SOUTHLAND LETTER.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7362, 15 July 1889, Page 2

SOUTHLAND LETTER.

[from oub correspondent.)

This is a dull time of the year wjtbpi very; we're not doing very much, out we are thinking a good deal. About politics, certainly not; haven't we got a share in • surplus? never had a surplus ourselves, s» are awfully proud in having a ninth share in one, besides, has not Ballance, the village settlement man, beeniappointea leader of the opposition. There is » glorious future to look forward to-lotiQl liberal measures bY and bye, then Wftrd is going to kill the San FrancuscoService, that will give u» another chance-andno doubt Ward's threat of retaliation wIU frighten the Victorians from putting the extra duty on oats-that's our way too. Aβ Ward says—" ttfe a great shame, of those Victorians to think of protecting themselves the way they are doing, it c outrageous, and must be put a atop to; how do they think we are going to live! Let them protect themselves agaleac somebody else, and leave us alone. We are not going to be ever, we are getting ready to produce more, and some one will have to buy it Ot feed on it; we can't stop to ccc what » going to turn up; been doing nothlnglong enough ; more land going to bo openedop, perpetual lease; that's the line we »» taking to; no more- mortgagee, baa. enough of that business* away on tne Upper Mataura above Gore, that's the district we are working into just now. Plenty of people to go on the land as B©on as opened up, which it is expected will be fa a month or two; young fo"» e«ffigF up you know, tired of the old style. We L they are-right, for. they Imv6 «ota big field arid a fair future petore them, ana they are a good working i°t th « re ,< countryfolk, and cannot fail to do.well, for they are steady as well M/i^ B *riou£ They have got tho biggest aaiw factor* "j the country up there, and, now ithey have resolved to start a bacon A considerable portion of •*• W»"Jft been already subscribed, andi with »ucna co-ahead lot, it Is sure to be a »««*». MrG..M. Bell, one of the largest bad* proprietors, ia at the beadi of the jnovg fneKnd this will do much to ensuret» or two after the wreck of the k«f£gg Grant on the Auckland I»huidfc yesaew uaed to come down from Australia, eauwg at the Bluir on their way to **™*g£ where they were going to ««*"& W Ll£i lost gold which that veswl bad on when *he wa» wrecked. rne J??£i flu, supposed to run into » cave «»*,»?. bottom of ibU cave lay treasures, btrtJJP cave could be found, and the Wffi B had to go back without the ' one case without most of the c»Wj»«j here they are at it again, «»* *&HKB Grant this time, but mo*tb of Dusky Sound, on the y e «i*%| ofKi/land. 'The Heather.Bell W* g Bluiraday or two ago with a P»W£ d Dusky, with a Sydney party on WOT£ having an ample supply ■ "L/ffS also dynamite and are experienced diver with a apparatus*. Suppose we may back shortly; queer yan. tart £ gSg wreck i<. supposed to be full The beach-combers' yarn »w»ut W££ things until they really beUevetn« 9 , own yarns, and then tne t **™J? tbe as it travels; however, Uβ «£^ r people on the mainland *Wg£Tfti eye on us just now. Tasmania to e 0 help us on to some trea»ai««i«« Nofcomai. so its all right; we *»**^SK| , b*en fond of foreign capital. ■ end "«»•$• times, willing to share our hidden treaw"— with our enterprising brothers. . y, e It will be remembered that one principal hotels in Invercajrgfll,tt£»"» c wu destroyed br <**« J^lfer altogether.