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Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 353, 1 February 1871, Page 3

{To the fiditor of the Bruce Herald. ) Dear Suk, —As I ain't much purnkins riting letters, 1 hope .you'll excuse bad spelling and things ; but won we 'ere of Mr Mackandrew a talking of fetchin' out Ifi.OOO oniegrunts, and says he would have 'em all at once if he cud, it's time we did summut to stop him. 'Oaus, say they be all hove, and planted where he says, without every on« \ has got a tidy hit of mnnny, how his ho goin' | to fence his 20 acres, and cultivate his patch? It's all humbug talking the way he does Now, he says he never bothers his hed about the Land Laws of other colonies. He don't | no' anything about 'em. Did yew ever here j sush a thing afore ? \nd that man sah lie's j a statesman. Now. hignorant as I be, 1 Vve \ hered of the Hudson's Bay Co. fetching out j emigrants, and givin' 'em land very ch'-ep, j and on t'other side of the river they was | givin' 'em snvnraut to settle in ther country ; j so when they had brought 'em from the old country at a gi\-\te expense, they all skedaddled across to get somethin' to build with, and where tho soil was just as good. Now, what I says is, what's to stop 'em. if they hered of Australy given eny amount of land, and finding 'em work till they was able to settle. Mackandrew don't know nothing of their land laws, so 1 think he's a'inost as hignorant as I be. Then T don't think he! 3 a honest man, for he sais —no matter how we j <;ot the money, s> long as we got it. Now, if i I was a money lender, 1 slind say that chap shan't have any of my mmioj, for if he gets it, he might bring in a motion to repudiate after he was ;ed over ears in debt, and wood sav —never niind if we never pay, now we got the money. Then he says ?he was duing the country good l>y giving the squatters 3s Gd an acre for compensation ; but I hare hered that they p-iys 2d a acre for the use of the hind for a time, and, after using it a good many j'ears, to give 'em 3s (id a acre because , the owner wants it jig'in. sounds mortal curious in my ears. Then he sais Mr Yogel will, he has no doubt, before many years occupy a prominent position at 'o;ne ; but I think they have done away with the gallo's | in the old c6niftry, but they mite bring it in agin for him. However, that is furren to ; the purpuss, as some on 'em wood say in palliment. T think if he wood propose to settle them as is here, it wood be better for him then to bring out a lot of Dutchwomen to mix the breed, as he sais it is a gud thing j to have a mixture of bind. Now, I think he has got snch a niity mind, that ho wood fetch out all the world to Otago anl Stewart's Island if he cud, and let'em die, for every- : boddy knows they cudent live on Stewart's Island without they was gotes Now Mackaudvew wants to be 'ed of the Province without any drawback, and my advice to him is, if I was yew I'd go to thu Auckland Use, and there yew cud be the yd 'cans ther wood be no pe:>le ther. for he says he thinks the General As3c;a Lily did quite rite to pass the big measure as the Financial sceme without consulting the peple. Now I suppose the yjeple wood have to puy anyhow, and of course they shud be consulted. .Mackandrew is no doubt a clever spouter, and uses a gud many words very quick. Now I have herd a proverb which says, " beware of the man of many words." A mail as uses such a grate many words is sure to spit o-.it a good bit of folly. What we want is deeds, not words, and we don't waut aii3 r inconsistent doges shoved suddenly onto us by Mackandrew or anybody else. Sum peple hay rote a good many lettei'3 about Mr Reid and his hignora:ice, but Mr R'iid is a m in, a honest, uprite man, and because he has been a hard-workin 1 man they think that he won't tit for Superintendent. But lam a workin' man and I say that is the man we want, and j many poets have sung of the nobleness of j labor, why, were wood be our bntifu! e:irth : without labor, and giving up hard bodily labor for a higher class of labor, we may hope I that Mr Reid, who nows how to read and rite, although he may not be as good at polished English as sum, still Cobderi cuddent aspirate his H's and Mr Heid might be as bright a star for Otago as Oobden was for | F.ngland; besides, luck at me, I can't spell | very well but I can think, and T think Mr i lleid is the man we ought to put in, for be j has a cool 'ed and gud eye. and there is no J dout as the bark of 3tatc is in a shickory i condition that it will want a cool 'ed to gide it for the next fua years, and -sot get it recked J rite of as Mackandreiv wood c\--> if he cud. I Bcleve me your own, j Quart iS inker. ' Wailahuna, January 30, 1871-