ORIGINAL, CORRESPONDENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 259, 18 October 1862, Page 4

ORIGINAL, CORRESPONDENCE.

"FIAT JUSTITIA RUAT CCBLUM." (To the Editor of the Daily Times.) ■ Sin,- Feeling grieved—and I must say somewhat disgusted— at what I conceive to be ant act of injustice to myself—Mr Strode having fined me three pounds for suffering the wind to blow my lamp out! —may I endeavor to learn, through the medium of your column*, why I am so unmercifully prosecuted upon any frivolous occurronce that may offer itself? Why is Mr Jones let off so easily, who has been informed against so many times for suffering pestilential matter to remain upon his premises ; and who told the'officer, in the execution of his duty, to go to the place—somewhere in the neighborhood that Queen Dido went to ? *

Is it because he has two or three licensed houses, each carried on without the assistance of a mistress, which would not be allowed in Melbourne; v license not--being-granted unless the wife, or some womanrelative, lived on the premises 1 Why should Ibe so severely blamed for not ligh ting-up the deformities of the streets ? Surely it is not so bad as having poisonous effluvia issuing- from your abode—so much so that people.are obliged (as stated in- the evidence) to avoid passing on that side of the street. I know, this, if.l had a,legal ba,tHe to fight (and had the -.power to appoint), 1 should not choose Mr Strode as Attorney-General, or any other genera! simply because I do not understand the principle he goes upon ; aud I do not approve of it whatever ft is.

And there is the street, too, in front of my house on the High-strceb side, completely blocked-up for this month past with stones, bricks, piping, auri all sorts of lumber ; aud on the Manse-street siJe it is ': almost impossible to pass, in consequence of Mr Cleve's gooiis, and without being ia danger of falliue ' down Ins trap into the cellar -to say nothing of the - dangerous state in which the street is left at the corner.

And then there is the worshipful Town Board a»ain What hare I done to them I One Mr Hardy (and who, by-the-bye, always associates in myideas in someway with a gingerbread prince that I used to buy at a country fair when a little girl), and he only, one year alter it is built, guts the street raised four feet so as to entirely spoil the frontage on that side, and I get blamed by thj whole body—Board and all—for tlwse wooden arrangements, iieally, Mr Editor I no sooner get out of one diiliculfcy than I get launched into another; like the potatoe on the recovery of its disease, I feel as if I had been baked, and' boiled, and stewed, and served out in all sorts of ways. I remain, Mr Editor, * ' ' Your obedient servant, ■n v leu. l ! Charlotte Dawsoh. Dunedin, 16th October, 18b'2.

{To the Editor of the Daily Ttmes ) bin—ln the last few hurried lines I sent reeardintr the necessity of an increased rate of pay to the 'laborers on the road, perhaps I was not sufficiently exphcit, therefore I take the liberty of addressing you again, n J

The reasons I bring forward to show the necessity of an increased rate of pay to the roadmen in the country are:—

Ist. Tiie greater fclie distance from town, the higher the price of provisions, &c. 2nd. In most districts there are but few stores in some places only one, therefore the prices demanded must be paid or we must go without. 3rd. That those working in or near Dunedin, have' the comforts of a home, and a choice of stores to' select their gools. 4th and lastly. I consider that we, who hav<i to rough it und«r canvas, & c ., and paying such high prices for iood and clothing should be in the receipt of enough, afc the least, to feed and clothe us The ambition of tha laborer soars higher th m jast to earn his food, he amid a!, being- able to make a home for lumvelf 111 the country of liis adoption, and if he had the encouragement he would eventually become a cood settler, adding his mite to the wealth of the colony • but where nothing can be saved, nothing can be gained, i would, with all respect, say that if a Government term-d " paternal," wishes to keep its offspring, it should eivß every encouragement to make them permanent settlers, and not to have a race of wanderers, why add nothing to the wealth or the calony, inasmuch that the true test of the wealth of a country v tin; produce of its land. Sincerely trusting tuat the liberality of the Government may expand under existing circumstances. I am, Sir, yours obediently, Otakia, October 13th, 1862. A iloAD*Atf.