THE LAND.

Evening Star, Issue 6895, 6 May 1886, Page 2

THE LAND.

TO THE BDITOB. Sim, —The letter from Mr Pyke advocating the sweeping away of the present land laws and bringing in a new system of giving free selection, fixed periods, etc., should be made the leading question at the coming election. In a previous letter 1 spoke of the principles laid down by Mr Pyke, and I am glad to see so able a gentleman advocating their adoption.

I would suggest (seeing the unsatisfactory state of the two leading parties in the House) that a third party he formed consisting of Sir George Grey, Mr Montgomery, and Mr Pyke as the leaders, making the land question the chief plank in their platform, laying all the differences on other questions aside until a simple Land Act is passed. I look upon this and Civil Service retrenchment as the principal things to remove the present depression. lu the gentlemen that I have named we have men of undoubted ability, whose characters are above suspicion. Speaking as one who is free from all personal influences from those who are, or may be, in power, I say every person having the welfare of New Zealand at heart should give such a party his support. —I am, etc., An Intending Settler. Dunedin, May 6.