The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1875.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1668, 23 June 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1875.

Jar th» mums that lacks assistance, lor the wrong that needs resistance. far the fature In the distance. Ami tht rtod that we can do.

As will be seen from our telegraphic columns, Dr Pollen has put the screw down on Wellington, and impounded the capitation allowance, due for the months of April, May, and June. We venture to say that he haa not done so with such a gusto as he did in reference to his own province, in which he knows the appreciation of the people respecting himself. It was seemly though that Wellington should be treated as Auckland had been, even though he know, as he must know by this time, that such impounding of capitation money is entirely contrary to law and beyond his power. The General Government being indisputably "hard up," this laying the hand on the funds in transit is a rough and ready way of getting money, and pleasanter than the " direct taxation levied within the province or district," which js the only means provided in the Public Works Acts for supplementing deficiencies in interest on Sir Julius Vogel's railways. In fact we should be interested in seeing the attempt made in Auckland to collect "direct taxation" to pay interest on the General Government bungles. And we pant for the occasion of this attempt, as being that which will thoroughly arouse our people. We have seen a little of the difficulty attaching to such taxation! where the object was one so universally popular as the education of our own children, and where \ three-fourths of the people were really willing to bear with an objectionable

impost because of. the direct and immediate good effected before our eye 3. We should like to see tried the collecting of a household or property tax with the whole people hostile. We do not hesitate to say that the collector sent from Wellington would be pitched into the sea, and that there would not be a sub-collector whose life would be worth a week's purchase if he endeavoured to enforce such a tax. Leb-neither the Custom's revenue nor direct taxation bear the burthens of Government extravagance, but let the liability for railways, rest as originally placed on the public lands.. So Auckland will say, and we believe will be prepared to back its words by actions. This swallowing up of the capitation money whether legal or illegal, is only as a drop to the ocean. It is satisfactory, however, to know that the General Government can take nothing more till it comes to directly tax our homes and our properties, and then