MESSRS CARGILL AND ANDERSON'S RUNS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 766, 22 December 1876, Page 3

MESSRS CARGILL AND ANDERSON'S RUNS.

--6 The following fro n Messrs Cargill and Anderson, addressed to the Commissioner of ’Crown Lands, was read at a late meeting of the Waste Lands Board : “We 'have, the honour-to request that we may be informed in what position we stand as lessees of runs No. 191 and 369 m respect of the cancellation of land for settlement. We may state that during the last 10 years various blocks bavfe been taken up in these rims by the Government, and opened to public selection under agricultural lease arid deferred payment systems, amounting in all to 3SOO acres, with the addition of 2300 acres on run 369, wlich the Government determined not to deal with beyond giving a limited quantity to one or two parties now residing on the block. We had an arbitration with the Government in regard to the first three blocks cancelled, viz., that of run 199, opposite Loxbvrgb ;-the run on Bald Hill Elat, and that surrounding Roxburgh on run 369, all of which we selected in terms of the Act, to have cancelled section by section as taken rip. The award arrived at was a compensation at the rate of 5s per acre. There is an arbitration now pending on other two of tbe blocks above-mentioned, one in each rtm (cancelled under tbe 16th clause of tbe Goldfields Act, 1866), which was suspended by the death of the arbitrator. It was left in obeyanee, in hopes of tbe whole question being arrived at between tbe Government and ourselves. Up to this time we have not received any money by way of compensation for any of the land alienated, for c large portion of which the Government Ins been receiving rent, or for the portion told has received the purchase money. We now find that surveyors are employed cn a further portion of run 369. This, and the land before mentioned, is all prime writer country, and Pukes a far greater difference in the carrying capacity of these inns than the mere grazing capability of the portions taken. We have to complain of having been kept for years in'a state of uncertainty, not only with respect of tbe mannerofdealingwitbns for the blocks already cancelled, but by the intention of the Government as to taking further portions by which we have been prevented from completing our arrangements for carrying on the business of the runs. We have therefore to request that you will he good enough to lay the whole matter before the Waste Lands Board, with a view' to our being placid in a position svc’i as wo consider to bo due to us as the holders of a very valuable property, any unnecessary jeopardising of wlich wmiild be as injurious to the public interest‘as nrijnst to us.” Consideration of a letter from Messrs Cargill and Anderson with reference to their tenure of runs 199 and 319 ; also complaining of being kept in a aUto of uncertainty with roferimee to dealing with the blocks already cancelled, and if surveys being executed on other uncancdlod parts of their runs detrimental to their uisincss.