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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2479, 31 May 1888, Page 2

We take the following extract from an article in the Wellington Evening Press, with the opinion expressed therein we, and we think the public generally, perfectly agree:—"Again, the mercantile community are thrown int» confusion by thp lineal, of a tariff-tinkering policy of taxation. Again merchants and dealers are paying large sums, which it is most inconvenient for them to pay, in anticipation of an increase of duty being imposed on this, that, or the other article Again trade is all at sixes and sevens, orders are suspended and payments are witheld, because nobody knows what any particular class fit goods may be worth, or how far consumption may bo checked uoxt week or next month. In short, we are back in the same miserable position that we were in this time last year, and in ISBS, when Sir Julius Vogel inflicted such heavy losses on the.mercantile community and the people generally by his wretched attempts at Tariff-tinkering. So long as this snrt of thing goes on, the meeting of Parliament is a positive scourge to the country, a subject of dread and anxiety, causing mischief out of all proportion to any good that i 3 likely to nrise from it. We cannot believe that if the present Ministry, who are not mere reckless filibusters, had any idea of the injury they are inflicting on trade bv their ill-advised taxation policy, they would persist in forcing it on a distressed and exaspoiated people."

A Uuoharkst telesrram states that several Mayors and village Popes have been killed by rintor.-i, who liavo cut the telegraph wires and destroyed farm buildings and houses. The chief clerk of the Treasury at Athens has been arrested charged with having drawn from tho premier 5,000,000 francs which were not accounted for,