DIMUNITION BY WAY OF ADDITION.
[To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Times.] Sra, —-Your contemporary of Saturday reports M r Ormond as speaking of the l prbbablo loss of the Customs surplus by the provinces ia the following words : '■ It was possible, though not probable, that the whole of the customs revenue would be given to the General Government, but that the share hitherto allotted t j the provinces would be diminished, he iiad not the smallest doubt. He thought it likely the provinces would get two-iU'ths, instead of three-eighths, as hitherto. This statement might lead any one to suppose that two-fifths was something less than threeeighths, whereas it is two and-a-half per cent, more. It reminds one of the Irishman who, dissatisfied with one-fourth share in the profits of a transaction, elected to lake one-fifth; and could not comprehend how five could be less than four. I am, o A YULGAE FB ACTION.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 390, 2 July 1866, Page 3
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155DIMUNITION BY WAY OF ADDITION. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 390, 2 July 1866, Page 3
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