CORRESPONDENCE

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1157, 27 October 1868, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

MR. WHITE'S COMPENSATION. To the Editor of The Colonist,

Sib, —In an article which appears in your issue of Friday last, and headed "Unauthorised Expenditure," I see my name figuring rather -conspicuously, &nd should have allowed you, and such of the public that are dissatisfied, to enjoy your own and their opinions, but that there is one part of your article which says you are informed that the Superintendent suggested my bringing it before the Provincial Council. I must take the liberty of denying the correctness of your information, for the Superintendent did nothing of the kind, but on the contrary treated me rather cavalierly in the matter, as I will presently show. You were perfectly correct in saying that I had correspondence with the present Executive on the matter, though you omitted to Fay that the correspondence was calling the attention of the present Government to correspondence which I had had with the late Government, of which Mr. Saunder3 was the head. I was told by the present Government that my letters (which reiterated all the leading facts of the case) had been handed over to the Provincial Engineer to report upon, and that he (the Provincial Engineer) had reported that I had received no damage; therefore they (the Government) refused to liaye, the matter arbitrated. 1 might further explain that the Provincial Engineer was the same person who planned and carried out (under Mr. ..' Saunders) the works of which I have complained, • :ahd from which I have suffered so much. The glaring injustice done to me in the carrying out of those works was so apparent to everyone who fcnew the locality, the present Superintendent included, that he ought, in justice to myself and the dissatisfied public, to have allowed the case to go to arbitration, without be big cpmpelled by the Provincial Council to do sp. As I cannot think with you that a. large pprtion of the public are dissatisfied with my obtaining, in part, ■ compensatiqn, I must decline publishing the whole of ' the evidence (about 60 shoots of foolscap) unless you

think it would pay as a speculation, city in the shape I of a pamphlet, but I havo no objection) in conclusion, to tell you that I am much less satisfied with the amount awarded than you are, for I am puzzled to know how the £750 i» to compensate.mo for a loss in the depreciation of the value of my properly as a mill site of at least £200 per annum. I have, &c, W. White. Spring Grove, October 24, ISGB. [We shall be glad to sec the evidence, a3 if it will make out Mr. White's case, we shall willingly do him the fullest justice.—Ed.]