PROM CORRESPONDENTS.
WELLINGTON.
This day. The New Zealand Times this morning gives the following as the Opposition programme to be disclosed by Sir George Grey to-night:—l. To object to the first item of expenditure in all the Government Departments. That ni?ans obstruction pure and simple and indicates a projected evil which will work its own cure. 2. To propose a change in the incidence of taxation of such a character as that properties, and especially the property of absentees "who do not otherwise contribute to the revenue of the Colony, shall bear a just share of taxation. To this no objection can be offered, but it is a course which, can only be successfully followed when the irritating difficulties which the abolition question presents shall have been swept away. 3. To effect a change in the constitution of the Upper House and Central Government and legislature before the present representative institutions are surrendered. 4. If Centralism is to take the place of Provincialism, that greater powers should be given to centres of population so that like great free cities • they may impose, collect, and disburse their own taxation independent of the Government.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2059, 10 August 1875, Page 2
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192PROM CORRESPONDENTS. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2059, 10 August 1875, Page 2
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