PARLIAMENTARY.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 94, 4 September 1878, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

HOUSE O^BipSES^NTIiIVES. 4 :; V ; V^EI^J^rOX, Tuesday. Before taking the ;;busine.S!i jjgi^tlift paper last eyciung, Mr Shbb«4l( ft»-» s nbunced that liie> vi-ould not niakS tUyeNative State oiwut jtliafc night ; no"r?iK»til auchtiiae debAte upou th» Jttfuid

TaXißill had concluded would the GoTeroai^nt take any other business. In reply to Mr Murray, Mb. Macaksbbw said the reason that Newcastle' coaV was used on the Otago Bail ways m preference^ Kaitangata, was because the latter caused clinkers, and wise nad been found unsuitable for railway purposes., . The 'adjourned debate on the Land Tax_was resuiried by' Mr Gisbobne, who severely criticised .several of the proposals, especially the Beer and Joint Stock Companies' Taxes, He heartily agreed with "the -principle of the Land Tat, .though he by no means agreed with the way m which it was put m practice.^ If the. Government insisted upon carrying Wt their proposals a£ a whole, he would be compelled to support it, m orderto preserve the Land Tar Reserve; he regretted having to Mr Kellt criticised ill the proposals m detail and. at considerable length. The Land Tax he considered so pbjectionable that he must oppose it, and' wotlldhave" to consider what coursehie would adopt, ii .11 „£ \h -&•"s,'. Mr Thompson confined his remark^! mainly to th» Land Tax;; to which He objected on several grounds.