Show HOYL WAS WRONG haf table of and measures was government new york nov SO an important discovery die covery which the saving to the government of at least a quarter of a million dollars a year has been made by silk examiner brown of this port found that the in hoyla tables of weights and measures of the equivalent in grammes and grains of the japanese Japan eee momme the weight in which the and kaiki beilka are entered erroneous kivee abu momme as equal to grammes while the correct equivalent is grammes the and kaiki eicke were abscessed aBs essed in the dingley tariff 3 a pound a rate equal to about 70 per cent ad va lorem in the three preceding the of that act the imports of them fell off almost entirely but in the past month or they have largely increased and their recent imports have been liquidated by the collector according lo 10 hoyla tables which pave the equivalents too email by more than a half the importers thus have been paying a duty of loss than 60 per cent instead of a duty ot 75 per cent and the government has been losing heavily however es the government has the right to all losses within a year it will suffer no actual loss |