(From a Correspondent.) . The feeling here against the District Highways and Education Act, created principally by interested parties, is fast giving way. The motives of the agita tors are being seen through. The topic has been interesting and fruitful for discontent, as no kind of taxation can arise which will give satisfaction to all. Some narrow-minded persons wish to remain isolated, while others, in order that the country at large may advance, are willing to put up with an increased burthen. Our true policy is social. Now it appears to me that this Act will put an end to men existing as isolated individuals, and enable them to blend their energies with their fellow-colonists and make .common cause with them, so that a broad and enduring spirit of fellowship may spring up, each gaining strength from his neighbor. When a gentleman wishes to be returned M.H.R. he professes to be one of ourselves.- He is a warm patriot before his election, and says not a word about isolation. It would be cause for regret that our repre sentatives should divide themselves into two camps under different banners. Let them act according to the wishes and opinions of the electors. The unifor mity of taxation should always be adopted when there is-a uniformity of electoral rights.. If fortune has placed some above manual labor they are the more able to assist others and to bear the burdens. A great deal has been said about taxation in England, and that the people here will have to pay a higher tax then there, which will deter emigration, but those who say so are very careful not to give the whole truth, for some parishes in England paid as much as 3s If d in the pound poor rates in 1848 upon the annual value, nor do I suppose there is much alteration for the better since. Mr Meredith, jun., left Masterton for the Wharearaa on Wednesday morning with 150 head of cattle from eighteen months to three years old, purchased at Masterton and neighborhood, the aver age price being £2 per head. The contractor for the Waingawha bridge is getting on very slowly for want of a steam engine to drive the piles with. Hand labor is penny wise and pound foolish with such work as this. The river bed is a conglomerate mass not easily penetrated without machinery.
