CAMBRIDGE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3037, 20 April 1867, Page 5

CAMBRIDGE.

To th« Editor of tht Daily Southxrn Gioii.~* * Sir, — Being a subscriber to your esteemed journal,! and deriving therefrom much useful information re? specting the social and political economy of this colony, I have often noticed, with regret, the very stinted quantity of news which seems to be received by you from this our flourishing and important settlement. While I read with pleasure the letters of your correspondents at Hamilton, Alexandra, Harapipi, and Ngaruawabia, in almost every issue, I could almost blush that amongst the many intelligent young men of the 3rd Regiment there seems to be not even one with sufficient interest in the progress | of the settlement to give utterance, if it wert only, | once a month, to a few remarks, in order to show to the Auckland public and the colonists generally that, although we occupy the most advanced post oa the Waikato, we are not necessarily the farthest removed from the post of honour in the march of colonisation. No doubt, those who oould and would write abstain through delicacy from doing so, knowing that your own correspondent, whoever he may be, ought, to be the proper medium of information j but it is a false delicacy, which only serves to lull that gentle* man into what will, I fear, shortly become the very acmS of liatlessness. Moreover, in a large population like our», there, are frequently occurring events of a sufficiently stirring nature to merit a place in the columns of your paper. < Permit me to instance a case of sudden death which occurred nearly a month ago, and attended with circumstances of such a suspicious nature that the husband of the deceased woman was, until after the inquest, confined in the regimental guard-room, on suspicion of murder, and only released after % lengthened investigation from want of legal evidence to support the charge. Surely, Mr. Editor, this should have been a sub*, ject of sufficient importance to rouse your Camv bridge correspondent from the lethargic slumber into* which he seems to have fallen ; and if he cannot, .conscientiously speak in praise of the settlement, it, surely behoves him to give a plain unvarnished, statement of facts respecting such events as a aenae r of duty should induce him to make public. # , Men of capital, who will no doubt, by their di«bursement of a portion of it, do great good, and who have already employed numbers of men at ditching, fencing, &c., are settling down among us ; but our strangely apathetic correspondent vouch*, safes not the slightest notioe of their useful., labours, flay, I wonder were a young earthquake to exert . its destructive force in our midst, and swallow us up - like the " tents of Korab, Dathan, and Abiram," leaving our representative of the press somewhat i» the position of Campbells " last man," _ whether ,_, he would deem the event worthy of his notice. I may perhaps seem rather severe upon your cor* <. respondent ; but I feel assured that the majority of my fellow-settlers will agree with me that I am not ■> more so than he deserves ; and should my remarks . have the effect of rousing him from his negligence, , they will have accomplished the end for which they « were intended, as neither malevolence nor mercenary motives prompt me to make them. — I have, &c, EXPKRGISCJNS. April 15, 1867.