AUCKLAND.
The New Zcalander of tho 23d ult., observing on the 74th clause of the New Act for New Zealand, says :—
" It is so far satisfactory to find that the evil is much less in its present form thnu we had renson to fear it would lime piovcd from the powerful influence of the Company, and from the rapidity with which the bill must have been carried through its various stages. If, however, the tax instead of being a tenth, had been reduced to a hundredth part of the proceeds of our land sales, it would no lees become our duty to resist, by every constitutional means, its imposition upon this province There is no principle of reason or equity upon which we can be called upon for such a tax, whatever may be said of the Company's claim upon those portions of the islands which have been the fields of its colonizing operations s when further and more complete information shall have been before the public, we feel certain that our fellow colonists will not be found wanting inspirit and determination to resist an iajustice so flagrant."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 15, 10 November 1852, Page 3
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188AUCKLAND. Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 15, 10 November 1852, Page 3
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