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Otago Witness, Issue 1422, 22 February 1879, Page 11

HYDE.

(from our own correspondent.)

Harvesting operations are being pursued with vigour, and notwithstanding the unusually dry character o£ the summer, our farmers are not complaining of the yield. I noticed a local in your last, stating that the residents of Hyde were, or are about, to petition the Government to have another block of land thrown open for settlement from the StrathTaieri Railway Reserve. Such a movement has not been publicly mooted, and we are in no wise aware of the circumstance yet. Another statement requiring contradiction ia one which was sent to the Mount Ida Chronicle by an occasional correspondent, asserting that the Chinese were " elbowing us out." For the information of your readers I beg to state that there are at present some half dozen almond eyed children of the sun engaged in gully-raking and fossicking about the town, and who assiduously mind their own business and avoid everything but thoir own affairs. When the yellow agony assumes an aspect detrimental to the interests of the rest of the population I believe we have the stamina within us to nip its advance in the bud. Until then, as loyal subjects honouring the treaty by our Government with China, we must endeavour to treat the as yet harmless Chinaman at least tolerably.