that it has 180,000 acres open for settlement in the county of Tauranga and thirty-four million acres in the colony in general, the value of land is the price at which the Government will sell it, and aot the price which private individuals ask for it. Were there any doubt on the subject, I hava before mo one of the last public sales, in which land was sold in Tauranga at 20a per acre. I have no interest in New Zealand, land or money investment, but I think it well to direct our surplus capital, bone, and sinew to our own flag ; and I believe that object is frustrated when the Colonial Government rate for land is represented above that at which land is procurable in the United States. — I am, sir, your obedient servant, J. Bkoomhall, J.P."— • Home News.

A man should never be ashamed to own he haa been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. Enormous shoals of mackerel have visited the coast between Bournemouth and Poole. The fishermen have done well, some 70,000 fish having been landed during the week.