OTAGO HUNDREDS REGULATION ACT. (To the Editor of the Bruce Herald ) Sin, — I have read the speech of Mr Mac* andrew on the motion for going into Com mittee on the Otago Hundreds Regulation Act. A more bare-faced misrepresentation, of facts J have never had the lot to read. I am astonished that even Mr Macandrew could find it possible to make statements which were capable so easily of being shewn to be at utter variance with the facts to which he refers. For instance he says that tha Bill does not involve any alteration in the existing regulations. Is it no change to limit Hundreds to 15,000 acres ? No change to insist that Handle 's must at least be half agricultural and half pastoral ? that compensation must be given for all lands de clared Hundreds? No alteration that the Provincial Council is ignored as the party from whom the proposal of new Hundreds should emanate ? No alteration that the proposal of a new Hundred initiate with fhe Superintendent ? Other thing 3 in the Bill I might refer to, but these will suffice to show the value of this statement, and the extent on this point Mr Macandrew ha« mis led the Assembly. Were it not thatl would occupy too much fepaee in your columns, I might take well niyh every clause of his re ported speech, and. show it 3 contents to be as much at variance with actual facts as the above sentence. But one other only wDI I notice. He is reported to have said — "The question of granting compensation to run holders whose lands were being declared into Hundreds, had heretofore been left fco be de cided by arbitrators appointed by the Pro vincial Government and lessees respectively." What runhoider, I ask, has received compen sation on his land being declared a Hundred 1 Did the Maitland Brothers, or Mr Pillans* or Dr Menzies, or Mr Turnbull, or any of the squatters whose land at any time has been declared Hundreds ? It is well known that they never had one penny of compensa tion, and that they had to retire from their runs, or so much of them as was required for Hundreds purposes ; and yet Mr Mac andreiv made, or is reported in s Hansard * to have made the above representation. 