THE NEW TARIFF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2801, 20 November 1907, Page 10

THE NEW TARIFF.

EFFECT OF THE ALTERATIONS'.

(Fkou Ock Owv CojutispoHnnrr.) WELLINGTON, November 15. A return was presented to Parliament to-day showing the estimated loss of j revenue owing to the changes made in tha tariff this session. The return was as follows :— Suyar, £205,000; xaolaeees and treacle, £6200; cotton and linen piece goods, £55.000; fruits (dried), £32,000; figs, dates, and prunes, £12,000: vegetable oils, £12,000; paperhangings, £700; irjasa (crown sheet, etc.). £7000; glass (plate, > polished, eta), £4000; cream of tartar, £6500; silks, satins, etc., £5000; laoe, £4500; ribbons and orepe, £2500; articles , made up from textiles, £1009; crewel, ' flourishing, and embroidery threads, £500: spioes (unground), £4000jl iron pipes and) fibre, 6in, and oast-iron 9in. £3000; cork 'cut), £2500; .mustard, £2200; maitena. and cornflour, £1200; tead (in sheets), £1300; fencing staples, £1000; wood or rubber heels or knobs, £1000; almond* and nuts. £1100; blue. £1000; hose, tubing, or piping. £1500; surgeons' instruments, £4000; tobacco pip^ee and cases, £.1000; soda (carb. and bicarb.), £600; tartar io acid, £500; carriage, rubber, and pneumatic tyres, £600 ; children's boots end shoes. £600; meters, £1000; infants' foods, £1000; gum boots, £500: leather, £500; gelatine and isinglass, £800; all other items, £14,000;— total, £405,250.

The Bolton Corporation has just acquired the village of Belmont, a lonely district six miles away, with 800 population, and at the town council meeting it was described as the healthiest village in England. One councillor declared that the people did not die, and owing to the dearth 'of burial fees he urged that the vicar's stipend should be raised. For kix years there had been no prisoner in the lock-up.

The Rev. J. F. Flanagan, who has com* to New Zealand to oonduct a Primitive Methodist mission, ridicules the statements as to the existence of slums in Wellington. At a welcome extended to him he expressed' himself amused at a friend pointing out a row of houses in Wellington as " our slums." If he had not spoken, continued the visitor, " I would have thought they were the residences of fcho 'middle classes." Slums may exist there, but so far he had not seen them.