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Compared With Receipt. In 1900-4.

Increase. Decreane. 10,000 23,000 258,000 Incest... Demean E139,060,000 01.788,000 Compared with Ex- penditure in 19314. Increase. — Dearceee. 4123,03 . 0 £4,000 5,600,000......

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Orderly, And Listened With Attention, And Apparently With...

to the addresses which Mr. Marwick, the Assistant-Secretary for Native Affairs, delivered on the cer- tainty of immunity from the plague if proper precautions were followed.......

Lion.tax Nevem.. 22,460,000

The great American parties have apparently settled upon the candidates for the Presidency, though they have still to receive the benediction of the National Conventions. There......

If Taxation Were To Be Left At Its Present Level,

there would, in view of the expenditure sanctioned, be a deficit in the current financial year of £3,820,000. Therefore Mr. Austen Chamberlain, since he very properly refuses to......

Was The Intervention At Its Close Of Mr. Chamberlain, Who

dealt in a jocose speech with Mr. Lough's amendment that the duty on tea should be M. instead of 8d. MB point was that in future people would not be able to tell him that his......

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9,000 138,000 167,000 LOW e1,574,000......

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