TASMANIAN FARMERS AND PROTECTION.
Hobart, Sept 9. — A meeting was held at Brighton this afternoon to consider the advisability of petitioning Parliament to give greater protection to the farming interest, about eighty farmers being present. The following resolution was carried unanimously :— " That in consequence of the great depression existing in the farming interest in Tasmania and the increased taxation proposals of the Government it is the opinion of this meeting that great encouragement should be given the farmers through the Customs and that *Jie following duties be imposed : — Onall cereals, #d. per bushel ; on flour, £2 per ton ;on hay and chaff, 10s. per ton ; on butter, 4d. per lb ; on carcase meat, 2p. 6d. per lOOlbs ; on horses, £5 per head ; on cattle, 30s>. per head ; on sheep, Is. 6d. per head."
A decree has been published announcing the postponement of the Chinese Emperor's marriage until 1889, owing to lacic of funds in the Imperial treasury. The cen^u^ returns published in 1881 showed thab in Engln i and Wales there were 229,818 groc * and tea - dealers, 13,000 of whom wei c to be found in London alone.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 222, 1 October 1887, Page 3
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188TASMANIAN FARMERS AND PROTECTION. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 222, 1 October 1887, Page 3
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