Imperial Parliament
« (reutee's telegrams) London, April 24. The Right Hon. H. C. E. Chllders, Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered the budget statement in the House of Commons last evening. The estimated revenue for the ensuing financial year is £85,500,000, and the expenditure at £85,250.000. It was proposed to continue the reduction of the national debt, and £8,000,000 would be paid off during the year. The speech also announced that it was intended to issue stock bearing interest at the rate of 2f per cent., which would be offered to holders of all three per cent, consols. No increase of taxation was announced.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 49, 26 April 1884, Page 2
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