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Mr Andrews, M.H. 8., on "Seediness." — The second member for Christchurch,' says the Ashburton Mail, has shown' < himself very innocent indeed and very particular in the matter of the property tax assessment. He had . been waited ■Upon; he said in his speech the other day, by a seedy individual who was an assessor, and* who, he Would call "a. half- pint man," and tbftt individual questioned him as to the value of his property arid itr burdens, and ' carofully noted^ddwn his answers. " He' had no | hesitation in spying that for:a teU shiU . lings he could have got out of this individual whatever information he might require." As to Mr Andrews' confessions of property to th-e.. seedy: party, it is only to be said that tho honorable member showed himself ignorant of the provisions of the law against which he was declaiming. On real property he might be questioned, but on that, as Major Atkinson pointed out, anyone could obtain the same information by examining the register. j As to any other property, Mr Andrews . was a goose if he made any statement to his inquiring friend. But it is on < the question of Beediness- that the j honorable member should be . more seriously taken to task. Here is a < 1 people's man, a person whose soul is .'. j superior to clothes, who is sent to Par- • liament in a great measure on the . | seedy ticket, so to speak, standing ] I up and expressing abhorrence of a seedy I man, solely on account of his seediness,

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