The last the Pemberton settlers (says the Rangstikei Advocate) have heard as to the intentions of the autocratic Richardson with regard to their township land is that it is to be put up for auction and sold. That will be an agrarian outrage of the worst type. If anything had occurred in Ireland involving a quarter of the hardship to the victims or exhibiting a fifth part of the uncompromising brutality of the Lands Department in thia case, there would have been a howl about it all over the world. If the land is to ba sold for a township the people should buy none of it, but If they want a township out up one of their own farms into town sections and fores* Stall the Government iu Its sale*
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 435, 29 March 1890, Page 2
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131Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 435, 29 March 1890, Page 2
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