The Minister of Lands has received a - largely signed requisition from the settlers of the Owake and Catlins districts, . in Otago, requesting him to favour them with a political address. They say that “ being deeply interested in the important, and, we believe, highly beneficial changes effected by you in the framing and administering ' of the land laws of the Colony, and being unable to gather anything like a fair idea of the affairs of the Colony from the garbled and obviously prejudiced reports in the Tory papers Which chiefly circulate here, we shall deem it a very great favour if you can make it convenient to address a meeting of electors bore during your next visit to Southern Otago.” The Minister has replied that he will be happy to address the electors of the districts monf;: tioned on the first opportunity, but that it will be some time before he will be again in the South. The Pahiatua County Council have been, educing their officers’ salaries. v .
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1202, 15 March 1895, Page 18
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