It Is With The Utmost Satisfaction That We Record The
decision of the Government to refuse their assent to the overtures made to them in regard to participation in the Baghdad Railway scheme. On Thursday, in the House of Commons,......
In The General Debate That Followed, Mr. Haldane Was In-
clined to regard the Budget as an electioneering Budget, and complained that five times more relief was going to the Income-tax payers, and so to the supporters of the......
The Most Interesting Points In Mr. Ritchie's Speech Are...
by us elsewhere, but we may mention here one or two items of importance. He stated, for example, that the total expenditure last year was £201,127,000, and that the total cost......
The Following Are The Details Of Mr. Ritchie's Budget...
in tabular form :— Estimated Receipts on existing basis of taxation:— C ustoms ... ••• £36,640,000 Excise 32,700,000 Death-duties ••• 13,300,000 Stamps 8,400,000 Land-tax and......
News Of The Week.
M R. RITCHIE opened his Budget on Thursday afternoon. He calculates that if he maintained the taxes now in operation at their present figure, he would next year have an excess......
The Chief Point Made By Sir William Harcourt, Who Fol-
lowed Mr. Ritchie, was that though peace had come, taxation was still immensely higher than before the war. The real thing to ask, and what the House must ask and what the......
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No. 3,904.] FOB THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1903. ZOISTERED Al • NEwsPAPIR. 1 BT......
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