THE ASHBURTON SEAT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1649, 30 August 1887, Page 2

THE ASHBURTON SEAT.

MR PUR?EM, AT ALFOKD FOREST i

Mr Paroll addressed a large meeting of electou m the Schoolroom, Alford Forest, tli room being filled. Mr W. T. Ghapmai waa voted to the chair. Mr Purroll spoke for nearly two hoara upon the jrlnolpul topics of the -Say, and was liatena to with great atteutloo. In reph to questions, the candidate eaid he *« m favor of a tax upon unimproved iaada, held by absentees and others. Ie preferred a Property Tax <o a Land T<x; moreover, it would be necessary to sippleraent a Land Tax by an Inoome Tx, m order to raise as much revenue a waa now obtained from the Property Tax, and to catch persons whose money w« not invested m land. He ooneiderdC the present scale of Resident Magistrate* Court foea excessive and it ought to be reduced. He did not think the Empie was ripe for Federation; IraperUl Feceration was something to be | worked 07 to by degrees, and if it was hurried, iistead of binding the Empire together, the result would be that the Empire tnald fall to pieces. * Mr Janes Rowe moved a vote of confidence mMr Parnell, which was seoonded by Mr J. H. Ross, and carried un»nlmoualy t The prcoeedingt terminated with the asual ooopliment to the oh air.