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Received May 10, 8.32 a.m. LONDON, May 9. Sir Wm. Lyne, Commonwealth Minister for Trade and Customs, received a deputation of members of the London and Birmingham Chambers of Commerce, also the Associated Chambers of Commerce, who asked that duties on advertising catalogues be removed or made payable in England in bulk. In his reply, Sir William Lyne stated that it was impossible to remove the "duties, but he would consider the other suggestion. He implied that it might be necessary to extend the duty to magazines, which, by excessive advertisements, sought to evade the duty oil advertising catalogues. Sir Wm. Lyne pointedly referred to Britain's disinclination for preference. The Daily Mail states that Mr W. S. Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finance, is leaving Ottawa to negotiate with Germany' and Austria on the basis of Canada's new intermediate tariff. The Mail adds that if Germany grants Canada concessions which England has refused, the preference on Britain as against Germany falls from 33 1-3 per cent, to 10 per cent. DEFINITENE3S WANTED. , Received May 10, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 10. Sir John Ftfrtesfc, Acting-Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, speaking.at a luncheCW grten by the Mayor, advocated the' of a preference scheme in definite terms as to what they wanted and what they hoped to get. So far, the statesmen at Home and here had not propounded any scheme. They said, "We will take the fence when we come to it."