A Little Question.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 388, 10 December 1889, Page 3

A Little Question.

[TO THE EDITOR.] Sin,—l have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a message, by telephone, from your office, on Saturday last, as followsße landed estates in the colony,—lf 250 holder; have 6 678.000 acres, what do the remaining 607,130 of the population hold ?" In reply, I may state the question is an important one, and regret being unable just now to give the information required, hut I am under tbe impression that the 250 have got hold of the remainder by this time, as the 607,130 other fellows have been asleep for the last few years. For exact information on this point, I beg to refer yog to the old established firm of Arthur Lahdgrabbe* and Co., who have branches all over the colony, and who make such investigations a speciality, and, I may say, it there is any spare land about will be sure to know of it. To show bqw their soul is in the bu;iqe;; | the leading member of the firm has been known to keep his eye on a nice little front piece of 20,000 acres for oyer sixteen years, — I am, , J. SIOtBY. "The two last letters were added to the name some years back—so the story runs—as it was thought by friends of the firm such alteration would improve the appearance of it, and disgqise its significance, just as the old honest name of Smith is sometimes rpada to look quite aristocratic as Smythe. But the disguise is proving insufficient fnr the purpnse, eyoept in the case of the employees of the firm, whose eyesight is systematically tampered with.