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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 456, 22 March 1890, Page 8

Tile Wellington Tost says : "Ur H. P.owe, a well-known Australian contractor and w ho was also well known in this colony some years ago, has • ju~t completed the purchase, through Mr J. Saunders, J.P., of a block of 22,000 acres of the Oroua Downs estate, in the Manawalu district. The price is £l2 per acre.” The Knngitikei Advocate has tho following. “A iSonth'and settler paid all that was demanded of him by the Property Tax Department, and pointed out by letter that it had failed to charge him upon 100 acres of land he had duly returned among his landed and other property. His confiding honesty was rewarded, not with thanks—the official mind is like unto that of the Maori, and has no “ tha..k you ” in it—but a demand for the tax and 10 per cent fine, for not having paid it within the legal time. Now the honest man is protesting, and says that, “ The Property Tax Department is without soul.” Ten per cent fines bring home great truths like that to one quicker than preaching.” MOTTO FOR A MERCHANT-' Honour ard fame from no condition rise, Lay in a stock of goods and advertise, And iu the business lottery take the prize.