TASMANIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 898, 29 September 1866, Page 6

TASMANIA.

The Futuiie Fr3cAL Policy of Ta^m-axi-A-.—Con-sequent on tho vote of tho Lower House, in opposition to the Ministerial scheme of taxation, the Tasmanian Government recommended the Governor to prorogue Parliament, with a view to art appeal to the c mntry. The Governor has assented, to the proposition, and has prorogued Parliament by proclamatim to tlio Ist November. On the evening of the 7th instant, a Ministerial memorandum, addressed to tho Governor, was laid before Parliament, setting fjrth at great length the policy at the Administration, and its reasons for adhering to its fiscal proposals. This memorandum declares, respecting the adverse vote of the Assembly :—" Your Excellency's advisers accept tin's vote as a decisive indication of tho discrepancy botwoen their views and those, of a majority of the House of Assembly on a question so large and so important as the future fiscal policy of the country. The fiscal and financial incisures which Ministers a'e prepared to recommend to your Excellency, and to urno upon tho adoption of Parliument, in based upon tho broad general principles of direct taxation., and a large remission of Customs duties upin tho necosßivries of life and articles of general consumption. They regard tho adoption of this p'liey as the most effectual mode of resuscitating tho public finances.. By theso means thoy conceive it practicable to fulfil all the conditions of the problem of our present ornbarrussment. On these principles they arc prepare to provide a rovonun adequace to the. indispensibl o necessities of the state, and sufficiently certain and elasti ;'to maintain the- public, credit. 'These views are not shared by the majority of tho House of Assembly, which Foems desirous of continuing to l'ely upon Customs, as tho msin source of revenue, and would ruther nise tho present, rate of duties upon imports than subject proport). and income t> direct taxation." After th-i reidinir of tho memorandum by the clerk, tho House wis adjourned to Friday, tho 14th instant, and on Monday the 16th, w,is prorogued, as ulroady stited. A proclamation announcng the dissolution of tho Lower House is expected.to be issued immediately. The JI. T. Mercury adds : — " The stat j of excitement into which the country has been thrown by tho Government has had its effect on the Customs. last month's roturiis'.are worse than any previous month in tho year. The amount collected at the port of tiobirt Town during thi month of August was £tOS;> 7s 4d ; and at Launcestnn, lor tho like period, £1 5.17 OS Gd ; total, £8903 l'ls lOd, which, all things considered, V 3 more than might have beca oxpoctod, but hituh short of a proportional sh ire of tho Treasurer's estimate."

WotfDEttS OP the Etiipruic TeLEOBAI'JT.—The Colombo Observer of August. i2oth aupplW the following, which furnishes the explanation t.-> a paragraph in our mail telegram which was somewhat pbscurq : —" When tho American missionaries landed, in Goylon, fifty years ago, it litt.lo entered into their calculations that tho island would .in tho time of their sueco<sirs bo in daily, almost hourly; communication with tho land of their birth. Yot so it is. A correspondent at Galle writes—' It may not be uninteresting intelligence that a gentleman, staving at this hotel (Captain niuiDs, of t'liq Family Piirnum) teler graplied from G-allo to Now York on the Ist instaut, and lias just now received a reply direct from America. I hnd, perhaps, hotter hare said th.'it Captain Simesjtelegraphed to his agents and the agents telegraphed, to 'the. owners in Now York, and that tile owners telegraphed direct to Captain Simcs, in Gallo.' Hirahl, Heptember 20.