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Auckland Times, Volume 2, Issue 55, 30 January 1844, Page 2

We seldom meet with any thing challenging a direct reply in the columns of the Southern Cross, but we Would not like to pass over bis (no doubt unintentional) misunderstanding of our observations about customs’ duty on tobacco, as affecting the Maories. We said that the duty was a good one, because it Would reach the Maories without any consciousness, on their part, of that peculiar feeling of discontent, which always, especially among Maories, and Yoikshireraen, and Scotchmen, is simultaneous with a demand for the utu. We say again that the Maories, costing us so much as they do for the maintenance of their superiority should pay something towards the necessary revenue of the state arid that the best way of collecting (or rather the only way of imposing) such reasonable tax is> the imposition of home consumption duty upon tobacco. It is a capital plan, no doubt, to grow our own tobacco; "®

ought to do sop— and the best way to secure the practice ot’ this domestic eco nomy, is to impose high duties upon importation. There is no occasion to create a lestrictive tariff upon acids, corrosives, bilious stimulants, or sternutants, tor the Southern Cross has made them so cheap, as to beat down the possibility ot foreign competition.