ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25, 13 December 1861, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

; ' To t.Jin Editor oj'tin: Daily Tj.vt.o<<, i Hng— I observe hi your journal of ihe 10th j hum a paragraph regarding the importation of h'uttlo lo Oiuro,, from Queensland and other Ipkmes where pleuro-pneumonia docs not exist. |A great amount otdark cokmring is placed upon jibe memorial mentioned. The memorial sloes bun ask tiie importation cd stock front auy affected bbstriet. Queendam! has not been aheeied up to 'be present time. Caution, as lie signs himself, is probably afraid that, ids own imeresis may suiter, in the event of ,bbc memorial passing the House. 1 i^\y whh jrhoMe sensible gem lemon who signed the memojrbd, th.tt it ia urgently necessary that the imporbarbm ofetoek shook! be allowed, and it is also 'unjust and unfair Co allow n monopoly, which {must depress the commerce ofthe province I Allovr Cneap meat to come in ; there is no !more tear of contagion from Queensland or other |unaffected districts, than there is in allowing the ipure bred eat lie to iamd. here, in Tort Chalmers i - which was dorm within the last month, from uhe mother country, where the disease was first; iimported froio. I, for toy own part, consider the | Provincial Council will be doing their duty to The public in admitting doom cut die, as the prebieul price of moat is far too high ; <\oe.\ I consider any member who advocates the importation of ifat stock is a benefactor to the province. Tin; : consumer will then be -able to purchase two lbs. 'of meat tor the same price bo now pay a for one ib* jAs it is cap tally as easy to inspect cattle as sheee, j Lam of opinion that Camion ia nmru cam tons jibr sclf-i.nl treat, them tiie welfare ot tht- public at large. 1 am, &c, Taik.Puatc | (7b the Editor of the Daily dbyras ') I Slip—l. wi-di to bring miner fee notice of tlw pnbjlic Ihe existence of an evil easily rone-died, tmt hy ; which 1 bave beeu placed !o eom-iden-abie. » xp,ie,e and (annoyance. 1 cleared my ship, the Awep.g mi ITuesday noon, and. being many to start wiib a bbi 'complement of passengers., went on hoai d wu;b the jeecpect.ation. of evers- moment receiving mv clearance {papers I waited tho whole ofTm-sday abenioon and j t.be whole of Wednesday whim:;!; receiving bean, and hmt having Ihe slightest notion why 1 was dciuine<h 'went on shore this morning at fort Chalmers to ask (certain tbo reason. I could obtain, no informal ion at 'that place, and I therefore caau: to the (Astoai {Dome in Duuedin, aud wa-; iuks-nud that my (duurjeueo papers had no!; been sent down Im-auG, (br;sootSi! the oileda's w re not aware Had; mv inward {cargo had been all landed. N:w< sir, the vAA of my {cargo has been in the ligblers lor notch' ;i week', {wading Ar kmbmg wadery ;be CA uglder'uaviwr arjrived it]) last, briday. As a matter' of coca : g lire jpapors jiave. ham A (.be possession of tbe dom I House a.vi horitie-p jmt in eonseprnwoe of (lieAs not being smhoient. landing waiters to receive t de cargo, 1 have been delayed, until ixwe. Public maiee' G* {these grievances may be tlie means of obvi.-u e-.g tlean [fen- ihe imuro. it b meg unjust; that pwrdes sboald 'be. mado to sulfa- thus throagk the urmbDieuov of omp'nyers to get through the work. Prom, im-ciaioa 'of tins will much oblige.', yours respectfully, j. A ib Cutimm, ] Dumber 12, l&ll. Ma.go? of Use Lumka.