Victorian Customs Duties. MELBOURNE.
Thursday.
At a Cabinet meeting it was resolved to remit Customs duties to the amount of £60,000 and impose stamp duties to the amount of £GO,OOO. Later. —Mr Berry in the Assembly proposed stamp duties to the amount of £70,000, to rescind the ten-per-cent. duty on hardware, forego the duty on drugs, and revise the duty on soft goods to the amount of £25,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2925, 29 August 1879, Page 2
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