Show r English Duty Dut on Petroleum April 9 The Tho report that ft duty on petroleum will be one of ot tho new lIeV features of or tho forthcoming budget Is III discredited here The fIle Standard and Vacuum Oil companies representatives In London have heard nothing of ot tho thou u while the Scotch oil all Interests who would be most by such sucha a 1 duty declare re there Is II no foundation for tor the report Those who arc In the trade not believe that any ony chancel chancellor lor of the exchequer would propose a 1 duty which would prove so 0 unpopular They Th point out that the poor would be bethe the only sufferers a 1 the price of ot oil would bo bl Increased by b the amount of or the duty This duty has long Ion I been beell sue Rested RI hut but tile the customs officials dis discountenance dl countenance It on Oil account nf 01 the great ot or levying and collecting tho duty There have been no signs recent recently ly I that thol tho officials have again been In tho subject |