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. OUR FINANCIAL PROSPECTS. |

... 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 ...

THE BUDGET

... apprenticeship from £ 120 to X80 50,000 Reduction of Advertisement-duty from Is. 6J. to 6d., and abolition of Stamp-duties upon news- paper advertisement supplements, 160,000 Reduction of duty on hackney-carriages from Is. 5d. to Is. per day ...

THE LEGISLATION OF 1853

... South Sea and other Annuities Commutation. South Sra and other Annuities, ProvisionfSr Payment. Excise Duty on Spirits. Stamp Duties. Stamp Duties, No. 2. Consolidated AnumUes, Ireland. Insurance on Lives Income Tax Exemption. Transfer of ...

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

... 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 ...

FROM THE BILL OF ENTRY OFFICE. EXPORT S

... 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; ...

. MR. GLADSTONE'S BUDGET

... remaining timber duty was to be abolished, and that, in deference to the reasonable appeal of the Burgundy wine growers, the duty on wine in bottles ^as to be assimilated to the duty on wines in the wood. By the abolition of the timber duty ...

PAST EVENTS IN OUR ISLAND RECALLED

... 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- ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUSTCH & f Of. ---+-

... Income-tax. Put a Stamp duty of One P¿Gny on every Photo- graph Portrait that is sold. The Portrait is a luxury, OF is thought one. The tax will not fall on the Poor. It can be easily collected by adopting the Packers' Cheque principle, and stamping tne card. ...

THE BUDGET. --,,-____n-

... 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 ...

E.rter. April 2lsL?i

... foreign letters can be prepaid with money, postage stamps can be obtained, and letters can be registered. . .LETTER SORTING ON RAILWAYS..It has at length been finally determined that the sorting duty necessary for forwarding letters through London on ...

NEWPORT TIDE TABLE

... will enable parliament to repeal the excise duty on paper. 2. That it expedient to abolish the stamp duties now pay- able on newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland. 3. 1 hat it is expedient to abolish the duties now payable on advertisements in Great Britain ...