... Office 2,610,000; Telegraphs 500,000! Packet Service 1,135,000 Abolition of Purchase 853,000 Total R71,313,000 The reduction of the duties on coffee and chicory. income tax, and house duty, is expected still to leave quarter of a million in the hands of ...

... October, 1857. The duty on paper of all qualities, on advertise- ments, and stamp duty on each news- paper, were all imposed during the last century, but they were increased during the early decades of the present century. The advertisement duty amounted to ...

... is but an incident in the great general ques- tion of justice to woman. He asks if the question be less sacred than the abolition of slavery in America or serfdom elsewhere. The most important period of life — the first — is, he says, entrusted to woman; ...

... settlement in any part of New Zealand. 1850—Ministers were defeated on their Stamp Duty Bill by a majority of 161 to 135 sup- porting SirHenry Willoughby's amendment for fixing the duty at Is instead of 2s 6d on E50. 1851-Sir E. Balwer Lytton published a Pro- ...

... e I.)—T^a Royal Assent was given to an Act for Pr-itlitiiig Frauds and Abuses in the Public Reveals of Excise, Custom, Stamp Duties, PO!3'f, Office, and Hou- Mon«y. 1.727-(George I.)—The K'.ijg- was attacked by illness on his journey to kuuoror, and died ...

... by abolishing or merging the present probate duty, the account duty, the estate duty, and the addition made by Mr Goschen to the succession duty, and start afresh. they constituted in their place a single duty of that class of which probate ...