POLITICAL.
(FROM orit FARWAMfiNTAUY OORKES--I'OJfDE.NT.)
W'BLWtfGTQIf, August 3. I am pleased to say the Premier's health is greatly improved. He tells me he is confident of getting down to the House tins afternoon, and will probably follow Sir George 3rey on the Federation question. Mr Sbera tables au amendment to the j Laud tax, striking off all taxation on improvements and the £500 exemption. Several other amendments are spoken of, bufc nothing cieiinte is known of their substance. It may be rather surprising news to some that the one-man-one-vote clause in the Counties Act is a reproduction of Lord Salisbury's Act, our Government adopting a principle actually introduced by an English Conservative Government. What reply has the " number two Opposition " to this 'i j A big deputation headed by M# Rees is ; going to wait on the Government this! afternoon to urge that Mr Vaile's system I be given a trial in the Auckland district, j
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 2423, 3 August 1891, Page 2
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156POLITICAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 2423, 3 August 1891, Page 2
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