Correspondence.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume X, Issue 639, 12 August 1853, Page 3

Correspondence.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SOUTHERN CROSS." Sir, — The loaves and fishes party are in a state of great commotion j Sir George is

going away, and Las nothing left to give them, but his blessing. One of them is cuuie down to us, having great urath, because he knowcth that he hal.li but a short time, and assails Metoikos with might and main. The honourable member for the Bay of Islands must console himself; there is balm in Gilead yet; Dr. Featherston, Mr. Brown, Mr. Godley, Captain Cargill, Archdeacon Henry Williams, and a few more of the same stamp, have all alike been set upon by Government, so that if Metoikos be slain, he will at least have the satisfaction of being slain in good company. But who is this furious Northern ? VVhy does he not shew his hand ? Is he ashamed of it ? Does he retire from the public gaze, like the modest violet ? Does he think discretion the better part of valour, that he shoots from behind a hedge? And finally, does he fire — by command ? Querist.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ' SOUTHERN CROSS ' Sir, — Will you allow me to correct an impression which is being assiduously rased by some who cannot but know better, — namely, that the colonists of the Southern provinces are opposed to the cheap land principle At Wellington, Nelson, and Taranaki, they are as strongly in favour of it as ourselves; at Canterbury, the great majority, I believe, are of the same way of thinking; of Otago, indeed, I know too little to speak with confidence. But they do object, and very properly, to Governor Grey's overriding the law by his proclamation ; and even admitting the possibility of Judge Stephens being mistaken in bis view of the law, they object to Governor Grey putting the injunction of the Supreme Court at defiance, instead of taking the proper measures for dissolving it. They think that the General Assembly, which would most assuredly have reduced the price of land, perhaps even further still, might have been long since called together for this and other purposes. Is the indignation that" was caused at Auckland by the illegal closing of the Court of Requests so soon forgotten ? Let us have consistency, if nothing else. The object of those who thus pervert the opinions and wishes of the Southern colonists, striving to set them up in opposition to those of Auckland, is evidently to revive that ancient spirit of jealousy which is now so nearly extinct, — to follow Sir George's lead in his divide ut imperes rule of government ; a worthy and Christian-like end. We have obtained cheap land at last, by dint of hard fighting for it. But by whom was the battle fought ? This new-born en« thu&iasm comes with an ill grace from those who were discreetly silent when the subject was unpleasant to his Excellency. Sic vos non voUs mellificatis apes. Metoikos.