LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2568, 7 September 1867, Page 5

LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

NELSON. GREAT FINANCIAL REFORM MEETING. Friday, 9 a.m. A LA.BGE and enthusiastic meeting was lield in the Hall last niglifc against tho. Budget, when the following resolutions were unanimously passed : — (1) Proposed b} r Mr Elliott, seconded by Mr Dalbedyhill, " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the financial scheme of the Government, as enunciated in the Budget of the Colonial Treasurer, is YJcious in principle, and calculated, if persevered in, to prejudice the credit of the colony and impair its prosperity. (2)-Proposed by Mr Luckie, and seconded by Mr Barlow, "That this meeting views with alarm the proposal to increase the debt of the colony -and thereby to augment the public burdens, when policy and justice alike demand that the expenditure of the colony should be kept within the limits of the ordinary revenue." (3) Proposed by Dr Giles, and seconded by Mr J. Graham, "That, looking to the exceptional character of the present Customs' revenue, ..and to the fact that it mny collapse by a considerable number of diggers leaving the colony' for new goldfields, it is the duty of the Government to revise both the expenditure and the taxa- j tiou of the colony while the revenue is in its '. present condition, in order to effect a large reduction of taxation and prepare for the change which- the history of all goldfields teaches us to expect for New Zealand.' (4) Proposed by Mr R. Burn, seconded by Mr B. Jackson, " That this meeting is of opinion that a Financial Reform, League should be established in New. Zealand, for' the purpose of watching the colonial taxation ' and expenditure and protecting the interests i of the people j and that a Provisional Committee for Nelson he appointed, with instructions to communicate with other provinces, wi f h the view of forming branches of the League throughout the colony." A Committee was afterwards appointed, whose Chairman will forward the above resolutions to Mr Curtis to lay before the House.