HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1262, 7 May 1896, Page 18

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

TO 'lilt; EDITOR. Sir,—Years ago when road-making was undertaken by the military, a .specimen of which laid mighty adjacent to Ponoke, rejoiced and still rejoices in the euphonious appellative of " Russell's folly " ! Surely the worthy scion of the oiiicer of the 57th Regiment, who originated and supervised the ridiculous undertaking, is travelling through the length and breadth of the Colony by div rs.-imilarroa Is, under thcauspiocs.am'i guidance of tho National Ass., but the political undertaking will as assuredly result in disaster and failure a; the road (?) exploited by tho father. Tho family, and a stupendous land-iieecing coterie, hav; had a lung, long innings from the earlv days of settlement, and "spotted' 1 a large area of the fertile Hawke's Kay district under the now obsolete "Grant to Military Settlers Act," and grabbed it, ami that without some of its members settling or over smollirig' powder in actual blood-curdling

warfare; whereas hundreds of privates and volunteers who for a long term of servitude did, could not even get a auger into the savoury, rich territorial pie, through not prosecuting their claims righteously for their arduous military services. Therefore " the heritage of the people" must be fairly and squarely restored to the people by the process known as Seddon-cum-Mclvenzie Ministerial exj ploiting during- another tenure of office, I without a .scintilla of the ljullerian truly ' rural faint, but the truly Liberal, after ] next wooing the people's suffrages. —I am., Ac i Hereto r xga-cu m-Horow hen ua. 30th April, Ib'M.