DUNEDIN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 408, 2 July 1880, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

*<"*• (fftOM &k ■k*bABIONA■h^'OORRESI , ONDENT)! ~ Things here are extremely diSibiakd trade ' 6tagi\i't,.^lthough a few (ar Jjk >Ver^feV>inde l ed>.fan'cy ,tKat, ill spite jflß jtheiglooniy putlpolf shjJiWfl;by the ment recently, things reached their lowest depth," aha a¥e'upon the turn for thoXelter. | ! • ,At|a p}e,etmg/'|eld here«a short time sine, to enable kYtiftißlers'to air their grievances ahiiel-"the Property Tax, the majority who stoutly opposed it were-mndoubtedly men Who t^b_ldl-t6iUiaVMb-en;tp-ai*ed.byH.'.{, j in a long letter to the pointed out, amongst other things, that it would bera-shajneto many, perhaps tlreiaajority, of thewrdqwa would in a position; to pay the "tax, which, exempting as it- does '-£$66, -frM my Mm4dypn } £60p; And £2 ls 8d of '*f 1000. , 'X The objection to direct taxation will doubtless disappear as education advanpes. IA&W&WyKW&WiffcF a FM e m to " my jieavy indirect taxatKm r {tp ligh| direct iThpbst J on evety article of eonstiinption, which may id* th*6' Aggregate amount to -eve'ral per.annum, rather than pay(in|Jieujbierao-i a'fraction of jthe amount in a straiffhtforward'open manner. , ■ l¥..e*unf or."tfnk_e_ *_.em' to; that , '-• the -tax 'that'Sthe >ey& 'does)inof >epjthe ; ~ , ; ..••}•■.! The report of the Civil' Comniiß-i f * sioners.has, of course, been tHe ' u *pi_ce jgle t ie.eptly.',i*«hdj several? of Itjie,,] well-paid hut,not overworked gentttf of i the-upper crust of the Civil Service here < aresaid to be "in'anything but a happy i frame of mind. It is to be hoped that the 1 past pdlic^l dtlsjidflenly sacking hard- 1 working ill-paid supernnmeraries, when money gets short,, and leaving a lot of j

' die, overpaid favorites, in "full possession of their sinecures, will be abolished, aud that the proper system of dispensing (after fair notice) with the useless ones, and cutting down the salaries all round (excepting those that already are too low for r.asonable maintenahce), will be rigorously carried out. Tho tramways appear to be doing well. In consequence of the extension to the Ocean Beach, the Dunedin, Peninsula, and Ocean Beach Railway Company have had to, firstly, lower their fares, and lastly, to "shut up shop" altogether— a notification having been issued that trains to Ocean Beach will be discontinued shortly. The " Butler" excitement has quite died out, and is seldom referred to. The police hare'shown no signs of attempting to find any further clue—probably feeling the utter hopelessness of persuading a Dunedin jury that a man might commit a murder and deserve to be hanged for it, notwithstanding the fact that none qf-4he said jury personally witnessed the crime.