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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1051, 8 December 1871, Page 3

A correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, writing on the 15th instant, on " Oppressive Taxation," thus speaks of Mr Vogel's policy . — " Those who understood his wild and bewildering 'policy,' foresaw its fearful and fatal final results, and opposed it persistently from the beginning j '■ those who pnew not whither he would lead theni were determined to follow — m •/ thoes who could not find his meaning hoped he meant pro* fusipn put \t behoves, the owners of properly to paus e a ljttle, and seriously consider we danger of the situation. Oppressive taxation is already beginning to scare commerce off the face of our waters, while the enormous weight of the customs duties and the consequent irresistible temptation to smuggling are corrupting the morals of the people, who freely absolve their own conduct herein, by the same questionable casuistry under sanction of which the Colonial Treasurer lately squandered near L4OOO of the public funds in an. ostentatious trip to England, to perform a financial scheme which ought to have been left to the Agent-General. The bread on which we principally live, and without which we cannot work to procure the wherewithal to pay taxes, is itself taxed. The Ministry, in their ludicrous Cyclopean gropiipgs fpr something out of which to extort money to mitigate their palpable embarrassment; have imposed a tax which is, luckily, self -def eatable. Their troubles have begun already ; but theie would be but little sym« pathy felt for them if they would be the only sufferers in the' evil times which their insane policy, if allowed full scope apcordtog to its present tendency, will inevitably inflict upon fhis country. 11