FROM " THE PRESS " OF 1862.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14288, 26 February 1912, Page 7

FROM " THE PRESS " OF 1862.

SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 22. "There are many features in the condition ot the province at this moment which are worth noting as offering a very hopeful .prospect ror the future. The Government really appears - co have profited by the experience of three years ago, and to bo meeting the crisis of wealth through which they sire passing with sagacity and prudence. It j would be a very easy matter to repeal | former errors, and in a few weeks again to stop the land sales, again to produce financial disaster, again to throw hundreds out of employment It would swjui, however, that the effor.e which have boon made by some t<s induce a more wholesome fctate of public feeling, and to inculcate sounder doctrines upon financial Eubjeits, liai'e born.j fruit. Measures which not long ag> '.vere scouted as the narrow-minded plans ol prejudice are now accepted, aud have become tha policy of ihe Government." "Is it true the Fantham's land on the Lower Lincoln road has been bought, or is to be bought, as the site of the Mental Hospital ? The question was asked in the lay;, session ot the Council, and-j almost every member present, eomp"u*nt to express .'in opinion on the subject, stated the sum of £40 an acre for fifty acres of land was a most extravagant price to eive for any land for «uch a purpose, and, moreover, was a great j deal more than tho land was worth, j Mr Maude, as we understood, under- J took that the purchase contemplated j should not be made, but that some other j sits should be looked out for. Mr Harman no bad authority on such a matter,' &nid there would be no difficulty in getting a site for the purpose for much.less money than that proposed."