GOLDFIELDS REVENUE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 372, 21 April 1876, Page 3

GOLDFIELDS REVENUE.

T9 LOCA.LiaA.TION iVIaWISTDBE ? The goldminers of Otago are deceived/ Th r e Abolition Billhaa feeoii - held .out to thein by <tke ' Tuapeka limes,' the 'Dunstan Times,' the ' Wakatip WPAil;*4ffiAW^S6u«h«*tf 4 cury,kiß absolutely localising the Goldfields revenue in the district in which it is collected. Although it is very daring thtf'dtct'uiri of such an the conclusion. A strict account, gays the Abolition "Bill, shall be kopt of revenues collected in da'ch Provincial j\ Qofie, .charges, - and x ex± penses, incident'to' the and admtnistratiou of "the G-oldfields within, sujch shall bo a first -phttrgo against the amoTint, The balance shall, together With any proportionate,,endowments which may accrue from tho land fund and, from the consolidated revenue, b© paid over to tho''governing body or 1 bodies 'of such 'jDlsti'wt. ',.' Such revenues 'shall also bft4ia.vg.od. with the payment of all rents or other sums of money payable, ortwLich may bo payable; to Na-, tive owners of laud"occapiod for-mih; ing purposes as compensation. It is. not dif)i.Ciulfc, to soe' that, provided 'theProvincial district definition was kept up, onr contemporaries were in a m'Oasure right; and no doubt,theywilltiirn round way,'. tho Bill, is. and tho Bill defines such districts.. ', !,',' Wo admit that'the provisions of the A bolitioh/of Provinces Bill .are,s.o.binding upon Sir Julius Vogel, that he was obliged','so say lus admirers,\tq cpmmit a breach of the law, and ap point an illegal «and unauthorised Commission. We admit that this immutable. Bill stated:—" Tho portion of the Colony', included within any Province abolished hereunder shall, on and after the date of the abolition, be called a'Provincial District, and bear the sairie. name, 'as tho abolished Provinco which it comprised,'' The whole > Act; indeed,' hinges upon this attempt to keep faith with the wealthier Provinces. Stripped of this'proviso, the clauses localising Gold-fields revenue, so consoling to our GoldfielUs-■ contemporaries,' are .'-. mere waste,paper. Stripped.of it,' the railway revenues and liabilities of, the various Provinces are equalised, entirely upsotting .the law of district responsibility, under which the political railways of the North' Were constructed! Wo need not add that similarly tho territorial revenue is public > property, divisable among all Koad Boards in the Colony -alike. ';■■ • Sir Julius Vogel, at Wanganui ' hoping to gain adherents in ,thb North —utterly, repudiated, any such attempt at public honesty between the Provinces ashia less advanced up itt the' Abolition Bill. He plainly told tho Colony there could be no debts by a "defunct Province, neither could there be in any case any deficiencies of revonup.: Yot the newspaper expo-, nentsof Contralismin Otago willnot.see' this; • and 'still write of a solemn ■ com- > pact, and of the localisation of territorial revenue. Let us illustrate what wo mean'by'parallel quotations frdm' the ■ Q-ayerijment organs :, BLIND IiRKOR. ■-.:.;'* AlliED 'IBU^U.i.

■ Werth Otago Ti-mcA. • ■ M«w Zealand Tlnitss.' >,; Tha.cctaplainfcofhis Afteraconsideratioir Honor that Tara'naki,. of -Sir Julius Voxel's with a population pf ; speech,, 6000,'will-.,.have an v /can., hayo. ,110 doubt equal voiuo iu Parlia,-,, of .the poliment in the disposal.., ,cy and intentions qf of re- thcCjovernniont. \Vp venues of Ot';;go is Were not for a m,c)--Bimply unfounded— ment in doubt as, to for, as Mr. Macan- the form .the.legishv knows, the. tion of ...the, coming tenyforjal ypvenutm,; session, 'would. take,' or, ttn we vxaalb/ write and were a little and it-peak, t/ie, lqud v , au^iis.edla'st.iie^slpiiat, revqiiiWf'isJtpwtutelft _ the. o^are' which' oycj'n . sevufefyjqJ./w jpr oiuV.,, pronouricod abolitionciaLpjstpictp' hylke] % istatpcih;,oJt ,tho;,uhaAct, .■.and', [dowy [substitute' for their;j3,noTi theslight- ..'the.Provinces, ''Pro-, est fear, off, .'vine id£] plsi/'ihls.'' ■ Bion ; {igair^jtt^ew.ish-,>' These \m[L''disapp'ear,; es, and consequently voifs' ai '■ fo^'. the'•same Reason; the members' |p£ the . that the " Provinces' \_" t '!'"'hay^bee^abblashe'i' SIR OttACLE lIIMSELJf. . ', ;.,.-■ M-i It must-bo renaeutbered,, withjro-.i', v ~v •:Bpect to the J'roviuccahiping'rospvß,-..,,, . , „srble,for the railwaysjn future,,J;hftt iy xV i, whilat wo. can keup some . Aocpunta,, , , between the Provinces• and. tht>..(i|P i v.', l '.,._' , lony now, .because they, are ditsti.nx;t,.-. •, these accounts! will bo almost iniagi- . nary when the.Provinces cease.>.to. ... ~•, . exist, and the debts from one to the .''.', .other will have...a vcr.y unreal., eliar,-,,, ....... ; , actor. It would,,bo as,if Brbwrnand ..-. ', .. Jones, being v < ' .suddqnly call themselves JSyqwn and ''. J,'.'. »'.s?-i'" ,, ?A' C/>,.',ijinpV. shoUd'.,,", procoed td ctaw^ri'c'ach.'qther, and.',.,':, kmMSP ACgo(iz(ts o£ jflie. tranaac'tipW'T -'t\ " j Jjppe that'in Jsuch a we..'.'' 1 "" { find the, jP|ovince i s with de'i'';',< ; ' ' foaKe Up; -fbr';tM'PtoyinceaV' WheV"'"''' they cease't'oexW 'tau , tiaV#V''b , e ' 4, IS : flaitrtd,6wg i iis l :r^•onU: , !' *» «»»Tf »'••»* w 1: vWatb-t. .Gpldfields Revenue', lqcali'sedy. > bflfc'ttp.plfcaMev.bttt?of'a co'n-imorr purse- 5 tq ( r i-ft|- ediafteld.'iri'the Be forthcoming ])W, «,cly,d,e. ; oy/Qudenstp'wii ?'„,', at the Thames wpuld l : flwalw ltefe,''"alrQ£tdy sanctionbdy "doTilil ''M- ' ' eounfr'for' abothor tivo i .. i ,Gov.ernm©riti > -\ rriplljfy|jgg Miili»toc» with kits at' ' 1 tracts of Native laud for We.bisViErfjt'of'themselves ana their. ing purposes, oi' ,course. ■-, ,Tpe pretended localisation--of Goldflelds revenue W ho ] far bat dreatha aM ra'adS'-'of."' - * ,-: '' v> ■' : * •"';-^J