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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2114, 31 December 1879, Page 2

As we go to press, the sun is deccnding for the last time on the old year. Let us hope that the curtain will rise tomorrow on scenes brighter, as well as fresher than those of the past year. There are dark specks on the horizon just as there arc spots on the sum A Property Tax, threatens our manufactures and material progress, anil the possibility of bloodshed in the North Island in connection with the intended Maori evictions, loom like clouds heavily over the colony. Still there is the hope that an efficient administration will take the place speedily of notorious maladministration, and that the colony will be saved from the paralyzing influence of gross misrule. Experience makes many converts, and the brief experience of the shadow on the wall which the last acts of. the Legislature have cast, has, we believe, made many converts already.