A WORD IN TIME. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 11, 12 July 1890, Page 3

A WORD IN TIME. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir— Now that our Parliament is assem- ] bled would you allow mo a littler space in • your journal to make a few remarks on the j state and prospects of the colony. In the and tho general ory is thoro is no hopo." It is a groat faot that the rates, taxes, land taxes, and eaponsenof governmental without a precedent in any other British colony, and tho only thing that can be dono to save the oolony from bankruptcy iff to pass liberal land laws, similar to tho«o of the. Northern ' States of Amerioa, which will optin tha gates for population to come in, and soon ttimka this a great and prosperous nation. I havo no wish to occupy muoh of your space, but I feel it to be my duty |to warn every member of the Logislatlve Houses of tho danger of '. the present exodus. I am, Ao., P. DAIiRTHPIiB. 1 Appleby, InveroargHl, 4th July, 1890. \ [Our correspondent takes altogether too 1 gloomy a view of affairs. New Zealand j possesses too many solid natural advantages to be ruined by even bad government.— Ed. E.P.I * ]