TAPANUI DISTRICT.

Bruce Herald, Volume v, Issue 241, 9 December 1868, Page 7

TAPANUI DISTRICT.

(From=*-Goweßpoßdeni^)

I did not expect when I- tftofe mf tenr* porary leave of the above districtjjHfor the lonely and outfastfis¥ f spbt : sh4fcl now reside (a place I may mention —which would have thj^wgr Zinroermaii^nto^jeK-, tacies)to have had the pleasure of perusing, jour journal^ but I find what has been A termed the modem Leve^r fihiis its Way ■through lonely' glens »nd o'er break-neck : The splenetic and specious epistle of your correspondent under the. sQbriquet, of "Paul Pry, janr.; (but 1 in which I can easily detect -tift'lroman 'band of "Our Own,) I will notice fqribnce.rflnd the last time, as I consider the pages of- newspapers am not the proper medium Jor indulging in personalities, r bqt his^tirade ,qf abuse, and conglomeration' of advice, contradictions, and assertiop^wjere^olelj^t rected against your humble servant, and written evidently tonniffle\ii^&eifow::tew<o per, but, like Sir Fretful,*! console myself with the idea that abuse from Certain par-' ties is my best panegyric. He haslfla'tteringly termed your peripjhras.tic.al correspon-, dent— l will not retort by hurling at him some "Johnsonian smasher," , „but will content myself'by ftSministeriigan homaeopoihie dose ofa Ic6mmodit^ which he so freely indulges 1 n in:— ad vice^-and would suggest that Tntmore, interesting subjects might have , been. O found v tp fill his former fruitless inculcations, than verbatim reports of his own arid associates' criffinaliectnns and delivered W Hall/ whicfr vrfti Wall intents and - purposes,- mere~ unacknowr ledged plagiarisms.,! He very cooly hints, that I should residftjpnger jin the locality before I attempt to write on local affairs, r but strange fb say ; , n rßave doii>e to, "nidrly as many years' aswhas months ; and his reference to M'Kellar's shearers* was an event which tool^_place r when he wa& residing at — — butliki' the r jdiith mentioned in history, " he- knoW8 T afl about it \ " his proffered introduction -to—Mr- M-Kellar or any of his stamp, I respectfully and tnankiuily decline. /nJu^n^jfromiiis dast.and: all previouSfjCpmmnqiGations^ he seems rather fastidfou|iqni the question, of grammatical precision^: nor would it ri be -surprising to learn a revised editi^^X^^Murray.^m the meantime he ' might employ his leisure hours profitably in improying-the mem 6ers of the M.I. the upper; classes in his circuit in that useful, but td my.tasta, rather dry study, in which they -as- well as myself need i*nprbVemeritJ ' I have hot tEe slightest desire to edit the .* Oracle ' : beinjT persuaded that^qur'q jvH" and i his cgnjrer^ nave plenty of : time 'ijp.& talent | J , ) to r; carr£ out successful^, that promising /undertaking, but should I, fired with laudable ambition, aspire-to be- returned for the township with the majic appendage of M.P.C.. 1 shall be happy to see the Junior's name on my Committee as well as a vigorous canvaser. ; ■-- Frail humanity is liable to mistake.*, and I am no exception, and must acknowledge Shaving committed one, in stating thac the drovers were brought before one squatter, but as one of 'the victimised parties informed me 7 thathe ! had been brought before M'Nab,- and -fined LlO each," and I only heard the same Justice mentioned by others, I naturally concluded such was the case, but;^suppose, his colleague only flayed second finale. " Panl Pry, junr. should have favored us (if he knew) with the name of the other Jgenius, so that the list of J.Ps. in Otagp might have been examined, to fin^.if he.Vfigured there. I think the losi irt stie'ep only exists in his : own imagination, but any-how a loss in crossing riversis.a vjery-common occurence. It would appear that I have committed a javxpas, and Ruined my 'prospects in His district by tfie I have adopted, but luckily I deal;ifi;|' l d)om^odi;y that, finds a ready marked independent'"©! ! PomaHaka ftquatters or their satelites, neither am I dependant on catfaffis,! fevers, or the other ills that flesh ja., heic to. ..^ I really think the account of some one', expending L3OO or L4lK)oii travelers must be either a misprint or a gross exaggeration ; but, perhaps, under the?, heafioi .travellers, he enumerates the favored r j^lass who always meet with a cheap and hearty welcome, or neighboring- shepherds "who assist him, and thus save him the expense of hiring, labor, in the footrotting,wasTiing, d,rtifting, &c, of his sheep. I must now bid a last farewell, Paul Pry, junr, alias Our Owm ' " I am happy ter-observe:thatthßTapariu-ians have taken a step in the- right direct tion, by forming a Land League ; for the question as to whether ih« people's patrimony is to be inojpopftli^ed.by the few, is : one of vital importance, for on it hinges our future advance 6r'fe I tro<(ression ; don't let them be influenced, by the old cry of Australian Squatters, "Farming 1 won't pay," which wasuseftiii^Victoria and New South Wales for so many years, but where, strange to sayiTarge tracts 1 bf land have, and continue up and improved by small capitalists. I cannot call to niffti<f d tH6 nature of- th& covenants entered] intO;Jby x Ae Dick-Vogel adnr.ipistration and the -pastoral tenants, but if serve^iniy right, 'there is a claWin one of^the-^and Acts to the effect, that the bolder of a miner's right, is entitled to dig: or prospec&sfor gold on all Government Land, but some of the " would. be " try to cheat "us into trie belief that' their depasturing .licenses! were, converted by the new leases into freeholds, and have had the presumption fo'orclfer diggers off, of what they modeeidj , term "my land," property, Ac. I should be happy to |^epeive information- a^h ;I this subject as 1 IHprpose shofsly r: JB' ! nkinghTa..few holes on I imagine is the Waste Land of Otago. '. ' % JuKiS cs-izsu ...