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The Wairarapa Daily MONDAY, MAY 11, 1891.

To draw blood from the big runholder is the policy of the Ministry. For this the lonely rabbiter on tbe remote hill side is longing, for this the sundowner yearns, and for this the demo, of the city cries aloud. What such men demand the Government must concede, and so there is an ingenious sclienje put forth to break up the property tax department, to organise a progressive land tax department, and to impose an income tax. Everything and everybody is to be turned upside down in order to draw a little more money from the pockets of the Shepherd Kings. The first idea that chis programme suggests the extent of the changes contemplated to bring about so small a result. If the party wants to bleed certain people, and is strong enough to wield the lancet, why does it not effect its purpose by some simple and direct stroke? The: thing might be done more expeditiously and effectively by a tax on wool or by an increase of succession duties, or by a dozen expedients which would not involve the breaking up of old departments and the consumption of new ones. We presume the reason why suph a cumbrous roundabout and expensive process is employed is that the Ministry want to disband tbe officers of 1 the old department and to enlist their friends m the new ones. The nev proposals are distinctly mischievous, because nothing is better calculated to keep men of means from coming to this colony than a progressive land tax. No doubt men without means will come readily euough, but we fancy there are almost enough of the latter already in the colony. Again, can anything be more demoralising to a community like this than an ! income tax ? It is impossible for the ] State to prove what a man's income - amounts to, and it has virtually to : trust to the return he gives of it himself. A man who is not over particular will, as a matter of course, 1 cheat the State in noting his return, ! and liis neighbour who may be fairly holiest will be strongly tempted tc the following suit. He will say, " why should I pay more income tax than the man next door, who has as large an income as I have '?" Only the scrupulously honest men will give an accurate return and we venture to predict that they will be found to represent a minority in the community. We do not believe that half the people in the Colony know what their incomes amount to. Take a man with two or thi-ee hundred acres of land j who supports a large family on it and who in the course of a, year does not perhaps handle a liundred pounds. To get at the real income of such a man it would be necessary to value the sheep he kills 'or his own table, the milk, eggs and >utter he consumer: in his own amily, and the fencing b/3 pnia up on lis property. The main objection,| lowever, which we eeg in an income ax is the strong inducement offered or men to make false returns, ?n nducement which must exercise a emoralising effect ou tbe community.

Messrs. Lowes and lorns add to their sale for May 20th 7, good weaners and 50 lambs.

The Taratahi-Oarterton dairy factory is now in full swing, the company paying 2id per gallon for milk. An elderly lady, with one daughter, wishes a situation as housekeeper to a widower or bachelors. The death is announced of Sir John Robertson, the well known politician of New South Wales.

The amalgamation of the two Christchurch papers, the Times and the Press, is mooted, the proprietory of the former having cliatged. The Ballance Ministry is compared by a "Wellington paper to a cackling old hen ! Alas for the degradation of fowls! A reward is offered for the recovery of two greyhound dogs lost from Te Rangitumau. A Brisbane paper says there are over thirty daily newspapers inNew Zealand, all of which, excepting nine, are in a chronic state of liquidation. We have received the April number of Typo, which is as usual replete with information of interest to the trade.

Mr. Eenall's favorite "water" spaniel, in a private manifesto to the Burgesses, declares " I have not in any way identified myself with any party or 'clique."

Steps are being taken in the direction of forming a Literary Club in Wellington. The sun was obscured by clouds yesterday, andtbe transit of Mercury was therefore not visible from Masterton.

A lady calling herself Madame Cora, who professes to foretell futurity, was committed for trial at the Central Police Court, Sydney, recently, for obtaining money under false pretences. Mr. Corrie Johnston, oyangelist, deliyered addresses in the Theatre Koyal yesterday afternoon and evening to large and attentive audiences.

One 'of the prominent Australian agitators is said to receive £1,300 a year for his services to the labour movement.

At Napier last week the Rev. J, F.Tones warmly attacked the gambling habits ot the people, and intimated his intention to do his best to stop gambling in hotels, Sunday trading, and keeping open hotels after hours. He hoped to have the co-operatijn of other ministers, if not, he would enter on tho crusade single handed.

Sara Bernhardt will open her Australian season about the end of this month, at the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne, where she proposes to play four weeks. Then she goes to Adelaide for one week, and to Sydney for three. She brings an entire company of French artists with her. The Pahiatua School Committee met on Thursday last. Present:— Messrs. Vile (Chairman), Black, Dawson, Naylor and G. Moore, The head master reported the number of children on ttie roll for the month to be 185, the average attendance 144, and the highest attendance 173. It was resolved, that tho Board be written to, informing them that it is utterly impossible for the Committee to supply school requisites out of capitation grant, and requesting them to provide the money in the future. It was decided to enforce the compulsory clauses of the Act. Ca; Nation for March (£6) was received. Mr. Black was appointed visiting member for the month-

The execution of the Hindoo hawker, Fatta Cliand, for the murder of his fellow countryman, Ju?goo Mull, at Healesville in December last, took place on Monday in the Melbourne Gaol. When brought on to the scaffold, erected just outside the cell door, the governor, Colonel Bull, suggested that the con~ demned man should once more be asked if he hid anything to say, whereupon he replied iu sobbing tones "I am not the murderer of the man. 1 didn't kill him. I didn't kill Juggoo Mull." The Rev. John Gregson, Congregational minister, of Cauliield, who could speak some Hindoo language, had also been with the prisoner in his cell, tut could not extract any confession from him. A drop of 7ft was allowed, and death seemed to have been instantaneous.

A strange occurreuco is reported from W'arragul (Victoria). Last Sunday a young girl named Uehir was going along ihe railway from Warragul to Drouin, rt'hen she was stopped by a etrange looking man, who domanded to know her business and where she was going. He subsequently caught hold of her and endeavored to throw her down, but the girl fought pluckily, and made free use of .the sunshade she was carrying, the handle of which she broke in Btriking her assailant. She ultimately managed to get out of his grasp and ran away. She was, however, pursued by the man, who again molested her, and threatened to kill her with a knife he brandished before her. Another scuffle followed, and she again got free and made. another bolt. The man gave chase, but fortunately for the girl he appears to have become frightened, and cleared into tlie busy.

Some titne ago an advertisement appeared in the Melbourne papers from Mr Cul'iner, solicitor, of Chancery Lane, tiondon, inquiring for the address or whereabouts' of Henry Mottlee, as the sum of f.17,000 was awaiting payment to him by the Court of Chancery, The man advertised tor is, it seems, a bottle gatherer, of Ballarat, and became aware of his good luck in a somewhat singular manner. Mottlee sent one of his children to a shop to purchase a tallow candle. The gandle, oif being purchased, was wrapped fip in a pieoe of 'the Ayv, which contained the " missing friends " advertisements, and on the girl taking the candle home Mottlee picked up the wrapper after it had been thrown on the floor, and commenced to read it. To his surprise he found that he had come into a fortune of £17,000. The bottle gatherer, it appears, was aware that his relatives in bygone times had money in Chancery, and that originally it came from one Hawkins, who died in 1791, exactly 100 years ago. The advertisement tfie fact, aud a missing link in a certain chain of evidence haying been supplied, the £17,000 gofis to Mottlee as the next of" kin. The lucky man, who hap been a resident of the colony for 17 years, has to apply personally in London for the money before the 30th August next.

Despite bad times Mr R Herrmann, of the "Cuba street Photographic Galleiy, opposite To Aro Rouse, "Wellington, seems to be doing $ thriving business, and no small number of those who yisit him to have their likenesses taken are country residents. Mr Hermann is admitted to be a capable artist with special knowledge of photographic chemistry, and both i.i operating and in re-touching ho has produced some excellent work, it is to this that he owes his liberal patronage, and also to the obdurate prices he charges when the excellent quality of his productions is taken into account. —Extract. I

! I/Adies in the country desirous oi knowing the bfistjjlac.e to purchase underclothing and baby linen should at cnce communicate their wants to Te Aro House, Wellington. We have an unrivalled stocn of ladies' underlinen in nightdresses, chemises drawers, combinations, aud all our garments are guaranteed to be extra lock stitched or liana sewn, and include such popular makes ae " Ilirbernia" and "Stirling" at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our assortment of ladies' corsets is unparelled in the province. We keep only tne best and most approved makes. To select from we have a stock of nearly 2000 (two thousand) pairs, and these range from the very smallest to the very largest out-size at Te Aro House, Wellington, Wk have received from the best Home manufacturers a large supply of excellent babylinen, and arc prepared to forward on application to any address (carriage paid) eight (8) articles of thoroughly good material and work for One Guinea. This should be a very convenient method—one of each garment as pattern. All our babylinen and underclothing is personally ! selected by an experienced lady assistant at Te Arp House, Wellington. We Have also a# excellent assortment of ladies' undervests in Merino, Woei, Natural Wool, and Sjik, All orders will be promptly executed, and when cash is seat with' the orders, will bo sent carriage paid to any addresc from Te Aro House, Wellington,

_ The next English and European mail via Rio closes at the Masterton Post Office on Friday next. Professor FausL (Lite lessee of the Masterton Theatre) is now exhibiting a palace of mystery and Edison's phonographic doll in Pahiatua. It is stated in the annual report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society that the assurances in New Zealand amount to nearly five millions.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3807, 11 May 1891, Page 2

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The Wairarapa Daily MONDAY, MAY 11, 1891. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3807, 11 May 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily MONDAY, MAY 11, 1891. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3807, 11 May 1891, Page 2

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