Original Correspondence.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 2, 6 May 1863, Page 4

Original Correspondence.

THE WAY THEY DO BUSINESS IN INVERCARGILL.

To the Editor of the Lake Wakatip Mail.

Sir,—l sent thirty-five days since for goods to Invercargill, aud have not yet received them. They were advised in a letter through the post, (not scaled) as forwarded on loth ult. by parties who have drays on the road, and who have also an interest in a sailing boat on the Lake and a store at Quecnstown. Arrived at Kingston, they arc held over five or six days to wait till they collect a cargo for the boat. Then, a?ain, the representative of these parties here has no advice of what goods ore coming, and cannot say whether they arc among the other things at Kingston or not. He also naively informs me that 11 he gets such goods up occasionally on his own account for sale, and thinks that is the way he should do business." Tkev, to grasp all the profits of traffic and business, the consignee's interests are utterly neglected and his goods delayed andknovdedge of them suppressed. Thus, after thirty-five days, I am uncertain whether 1 shall yet receive them. Does not such a system want rectifying? Where agents have such a complication of interests of their own to subserve, their clients' interests arc sure to be sacrificed. Yours, &c, COXSIONEE. Queenstown, sth Mny, 18G3.

THE NATIVE QUESTION.

To the Editor of the Lake Wakatip Mail. Sir,—The Native difficulty dissolves like snow Dffaditch, orolf one of those white night-cap peaks, that sentinel the Wakatip Lake and its first-born city, Queenstown, and scowl upon us sometimes in a very ferocious manner. It dissolves before physical force, before the preparations of Cameron and the sheen of the British bayonet. We are to be henceforth known to Mr. Maori as men able to defend our rights, and as soldiers who can either fight or use strategic movements as may best suit our purpose. We of the Middle Island are constrained to take an interest in the affairs of the Northern, and should discuss them as domestic matters, so Ion" as we are equally with it liable to be involved in the expenses of a Native war, and to be called upon to give other aid. Should it be found necessary to raise a militia, I fear me hut few of our prosperous diggers would like the pxercise, " right, left, and face about." It wouid he inconsistent in every way with their former occupation and line of life ; and to go out in the morning to storm a pah would be more unpleasant work than going to a new rush, even in New Zealand. With your permission, Mr. Editor, I will revert to this subject in a future communication. Yours, &e., J. de Couecy Young. Queenstown, sth May, 1803.