BUDGET CHARGES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1909, Page 7

BUDGET CHARGES.

HOTELKEEPERS PROTESTING. SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVE TO licenses: MR. LLOYD-GEORGE ADVISES PATIENCE. By Telegraph.— .Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 11, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, 10th May. Hotel proprietors are protestiogagainst the enormous ' diarges imposed by Mi*. Lloyd-George's Budget. They urge the taxation of drinks at4gd in the pound. A similar method is proposed for clubs, at threepence in the.; pound. Mr. Lloyd-George, in an interview with a- representative of the "Daily Mail, said the calculations in regard to licenses had been greatly exaggerated. He did not desire to strangle respectable hotels. He urges the public to await the details of his Finance Bill. EFFECT OF TOBACCO DUTIES. FACTORIES CLOSING DOWN. LONDON, 10th May. A cigar factory afc Huddersfield is i closing owing to the tobacco duty. Two hundred hands have been dismissed there, and 450 cigar-makers in Nottingham have been "notified that they have been dispensed with. ITALIAN ANARCHISTS. A LONG TRIAL. PEASANTS' SYMPATHY WITH CRIMP. By Telegraph.— Prefflf Association.— Copjwight. (Received May 11, 8.10 a.m.) ROME, 10th May. Fifty-nine anarchists have been acquitted at Lucca, in Northern Italy, after a long trial. Five hundred and twelve questions were submitted to the jury. The peasantry of Parma rejoice at the acquittal.