Sm—On looking, over the files of your j paper, I find, in the issue of October 10th, that the Dunstan ..correspondent com plains of the high rates-cliarged pn tho, ferries, viz. : L3 going and comihg be tween Cromwell and tlie Arrow. ; I beg simply to contradict that statement jis being wholly incorrect. The greatest amount yet received by us from any one team was L2 10s, and for that stun up wards of five tons of goods, five horses, and a waggon, were crossed four times. I challenge any person to state that lie has paid more. Tho charges, we consider, aro "on an equitable basis as compared with other ferries in the Province ; we have been to an enormous expense, entirely unassisted by Government, in erecting those femes ; the traffic at present is merely nominal, the greater portion, such as equestrian and pedestrian, going by the old route, via Gentle Annie, aiid thereby avoiding our tolls.
For fear that any misapprehension .might arise from the above statement, I take the earliest opiwrtunity of contra dicting it, and informing the public that a scale of charges will be immejliately published.—him, &c, William Edwards. Dunedin, Oct.'2si 1867.
APPEALS AGAINST ASSESSMENT.
