With recpect to the Cattle Trespass Bill which I introduced at the Teqnpst of *cv" *"ral lan'l owners of your district, it was as yotj a> «• n I ready awnro negatived nt it<» se- rond reading by t c majority of the Council without r ven a discussion, one Gentleman " observed in snppott of the present Ordi- nancp that it had now been in opprrttjon •<on)p yean and before he volfd in favor of the Bill he should like to bo better ac- quainted with the feeling-, of ihe Settler* penernlly on the suhjert, but the Gentle- man omitted to state to the Council, <hat n «liort time previous i)i requisition backed by the majoilty of the Tatmaimaka Set- tlers showing thi" necessity of a revision of then bow Ordinance had been placed in his hand for signature. I may perhaps be pardoned in observing tfiaT eTch'fnerrißer'of the" Council tvould best? fulfil hfs trust by endeavouring to find - out the feelings of the public on all ques- tion? of 'importance, at it is also your duty and that.of the Electprs of fie Province generally to aid and aWvite the Council. To whnt rflutemust we attribute the *eem- tnu indifference nf the Taranaki .Settlers to iheirown interests ? As yet no expression of the views emertained by tlio Public on •n^of lb? various measured brought bifore ih*> Counr il h«« \tfPn given to guide the Hf?ition <if its members, yet there are inrlj- viduulj now as ready to criticise the ac s of tin Provincj 1 Connc'l as the) wore here-



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