THE LAND QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1833, 5 April 1884, Page 4

THE LAND QUESTION.

Eaoek land reformers (s-iys the London " Tunes' 1 of a recent date) would do well to note the remarks of our coiics^ondent upon the ngraiiiin question in New South Wales, It in any quarter we might look for the ideal systi in of land tenure by which the population is looted in thesoil, and eveiy man has as much as he necd3 of thai indispun able commodity, surely New South Wales is the place. There is neither Ciown, nor Church, nor aiistoclacy, noi a decayed feudalism to appropn.vte the houtage of man. Yet, with all these obstacle*- absent and with boundless toi ritory to divide, New South Wales lias failed, even by laws devised lot the pui pose, to eicato the nmehdesired eluss of yoemen. The reason there, aa, hcie, is simply that economical conditions foi bid success in that enterpnsu It docs not to pay a man in New South Wales, any moie tii in in oowded England, to own and work a small farm, and the land has fallen, in spite of laws, into the- hand-, of thofee who can use it with advantage. Had land been simply bold to the highest bidder, it would have been bought in l.uge blocks by wealthy men. An attempt was made to prevent thi-* natural ii'bult, but the result is theie all the -.amo Iho small men who were oncouiatzed to buy could not live upon then holding, w Inch the big men have abs/;i bid. Ihe colony made api esent of a poition of the \alue to settleis npon model ate ai\M'. and it forthwith became a tiadc to leali&e the profit by doins? what should have bi en done at first 111 the public interest -sell the land to the highest bnhUr. When social and ( j oonoinieal conditions favor the existence of a yeomanry means will no doubt be found to bieak down the monopoly of the squatteis, but notwithstanding the intense hostility of an allpoweiful demo<:iacy, they are at present secure, because their land is useless save for the purposes to which they alone can apply it.

Thk Use and Aiiusi: of the Mackintosh. — The season has set in for wearing a mackintoshes. A caution may be therefoie not unnewssniy, and let us hope, not unheeded, as to the use and abuse of this sen ioeable, but when impropeily employed, dangeious article of clothing. When once a nncintosli is put on to defend the body from wet, it should on no account be taken ofF until the wearer has not only taken shelter, but is in a position to change his clothes. What a coveting of oiled silk does for a wet rag in suigcry — namely, comeit it into a poultice — the mackintosh does tor th» clothes of its wearer. The insensible perspiration which finds a way of escape through ordinary clothing is kept in Ly the waterproof, and the clothes are saturated with moisture. A very few minutes will suffice to render the undeiclothing " damp"' under a mackintosh, particulary if either the wearer perspires freely, or the weather be what is called " muggy "as well as wet. When, therefore, the wearer of a mackintosh takes off that article of clothing because it has ceased to rain, he is in the position of a person who has damp clothes on, and if he sits in the 6addle, or walks home, or lides in an open trap, he is more likely to take cold than if he had not used the mackintosh at all. If theiefoie. we say. a mackintosh is once put on. it should on no account be removed until the clothes can be changed or <'ried lij a lite without luriuclim of bodily tempeiature. The use of a mackintosh is to protect a man fiom a severe fetorm oi rain Ilia clothes must be damp if he ucus one of these pioteetors. The sole yam from u-jing it is to rcndsi the moistuio warm instead of cold, and ti prevent los.s of licab by evaporation. If the ■ mackintosh * be removed, evrporation commences- immediately, with all the consequent""i|sks of that process. — Lancet. '

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