MR. DIXON'S EXPLANATION.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1894, 14 November 1874, Page 3

MR. DIXON'S EXPLANATION.

To the Editor of tlio Thames Advkktiser. Sia, — Permit me, through your columns, to make a few remarks on the Ohinemuri question partly iu my own defeuce, and partly for public information. First, it is from no private grievance that I have done that which i have done, but with a few of preventing the country from being drawn into a greater state of confusion than it already is until such time as we can get Sir Donald McLean and Mr Mackay together in the field, as I may say that nearly the whole of the natives in the Hauraki district will do little or nothing until then, and I say the sooner that time comes off the better. This statement of mine nothing but time will prove to be correct or not. Second, in your correspondence column of this day's issue, an article appeared from a writer at Ohinemuri, who says that the Rum cf £20,000 has been advanced (as I suppose, of somebody's money). Taking that for granted, I should say that whoever paid that amount ought to know what land it was on account of before they paid such an amount (which I hope they did). If they did know why should the natives deny it. Thirdly, allow me to call your attention to a notice which appeared from Major Heaphy (Native Lands Fraud Commissioner) in the Southern Cross of the 2nd ultimo, wherein he refers to fraudulent transactions regarding the purchase of native lands; and it is within the shade of a possibility that some sharp practice has been carried on here, and if such has been the case (which I hope nol) it is high lime that some steps should bo taken to investigate these transactions—l am, Ac., B. V. Dixon. Shortland, Nov. 13,1874.