It is questionable if Parth, which had been thus quaintly arranged for outward show; I have repeatedly, on view of one of these shops, anticipated a sale would amount to Hundreds of dollars, where cents only have been the receipt; Coolies, Servants, Boatmen and a few Landholders for one half the Chinese community. The other half Brokers, Pedlers, Contractors, Artisans, and the above depicted shopkeepers are tenantry to European Landholders, and it is from such a class large amount of the present high rents are expected to be received; there is another class I have omitted; that is the squatters, who pay a small annual rent to the Crown, add their mite toward the Police Rate, and while subjected thus, they are content; but when the Land is offered them at the fixed rentals, they leave the Colony to return no more; this simple circumstance is the most corroborative of any assertion that the upset rentals are fixed too high.
Inland Lot N.30, truly is it named; it is in a deep glen surrounded by high and lofty Hills; this Lot was bought by me in January of the present year; it is situated immediately at the back of Lots A2291 A. and 292 A., bounded on the North and East by Roads that are not yet formed. I applied to Government for the Lot to adjoin my present residence for the purpose of Auxiliary farming; to enable me to carry on profitably the occupations in which I am of necessity engaged to earn sufficient money to pay my Crown Rents; this Lot, when purchased by me was of the very worst description, nothing but rocks, swamps, and springs; my outlay has been very great, to render it what at best it ever will be, a back yard, for it certainly has no frontage to a thoroughfare; notwithstanding. But because this Lot happens to be on a parallel with the Land in Wellington Street classed at one Hundred Pounds per acre. Inland Lot N30 isolated with Mountains around it, disconnected with Wellington Street in any way.
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