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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11611, 13 August 1892, Page 3

lbe Government and their supporters like to claim that in abolishing the pro perty tax for their present pretended land tax (which is really the property tax with ' all its good points taken out) they are doing service to the workers of the colony. The claim is a transparently absurd one. Without dwelling on the fact that they tax the savings of the workers in the 'shape of building society and friendly Bociety funds, it must be borne in miud that in taxing joint stock enterprise the Government are also oppressing the workers. To take one example the taxation imposed by the Government on the shareholders in the Kuiapoi Woollen Factory is jusfc double that which they paid under the property tax. The f actoi y employs 600 hands, and it is quite obvious that as the company under the old system of taxation paid only very moderate dividends, the shareholders must, now that their taxation has been doubled, either submit to heavy loss themselves or els« considerably reduce the wages of llieir GOO employes. This is a, ; fairly typical instance of the style in which the Puffier and his extremely " Liberal " Colleagues help the working classes and Tfoster local industries.- H.B. Herald. — HIS EXCELLENCY LORD GLASGOW while partaking of some refreshments during the interval at the Opera House remarked : — "One thing you have here that is good Coffee." It- is scarcely necessary to say his Excellency was drinking Cbkase's A.I. Coffee. Sold very where in lib and 21b tins. For continuation of Reading Matter fßee First I'age.