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Otago Witness, Issue 224, 15 March 1856, Page 2

SALE BY AUCTION. MESSRS. MACANDREW & Co. will Sell by Auction, in their Yard, on Wednesday, the 26th instant, at 1 o'clock, 43 MARES, ex Polly, from Sydney. Most of them are Heavy Beasts, and well adapted for Draft. NOTICE is hereby Given that on and after the 14th day of April next Applications will be received at this Office for Lands within the late purchase (Murihiku) to the south of the Otago Block. P. PROIJDFOOT, • • Commissioner. Crown Land Office, Otago, 12th March, 1856. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE OTAGO WITNESS. Dunedin, 10th March 1856. SIR, I have to request that you will be good enough to publish the enclosed Petitions, also the Reply of his Honor the Superintendent, acknowledging receipt of the same. — I have the honor to be, Sir, yours, &c. John Hyde Harris. TO HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO. THE Petition of the undersigned Electors and others, settlers in the Province of Otago, respectfully sheweth — That your Petitioners view with consternation and alarm the avowed intention of your Honor's Government to impose upon the people of this Province direct taxation, in extent unexampled in the history of any British colony. That direct taxation should be resorted to in those cases only where absolute necessity for it exist. That where levied it should be reasonable in amount; regard should also be had to justice and equality, and the cost of collection should be rendered as small as possible, in order that the bulk of the tax may be applied to the specific objects for which it was raised. That neither of these points appear to have been duly considered by your Honor's Government.in framing the new Road Bill, which is about to be brought before the Council. That the proposed Expenditure of your Honor's Government for the current year is in many respects excessive and uncalled for; and that the proposal to make such expenditure exceed the probable Revenue by more than three thousand pounds (£3000) will tend to the imposition of additional burdens upon the people in the shape of still increased taxation. That the prosperity of the Province will be much affected, and its progress prejudicially retarded, by such excessive taxation and injudicious expenditure of the Public Revenue as that now proposed by your Honor's Government. Your Petitioners therefore pray that your Honor will be pleased to dismiss your present Executive, and call to )*our assistance men who are qualified, by the possession of judgment and discretion to guide your Honor in conducting and administering the affairs of the Province at this important crisis with wisdom, justice, and prudence. John Jones Thomas Thomson W. H. Cutten George Ross George Lloyd James Marshall C. H. Kettle John Healey James Gibson David Howden John Gal lie Andrew Baker Robert Smith Robert Williams James Bain \V. H. Mansford Samuel Shaw Reginald Julius Thomas Matthew R. A. Filleul John Goodhall W. H. Valpy James Brown Charles Lemon William Wilson Henry F. Hardy Frank Chrystal James Gow Angus Gunn James Balfour Charles Robertson W. M. Laing John Graham John Gow John Duncan James Smith Donald Duff J. (i. S. Grant Andrew Summers Peter M'Laren. Alexander Mahon C. Merrilees Thomas Buchanan B. W. Pincott Gilbert Buchanan Robert Millar Alexander Chalmers David Millar, junr. William Matheson James Hunter David Thomson A. Findlater James Williamson James Robertson Francis Marshall Robert Marshall John Cormack John Flannagan G. Smith David Millar, senr. William Sheriff A. Findlater, junr. C. S. Partridge J. Clifford Thomas Birch N. J. B. M'Gregor J. H. Harris T. Robinson J. R. Jones Andrew Todd W. Jones Andrew Dalziel John Thomson T. J. White Thomas Jones James • Wm. Duff James Stevenson Plumpton Clemison Robert Murray W. G. Filleul Peter Campbell Malcolm Graham > John Hambleton J. C. Carnegie Thomas Corbet De Lacy James Jones James Loper Alexander Williamson Walter Day W. Thompson F. V. Martin John Proudfoot A. S. Wilson W. T. Millar J Hartley, junr. David Millar,, senr. J. Milstead Robert Millar W. C. Young Henry Mackinnon James Wilkie Frederick Wickers J. Mollison Robert Marshall W . Langlands Robert Christie John Finch Hugh M'Fadyen, John Wellman Alonzo 'Morris Alexander Mackay Thomas Dall William J affray William Strain Adam Oliver Hans Strain Peter Burtel James Mackay' Allan M'Master Hugh Bower James Christie William Heenan James Christie, junr. Henry MacKinnon, junr. James Todd H. Stopps - t John Shaw David Carey " John Johnston John Barr . .. John Bell ' JohnTDuncan ' James Aitken Hamilton $nd Long . John Parke W-, -Low Robert Hastie r JamesiS. Shanks Robert Roper