PARLIAMENTARY.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 20932, 25 May 1887, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

. From Our SpcoiaFdtoporler. . -v’W’EU.iNOxo.m Muy 23. The Evening Post considers that Major Atkinson and the members of the Opposition must be lather hard put when they have to .askpVlr Ormond to lead them in •lisfianltWn'tJnd Ministerial position, Who is no friend itf ifhdirs,/ha\ r ing been instrumental in getting the continuous ministry ejected from office. "The Post goes on to say, “The situation is a curious one. Major Atkipsop, the author and constant advocate of the Property Tax, will be called on to doclnro his want of confidence in the finance of a ministry which have his own pet tax for their sheet anchor, and to follow into the lobby a rival politician whose main object is to abolish that tax and to substitute wl int lie has al ways most strongly condemned and opposed, an income and land tax: Tho Treasurer, on the other hand, will have to risk his position in deforce of a tax which he has admitted he would, if starting alreslf pgain, doom iess desirable than the very taxes on income and land, which his assailant recommends to the country. Sir Geo. Grey, the consistent advocate of a land tax, will have to follow into the lobby, tho members whom of all others lie most dislikes in the House, pud iqosj, of the smaller fry will be entirely at a loss how to reconcile tlie conflicting claims to their votes. A Ball will be given at Government House to-morrow in honor oj tlie Queen’s Birthday. Twelve hundred invitations have been issued.