Government Proposals.

Otago Witness, Issue 1501, 21 August 1880, Page 22

Government Proposals.

The Beer Duty Bill is to be passed, and the Property Tax Amendment Bill will be left to the House to carry or reject. If it is rejected, then the Government vi 1 1 collect L 40.000 more by taxing personal effects, which the amendment bill exempts; bub in any case the property tax will be collected, and probably the amendment bill will pass. The timo for sending in the property tax return, which expires on the 31st insr., will 1)9 furthor extended, probably to the 30th of September.

Tiio Charitable Institutions Bill "."/ill also be pushed on. The local nuance bills (namely, the Rating Act Amendment and Local Public Works

Bills) will be gone on with, provided the House can be kept together long enough to pass them, which is very doubtful, as it is now tolerably certain that members will not stay after this month, and there is little probability of getting through business by that time. It is impossible to ascertain whether there is any colour for the rumour as to the continued payment of subsidies out of the Land Fund, as Ministers are very reticent on this point ; but the general impression is that this will be done, and the Land Fund distributed pro mta as far as it will go.