CABLEGRAMS.

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THE LONDON FIRE.

T , vo THOUSAND PERSONS T THROWN IDLE. [REUTBB'S TELEGRAM.] ' London, August 7. m loss onioned by the fire at Z>* »»' of ™Vl°? meM bythe disaster. ______ ■

TASMANIAN TIN MINES.

(SPECIAL.)

London, August 8. The Tasmanian Creek Tin Mining Conilv has been registered, with a 2l of £210,000.

MORE WOTS AT BELFAST.

THREE PERSONS SHOT.

London, August 8.

A conflict has occurred between some (w«nen and Nationalist excur gSTnear Belfast. Three persons Z shot, and the train was wrecked.

THE ENGLISH RAILWAY STRIKE.

(REUTER.)

London*, August 7.

The goods traffic on the Midland Railway has been entirely restored, a fresh body of drivers and firemen having been secured. The men who went out on strike are applying in large numbers to be reinstated.

THE BULGARIAN THRONE.

(redter's telegram.)

Vienna, August 7.

Prince -Ferdinand of Saxe-Ooburg, Gotha, Prince-Elect of Bulgaria, starts to-day from Ebenthal for Sofia.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

[pep. s.z.l. and m.a. Co.)

London, August 6. Wheat.—The market is declining, owing to the favourable prospects of the harvest, which has now com nenced. Adelaide is worth 33s 9d jer 4961bs landed. Tallow.—Fine has declined 6d per lit, since last report. For other sorts quotations are unchanged.

AUSTRALIAN.

Neuter's telegram).

THE WRECK Of THE GANGE.

Melbourne, August 8. The hull and cargo of the Austrian barque Gauge, wrecked at the Heads on the ■ 24th ult., has been sold for £165.

ADDRESS BY SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

[BJ TELECRAriI.— rRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Duxedix, Monday. Thk Princess Theatre was crowded in al* parts, this evening, when Sir Julius Vogej addressed a meeting in compliance with a requisition. Tho Mayor of Dunedin pre sided.

•Sir Julius Vogel referred to Sir John Hall'? recent speech as moderate and of course able. His object appeared to be to preserve freedom of action, while explaining bb views. He accused the Government of extravagance and fondness for borrowing. ■The comparison lie gave between the ex penditure for 1883-84 was fallacious. It had already been explained that the latter ex penditure was on a lower scale, and he would not weary them by reiterating the figures. a would be sufficient to say that the follow ing was an accurate return of the salaries Paid, namely, 1883-84,1,540,000 ; and 1886 ---»/, L 521.000. All that could be said apmst the Government or himself about ™ expenditure of borrowed money and atravagance applied equally to Hall, At aison, and Bryce. In 1879-80 there was a gflnbe deficiency. If permanent re trenchment was feasible and desirable, why iLri institute it? They soon X~. back from their so-called savings. b»?5 m Pe™anent nature was at; gptel The present Government had «*™y administered economically, but by for 1 vice Reform Acb provided L ,i Ure rctrenchmcnt. He enumer- SJAw, Special features-first, doing £ ? the Pi; evailin S Practice °* giving gee dispensed with, besides compensa- A?W V7 lOni th?' leave of absence; the Z n s; ? s, ucli leave t0 three monfchs; SSS1 h ywereonly to be entitled to 33 ntlV ot|ce, and such new officers SStorSj S^a 11? serviceoa cadets. Un- Sdffi IA ° r uld lead t0 less ex giveTS for it would aade if tf Wt deal rai Shfc be saved or arvtar-Sr T. c.,.serioUß eductions of i be , ft B!bsidies; bllt would the Sd t t c cs C e ?{l teilfc with less services? sX ef|; specially be Batisfied ? to as t Tn'i f. nsco service was pointed TaSg th? iS eCt °r retr^ment. tion, it SSfi reCe^ pts infco considera «its hEM aILPo ofit for the firßfc ti™ lef tap fi?of l$S M ' -? d in 1886-87 it> the Union ri 5' r° r rf its snbsidy to **X£Sffs f°r .fating the of L7OQ. iJttt considemtion a profit ifc *m clear that th? >v • rVice Was a loss ' x -nsco Bervice was >ibntion withi«Vi? ihe colonv > and d™- ? n Ismail pSS laii, tv ™^ ■1 th* lettetTS?™ /* c colonißts «« st«d of 4o? Jl" 50 days °n the way in .^aroed, the mnV*?? 8'tates m5 Sht be 'S" *<»*i S *£?'?"& Of cour^ t^ea healv t, Swaße 'waß ifc fair fe^h we IL ft T fora Bervice 6 *ttea°t paying? y fl .

subsidised boats would mean., .probably, cheap postage and loss of revenue. He had said enough about retrenchment to make them feel that it depended on the people and their representatives. There miit be economy as opposed to wasteful expenditure ; there might be an Inferior imalifcy of service, but equally serviceable ; there might be less services, or services of a less comprehensive character. His own opinion was that ib Avas desirable to take what could be done with retrenchment, and lie meant to try, (Applause.) Borrowing. The speaker next referredto borrowing and the paper he read afc Chrisfcohurch. He found that the cost of the district railways was included In the amount expended dur incr the last three years. Eliminating this in^hia yearly average, the expenditure ot borrowed money was further reduced, so that it stood for the nine years at L 1.508,000, against L 1,781,000 ot Major Atkinson. &to Sir John Halls claim to have been more economical than Sir G Grey, they must recollect that when the live-million loan was borrowed Sir J. Hall had to undertake not to borrow any more for three years. His colleague,. Major At kinson, did not lose n day in borrowing when the period of prohibition came to an end. He (Sir J. Vogel) was charged with crushing taxation. When he went into office crushing taxation was expected. There was a deficit of L 150,000, and the scale of ex penditure was about a quarter of a »ulll°" yearly in excess of revenue. He was thought to be mad when he undertook to forego fresh taxation that year, but he did so. The property tax average during the three years was less by a sixteenth than the rate when he took office. Major Atkinson in 1881 boasted that the taxation of 1880-81 was less than that of IS7O by 2s 6d a head. The taxation of 1886-87 was 7s 7d a head less than that of 1880-81. It was well known he avoided taxation by borrowing money td the equivalent extent of the annual in crease of the sinking fund. He read an ex tract from a speech of Major Atkinson to show that that gentlemen wished to do the same thing, but did not see how to do it Of L750>000 created in three years' L 343.000 had been paid off. He had convinced them, he hoped, that whether in extravagance or borrow ing Hall, Bryce, and Atkinson could give him points. When their follow ers attacked him on these questions they really attacked their chief. He did not accuse them of these things, but merely showed that their charges against him applied more largely to themselves. The speaker then proceeded to show the fallacy of Mr Bryce's statement " That a sum of four and a half millions had to bo paid annually by the colony as interest on it 3 debt out of the colony." He said the statement showed sheer incapacity to deal with the financial question. The only amount the colony was liable for was its own debt. The interest on the 31st March, ] 886, and payable outside of the colony was LI 587,000. The ratepayers were liable for about L 300,000 outside the colony. The mortgage indebtedness was a partnership between individuals in which the lender of money had first lien on his proportion of profits. ■If the profits were insufficient he had to lose the same as other investors. What was called foreign capital, invested by the great companies and firms, such as Dalgetty, Mills, and Murray Roberts, the Rothschilds, Barings, and Hambras of the colony, they were mostly domiciled here, and well able to bear any losses, and the colony was in no way responsible. The total mortgage on country lands was about "1 millions, with an annual charge of about a million and a half, which was not a heavy one on a'total production of agricultural produce for home use and export estimated at ten millions. The rest of the indebted ness, twenty millions, not included in raort u-atfe, was for household debts to tradesmen, the latter to importers, and those to whole sale houses. The same thing appeared over and over again. He gave an example of the cost of a hat that might appear three times in the return. Similar indebtedness in England amounted probably to much more than a thousand millions. What would be thought of a- person who said that Great Britain was liable for it, and had to find the interest? The result, then, was that the font' and a-half millions of Mr Bryce diminished down to a million and a* half of .which railways recouped about 1,350,000, besides L 40.000 for Govern ment services not credited here, but credited in Victoria for similar ser vices. These same railways probably gave an addition to consumers and pro ducers of more than a million annually. Sir Julius then showed elaborately the various' amounts of foreign capital intro duced into the colony. After deducting the interest paid thereon the amount totalled forty-three millions, which was the excess of the value of imports over exports from the first of the colony. The L 43 000,000 of introduced capital had fruc tified into a, value of 12S millions, leaving a balance of eighty-three millions, without counting roads and bridges, which probably cost four millions more. The principal causes of depression were, first the fall in the value of produce and the high rate of interest on mortgages ; second the increase in the expenditure of borrowed money; third, the want of manufacturing industries. As regards the first cause, a speculative spirit caused land to rise above its value as indicated by its producing power. But then that was less felt than a decline w the value of produce. He showed how the fall in produce had been all in favour of the mortgagee partner who re ceived a fixed interest, the purchasing power of which was largely increased by the fall in commodities. The fall in the rate of interest which was now taking place was doing good work, and would raise the value of the land. The second cause was the smaller expenditure of borrowed money. Everyone had recognised that when this ex penditure was lessened a considerable amount of depression would follow. The figures, exclusive of the. purchase of district railways, were as follows :—ln 18S4-85 there was expended fiom the public works fund, L 1,336,-000; 1885-6, LI,287,000; 1886-7, LI, 167,000. The expenditure of the first quarter of 1887-8 was L 231.000, or at the rate of L 824,000 per annum. The whola community was affected by the reduced expenditure both as regards the power of purchasing and the yield of revenue; still, the very persons who most atrongly urged the reduction of the loan expenditure were those who now most blamed the Government for the depression. He was not unfavourable to a reduction of loan ex penditure. He always contended for the construction of the trunk lines. That was the essential point in his policy. Borrow, ing could not wholly cease, and we should hope that private enterprise would, by the expenditure of capital, make up for the loss of public expenditure. Railways. The opposition which had been shown here to the construction of the Midland Railway was quite unaccountable to him. It would give a large value to the lands now almost valueless, and which would continue to be so unless the railway were constructed. The expenditure of the money, too, would benefit the whole colony. He deeply deplored the want of sympathy between different parts of New Zealand. Personally he was favourable to completing the construction of' the Otago- Central Railway by private enterprise. It was utterly unjust to decry the value of the public works policy. If it had not been carried out the colony would long since have been in serious straits; I,7oomiles of rail way, 7,000 miles of roads, and 300 large bridges, besides smaller ones innumerable, had. been constructed to open up the coun try. Wool had fallen in value one-half since 1869, and even then the run holders complained of the price. In round figures the railways had carried "last

year lg millions of tons, 350,000 parcels, nearly one million cattle, and Bh million passengers. It was utterly unreasonable to blame "the public works system because of land speculation, because of the fall in the' value of produce, because of the high in terest on loans, and because of local in dustries having become paralysed by the diminished cost of foreign productions. Colonial Industries. As to the third cause, the want of manu facturing industries — (Applause) —it was necessary to raise the Customs revenue, and it was to be borne in mind that owinff to the fall in the value of foreign productions any rise which they would bo likely to make would not give so great a protection as that which had been enjoyed in times past. If the industries were not aided by an in creased tariff, they ran the risk of putting out of employment the bread-winners now employed. From the time of his return to the colony he felt convinced that the deve lopment of local industries was an essential necessity. There was no value in the argu ment about protection' loading to over supply. Under any policy there might at times be an undue accumulation of commo dities. Hir Julius Vogel instanced the Kaiapoi Cloth and Woollen Factories,which supported about 600 hands, with a weekly pay sheet of between seven and eight hun dred pounds. Those employed are bread winners for about three thousand people. The clothing factory would have been doubled, lie was told, if the tariff as amended had passed. These fac tories benefited other industries. For example, they took 1,500 tons of coal from Westport, and oil to the value of six hun dred pounds from a Dunedin factory. He then referred to a table he had prepared, showing the proportion of commerce, agri culture, manufacture, and transit in various parts of the whole world: In New Zealand the figures showed that there was no paral lel to the large proportion which commerce bore to manufactures. He claimed that the Government had given encouragement to all local industries. Owing to the active stimulus supplied by Mr Larnach, mining had taken a new departure. Mr Richardson had introduced the manufacture of locomotives and bridges. The contrac tors for the locomotives, Messrs Scott, had told him that of the £13,000 they were to receive £10,000 would tro in wages. In proposing the new tariff when Parliament met they would be guided by the latest information they were able to gather, and it would be his desire to exclude from the increase as much as possible the necessaries of life. Village Settlements, &c He proposed dealing with the laud ques tion generally at Ashburton, but as re garded village settlements he was very pleased to find in Canterbury how remark ably successful they were likely to prove in that province. Mr March, who hail charge of them—a very old officer—told him he was thoroughly satisfied they would prove a great success. He (Mr March) had sent round to the various holders who had possession for more than six months three question.?. Sir Julius read a large number of answers, which showed a remarkable amount of satisfaction on the part of settlers. Tho proposed alteration in the property tax rate he believed was at the root of most of the opposition with which the Government were now met; After explaining how the tax affected the poor and rich men, he alluded to Sir John Hall's reference to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. The precise meaning to Adam Smith's doctrine of " Equality of Sacrifice " was a much mooted question, but even Mill admitted that there could be no equality of sacrifice when people had to deny themselves the ordinary conveniences and comforts of life. The argument of Mill, on which Sir John Hall relied, that taxing wealth discouraged thrift, would logically lead to taxing more heavily tho poor than the rich. He (Sir Julius) ridiculed tho argument that the property tax would dis courage rich men from accumulating. Theo retically it might have that tendency. He instanced a man with £50,000, who had to pay £2.500 to the property tax. Could they conceive that because he had to pay this he would thlow away his property to avoid future payment? Would it not rather be the case that if he objected to the payment he would curtail his expen diture in pleasure to mako it up? He hoped they would pardon what he was about to say. There was not only actual de pression here, but a fanatical feeling to bring everything down to the very worst. He found from the conversations he had had here with the honourable and influential men, that they wanted borrowing to entirely cease, because they knew that by so doing disaster would follow. They said they wanted disaster, because nothing short of it would make people insist on retrench ment. The outcome of this was to stop manufactures, driving away population, stop settlement, encourago cheap labour by cheap imports, and leave the country to land owners and land labourers. It was an awful picture. Ib reminded him of the Australian squatter who wanted to import snakes, and protect his property from human beings, He told them frankly they might drive people away from Otago by the gloom with which they received any intending investors, but they could hot get the rest of the colony to ride for a fall. Already there were signs of better times. Interest was fall ing, mining undertakings wet'O being taken up again by capitalists, a large pur chase of land had lately been made in tho North, and one was rumoured in the South. Recuperation was not a matter of chance ; it depended upon the broad, fact; that human industry can only be unromunavfttivß fpr a time. Bad times supply their own euve, and patience and industry must conquer in the end, Many who had listened to him that night would remember when he had passed away that whatever miffht be his faults he always urged them to be pfcrong in hope and self-reliance. (Continued applause.) w, Fitchett moved, and it was carried, "Thatthe best thanks of this meeting be accorded Sir Julius Vogel for the clear and statesmanlike spoech which he has given us to-night." In the earlier portion of his speech Sir Julius was subjected to persistent interrup tion, but during the latter part the meeting was comparatively orderly.

ADDRESS BY MAJOR ATKINSON.

(by telegraph.—press association.)

Wellington, Monday. Major Atkinson delivered an address in the Theatre Royal to-night. In conse quence of the wet weather, the house was only about half full. The proceedings were of an orderly character. The Mayor occupied the chair. A few ladies were present. Major Atkinson, who was received with applause, said he was'there in response to a, requisition to give his views on the present political position. It was one of the good signs of the times that so many of the electors of the colony were attend ing political meetings instead of staying away and grumbling at the men who were elected to Parliament. First of all he would say he intended to do his best to get the present Government turned out of office at an early date, but he was not going to be a pai'ty to imputing bad motives to thorn in »ny re. spect. The difference between them and him was not one of motive, but one of the mode in which the good of the colony should be worked out. He deprecated the assertions made by the Premier as to the Opposition favouring the importation of

Kafiir labour, and similar accusations. When such statements were made by the Premier and his colleagues, it was ab solutely necessary the other side should be set before the people, and in doing so it was impossible to dissever the-past from the present. The Treasurer had just made a speech at Christchurch, which showed that he could look at both sides of a question and be fair to his opponents • moreover.it was the speech. of a man who was really at the head of the Government, tliou«-h .Sir R- Stout was nominally the Premier. He had alluded to him (the speaker) in regard to his attitude towards the public works policy, bub he argued that that really came to ah end in 1878, when Mr Maeattdrew intro duced a still larger scheme. What he blamed Sir J. Vogel for was that since he had come back lie had tried to introduce fresh and more extravagant schemes. Sir J. Vogel's colleagues were acting v.ith the utmost disloyalty to him, trying to make him their Jonah, while he really vas thoir sheet anchor. Mr Ballanco was at that very moment up in his district trying to influence the election of a man who had declared "himself more strongly against Sir J. Vogel than ho had against him (Major Atkinson). Sir J. Vogel had said that more hnd been spent by the Speaker than by himself, and he had also cleverly said that did not mend matters. He had joined the Vogel combination in 1874 --not to support his public works policy, but to assist him in the abolition of the provinces. Before he joined, the sanction of Parliament had been obtained to bor rowing in all eleven millions and three quarters, of which four and a half had already been raised. In that year it was estimated that L 3,300,000 would be required. Sir J. Vogel went home to raise a four million loan, and he (Major Atkinson) took the Treasurership. in his absence. When he went out of office two years afterwards there was still L 200.000 of the loan left. How could he possibly be re sponsible for the spending of this money, which had been authorised, and the mode; of expenditure actually fixed, before he became a member of the (-iovernment? He traced his connection with the various Govern ments after that, to show that his work had been chiefly devoted to reducing expendi ture rather than to increasing it. He had principally engaged in putting- the brake on the extravagance of others. Referring to lnst session, he urged that the Government ought not to have asked for a dissolution. They denied that the Opposition could do what the latter asserted tney were prepared to do in the way of reducing expense, but took good care not to give them the oppor tunity of making good their boast.

The Election Issues. There was no. fight on any question of policy, but the issue was whether any redhc tion should be made before fresh taxation was put on. There -were three questions to answer:—(l) Was revenue to < bo made equal to expenditure by reductions or by fresh taxation ? (2) Were public works to stop, to go slowly, or more rapidly? (3) Could they trust tho present Government to carry out the necessary reform ? With regard to the first, he estimated that the present deficit was at the rate of not less than L224.C00 a year. They began last year with a surplus of L 37,000, and ended with a defict of L 92.000, and they had a windfall of L 104.000 of the sinking fund, which would not occur again. These sums make up the amount named. So far as he knew, the Government had never contradicted this statement, and he did n6t think thoy were likely to. The probability was that the deficit wns really greater than he had mentioned, for the revenue at the present moment was not increasing. Tho Treasuier had said his estimates were based on the lowest figures, so that it was clear that the Government thought further reductions impossible. They emphasised their belief by pro posing further taxation to tho extent of L 324,000. This was a very serious amount, and yet the Premier had gone about saying' they were not increasing taxation, and pointing to bygone years. Then they" were better able to bear taxation than now. Sir R. Stout carefully avoided comparison with last year's taxation. He noticed the Govern ment now said they could reduce the Esti mates by L 100,000, notwithstanding their positive refusal in tho House, If anyone could uphold such a Govornment he would richly deserve all lie got in the way of increased taxation. With regard to the graduated property tax, the Treasurer now eaid that what it meant was really some thing like the English income tax. Had it been put in that way at first he possibly would not have objected to it so strenuously. If it meant what the Premier sftid it did, namely, paying more in proportion the more property you owned, he (Major Atkinson) was vehemently opposed to it. It would frighten away all- in tending settlers with capital. He adduced instances in detail to show how, in his opinion, such a tax would operate. There would be no equality of sacrifice as the Premier claimed.. Suoh a thing was im possible in any tax. If you begin to charge a higher rate on the same property there would be such an exodtis of capital as to bring about a crisis, the like of which they had ngver (seen. As to his own views, he thought it was dear we had fixed everything upon too extravagant a soale. It was our duty as good oitlzens to endeavour to re clyqo the scale on which we lived. He was never invited out to a dinner, which he knew would cost a guinea or 30s a head, Avithout asking himself whether he was really justified in going. Let them begin at the top of the tree, with the next Governor. They could not, of course, touch the present eno, Things had changed ain.ee the salary was fixed at the present amount, and he, for one, would go in for a considerable reduc tion. If they were unwilling to begin with the top they would get very little from the bottom —in foot, they ought not. Next, they would have to cut down Ministers salaries and the Parliamentary honorar ium, and then thoroughly revise the whole of the salaries. They ought to pay exactly the same as was paid for the same work outside the Govern« ment serviPP, ami I\Q mnve, He was oon« vinced that only by such a oourse as this could we restore our credit in the London money market. This was necessary, not in order to borrow more, but to establish con fidence in the attractions of the country as {>, place for settlement, Vdneatioß. He would be no party to doing any thing to cripple the effectiveness of the education system, but they should examine jt carefully, and see whether ifc was possible to make any reduction. He was In favour of higher and lower education, from the uni versity to the primary schools, being under one system. We could not afford to lose the intelligence, of the colony. He had thought pyer fchig qijestipn at all times and from every point of view, and had come to the conclusion that worse evils would follow the withdrawal of the capitation money than they could possibly incur by its payment. If the children were let loose Intp fclift streets the gaols would speedily tell the tale, He was »ovvy to say, also, there was noticeable a want of reverence in the growing generation, which nothing but the discipline of schools could effectually cure; and that was another reason for maintaining the system intact, <f na tariff. Next he came to the tariff, and what is called freetrade or protection. He was not going to discuss the latter, as it was not a practical question. If we put on a duty on all goods imported, we should have to put on an axoisG duty on local produots. He had had to impose two tariffs while in office, and industries had grown up under them. When requiring increased revenue, he had looked to Customs duties where they could assist industries, and so when he wanted 'revenue he would impose a duty of

10, 15, or 20 per cent, on such articles as would not net unfairly to the general con sumer, and also would give a lift to local industry.

Public Works and Land Settlement.

He now came to public wVkts, and he asked what v.we they goim.; to do ? Were they to stop? He ventutea to svujge&t no. Were they to be accelerated ? To this ho also thought the answer would be no. That they were to progreßS slowly, would he thought, bethepopukrverdict. SirJ. Vogel, on his return to the colony, had said the colony had been dosdng ; yet, at the same time, he stated that the Atkinson Govern ment were more extravagant than his (Sir J. Vogel's) Government. Public works should be carried on slowly, but he was of opinion that we should not borrow next session, and he would do all in his power to prevent it. As lighthouses, etc., were paid out of loans, it would be necessary that no one should ask for conve niences. They must go on blowly, and not ■spend money on unnecessary work. Then we could form an estimate of our revenue, when a public works scheme could be formu lated. (Joining to land settlement, lie said there was always a clamour about it. He knew something of settlements, and unless such settlements were near where there is plenty of work, then such settlements would be complete and absolute failures. The village settlement scheme was a good one if carried out on a proper system. He took it as one to give mechanics a home and a piece of land, but settlement must be near where the settlers could obtain Work, and when unemployed they could put in their time improving the land. He objected to the Govern ment Land Bill. The land question was one which required very careful considera tion. Our great difficulty was that a large number of landowners were seriously em barrassed. He thought if the scheme of Sir G. Grey could be adopted, it would be advantageous to tho colony. The scheme was for Sir G-. Grey to go home, and induce an influx to the colony of capitalists with moderate means.

Tbe Government Arraigned,

The next question was could the present Government be entrusted to carry out the necessary reforms. (Loud cries of " Yes," "No.'') The Government claimed they had been a prudent and economical Government. What had they done? Look at their doings on the North Island Trunk Railway. • In order to obtain cheap popularity, they had started the line, with out first securing the proper amount of land along it for settlement. What does Mr Ballanco do? He gives the natives a letter, thnt they will not be subject to rates. The Premier at first at every meeting referred to the economy of the Government: but he was more chary now, as he now finds his figures are wrong. He (Major Atkinson) denied that the Go vernment had reduced defence expendi ture ; and, instead of being LI3,(KK) less, as stated by the Premier, it was L 7,000 more. Looking at the returns, the Go vernment had expended L 315,000 last year more than they had in the previous year. Moreover, they were asking for Considerably larger revenue from taxation. Was that according to their promise ? Did they not say taxation should be re duced ? .'What faith could they place in the promises of such a Government ? The whole tone of their utterances indicated in creased taxation. Sir J. Vogel had told them the Customs duties must be rein stated ; Sir R. Stout afgued that they were only bringing the amount per head Up to what it Was a few years ago; Mr Ballance said the Customs were going below what they were in 18S2, and it was the Government's duty to raise them to their former level. Evidently they intended to impose taxation to any limit to which tho people would submit; but he ventured to Bay they would not sub mit. In conclusion, he had not the slight oat doubt the colony could get through its. difficulties without an unreasonable strain, but it must bo done by present manage ment, and he contended the Government were not men to do it. Their great sin was that they hnd shaken the confidence of every one in the colony; they had upset men's minds by promises of a great boon, and session after session had interfered with the Custom duties and land laws. The first duty of the people was to eject them from Office. As electors they ought {to see that representatives were returned in theintcrests of the colony, and not of a locality. They had an excellent country and favourable opportunities, and they must make up their minds that work and economy shall do what Jiad been sought to be done by financing and speculating. He could nob do better than repeat the verses he had quoted some years before, and had been twitted with so Often: —

"Let ils then be up and doing, w lth a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing. Leaa'h t6 labour and, to wait." Major Atkinson spoke a little over two hours, and at the conclusion of his address a vote of thanks was passed with only one or two dissentients.

TELti AUCKLAND E-VJBiJNIJNG . STAR, TUESDAY, AUGUST. y, 1887.

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Business Notices. J. J. SWINNERTW, WOOD TURNER, "VVyNdSam-street. Established 18GC. A reduction of 25 per Cent, on all common work. Billiard Balls Exchanged. Special care given to Re-turning and Staining. Pool Find, Marbles, and Chalk Pockets, always on hand. BOOKBINDER, PAPER RULER, ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURE^, WYNDHAM-STREET. MERCHANTS' ACCOUNT BOOKS, Insurance and Mining Register Books Specially Ruled and Bound. Music, Magazines, Public Libraries, and Sunday School Books Well Bound. BAKERS' SPECIAL RULED DAY BOOKS, Bibles, Prayer aud.Hymn Books Re-bound. BAND AND CHOIR MUSIC BOOKS RULED. HOME -MADE BREAD, CAKES, SCONES, HOP BEER, &c, easily made by using , CROOK'S AMERICAN DRIED YEAST. Cheaper and more desirable than Baking Powder. It should be Sold in every.country store, used in every country home. Fnll direc tions on each packet. Sample packets by post, 3d, from J. T. JOHNS, Seymour-street, Pon- Sonby, Auckland, Wholesale. Agent3-L. D. NATHAN & Co. TO BE SOLD at a low figure and on easy terms, or to be Let at 10s per week, about 11th August, a SHOP and DWELLING-HOUSE in Charlotte-street, Eden Terrace. Any steady man with a little capital could do a good business as Grocer and Fruiterer. F. G. EWINGTON, Estate Agent. TO be LET, at corner of Norfolk-street and Ponsonby-road, a superior house of .6 rooms and scullery, have gas and water laid on, also a wash-house and many conveniences. Also to be let at Northcote, a furnished 6-roomed house in a very pleasant position. TO BE LET at Avondale, on Mrs Major's estate, a GOOD DWELLING-HOUSE, with J-acre of Orchard and 10 acres of Land for Gmin*- F. G. EWINGTON, Estate Agent. CHEAP HOUSES, COTTAGES, AND SHOPS To be Let and For Sale.. F. G- E^ I3srGTo* ESTATE AGENT. EDDING CARDS.-Latest Style at the Star Lithographic Works, Short and-atreet. Auckland. r\OKK MANURE. Co.'s, JEB, \J of all merchants.



Medical lyr R S TVR, qTOART jS Arc the only Safe and Genuine FEMALE MEDICINE S Advertised. FFMALE "PILLS, 2s Gd, Pronounced a boon. FEMALE LIVER and ANTIBILIOUS PILLS Is Gd, Prevent many troubles peculiar to the Sex. Good for all ages. A grand Snfeguard an Corrective. Sold everywhere. DRUG COMPANY, Agents. IriLLISDON'S NEURALGIC DROPS, J FOR THE THOROUGH CUKE OF NEURALGIA. From the Rev. C. J. Morton, St. John's Parson age. Ferry Roa<l, December, IS7B. "My dear Mr Ellisdon, -1 have for many years past from time to timesunercd severely from Neuralgia, and have found nothing to relieve me so speedily or so effectively as your 'Neu ralgia Drops.' I can confidently recommend it. — Yours truly, C. J. Mkkton." Numerous other Testimonials in my posses sion. Prices, 2s and 3s Cd per bottle. BIGGS:S TOOTHACHE ESSENCE Gives Instantaneous Relief. Price, Is. Prepared only by F. BIGGS (late Ellisdon). Chemist, High-street, Christchiirch. Sold byall Chemists. Wholesale Agents— KEMPTIIORNK & PROSSER. Auckland. T^R. HENLEY'S DISCOVERY. The constituent parts are daily used by the leading physicians of Europe and America in their practice, who recognise in celery the be,3t nervine known. The extract of beef is most nutritive and invigorating, while the iron is a tonic for the blood and food for the brain. To be obtained from all chemists." SHARLAND & CO., WHOLESALE AGENTS. J^ SURE REMEDY FOR BALDNESS. HICKMAN'S **» ECLIPSE HAIR PRODUCER (Registered.) This Preparation eclipses all others. A new discovery for the Growth of Hair on the Head and Face; for removing and preventing Dandruff, and arresting the fall of the Hair. It cures any Disease of the Scalp, and causes new growth on the head after being bald for years. a here it has become weak and thin, from whatever cause, it quickly restores it to its natural' vigour. Hundreds of residents in Uhristchurch can testify to the fact that J Hicknmn was COMPLETELY BALD for many years, and after trying every known remedy Without effect, ho discovered this wonderful preparation, Avhinh ENTIRELY RESTORED HIS HAIR TO ITS NATURAL STATE AND UOLOUK. It has also proved snooessful in a number of other similar cases in which the hair had fallen from scrofula and other diseases of the scalp Each Dottle contains supply for one month. Price, is, of Graves Aickin, Hamilton Bros., .T. P. King and Sons, J. A. Pond; and all Chemists General Agents— N.Z. DRUG COMPANY. EC 0 X AND' SON, • DENTISTS, Kingsley House, HoJoson-street, Auckland. Edwin Cox, Licentiate In Dental Surgery R.C.S., England. llerbekt Cox, Doctor of Dental Surger , University of Michigan, U.S., America. J GOOD WIN COX, o DENTAL SURGEON, 148, Queen-street, A.M.P. Society's Buildings . Auckland, NOTICE OF REMOVAL. MR, T. TRAFFORD, SURGEON DENTIST Desires to inform His Patients and Friends that he has removed from Wakefleld-street to more central offices Queen-Street, over Mr. Wayte's, Bookseller, opposite Wyndham-street Hours from nine a.m. till five p.m. IT is singular how blind people are to their own interests, by selling imitations of the genuine Wolfe's Schnapps. Hotels GEORGE THOMPSON, PIER HOTEL, ALBERT STREET. (Two minutes from Wharf or Railway Station) This new Hotel, having a most central position and magnificent view of the Harbour, etc., has been recently fitted and furnished with every convenience. The bedroom s are large, airy, and with good outlook. Every accommodation for Travellers and Boarders. Best brands of Wine and Spirits. Hot and Cold Baths. Board and Lodging 20s and 2os per week. Best Brands in Winos and Spirits. Close to water. "^HARF HOTEL, QUEEN-STREET. JOHN LYNCH Desires to inform his friends and the public, that he is proprietor of the above Hotel. Good accommodation for Travellers; first-class Luncheon Room. Best Brands of Wines and Spirits. Hancock's Sparkling Ale always on draught. ASK your Grocers for Royal Remy's Starch, lib and Alb boxes, net weight It is the best. —Mr Arthur Masy, High-street, Agent for the Manufacturers. Wholesale- Apply to Mr John Buchanan, Merchant, Cus toma-streeti



Business Notice?; ; ASK YOUR GROCER FOR' BUKtfS'S Al SOAP. YOU CAN'T AFFORD nPIO waste your money on TRASHY^LOW- i JL PRICED SOAPS, Practise Thrift, and i study true ECONOMY by using only BUIINS'S Al SOAP. The effort, made to improve tho homes of New Zealand must fail to secure their ; full effect unless they succeed in inducing every housekeeper to use BUBKS'S Al SOAP. : ; It is a simple but useful article, These •who fail to use it are still more simple, and not half as i . useful. ... : I USE ONLY BURNS'S Al SOAP. You may have heard of it a THOUSAND I TIMES without using it ONCE. If you will : reverse the position and ■ USE IT ONCE You will praise it to others a THOUSAND 11MES.—I have spent hundreds of pounds in convincing the women cf Now Zealand that Iheir labour can be greatiy lightened by using BURNS'S Al SOAPJCriiE World Renowned Cleanser ! ), but I have fallen short of my am bition if I have failed to CONVINCE YOU. USE ONLY BFKtfS'S Al SOAP. Ip ISH E R & CO.. 1 WHOLESALE SHIPPING AND FAMILY BUTCHERS, Established 1864. By Special Appointment to His Excellency th« Governor, Sir W, F. Jervois; His Excellency fair James Ferguson; and H.R.H. the Duka of Edinburgh; also. Kosha Butchers to tha " eQUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND, N.Z. Families waited on in Town or Suburbs. POULTRY of all kinds DRESSED to ORDER. Dealers in Game Home-cured Hams and Bacon ,o Cornea Beef in Large Quantity. - Imports of Sausage Casings The Trade Supplied N.B.—Calves' Rennets. } 153. Customers Supplied with BY APPOINT- MEN t T T0 j HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. ' ' mHAMES CARRIAGE^A'ND DRAY' JL FACTORY, VICTORIA-STREET EAST AND HIGH-STREET. AUCKLAND. Telephone, 308. JAMES MACKIE, Coachbtjilder, MANAGER. . fluilder of every description of Vehicles, Repairs in all the branches of the trade faithfully executed. Vehicles Bought and Sold on Commission. Coachbuilders' Requisites in Stock. The Trade Supplied. Country Orders punctually attended to. Cash Customers liberally dealt with. TILLS Milk Bread, Milk Bread, *-'• sweet and nutritious, and Farm House Home-made Bread, Milk Scones and Cakes delivered daily, and canbehad at the Burlington Victoria Arcade, and at Eden Terrace, or at the Bakery, Udy's Farm, Mount Eden. Agents Wanted. \ USE \nLosEjmoaj TOT \ BLENDS OF M Vptjee I ATEAS AND j£ I \ rt A / PER LB. \ (fHH Pronounced the bestvaluA in Auckland. \ WARNOCK BROTHERS, Established 18621 , SOAP AND CANDLE MANUFACTURERS, COX'S CREEK, AUCKLAND. Manufacturers of the Celebrated Extract of Soap, Disinfectant Powder, First Prize Yellow Blue Mottled, Double Crown, Economic, and Household, Carbolic, and other Medicinal and Toilet Soaps, made from the purest of Tallows, &c Offices-DURHAM-STREET, Auckland. N.B. — Cash Purchasers of Tallow, Wool, Sheepskins, and Bones. Established 1819.1 GEE & POTTER, COACHBUILDERS. LORNE AND RUTLAND Streets. Coaches, Carriages, Waggonettes, Buggies, Pony Carriages, Carts, Drays, and every de scription of Vehicles kept in stock, or built to order. The trade supplied. N.B.—Traps lent to customers whilst repairs are being executed. CJUITS to order from 50s, with an extra k5 pair of Trousers for nothing.—J. H. Dalton, Tailor.