REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2181, 31 December 1875, Page 3

REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sib,—-Sir George Grey has an immense task.before, him, if he grapples all the r grievances* that have crppped up under the late Government, and as he appears to have his hands full of national grievances, I must seek some lesser star to grind my little axe. But first of all I cannot see.'what we gain by Sir George Grey sitting for this, district, more than ,we -would Tf he Sits'for jDity West. It appears to me that w ; e lose one*.member. No one-admires pluck and consistency more than myself, and I admire Sir Geo. Grey, but for that very reason, and the desire to see the Thames well represented, I shall vote dead-against him, unless I can be convinced that I am- wrong. That fh.9 Government of the present day, want kicking out of office, few "men on this field will deny; for instead of encouraging and fostering local industries, they leave us to perish from neglect, or. if that wont do, make laws to prevent industrious men from making an honest living. The Oyster Fisheries Act to wit. When I placed the fact before the Government, that more oysters were,condemned on the of, the boats from..New Zealand at "Sydney and Melbourne than 'were, consumed in the Province o£ Auckland,and that the oysters were obtained here only as an article of food, and .that there, was abutj.dancej.for home consumption^ ifr! ' they would "stop, the' 'export, the, reply , was, the Government have actea* according to law, the, object being the preservation©? tbeoyster, Soitis. perish the man but save the oyster at a(l hazards. Which of our local candidates will grind my axe ? $hat is, show the Government that they ought to be.as considerate to hardworking, poor men as to capitalists who distil whiskey ? I ask not -charity, but liberty to earn an honest living by taking a portion of that food-; : which . bounteous nature has planted along our shores, no doubt for the use of man.-—I am, &c, , > ■ Joseph Lowjtdes. Thames, Dec. 31st, 1875, „* ,