... THE ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMP. With reference to recent paragraph respecting the resolution said to have been pasted the Town Council of Dundee, to the effect that Mr. James Chalmers was the originator the adhesive stamp, and not Sir Rowland Hill, it has ...

... yielded £1,902,787, all other items (except House Duty) showing decreases. The decrease of £1,004,750 in stamp stated to have been chiefly due to the decline the receipt of legacy and succession duties as compared with the very Urge receipt in 1892-93 ...

... 000 that was anticipated. The total receipts for stamps Sebre £BBO,OOO, which was 1360,000 above his estimate, and general stamps had increased bye little over five per cent.; while stamp and death duties bad Increased by ten per cent. Be deprecated relying ...

... and said he quite agreed that taxation should be altered—for instance, that of land, referring to the entail duty, and also the probate duty. Income taxation should be altered; all unearned incomea might well be taxed twenty shillings in the £. East Cuckfield ...

... THE MEDICINE STAMP ACT. tUore attention drawn to >OOlO enactment not &• Well known their peniicibua effects demand —namely, the Medicine Stamp Acta. the last financial year (eaye the Lancet), according the Inland Revenne accounts, duty of I|H. was paid ...

... road this, it will pay you. !Pare you used the Lightning self-attaching bodice steels P If not, send six stamps for a set of fire Wes* or ten stamp, for a set in satin, white, black, cream, or slate, to the Lightning Co., 23. Aldermanbury, London, E.C ...

... charge* for stamp* and atatamaata moke total of £1 7a. Id.—more than the coat of the ropoha—for thb important necoont moat, forsooth, examined tbo district auditor who come, annually from n distance for that purpose, and who requires to stamped with a Sa ...

... ago, it is said, Alexander 111., retiring to rest, discovered under his pillow written communication, bearing the official stamp of the Nihilists,and warning him that if Representative Government and Liberal Constitution were not granted to Russia within ...

... due to spirits and beer. The old death-duties—namely, probate, legacy, and succession duty—realised £6,056.000, au increase of £116,000, and the new estate duty £784,000 against an estimate ot £BOO,OOO. General stamps, the revenue from which wss always uncertain ...

... Loudon, 8.E., by J, C. Bno’s patent. THE SOCIETY PAI'EJS. {From Intth.) The Albert llall Faneie Fajre fittioga have been doing duty again Baatbourne, where ytrj aaeceuful *' boa been held in Devouhire-park, on behalf of local cburcb. I luppoee we shall soon ...

... present were only the proportion of one to 10 of the males. Perhaps the majority of the tenderer sex were attending to domestic duties elsewhere. The few present In the warrens were feeding with apparent unconcern, without any show of feminine coquetry. But ...

... thousand soldiers to North Africa. The Telegraph Stamp.— The Postmaster- General 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 distinctive telegraph ...