BUSH NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4300, 9 May 1885, Page 3

BUSH NEWS.

[from an occasional correspondent.] When Mr Ballance, Minister of Lands, passed through here on his way to the north some time ago, he was waited upon by a deputation from the Danevirke Small T Farm Association, with a view of learning whether he woukl grant their application for taking up five thousand acres m the TJmutuoroa block, at the rear of Mangatara settlement, to be held on terms something like the special settlement arrangements, when he most courteously and replied that if the members of tho would duly fulfil the requisite conditions according to the Act, they undoubtedly would obtain the land. The deputation then thanking the Minister, retired fully impressed of their object beingattained. But there is a change in tho dramatn 1.0 <;na,i;t-j(l. Tho Minister wml also to Waipawa on tho same or next d;iy, and w;n iil.su interviewed on the laud small farm association business, the Minister also replying favorably, and most strangely promised tho same piece of land—not knowing so at the time—promised earlier to tho peonlo of Dauevirke. The two applications were duly sent to the land office in "Wellington, and in some way past finding out, the°application of Waipawa people was attended to, their first deposit duly received and receipted, so that in fact the people of Dauevirke were euchered, but not to be beaten, and being importunate they again applied for 2500 acres, the half of the quantity of former application,, adjoining the Waipawa people's 5000 acres, supposed ■• now to be secured to them; but behold > another change in the scene. The reply from the Minister to their second application was, that through some informality they would now obtain 2000 acres out of the 5000, that the Waipawa people would only get 3000 acres on one side of the new road now being made through the centre of the block, and to have the first choice of sides. The Waipawa people now, in accordance with their true nature as Englishmen, felt very grieved and howled a bit. Tho Minister "has been applied to and even remonstrated with, but he remained inexorable, so onlast Tuesday Mr Barron, chief draughtsman from the Wellington land office, visited the ground and met the secretaries and others of both Danevirke and Waipawa Associations, and settled the matter by askin" the Waipawa secretary to choose thenside for Waipawa, which he did by selectin"- the left-hand side of the road ; so then, as°a matter of course, the Danevirke people got the right-hand side of tho road, which I really believe is not the worse side, bo the land trouble here is so far ended, and 1 /hope and trust that the two Associations 4 will now join together on each side of the ■road like good and honest neighbors, and act for the mutual advancement and prosperity of the new district, and that the near future will behold with much satisfaction the benefit arising from new blood imported amongst them from the thriving and prosporous district of Waipawa.