THE LAND ASSOCIATION AND THE CATTLE IMSPECTOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1310, 20 November 1880, Page 3

THE LAND ASSOCIATION AND THE CATTLE IMSPECTOR.

TO THE EDITOB. Sir, — I see it stated in the report of the proceedings of the S.A. Cattle Board, that Inspector Runciman says that I at one time told him that there was 28C0 head of cattle on the Waikato Land Association's property. For the information of the public I wisft to state that this is utterly untrue, as Mr Runciinan. would have found had he used a note-book at the time, instead of trusting to his own proverbially correct and truthful memory . As the W.L.A. have no wish to enter into a newspaper controversy they have allowed many other of Mr Jttunciman's statements to pass without contradiction, and I would not now have troubled you, had not a public attack on my character demanded an equally public refutation. — I am, &c, Henby Reynolds.

The New York Produce Exchange Reporter and Corn Trade list says: — "We have to thank John Lamb, Esq., Waitemata Mills, Auckland, New Zealand, for two samples of the 1880 wheat crop of that Colony. The red sample is ' Tuscan' spring, the white, • Velvet' winter. Both samples are superior to anything grown lin this Continent. They are simply magnificent, and weigh 63 to 64 pounds. The samples represents 10,000 bushels, for ■which Mr Lamb writes he paid 3s 9d, or 90 cents, per bushel, delivered. The future of wheat is evidently in the hands of the Red River Valley, the Pacific States, Australasia, and British India: and the general outlet would indicate that 'John Bull' will probably continue to pursue the policy of * sitting still,' by which he has won so many battles in days gone by." In reference to the above extract (remarks the Oamaru Mad), we have been informed that this wheat was purchased this season bj the N.Z.L. and M.A. i Company, of this town, for Mr Lamb, the Tuscan being the produce of Seadown, the velvet being that of Hakateramea. It is said that eucalyptus leaves placed amongst grain-sacks prevents mice from attacking them. The Oamarua Mail — a rabid G-reyite journal — says that there is a report current in the North that the reduction of the number of Police Inspectors has been made by Government not so much with a view of effeoting a saving as with the certain object of providing comfortably for a number of officers in the Armed Constabulary , stationed at "the front," but whose services will not be required when the Ministry have settled the native difficulty. A Welsh party is about to be formed in the House of Commons.