ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 4, Issue 187, 20 January 1849, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Southern Cross. Sir, — The conversation that took place in the House of Commons relative to the New Zealand Grant, should be stereotyped, and made to appear in every newspaper published. Mr. Hume objects to the Grant altogether. It is reduced this year from .£37,000 to and there is every reason to suppose that next year it will be withdrawn. We shall not even have the satisfaction of seeing it diminishing by degrees. One can have no sympathy with Mr. Hume, or his motives, they are simply parsimonious. But then up gets one of the most able, most philanthropic as well as most practical statesman of the day — Mr.Gladstone — he too thinks that such a grant is only warranted by some grave necessity ; but mark his suggestion — Could not the natives be allowed to sell their lands, and create a capial ? — Here is the antidote to our evils — proposed 16,000 miles away from us. — Shall we respond to this ? or shall we continue to drag on the miserable recipients of the bounty of a generous but overtaxed country. Let us at least make an effort to raise ourselves from the state of degradation in which we are now engulphed. I am &c. A Briton.

To the Editor of the Southern Cross. Sir, — Will you have the goodness to inform me if it is legal, or in accordance with the " Licensing Ordinance," for Licensed Publicans to let their Licenses ? I an induced to ask for this information from the fact of some of the Publicans having let, or being about to let, their Licenses to individuals to enable them to sell liquors at the forthcoming | Races. A Licensed Publican. 19th January, 1849. [The answer to the above Query is simply — that it ia not legal. — Ed.]