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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1523, 4 January 1879, Page 2

In the course of a few days the land owners of Christchurch will receive a communication from the officer duly appointed to make arrangements for the collection of the New Land Tax, asking the said land owners to furnish the value of their land for taxing purposes. If the estimate as furnished is considered fair and reasonable it will bo accepted, if otherwise, an appeal to arbitration or the Resident Magistrate will result, and thus the citizens of this good city will have the first fruits of the economical administration of the friends of the people brought lo their doors. When this first imposition is followed by a property and income tax, the sufferers may be inclined to think that they are buying the joys of good Government *' owro dear,” and the pale halo that at present surrounds the Premier on his well played character of the friend and general benefactor of the human race will grow fainter by degrees and beautifully less, until it vanishes entirely, and leaves the man depicted in his true colours Meanwhile “ pay and look pleasant” it the motto, and landowners handing over the cheques can he consoled with the idea that the money will not bo wasted, insomuch that it will bo devoted to subsidising Government newspapers, making political railways, and paying the homo expenses of friends of the Ministry, and how else could it bo better employed ? “ We pause for a reply.”