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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5206, 12 February 1892, Page 4

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The Manawatu Standard is responsible for the followingA gentleman who owns about L 20,000 worth of property in the colony recently arrived from Home, mainly for the purpose of ascertaining the effect of the new taxation. After spending some time in the vicinity of his pro perty, and going fully into the question, he arrived at the conclusion that the new scheme was a most satisfactory one to improving settlers, and justly severe on owners of large areas of unimproved land. In an interview with the Premier the other day, he was very decided in his praise of the new policy, and expressed a firm conviction that it was devised in the true interests of the people of the colony. A lounger through the gardens, one evening lately, came upon two young ladies earnestly conversing as they passed along the path. "I tell you," said the taller one, with considerable emphasis, as I hove within ear-sliot, "there is positively nothinir between Fred and myself." " I should judge not," giggled the shorter one, "from the glimpse I happened to catch of you two in the parlor last evening. There conldn't have been anything between you then; if there was it was awfully squeezed."