If he had erred in this matter, h< had erred in good company, as Mr Tancred, than whom no man had worked harder foi the cause of education, or had it more ai teart—[Cheerßj—had also voted for this ncrease. They must remember that then laud revenue, upon which to a great extern \\iqj had to depend to meet this expenditure, oould not be looked upon as a lasting source,

•iud then they would have to come ■ >u -dm people even heavier than was now proposed under the additional iimou'ii of contribution. | Hear, hear.] A jfti'i. another reason why he had voted for the :«ddiiional payment for education, was that tt'.>y wrre told that the general revenue was falling, and besides that, When the plains lii.nl wis sold they would iiave to pay themse for education. Therefore, it was that ha thought that the charge for educa tion should he borne first by the parents thems Ives, and secondly, by a tax upon the property of fh-j country. They must remem ber that I hey had been spending a very lars;e amount of money on education. Last year the amount raised by land revenue was £IIO,OOO, and they had voted some £90,000 for education. The Superintendent had sent down a memorandum, and a very able one, to the Council, in which he recommended free education, paid for, partly, by means of a land tax. The latter, he felt, was a most impolitic and unjust tax. because it taxed those who were working to make the country, and because it allowed a large number of persons to go scot free. A combined income aud property tax would reach all classes, and would be the fairest. There was, he desired to point out to them, a very large proportion of persons, men who held a large stake in the country in the shape of shares in various undertakings, mortgages of property, &c, who would escape paying their fair quota to this vitally important cause under the proposed land tax, while they were equally as interested in it as any other portion of the community. It did not seem to him fair that mortgagees should go free, while the men who were working to make the country, and had per haps to toil early and late to make up the interest on these mortgages,should be taxed. 