(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3611, 23 July 1880, Page 3

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—The (tencral Government hare issued their Property Tax Assessment inquisitorial papers, calling on all citizens of both Islands to pay up interest on loans, and also to pay for a lot of drones they call cml servants of the colony. Orer 100,000 of these creatures have to be fed, housed, and champaigned by the industrious settlers of the colony. The monstrous law inaugurated in 1870 has been theT'true cause of the, present consecutive Government in power. The policy of 1870 was according to our false prophets to have brought prosperity to the islands of New Zealand, instead of which the country has been brought to the verge of bankruptcy; by a law breaking mismanaging Government of this fine colony, and out of the £26,000,000 of debt the said Government have robbed the Thames public of their lands, and acquired them for themselves and friends. They have also robbed us now of our constitutional rights, given to us by the Grey Government, and then they will neither give us a railroad or macademized, or spend any money whatever on the Thames County district, and I think that every settler here should resist the paying of a tax to keep sich men in power ajiy longer.—l am, &c, ■■■ ■"''■ •'" '■'■■ '' . . '.'' A» Old Settim./ Hikutaia, July 21st, 188*3.