CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10516, 9 August 1897, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

Kai Kuri, who states he has considerable acquaintance with the coast of the Mahia Peninsula, says there is a strong current nearly always observable between the Capt and Whangawchi. In, probability, he adds, not one-tench of the sunken rocks in* mediately surrounding the Cape art charted. F. W. Hay ward, yriting in reference to a paragraph which appeared in the Herald regarding the Waihi-Sllvertou battery, says the impression it conveys is that the whole of the foundations of the;batteiy are faulty, whereas it is only the foundations of the mortar boxes that are being touched. Bundeh Khoda defends the Indian native press from the charge of being disloyal. He says," If ever England is called upon to face rebellion in India it will not be through the influence of the native press, but through her own misdeeds." t " A Small Farmer" wants to know on what principle of Christian ethics can the single tax be justified which aims at gradually confiscating the value of the property of those who have chosen to invest their money in land? J. IC. Taylor, replying to Mr. Fowlds' letter, says: " Mr. Fowld3 has not ventured to question my account of the case I put to him of the gentleman who bought several acres of unimproved land in Mangere a year or two ago at more than £30 an acre, and whose name I gave him at the time, and who, according to Mr. Fowlds' reply, it would be right to gradually make him pay single tax upon, up to its full rental value, just as though he had never bought and paid for it. Singletaxers like to talk about theories and principles, but they do not like to face their practical results. I think I have proved that there was absolutely no ground for Mr. Fowids, to characterise my statements as a garbled account, and that he | cannot repudiate'them."