State for India whether there hal "he before comparative fi int out that the this year t of preceding youn wider 62.500 chests, te axa any average of 67.000 ested in the opium question was heat ly 3 at the House of Commons for the purpose of hearing an ailitress a Malay resident bury.
In Committee on the Finance Bill on duly 1, Mr, Nield (U.)
ut, the object of which was substitute an all valorem fora spre duty on tea. The amend cal by 212 votes to eighter Bridgeman (U.), on behalf reduce the teadnty to 4a. ment wax defeated by 195 136. Mr. A. Fell (Un insertion of a provision that tea wh has been grown or manufactured any English colony or depen shall be charged only a rate of 4d. per Wh, Mr. Caldwell, who was in' the chair, pointed out that there was no thing ax an English " colony dependency, and h to wnbstitnt Mr, Asyuith—That was a very proper and necessary change. (Lau ghter.) Procecling to deal with the amendment the Chancellor of the Exchequer said the ground was cut from ander the feet of the mn, member by the fact that the importation of tea from the British East Indies amounted to runty-three per cent of the whole, While in 1890 the imports from the British Enst Indies 101,000,000 Ib. and those from China 54,000.000, tosay the British East Indies send 164,000,000 and China 5,000,000. Moreover, the British East Indies wi. captur kets outside this eoantry,—[F the amendment was a y mea sure, in ease the Colonies should lose the enterprise they had exhibited, he OE
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