In the four southern districts, viz., the Ger aldine, Levels, Waimate, and Mount Cook there have been sold 143,831 acres, and the amount of money re ceived by the Road Boards to the 30th April is £48,507 — or a trifle over 16? per cent, on the land sold. Here then we have this fact that the districts we have named m the north have had a little over 10 per cent, more of the revenue derived from the sales of waste land given to their Road Roarda than the four southern districts. To place these latter districts then on a par with those of the north m this one particular, the south should get the balance of 10 per cent, on its land sales, which would yield the sum of £28,766. But although this payment of £28,766 would so far equali.se the per centage of laud sales paid respec tively to the northern aud southern districts, yet, the account of the south, as aerainst Canterbury, would be far from being closed, for we hold that every Road Board m the province should not only get a per centage on the laud sold within its borders, but a per ceut age on its territorial revenue. And there the south would claim largely. We find that the districts south of the Rangitata have contributed m the shape of pasturage rents for the year just passed no less a sum than £15,363 out of £33,903 — the t jtal amount received by the province. What, let us ask, has the Provincial Government bene fited by southern pasturage rents during the past twelve years ? Would £100,000 cover the receipts? We doubt it. And yet, out of this large amount, what has been returned to the district? We can answer that question — not oue sixpence ! Now, can it be wondered at that the people of the south desire to get rid of a system of government, which is not only very expensive to carry out, but also one that deals most unfairly with districts the farthest removed from the seat of government. The returns plainly show that the road districts m Canterbury have not been treated alike, some having had a much larger per centage of their land sales' revenue than others. 