WELLINGTON.
Foresaadowings of an Income! -I XI 0 ;-T Ta&l TOPi U I \
TheNeirZealander gays/a dejtermined attempt will be made by Government next session to impoie an income tax in the shape of similar proposals made in •'Yj.ej<j>riji by the McCullough all deriving incomes under £500 are nojt included. <The: collection would, not inj•volve the costly machinery necessitated in carrying out the Land Tax. ! f\ The cross actions for Violent afiauit, in which Anderson of the Qhronicie and Easby/ blindmaker, are tyhV principals, occupied the Court all the morning, and, as the evidence for Easby' is n^t' quite all taken, the case may not be finished today. ,- v v, ;: 'o-i-ji' .o •. .ii l
James Martin, -birnian at the P.O. Hotel,, pleaded gui]ty tp stealing fprUin \ small sums of money.f^pm r ihs^tjill. |Hfe, was remanded in consequence of there being other charges. - sinf-i strroa-'tcr? >.;-.il x '
•■-;:■> - '):■ j<>■■■■■ ;! ':.-■ --:'', jue^idayi' ;'' Mrs iCaroline Phillips, whbi had been residing in the w house; burnt rit'iKaiwarr|i on Sunday last, has been arrested charged' mthi setting it on fire. "She^watf brought < up !fbjia^ afteirndpn' ':md''[j^mia6fii r ip^.' a; weeti • Bailwwars r allowed^"in two' siiretieb; of £100 each.. *c,,~ O y,< ? W v^ "'" "" I ' trate'i Court..lately, y, , );!r , -j 0 f -ioli^a;m j The secpndwife. orCpurwyithe bigamist,'. ohftf left for Adelaide^ >;=,;) «j hnmH o4 oH ■ idjEvttyv'captain who»hiß««m*ed ihwh, during ,'iHeilast feMrySakj/ZO reports atremendous sea running alorig the -East Coast. - f ■■ sqit&l i A fire took* place' at Castle Point'; 6 'Manlsusbn^HoterwM insurancSe^4s v st^i^pfee^ ' South BrMshV £100 Jin 1 sMle* l £3q,0 ik Uniori^on- stock 'arid furniture.' 1 Th re jckuse )s unlniiwn, f) ' •»'•■•={1;!, 'f 1 l'-'!ll i¥ n\h \ ' ','!■ Ebberts 1 and' 'Re^oldi' :^ T^pejknce! 'Hotel, at Featherstone, has been ■destrpyed. by fire. r .lnsured .in, ,the r , Yictona Gb'mpany'BiOffife'fffo^ £400;' 't^fu erni turfe in the Colonial fpr;:£2oo, .. , v r . \ ' •■ l The ■ follipwing Ijof brediiprs
if ere held today :—J. Back, tobacconist, < Manners .street; '■:, Henry REyana, hotel- • ke*per;;Carterton v. Janies fMortoriiDWe^- } lington, grocer ; Thos. Morgan, Welling- ■ ten, dining;room proprietor • Eddie and Jack were merchants. The estate was . t show i Q 7 to ! i>e ; perfectly f. solvent; and that) the debtors were doing business to-the i extentof £27,000 a year. ; The (jreditdrls, resolved rto ioarry them; on under iMe supervision of Messrs 1 Nathan and Gap-, peri. {E. }MI. Taylor, 'stbreke&pef;> Kaiwarra ; Bobt. John Goudel, Glerk," Wellington:^ In* the< case of : Black, his liabilities were'set! down'at '£985? and assets £589; • During the :meeting::oniß'i gentleman said, "So in 15 months you accumulated debts to the, tune of £900,' I and then gave accommodation bills. It is monstrous gambling in this way. I think the proceedings are very dishonest.''; The Chairman : ''The statement appears to be a very bad one ; the liabilities arp £1000, and the assets are only nominally £300—What laves you done witli <ybu;r stbck;?-'' ■■ rMr Back :"I have only £80 wprth;''^: Nathan: "On the faci o^ it. this is a rank swindle. ' I-'n*Ver ( s"a,w'," sittch k'rank 1 robbery in all my life;" Later op. in the proceedings the bankrupt declined* to .say .what he bad done with a diamond locket he had purchased/but. the 'chairman insisting, he said he Md,_ given $*tjt> a lady whose name he declined to stlte. | On being threatened with imprisonment iv an; hour if he did not tell, the bankrupt; rpromised ;ro, tell the trustee after the. meeting was over, and this course was agreed to. ' ' ' ' ' " ; ' ' 'A desire is being expressed that thje Queen's birthday should be celebrated on i Monday./ >i< .■•'• :.:>'-<' ■.■■::"■-. v, '.imaJ j] ■■
TKe7Reform Football Club are arranging to play' a match by 'electric light, Proudfoot, of Dunedin, baring consented to lerid'twb of Tiis lights ifdr the pcbii^pn) h ■'A phonograph, the only inistrumotitdf the kind in the colony, is to be exhibited at the Atheneeum shortly.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3193, 14 May 1879, Page 2
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627WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3193, 14 May 1879, Page 2
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