... small remaining timber duty was to abolished, and that, In deference to the reasonable appeal of tho Burgundy growers, the duty wine in bottles was to be assimilated to the duty on winoa the wood. By the abolition the timber duty a sum £307 ...

... Then there would be a duty of 6s. a cwt. on chicory, yielding £90,000. would be penny stamps and 3d. stamps on certain trade documents; eating-houses, including pastrycooks, would be allowed licenses to sell wine or beer. The duty on game certificates ...

... his mind were the income-tax and tho tea duties, the relative web-lit of taxation felling heavier these than upon malt. He proposed, therefore, to reduce the tea duty lb. Thus, the tea that now rays Is. per lb. duty will hereafter pay 6d.; and he hoped that ...

... e the reduction or abolition of the present differential duty of one penny per pound on foreign paper, except in the case of countries from which the free export in rags is permitted. Admission of Foreign Spirits at a Reduced Duty. A deputation from the ...

... to.—The tenth resolution, relating to tho imposition a stamp duty on agreements for letting furnished houses for less than a year, was taken next and agreed to. —The ninth, imposing a stamp duty of on licenses for house agents, was next taken and agreed ...

... loss bad actually been only £529,000. As regarded spirits, there was abolition of the differential duties, making a reduction of duty on brandy £446,000; in Joly an additional duty bad been placed on foreign spirits, which was estimated to yield £480 ...

... has been proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer it is not our purpose to speak. But one subject—that of the abolition of the duty on paper—we wish to say something. An eminent authority has remarked that il takes ten years to carry a political measure ...

... cliffo tho motion was unanimously agreed to. Tho Common Law Courts (Fees) Bill was read second time. QuaUflcation for Offices Abolition BUI was, after some discussion, road second time, and House ad* joarned. In the House of Commons, Sit G. Grey moved that ...

... Mr. Maguire moved that the position which the British paper trade had been placed the abolition the import duty on foreign paper, leaving the foreign export duty rags in full operation, is one of great hardship the British manufacturer, and calls for ...

... colony, and to place the governing power of the country in the hands of an oligarchy. The Government measure provided for the abolition of the franchise for ever, and the substitution, for the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, of one chamber of ...

... committee, and the resolutions relating to the sugar duties were agreed to. resolutions continuing tho duties tea, altering duty on corn, that relating the income-tax, the Ikoncos to sell tea, tho stamp duties letters attorney and t>roxie° ...

... largely increased and to equalise the duty on wine in bottle and wine wood: to remove the duty on pepper, and to repeal portion of the duty on locomotion. There was present a omnibuses penny for every mile run. Teat duty it was proposed to reduce t » farthing ...