THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1675, 31 March 1883, Page 2

THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

DUNbPIH, Last Night. Mb M. \Y. Grkjss, M.H.R., has addressed a long letter to the Colonial Tieasurer, pointing out the impracticability of liia national insurance scheme, also shadowing toith one of his own, and asking the Tieasurer to lay his aside, and assist m getting a law passed, giving force to the other. Mr Gicen lays hia scheme before a public meeting on Thursday. The following is the main clause of Mr W, Green's letter to Major Atkinson : — "I am now prepared to submit a plan to the public which is both simple, practicable, and immediately effective, whereby poveity, crime, disease, and Government expenditure may bo reduced, increased work provided with a tendency to iucrease the wages, or at least to harden them, and permanent settlement of the land, agriculture be increased, and thereby increase the re venue)6f the colony, thus giving such an impetus to the general pios'perity of the colony and providing such a sufficiency of work as would attract immigrants, and would justify Government in giving increased facilities for their introduction, and by this means the revenue would be greatly impioved and the rate per head of taxation would be lowered instead of its being needful, as in your plan, to take the land revenue for the relief of poverty. Under mine it would not be required for it ; while poverty would not be entirely annihilated, it would be so greatly reduced and the general prosperity be so greatly increased that no difficulty would be found in making provision for it, and the land revenue, 1 would suggest, should be appropriated to the extension of other public works, instead of continuing to borrow on the English market, and , thus bring up our assets in railways, telegraphs, etc., to the amount of our whole public debt. I am almost sanguine enough to hope that the practicability and immediate efficiency of my plan may load you to lay yours aside for the present, add lend your' gteat energies to immediately bring it into operation."

'Mr .tames Rtinciman 1 invites tenders lor draining. ' - Special attention is directed to Messrs 'Lewis and Simpson's now advertisement. Mr D. Richardson, Cambridge, advertises, over the leader, a house for sale. Orders for the Orakau Saw Mills may be left with Mr Walton, Te Awamutu. Mr G. Wilkinson, Te Awamutu, invites tenders for building an hotel of 21 rooms'at Kihikihi. All debts due the estate of the late "W. H. Bailey, 1 Whatawhata, must be paid before the 15th. to sare litigation. Objectors to the Property Assessment in Alexandra East and lianffiriri, may, if they choose, attend at Hamilton on the sth, instead of Cambridge on, the 4th. { Mr Whytock will preach at the Oddfellows' Hall, Cambridge, to-morrow morning andevening. A meeting of the trustees and members of the Hamilton Band is convened for Monday npxjt jn the Public Hall, to discuss matters 'of importance. ' ; Messrs Clar,k, and ,Gane will sell by, auction on Wednesday next, at Clements' Pa-k. l near Cambridge, farm stock, live and dead, by order of the shcrrif s bailifl. No reserve. ■ Buy the best sewing-machines, .packed in boxes', carriage paid.. Home Sehuttlei £$',< J Vhite,^3iO-! ! i r Wprth'eim,^4«los;. FristeV and Rossman's, £4 lQs ; ,in walnut, cover. ,£5. Kmt-ning'-machi'ries,' '£7 ; Singer's.' HoiWs, Davis, ) Tones', i Standard; and all , the better, clqss ot i machines ?m stock. Cash, or deferred. D. §. Chambers' Wholesale and Retail Depot, fO, 1 ' Queen-street opposite the Bank of •Now' Zealand. ■ ! ' <",,•', . . i /. , > . 11 'T^o i lJrbthera named Eib'olde,- one ot 'whom lives at'Farnworth.i'nearj Bolton, and the other at Bury, both of them fac-' tory operatives,- have just come into, a fortune of £80,000. Their, father, aeryed in the' Gri mean 1 Wat* and after his dcatK the mother, desftrfced her children, thrSe sons' '.'.and 'a ' i dau?li'ter. IVTh'e 1 VTh'e 1 ;' latter was Vdppted by" ra,r ' a, 'French I getftlem&h, and upon his- decease - she", » entered, a con-, verifc, ' sThp iQrtun.e left.by the sistfer for