Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1254, 21 February 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1872.

These is something most astonishing in thp pool complacency with which our morning contemporary casts his eyes around him in search of some eligible means p$ adding to, the taxation of the Colony. Jt is tajbgen for granted that new ta^aU WP& b.£ imposed upon us, and this not in older to meefc possible Contingencies, s.u.ch as tlse of the •waste land funds am| traffic returns of the railways to reach estimated amounts, to meet <4 the deficit in the ordinary expenditure, which has been accumulating at the r*te of per annum for some live years past." No possibility pi any other course an the part of t]\e Government js admitted or evpn binted at: is assumed that new taxation tp \aeeif ordinary expenditure must come, anil \>hs t\\e only question to be cqnsiderecl fe-Wtftt tax is best for the purpose \ We ftVfi ftitoS e * np V- unable to grant the premises, by qui* contemporary. We cannot admit that new taxation is necessary; snd we should foil \n our duty did we not point put the proper alternative.. It l*a,s becpine necessary tp the prosperity qf Colony #]a,t \hs yearly accumulation P,f excess. iq \h§ pydinary expenditure of the Government over revenue should cease, and} tlja.t expenditure be confined witlun, the pf t!l e m eans. of the Colony. It is true that ye<iv after year (he Gqhas adppted the contrary rule, ais endeavored to meet extra; extravagance Ivy actional a,n,d we may be. told th,at it will s$U pursue \he saiae course. If encouragement b,e given ;t to c|q anci mew of ra,is.ir\g yevenne be pointed out doubtless, such y\\\ be the case j but Jt is by no Qipans

necessary that it should be so, and if the press does its, duty, and calls public attention to the existing danger* vhe Colon.y may be roused jn time to such expression of its &s shall force the Government to choose the policy of retrenchment and economy instead oj; *nsd: additional taxation. ft would be. somewhat amusing, hut for the magnitude of the interesta in,YoJved ? to note the ear,e exhibited to, disguise the. weight of taxation un,clej: which we suffer, and with which we are threatened. TJ}<e fresh tax n«.ist not be characterised by " con,spicuousness," because that would " damage the reputation of the colony as a field for settlement," and " repel the infl,ux of capital." It is nothing- to. the. colonists, that they suffer under the burden, and it is quite a, coujpe of con/luct to disguise the actual political and social State of the colony from, foreign capitalists, and intending emigrants, so, that only we may induce their inflow, even, though it be only to open they; eyes afterwards to. the truth. "We think it will be admitted that the course pursued, by. the Qpvernment during, the past five years, of allowing, the expenditure to exceed the re venue, ni ust come to an end shortly from the sheer inability of the colpny t.o endure the taxation imposed upon it. Additional taxation, for any such, purpose as ordinary expenditure should be firnijy resisted, and. the alternative of retrenchment rigidly insisted on, especially as it must he plain to all that the- claims of the public creditor are looming in. the future, an/l that the tax on incomes ai:d property, which are kept in terrorem. as p, staftd-by by the Govei nmen t, will fail of necessity to meet the additional claim and : maintain the costly system at present pursued.

Several English authors, including Mr Carlyle, Mr Disraeli, Mr Tom Taylor, and the Duke of Argyll, are sending to Chicago copies of works, to replace in so far as they can the los» sustained bv the burning of the ]ihraxy. Her Majesty has forwarded of what are known as "the <3 u^n s Books," and has added to the personal interest of the gift br inserting her autograph in the volumes. It is said that chignons, plaits, and curls can be, and have been, made of spun glass, which, for cleanliness and other re**Hw> are preferable to human hai*> goats' hair, or jute, the 'materials oliat have hitherto been used for that purpose. Sixty wealthy young ladies, who took a, prominent part in the ceremonial incident to the triumphal entry of the German Army into Berlin, adopted as their attire that of Margaret, in Kaulbach's sketch of her first meeting with Faust. Two plaits of their own hair hanging down the back were indispensable. They pledged mutually and to the municipal authorities on no account to wear false hair. This was an attempt definitively to get rid of the chignon, for they resolved—the one encouraging the other— after once having risked it, to keep to plaits. Discretion is the better part of valor. 3Tom and Arthur have been rude to iheii mamma. Mamma has complained to papa, who is heai d coming up stairs. Arthur —"I say, Tom, here comes pa; 1 shall pretend to be asleep." Tom—l sha'n't; I shall get up and put something on."—Judy. Why is a choleric man like a handsaw I—Because1 —Because directly he gets hot he loses his temper. A Connecticut paper tells this story of a new boy in the Sunday school : The precocious youth was asked who made the beautiful hills about them and remarked he did not know, as his parents only moved into the town the <lay before.