KAUPOKONUI.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1353, 8 July 1886, Page 4

KAUPOKONUI.

(f*OM OTTB, OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The otb.tr day I saw a curiosity, in the shape of a big thistle. It was prown on Mr. Thoß. Abbot's farm on the Duthie road, and is of the same kind as is seen throughout the colony. In diameter it measured 14 inches, and this width continues the same 1 foot 6 inches from the root. It is the largest I have seen or heard of, and beats out the recollection of that irrepressible individual in all com munities, " the oldest inhabitant." The bad weather has been severely felt up here. In a recent letter I remarked npon the mildness of the winter, but the Sast fortnight has proved that mildness a elusion. Thursday night week was fearful, limbs crashing in all direction's, snd doing damage by breaking fences. It is a marvel that there are not more •OOidente by falling limbs in this land of Obips ttan there are, for on roads may be ■een branches and blocks varying from a few ouoceß to two or three hundredweight, torn from the tall trees and blown a con■iderable distance. I observed by your paper a little while back, that the lessees of Maori land in this district were going to appeal to Government for relief. On the very face of their demand, it is scarcely credible that their demand will be granted. " What is sauco for the goose is sauce for the gander," and, if they do, what is to hinder other Bettlers from appealing to the same source for relief? The lessees might be asked if they would hare given the same price per acre for the land if they foresaw the depression. Their answer would be, certainly not. And likewise with the cash and deferred payment settler (the latter, perhaps, to be the most pitied of all). I hold that there are lots of deferred payment settlers who (like the lessees) paid too much for their land, and would willingly give their holdings back to the Grown if they got their actual expenditure returned. People went iuto land speculating, and none anticipated the utter stagnation which has since appeared, and if this depression had been foreseen, I doubt if the colonial coffers wonld have been so heavy after the Plains land sales. Lessees, I understand, say that they ■will have to throw up their leases if a reduction is not made, but in what way is the lessee more hardly dealt with than the deferred payment settler ? If the deferred payment farmer does not pay up, he has bis holding forfeited. And nobody goes into mourning for him ; someons else gets his farm, and the world jogs on all the same. 1 therefore argue that a deferred payment settler (more especially one who has capitalised his holding), Bbould prices not recover, would, at the end of his term, be in a much worse position than a lessee.

In conclusion, if the lessees do get a reduction from Government, it will behove every settler who paid too much or his land, whether cash or deferred,

ogo in for a*' discount " too. Yet lam inclined to think that the preseLt Government are too etony-hearted to take heed of settlers who went into speculations with their eyes open. Several leading members of the House favor a reduction in rent of Otago pastoral runs, aud I noticed that, in speaking to a deputation, Major Atkinson favored the reduction, and cays he ccniil bLow several casts

in his own district where reductions weie imperatively necessary. I tiust that the Major would also favor a reduction of cash and defeired land, " as there are hundreds. of cases in his own district where reductions are imperatively necessary." Mr. H. Cook, of Te Ngutu, met with a nasty accident on Friday la&t. He was crossing a creek in his farm on the Duthie road, and had a billhook iv his hand. At the bank of the creek, he placed his billhook against a log for support, when the handle broke, and he fell against the log with his forehead, the blade of the hook inflicting a gash on his upper lip. Had his head not struck the log iv tba place it did, the consequences would have been more serious, as the hook was Upright with the face towards him.

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