THE TIMBER TARIFF.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 90, 17 November 1880, Page 2

THE TIMBER TARIFF.

As we stated m onr last issue tlie Government has yielded to the united presure which has been brought to bear upon it, and resolved to remove the threepence per hundred feel which was added some 111 tie thue ago to the freight on timber. The concession, however, will only extend to the timber being convej'cd fox* export, so as to enable the sawinillers to Veep faith with the orders they have recieived prior to the imposition, and also to contend with ivlills m Uatlin's River and other places m the South Island where there is no freight to be paid at all, but tho wood cut and shoved on boii'-d tiio vosseli for transit to market. The people of Palnierston have acquired quito a colonial reputation for the waiohfnl interest, and the pertinacity with whinh they lay their wants before every Minister who comes within their reach, and without presunnns to be epfofisti'-al we think th<>y may lay no small claim to the credit of the reduction of the tariff. During the late visit of the Premier, such con-

vincing facts and statistics were laid, before him, as elicited from him a tacit admission that a good ease for a retrograde step had been irnide and a partial promise that such action would be taken. In those degenerate days when every consideration is made subsorvient to the matter of " pounds, shillings, and pence," we suppose we must be thankful for even the small boon which has oeen wrung from the Governme it, still as the result has amply proved the ellicafj' of agitation, \vu would counsel a consistent and persistent continuance of the endeavor to obtain a like concession for the carriage of wheat and other oerreala.