... and formally moved the resolution abolishing the timber duty. Fripay, May 5. Insurance Duties. ve notice that, in committee of wa: ys and Mr —— fe move that it was inexpedient to maintain the duties on fire and marine insurance. Cholera tn Emigrant Ships ...

... Mi I Oliver, clothier. Mr Hitaoii, solicitor, (Seorue Balfour, Alexander Balfour. M' George Kvle. Australia. Waller Cl.rk. Stamp Office. Mr Thomas Chnk, United Stales, Mr Hop ...

... morning. Ihe schooner sunk, but the crew got on board the brig. Numerous petitions are being presented for the total abolition of the duty on Fire Insurance. The Prince and Princes of Wales have consented to attend the approaching musical festival at Norwich ...

... fairness and equity by which religious grants are made. It is no part of the duty of the State to legislate on matters which pertain solely to the human conscience, or to stamp one system as truth and another as error ; and consequently if religion is to ...

... awa: to be an lect of uubtless be a sufficient sur last year some of them, oni; ve modifications ; of the and the abolition of the timber duties will still leave abund- nonths, but ance to be distributed, treaty with Aus- tria. The Times ladstone will attempt ...

... recovery in regard to traffic, will £61.000. Post horse duties include hackney carriages. The post horse duties are the duties upon post horses and carriages strictly so called; and Hies* duties are at present regulated scale which ia framed hear hardly ...

... become void at the end of the third year by non-payment of the stamp duty of £5O then payable, and nearly 90 per cent. become void at the end of the seventh year, when a further stamp duty of £lOO is payable. There are fees payable in the earlier stages ...

... the the Chancellor ' said be proposed to repeal the duty on timber, and to Number the duty on wine in bottles to the ,pity on wine in wood. The duty on timber was ovoid be. It was a imotective duty no • nue 'material of which the country Amid in great ...

... 000. Of this stun the proposed repeal of the timber duties will absorb £307,000, the equalisation of the duties on wins £58,000, the abolition of the duty on pepper £lll,OOO, the reduction of the duties on stag* carriages and .post hones £85 ...

... littlo surplus wherewith to deal in the coming Budget. The re leutiens in the duty on tee, and other items, which *here made last year, and the abolition of the tinii,er duties in accordance with the terms if our csanniorclal treaty with Austria, have narrowed ...

... 12,829 £20,358 0 | Creditor. £300 duties, 51 0 | Post office—gross receipts, 1,450 Income and property tax, 757 0 | £2,558 Apparent balance, £4973 0 0 £5000 0 0 Spirit duty, 8200 0 0 Tea duty, 4600 0 0 ‘Tobacco duty, . £17,800 0 0 ae £20,358 0 0 It hardly ...

... 'ag extent. The duty on 'pepper last year -was £124,000,' and allowing' for' the' months which had elapsed, the abolition of 'this, duty would take a further sum from the t surplus of £112,000. He net proposed to ap- portion the duties from locomotion ...