(To the Editor.)

Sin, — In your issue of the 4th- inst. there appears a letter signed "Specta tor/ in which the Writer makes some Observations respecting me as the ob jector to certain agricultural leases on the Bald Hill Flat. " Spectator" says he Was "surprised to hear me urge .untruthful .observations against appli cants for agricultural leases, and also present" a petition to Mr. Warden Carew." Apparently "Spectator" has remained in such a state of astonish ment that he has forgotten to mention what the untruthful observations were. L certainly presented a petition against the leasing of, any mGre auriferous land on the Bald Hill Flat for agricul tural purposes; and I can inform " Spectator " that the majority of the signatures to the petition were those of .miners who had been years in the dis trict, and were just as welLqualified by experience to judge of the auriferous nature of the flat as " Spectator" him self. By bis judicious use of personal pronouns, " Spqcfator " can be easily identified as an irrepressible individual who is a self-constituted guardian angel to the settlers on the Flat, and, although for the most part unappre ciated by them, the " irrepressible " is always to be 'seen, on the occasion of any disputes, anxiously watching over his proteg&s, rejoicing in their victories, or, when they are defeated, whispering words of consolation, wiping their eyes, and advising them to try another round. He has rode this hobby to such an ex tent that it has produced a morbid state of feeling, approaching to mono mania, which causes him to take jests for realities, and casual remarks — forgotten by the speaker almost as soon as uttered— as parts of a deep laid conspiracy against the sacred soil of his beloved Flat. A harmless jest about sluicing the last cockatoo into the Molyneux, is passed between two ■persons sufficiently intimate to cause no offence to be taken ; this is reported to the "irrepressible,"- who broods over the idea until his distorted imagi nation conjures up a horrible vision of the future. 