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North Otago Times, Volume IV, Issue 71, 29 June 1865, Page 3

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"While giving room for the fair expression of public opinion on all subjects under discussion, we do not identify out selves with the view3 entertained by our coi respondent?.

(To the Editor of tho O AMARU TIMES.) Sir, — A great deal of just indignation has been exhibited in j'oiir columns lately, at the neglect with which this district is being treated by the Provincial Government. The latter would seem to be past all shame, and as long as we have only words to hurl at them, I am much afiaid, they will remain perfectly callous to our claims upon their attention. There is a way now open to us by which we may make our VOICES more effectually heard, I allude to the coining Election for the office of Superintendent. Let us determine to vote only for the candidate who thoroughly recognises the claims of the Country Districts, upon the Provincial Revenue. If there be no such candidate, then let us abstain from voting at all. Our rulers hitherto have been too apt to look upon Donedin as Otago. It is to be hoped this time some man with comprehensive and Statesmanlike views and experiences will come forward. Such a man would look ahead, and endeavour that the whole Province should be benefited by his rule, instead of only a poetion at the expense of the whole. • Unless this political truth be recognised, anarchy must ere long be the result. I am, &c, Justice. Oamaru, June 28th, 1865. P.S. — I have just heard that an application to the Government for protection, from a party who contem-

plated, himself, putting a Punt on the Waitaki, at what was Low and Brace's Ferry, lias been indignantly refused. It woxild really appear as if the Government were doing all in their power to crush this district, forgetting entirely that, in so doing, they are injuring the whole Province, as it is of course quite evident, that a parb cannot he injured without the whole suffering. Their eyes will, perhaps he opened, when Timaru will have secured a considerable part of our trade. It will THEM BE TOO LATE. [We have received another letter on the subject of the neglect of the district, which want of space obliges us to hold over. — Ed.]