... painstaking and conscientious meaner in which he had discharged his duties. He moved that the board record their appreciation of the =liner in which Mr Waddle had discharged the duties of Chairman during the board's tenure of office.—Agreed. The Chairman ...

... imports this year to more than £1,000,000 a day. The trades' congress had advocated the taking off of all our excise and other duties, and that taxes should be laid upon real property only. He did not know whether our real property would bear suck a tag, but ...

... th i nient. Tin UNIFICATION OF STAMPS.—The Thfily News understands that the Postmestereleueral intends to carry out still further the principle of the unification of stamps adopted in the abolition of the receipt stamp. It is now intended to abolish the ...

... along the hills in the direction of Howinun. TOLL ABoLITION IN SCOTLAND. —lt ID announced that a general Road Bill for Scotland will be introduced by the Lord-Advocate this session to facilitate the abolition of tolls. It is understood that it will be permissive ...

... attache of the Bil:Ish embassy at Paris. Mr Hildyard keeps a dog, In respect of he lately • tax -gatherer's paper claiming a duty of In pursuance of the new act rendering doge liable to taxation. : Mr. HUdrarti claimed exemption on the ground that Inasmuch ...

... pronounced first-clan, as was every other item in the bill of fare. The chair occupied by Mr W. lanes, teacher, Nisbet, and the duties of the vice-chair were performed by Mr Walter Laidlaw, forester. The company was a very large one—larger, in fact, than in ...

... executors, were formerly held liable to duty, although the inventory duty had to be paid on the commissary return by the agent. Now such appraisements made for the executor for such a p are exempted from stamp duty. The former never well defined, and seemed ...

... his slaty. The facts of the case are these :—lt -- that Police .' once-constable Taylor and rolice-aerjeant Barris were on duty shortly after four o'clock on the 9th last, when they discovered that the window of the billiard room at Mr. Hanbury's residence ...

... the Anti- Patronage Committee, narrating the proceedings in connection with the introduction and passing of the l'atronage Abolition Act, and.cceicluded by moving the adoption of the following re,polution The Commission with deep thankfulness to Almighty ...

... evening, at I•er house in Canungete, Deceased bad been ailing a little previously, be was able to 4o about her usual houselF.ld duties up to the tun) of her sudden decease, which is attributed to heart disease. Deco teed was 61 years of age. The pecuniary loss ...

... are sold by most Chemists. I'ost Free, It Stamps. id Cenecot Ma of Royal Horeb.. . Deb. n for the . t ote.. it etbe best for r.torlog to Ito f kdaL orwer Laboratory, Bayley Street, London. W.C. mis abolition of the laws of primogenitnie and entail, ...

... Provost Elliot occupied the very Liberal party constituting th e Birmingham for Leicester, is in favour of their total abolition ; aid not consider the Churches of Scotland anti G t t u on WORD& London :W. Isbester I Co., 56 *hair, and among these. present ...