from our own correspondent.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1738, 8 July 1862, Page 3

from our own correspondent.

Taranaki, June 3, 1863. The dark uncertain state of our position ia so overwhelmingly great, that an attempt has been made towards organising a migration to other shores where peaceful homes may be raised. Colonel T. G. Brown, C.8., of Tasmania, has been addressed on the subject, and a gentlemanly answer promising to forward whatever information it may be in his power to give, has been received. The local papers look upon the movement as a political strategem. I can assure you it is no such thing ; and those men who have agitated the idea have not the slightest wish or thought of casting any slur on Sir George Grey. I will grant they have no detailed plans marked out for their future guidance, and have grasped at the idea of leaving only as a drowning man would at a straw. In imagination place yourself for a moment in the position of one, who to make the requisite improvements on his property has, in the days of hia prosperity, raised means upon mortgage, and now finds year after year passing, and with it all claim to his once happy home, from his being unable to meet the interest. \V ill three ! Bailings »fc sixpence a day for bieaking stones on the roads find a shelter for his numerous family, when peace shall again shed her blessings over the laud. Can you, or any one else, wonder that men who see their property thus melting as it were from their grasp should do something in their desperation. This very endeavour to help them* selves shews a healthy feeling, and, furthermore, is an earnest of the effort that will bo made towards the re-attainment of independence when* the happy period shall at last arrive. A visitor to either Chelsea or Greenwich hospitals is oftimes surprised to hear" a very great amount of grumbling from the pensioners; this arises not from any deficiency in the supplying of their wants, but that their energy of mind— that craving for something greater so natural to man, remains nnsatisiied, They are to all intents and purposes " Linked like a plant to one peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.'' Is it to be wondered at that wen. who have 'seen the giant forest trees srfccunib to their sturdy blows and give place, by their own unaided efforts, to homes, around which their cattle, sheep, and horses have increased and multiplied, and the golden corn bent its graceful head to the gale, ehould now eo.u plain at finding no definite hope

to gladden their future — O ! worse than this ; no home to shelter their declining years. I have written thus much trusting to convince you that the question of emigration from Taranaki does not owe its origin to political intrigue, but to that of " hope deferred maketh the heart sick." and indeed it is sickening to pass over the once beautifu 1 and fertile pasture lands to the farms that have cost many pounds to bow with grass, now overran with thistles. Notwithstanding all this, there are gorrre who will wait on trusting that all may yet he well. ' Our Iron Sand is still considered of value, fifty tons, at the request of a large manufacturing firm, is about to he sent to England. The weather for the last two months has been excessively tempestuous and wet. Now that you have the seat of Government removed to Wellington, do not forget through your colums to speak an occasional word in our behalf. W. I. G.