COMPARATIVE CUSTOMS DUTIES OF THE AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES, 1887-88.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1888 Session I, B-08

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1888. NEW ZEALAND.

COMPARATIVE CUSTOMS DUTIES OF THE AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES, 1887-88.

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives, dated 18th May, 1888. Ordered, " That there be laid before the House a Return showing, in parallel columns, the present tariffs of New Zealand and the Australian Colonies." —(Dr. Fitchett.)

NOTE.—The portion relating to the other Colonies is reprinted from a document published by the Government of South Australia, on 23rd August, 1887.

WELLINGTON: BY AUTHORITY : GEORGE DIDSBURY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER.

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Comparative Customs Duties of the Australasian Colonies.

Note. —The rates in the first column represent proposed alterations. The rates not affected by these alterations remain as column headed " Ni !W Zealand." Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. "Western Australia. Tasmania. 3d. per lb. Acid, Acetic 6d. per gallon 3d. per lb. or pint; for every extra 10 per cent, or part of 10 per cent, of acidity, Id. per lb. Citric 10 per centum, muriatic 5s. per cwt. and tartarie free 5s. per cwt. 25 per centum 3d. per pint or lb. .„ [Free 7J per centum 12J per centum 10 per centum Acid —Citric, muriatic, tartaric Tartaric, Id. per lb.; citric, 15 per centum; muriatic, free Free 15 per centum 5s. per cwt. Free 7J per centum] 12J per centum Tartaric, 4d. per lb.; others, free Acid, Sulphuric and nitric Air brick 5s. per cwt. 25 per centum (iron), Is. 4d. ft. earthen 220 per centum Free Free 7| per centum 7J per centum 12J per centum 12J per centum Free 10 per centum 25 per centum Is. 6d. per gallon Agricultural implements, unenumerated Albums Ale, porter, spruce, or other beer Free 15 per centum In wood, Is. 3d. per gal.; in bottle, Is. Cd. per gallon 15 per cent.; free for carriage-building Free 15 per centum 25 per centum Is. per gallon 20 per centum 9d. per gallon Free Free In wood or jar, 6d.per gal.; in bottle, 9d. per gallon Free 5 per centum 7J per centum Is. per gal. in bottle ; 9d. per gal. in wood 5d. per centum 12J per centum Is. per gallon 5 per centum 10 per centum In wood, 9d. per gal.; in bottle, Is. 3d. per gallon 10 per centum American leather cloth Free Free 7J per centum 12J per centum Anchors of every description 3 cwt. and under 25 per cent., others free 5s. each Free . Free Free 10 per centum Free Animals, Living, viz. —Horses, mares, geldings, colts, and fillies over the age of six months, except in saddle or harness Horned cattle, cows, oxen, heifers, bulls, steers, calves over six months old, except working bullocks in teams Sheep Pigs Not enumerated Antifouling composition Antimony —in ingots Anvils Apparel and slops (except mole clothing and imitations thereof) Free 5s. each ■ Free Free Free Free Free 5s. each 5s. each Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 15 per cent, (including mole clothing) 6d. each 2s. each Free Free Free Free 25 per. centum, and mole clothing 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 10 per centum Free 10 per centum Free 6d. each 2s. each Free Free Free Free 3 25 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 2s. per cwt. 7J per centum 7J per centum All kinds, 7J per centum Free Free Free 12J per centum 12J per centum 5 per centum 12J per centum Free Free Free Jd. per lb. Free Free 10 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Apparel and slops, all wool.. Archery materials Arms —Sporting Arrowroot Arsenic Artists' colours, canvas, and pallet knives Asphalt Atlases 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum Free Free 15 per centum 30 per centum 25 per centum Free 2d. per lb. Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 7J per centum 7J per centum 7J per centum Id. per lb. 7J per centum 7J per centum 12J per centum 12J per centum 12J per centum 12J per centum 12 j per centum 12J per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Free (crude) 10 per centum Free Free ■ Free Free Free Free unf ramed (other 20 per centum) Free Free 7J per centum 7J per centum 12J per centum Free 10 per centum Free

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Axles .. .. ,. Free 25 per centum 4 25 per cent, (common dray) Free 7} per centum 5 per centum Backs, wooden, for brushes.. Bacon .. .. Bagging— Forfar and Hessians Free 2d. per lb. Bagging 15 per cent.; Forfar free Free 4d. per lb. Free 25 per centum 2d. per lb. see Jute. Free 2d. per lb. ■ Free 7} per centum •2d. per lb. 7} per centum 12 J per centum 3d. per lb. 12} per centum 10 per centum 2d. per b. 10 per centum Bags — *\ Flour Calico 20 per Forfar " cent. Hessian Linen ; Bags and sacks Cornsacks, flour, bran, ore, and gunny Free —other kinds 15 per centum Free, except printed s 6d. per dozen Free 7} per centum \ Gunny, bran, and ore 6d. per doz., corn and flour Is. per doz. | 6d. per dozen (ex- [■ cept gunny —free) 20 per centum Bags and sacks, viz.: —woolpacks Ballast —not being stone, enumerated Bark for tanning Barley Basketware Bass —Hair and bristles, and other material for brushmaking Bedsteads Beer engines Bellows (except bellows with forges) 2s. Od. per dozen. Free Free 9d. per 100 lbs. Free Free Free Free 10 per centum Is. per bushel 25 per centum Free 3s. per dozen Free Free 2s. per 100 lbs. 25 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Od. per bushel 7} per centum 7} per centum 4s. per dozen. 12} per centum 12} per centum 4d. per bushel 12} per centum 12} per centum Woolpacks 4s. pr. doz. Free Free lOd. per 100 lbs. 10 per centum Free 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum Free 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per cent, on all bellows 25 per centum Free Free Free 7} per'centum 7} per centum all kinds 7} per cent. 12} per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Blacksmiths' free, others 10 per cent. 10 per cent, (except churches) 10 per centum Bells (all kinds) .. 15 per centum 25 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum Ships, 3s. per cwt.; other kinds, 2d. per lb. Bentwood and joinery Bird cages Bird seed Biscuits 15 pr. cent.; bentwood for carriages, free 15 per centum Free Fancy 2d. pr. lb., plain 3s. percwt., ship free Free 15 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. 25 per centum 25 per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Free Free Free other than ship Id. per lb. Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 2d. per lb. 12 J per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum }d. per lb. I 10 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum Blacksand Blankets Blacking (including boot gloss, harness dressing, and blaeklead) Blasting powder dynamite, and lithofracteur Blocks and pulley (except sheaves) ... Free 15 per centum 25 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 25 per centum Id. per lb. 4d. per lb. 4d. per lb. 625 per centum Id. per lb. Id. per lb. Id. per lb. Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum }d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum 12} per centum j Id. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum ; 10 per cent, (except for ships) 10 per centum 2d. per lb. 10 per centum 20 per centum 2d. per lb. 20 per centum Blocks and pulley sheaves Blue Boilers, steam Free Id. per lb. Free 25 per centum 2d. per lb. 25 per centum c25 per centum 2d. per lb. 25 per centum (land and marine) Free Free Free Free Free Free 7_ per centum Id. per lb. 5 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Bonehlack ... ., , Bones .. .. Bone manure .. . ._ Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum Free 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Free Freer Citric, tartaric, free; muriatic, 5s. per cwt. 2 Except reapers and binders, free. 8 Includes mole clothing. --. . • e ' * Common dray with linchpins; Common Nut and others not enumerated up to li inch in diameter 3/- per arm. 5 Except corn, flour, bran, chaff, gunnies, and sugar mats—Free „ ., » » ' above 1} , 4/6 „ 6 Except ship's fittings. — - Mail patent up to ... ...... if „ 4/6 , „ above ... ... ... 1J _ 7/Other patent axles with brass caps ... ... ... -10/- .

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Comparative Customs Duties of the Australasian Colonies— continued.

Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. Bookbinding cloth Books, printed Boot elastic Boot hooks Boots and shoes (except women's and children's lasting and stuff) Boots and shoes — Men's No. 6 and upwards Youths' 2 to 5 Free Free Free 15 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum Free 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Free Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 12s. per dozen pairs 10s. per dozen pairs (Nos. 1-5) 6s. per dozen pairs (Nos. 10-13) 8s. per dozen pairs 33s. per dozen pairs 21s. per dozen pairs £1 13s. per doz. pairs £1 Is. per doz. pairs Boys' 7 to 1 .. 17s. 6d. per doz. pairs 17s. 6d. per doz. pairs Women's No. 3 and upwards .. 19s. 6d. per doz. pairs, except lasting and stuff boots, 25 per centum 16s. per dozen pairs 19s. 6d. per doz. pairs Girls' 11 to 2 6s. per dozen pairs (Nos. 10-2) 5s. per dozen pairs (Nos. 7-9) 2s. per dozen pairs (Nos. 0-6) 5s.per doz.pairs (without military heels) 2s. Od. per doz. pairs 3s. per dozen pairs (except children's) 15 per centum 15 per centum 16s. per dozen pairs 20 per centum - Girls' 7 to 10 lis. 6d. per doz. pairs lis. 6d. per doz. pairs Children's 4 to 0, and slippers.. 7 6s. per dozen pairs Gum boots, free Children's 0 to 3 Free 20 per centum Women's lasting and stuff boots Goloshes of all kinds Slippers —Men's, women's, and children's, from 7 and upwards Boot and slipper uppers Boot laces V 25 per centum J i 13s. per dozen pairs 4s. per dozen pairs 9s. per dozen pairs Jin. and over, 20 per cent. ; others, free 20 per centum Bolts and nuts Boring rods Bottles, ordinary and pickle Free Free Free 25 per centum Leather 25 "§> centum, other Free Over §in. 25 *f> centum, other Free 25 per centum 20 per centum, except medicine 15 "& centum Free Free 25 per centum 25 per centum, and except Dinas Free 20 per centum Leather 25 *fc> centum, other Free 25 per centum all sizes 25 per centum 8 Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum Imported empty 10 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum All sizes 2s. 6d. **? cwt, 10 per centum Free (except fancy 10 per centum) 10 per centum Free 10 per centum Free Bottles, indiarubber Brass, bar, sheet, rod, and rolled Bread-cutters Bricks (except Bath) Free Free Free Free 25 per centum Air iron 25 centum, Fire 20s. per 1,000, others Free Free £1 per 1,000 Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 15 per centum Free Bricks, Bath Bricks, fire Free Free Free 25 per centum, except Dinas Free 25 per centum Free 25 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 9d. per cwt. Free 20 per centum Bright, wireware .. Brimstone, crude, and flowers of sulphur Britannia metalware 15 per centum Is. per cwt. 15 per centum 25 per centum Free 20 per centum Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum Sulphur 10 ty centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Free 10 per centum

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20 per centum 20 per centum ; galvanised, 25 per cent. British plate Brooms and brushware Buckets and tubs (all kinds of) Buckles not plated Bulbs and seeds, garden Bunting in the piece Butter 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum Free Free Free Free 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free (all ..kinds of) Free Free 2d. per lb. 20 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free Free Free 2d. per lb. Free Free Free ■ Free Free Free Id. per lb. 7} per centum 7J per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Free 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 3d. each 10 per centum Free 20 per centum 7} per centum 2d. per lb. 12} per centum 2d. per lb. 10 per centum 2d. per. lb. Free 20 per centum Peel, 3d.; fruit, 20 per centum 2d. per lb. Camera, photographic Camp ovens and covers Candied fruits .. .. Free 15 per centum peel 3d. lb.; fruit, 15 per centum 1} per lb. 15 per centum 15 per centum Free Free Free 15 per centum Free Free 25 per centum 3d. per lb. Free 25 per centum 2d. per lb. Free Free 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 2d. per lb. 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 2s. 6d. per cwt. 10 per centum Free 20 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum Candles Candle moulds Candlesticks Cane Canvas Canvas hose Capsules, bottle Cardboards, strawboards, and millboards (plain) Cards, playing Carpets and carpeting Carpet bags and portmanteaux Carriages, carts, wagons, and all vehicles Carriages (including secondhand), and carts Carriages —All carts and wagons without springs, and spring carts and spring drays with two wheels Carriages —Tilburys, dog carts, gigs, Boston chaises, and other twowheeled vehicles on springs or thorough braces Carriages — Express wagons, and wagons for carrying goods, and single or double-seated wagons, and four-wheeled buggies without tops, mounted on springs or thorough braces Carriages — Hansom cabs, safety, single and double-seated wagons, wagonettes, and four-wheeled buggies with tops Carriages —Omnibuses and coaches for carrying mails or passengers Carriages — Barouches, broughams, mail phaetons, drags and other carriages not otherwise enumerated Carriages —Parts, viz. — 6d. per pack 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 2d. per lb. 25 per centum 25 per centum Free Free Free Free Free 6s. per dozen packs 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum £10 each 2d. per lb. 25 per centum Free Free (except jute) Free Free Free 3s. per dozen packs 20 per centum 25 per centum io 20 per centum £10 each Id. per lb. Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Id. per lb. 12} per centum 12} por centum 12} peg centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 2d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum Free Free 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum £5 each 20 per centum 15 per centum £15 each £15 each Free £10 each 20 per centum 15 per centum £20 each £20 each Free £10 each 20 per centum 15 per centum £40 each £40 each'' Free £10 each 20 per centum 15 per centum £50 each £50 each Free £10 each 7 Victoria —Children's Nos. 0-3, free. 8 Bottles, empty Is. foot; bottles, ordinary, containing bei 10 See exemptic !r, wine, &c, 6d. per dozen; and containing pickles, 3d, per dozen, ins, Victoria, at end. 3 25 per centum, or 2s. 6d. cubic foot.

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Comparative Customs Duties of the Australasian Colonies— continued.

Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. 20 per centum Dressed,20percent.; ( Undressed free ( Undergear, 20 per cent.; Axles and Arms, free Carriages —Sets of wheels, unbored and untired Carriages —Poles Carriage —Shafts and bars Carriage —Undergear, including axles and arms 15 per centum Free Free Bindergear 15 per cent., Axles and Axle-arms free 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum £2 per set 5s. each Is. per set £4 each Free Free Free Free Free Carriage —Buggy tops (if composed principally of leather) Carriage — If of any other material .. Carriage trimmings Casks and cases for dry goods and packages in which goods are ordinarily imported, and empty returns Castings, not enumerated (except plough and scarifier shares) Cement Chaff cutters Chain cables and traces (not galvanized) 25 per centum £5 each Free Free Free 25 per centum Free Free, except glass or stone bottles, enumerated £3 each Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum Free 12} per centum Free 10 per centum Free 20 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum Free For building purposes, 2s. per cwt. 2s. per barrel 5 per centum Chain cables, free, Traces, Galvanised, 7} per cent. 7} per centum 7J per centum 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 12} per centum Is. per cwt., gross 2s. per barrel 20 per centum Is. per barrel Free Free 25 per cent.; shares, 15 per centum 2s. per barrel 20 per centum Free Free 20 per centum Free 2s. per barrel Free Free 2s. per barrel 5 per centum Chain cables, 10 per cent. Traces, Galvanised, 12}% 12} per centum Free 3d. per lb. 12} per cent., except disinfectants, 5 per centum 3d. per lb. 9d. per cwt. 5 per centum Free 20 per centum Chalk Charts Cheese Chemicals, druggists' ware, unenumerated Is. per cwt. Free Free 15 per centum Free Free 4d. per lb. 10 per centum Free Free 2d. per lb. Free Free 2d. per lb. Free 9d. per cwt. Free 2d. per lb. 10 per centum 20 per centum Chicory, including kiln dried (except green root) 3d. per lb. 8d. per lb. 3d. per lb. Baw or kiln dried, 3d. per lb.; roast or ground, 6d. 3d. per lb. 4d. per lb. 4d. per lb. Chicory, Green root 3d. per lb. 60s. per ton Free 4d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 10 per centum China, stone, and earthenware 15 per centum China ware & earthenware, 15 per cent. ; brown earthenware and stoneware, 20 per centum 3d. per lb. Brownware, 20 per cent.; chinaware, 2s. 6d. per cubic ft.; earthenware, Is. 4d. per cubic ft. 3d. per lb. Free 7} per centum 12} per centum China and earthenware, 10 per cent.; drain pipes and tiles, free Chocolate 3d. per lb. Chocolate cream and mixtures, 4d. per lb. In wood or jars, 6d. per gal.; in bottle, 9d. per gallon Free . Free 4d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. Is. 6d. per gallon Cider and perry In wood, Is. 3d. per gallon; in bottles, Is. 6d. per gallon 15 per centum Free Is. per gallon 9d. per gallon Is. per gal., except in wood, 9d. per gal. Is. per gallon 6d. per gallon Clocks Coal, Lignite and coke 15 per centum Free 20 per centum Free 7} per centum Coal, Is. 6d. per ton; lignite and coke, 7} per centum 4d. per lb. 12} per centum Free 10 per centum Is. per ton Cocoa, Manufactured .. ,. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 4d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb.

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Free Cocoa nibs Coffee, Raw Coffee, Boast or ground Coffee, and substitutes thereof, mixed with chicory or coffee Coin, Specie and bullion Id. per lb. 3d. per lb. 5d. per lb. 3d. per lb. Free 3d. per lb. 4d. per lb. 6d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 4d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 6d. per lb. 6d. per lb. 2d. per lb. 4d. per lb. 6d. per lb. 6d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 2d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 4d. per lb. 4d. per lb. Free 20 per centum Chocolate Confectionery, 3d. per lb.; n.o.e., 2d. per lb. Free Free Free, except gold plate, 8s. per oz.; silver plate, 2s. per oz. Free Free Free Free Coir yarn .. .. Combined mower and binder Combs Confectionery Free Free 15 per centum 15 per cent.; boiled sugar, 2d. per lb. Free Free 10 per centum 3d. per lb. Free Free 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Free Free Free 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum Free 5 per centum 10 per centum Id. per lb. 2d. per lb. 4d. per lb. Copperware 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free Free Sheet and rod, 10 per centum Sheathing and nails, 5 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum All free Copper and yellow metal sheathing, and nails for same Copper wire, Thread covered Copperas Copying and embossing presses Cordage, viz., Coir rope Cordage, viz. —Hemp, being bolt rope, Europe rope, fishing lines (other than cotton or fancy), log line, marline, manila, jute and flax (when tarred), rattling, spun yarn, whale lines, and all other hempen cordage (except galvanized and other iron and steel cordage) Cordage, viz. —Manila, jute, and flax (except when tarred), and all other white lines Cordage, viz. —Galvanized and iron .. Free Free Free Free Free Free 5s. per cwt. 7s. 6d. per cwt. Free (bare 15 per cent) Free 15 per centum 5s. per cwt. 5s. per cwt. Free Free 25 per centum 5s. per cwt. 1 f I Free Free 25 per centum 5s. per cwt. lis. 3d. per cwt. Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 4s. per cwt. 4s. per cwt. 10 per centum Free 10 per centum Free Free 10s. per cwt. 5s. per cwt. lis. per cwt. -j 28s. per cwt. Free 10 per centum Free Free Free J I 3s. per cwt. Free Galvanised, 3s. per cwt.; iron, 20s. per ton 20s. per ton 4s. per cwt. 12} per centum Free Free Cordage, viz. —Steel wire (not being fencing wire) Cordials not spirituous Corks —Cut and cork Free Free Free 4s. per cwt. 12} per centum Free 20 per centum Wick, free Cornflour Corn-crushers Cotton —Baw, waste, wick 15 per centum Cork, free ; cut, 15 per centum Is. per 100 lb. Free Free 20 per centum Free Free 20 per centum Cut,4d.perlb.; cork, free 2d. per lb. 20 per centum Free Free Free Id. per lb. Free Free Id. per lb. 5 per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum Free 10 per centum 15 per centum Free, and for Hosiery, packing, knitting. silicate, mending, free Free 20 per cent.; at or under 5d. per yard, free Cotton goods in the piece (except velvets and velveteens, to he considered unenumerated articles) 15 per cent, (except cotton dress prints and calico under 5d. per yard, free) Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Cotton thread, sewing Free Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum

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New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. Proposed Tariff. Articles. 20 per centum 20 per centum Cream of Tartar Couplings for shaftings Crab Winches Crucibles Currants Cutlery Currycombs Curled Hair Id. per lb. Free Free Free 2d. per lb. 15 per centum 15 per centum Free 10 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 2d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Free 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per cent, (metal) 2d. per lb. Free 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Free ■ Free Free Free 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 5 per centum 7} per centum 2d. per lb. 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 3d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum 5 per cent. Free 3d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} jer centum Dates Demonstration chalk Detonators Diamonds, glaziers' and mining Doors and frames (except iron doors).. 2d. per lb. Free Free Free 2s. and 4s. each. 2d. per lb. Free Free Free l}in. and under, 5s. each; over l}in. and under lfin., 7s. 6d. each ; lfin. and over, 10s. each Free, also handles {10 per centum, 15 per centum, 20 per centum, 25 l per centum, and free j 25 per centum, exceptions free 2d. per lb. Free Free Free l}in. and under, 5s. each; over ljin. and under lfin., 7s. 6d.; If in. and over, 10s. Brass, Free Free Free Free Free 2s. each (doors) 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 2s. 6d. each 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 2d. per lb. 9d. per cwt. 10 per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum, including woollen piece goods Trimmed Bonnets 25 per centum Doorknobs —Glass, brass, and china .. Drapery —Including laces, fringes, and embroideries, haberdashery, small wares unenumerated, Hosiery, gloves, hats, caps, and wool (Berlin or knitting), except cloths, tweeds, estamenes, serges, and woollen piece goods Drapery —Hats and bonnets (except straw, chip, willow, tape, and braid untrimmed), not otherwise enumerated Drapery —Boys', youths', and men's hats, with a calico or other foundation or frame, and covered with felt, plush, silk, merino, velvet, or other material, unless otherwise specified Drapery —Known as dress hats Drapery —Boys' and youths' felt hats, in sizes up to and including 6J 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum n 25 per cent, (except straw, &c, free) Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum 15 per centum 30s. per doz. 30s. per dozen 20 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum Drapery —Men's felt and women's untrimmed felt hats of any size, and pith hats Drapery —Caps Drapery —Silks, viz., pongees Drapery —Plaitings, rushings, frillings, and rufflings Drugs —Acid, Carbolic Acid carbolic, Pure Acid, Oxalic 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 48s. per doz. 8s. per doz., and including glazed straw hats 15s. per doz., except pith hats, 15 per centum 25 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 48s. per dozen 8s. per dozen 15s. per dozen 20 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 10 per centum 25 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Free Free Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 6d. per gallon 6d. per lb. 2d. per lb. Free Free Free

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15 per centum Acid, Picric Aloes Ammonia, Carbonate of, and liquid Cannabis Indica Chlorodyne Occuius Indicus Paha Arnara Gelatine Glycerine, Pure Glycerine, Crude Grains of paradise or guinea grains Morphia Nitrate of Silver Nux vomica Potassium, Bromide Potassium, Iodide of Quassia j Strychnine [ (Powders — Washing, hailing, ) ( and Seidlitz Castor and cod oil —Quarts .. (refined) Pints Smaller.. Dyestuffs, being anilyne dyes, bichrome, dyewoods, dyewood extracts, indigo, and spirits of salts Dumb-bells Free 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum Free Free 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum 10 per centum - 10 per centum -j 20s. per lb. y 10 per centum J 3d. per lb. 12s. per cwt. 2d. per lb. Id. per lb. 25 per centum Is. 6d. per cwt. Is. 6d. per cwt. 6d. per lb. 3d. per lb. Id. per lb. 2s. per cwt. Is. 6d. per oz. 6d. per oz. Is. 6d. per cwt. 3d. per lb. lOd. per lb. 40s. per ton Is. per oz. 20 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Washing and baking, 20 per centum Seidlitz, 15 per cent. Codliver, refined, 15 per centum Free Washing, 2d. per lb.; 20 per centum I 20 per centum -J Free ; spirits of salt, 10 per centum 10 per centum Castor, 15 per cent.; codliver, free 2s. per dozen Is. per dozen 6d. per dozen Free Free Free Free Free > Is. per dozen pints ■] Free Free 7J per centum 12J per centum Free 20 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum r 25 per centum Free 7J per centum 12| per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum under 100 h.p. Earthscoops Eggs Emery cloth, powder, and paper Engines and parts (except gas engines and pressure gauges) 15 per centum Free Free Free 25 per centum 10 per centum Free 25 per cent., gas, portable, traction, dry, air, free; gauges, 10 per centum Free ■Free 20 per centum Eree Free Free Free Free Free 5 per centum 7J per centum 7J per centum 5 per centum 10 per centum 12£ per centum 12-J per centum 5 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Free (unenumerated 5 per centum) 25 per centum 20 per centum Engines —Gas Traction and portable Free Free Free 25 per centum Free Free 5 per centum 5 per centum 5 per centum 5 per cent., except fire-engines free 10 per centum Free Engineers' machine tools Free 25 per cent. (See free list under Machinery.) Eyeglasses and scientific instruments, ree; eyeglasses, gold or silver, 15 per centum Free Free Free 7J per centum 10 per centum Eyeglasses and spectacles (except gold and silver), and scientific instruments Free Free Free 7J per centum 12J per centum 10 per centum Eyelets, eyelet punches, and webbing Free Eyelets and webbing, Free; punches, 25 per centum Free 7J per centum Eyelets and webbing, 12J per centum 10 per centum Fancy goods 15 per centum 15 per centum Free Free 7J per centum 12J per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum n Lace silk, 20 per cent., other free; fringes, free; haberdashery, free; small--ares, free; hosiery, 20 per cent, (woollen) gloves, 20 per cent.; wove Berlin, free.

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Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. Fancy soaps and perfumery Feathers and flowers (artificial) 25 per centum 15 per centum Soap, 4d. per lb.; perfumery, 25 per cent. Fancy soap, 4d. per lb.; perfumery, 10 per centum Free •See Spirits Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12$ per centum Perfumery, 10 percent. ; fancy soap, 3d. per lb. 10 per centum 20 per centum Felloes Felt sheathing and paper roofing Free Free Feathers, 25 per cent.; flowers, 15 per centum 25 p_r centum Free Dressed, 25 per cent. Felt sheathing, free; paper roofing, 4s. per cwt. Fenders, 25 per cent.; fireirons, free Free Free 20 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum Felt sheathing, 5 per centum 10 per centum Free 20 per centum Fenders and fireirons 15 per centum 25 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum Dried &c. 10s. *#■ cwt.; potted and preserved, 2d. per lb. Fibre cocoa Fire clay Fireworks Fish, dried, preserved, and salted (ex- ] cept in picide or brine) Free Free Free Potted and preserved, Id. per lb.; dried, 2s. per cwt., including in pickle 15 per centum Free 15 per centum Free 10 per centum 20 per centum Preserved, 2d. per lb. except sardines, dried and salted, Id. per lb. 2d. per lb. 10 per centum Flannels, 15 per centum; others free Free Free Free Free Id. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Preserved, 2d. per lb.; dried, salted and pickled, 5s. per cwt. 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Free Free 10 per centum Tinned, 10 per cent. pickle; dried, Id. per lb. 12 2d. per lb. 20 per centum Fish paste Fish, Fresh Flannels, and Crimean and Union shirtings, in the piece Flax 20 per centum Free 20 per centum Id. per lb. Free Free 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum 10 per centum I Free Free Free New Zealand flax, free; other, 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Per dozen reputed Pints or lbs., and in same proportion for larger or smaller contents, Is. All kinds, 2d. per lb. 12} per centum Free 20 per centum (bottled & preserved) Flock, Cotton and woollen Floor and oilcloth Forks, Hay and digging Fruits, bottled —Quarts Pints Smaller - I Free 15 per centum Free 10 per centum 15 per centum Free 4s. per dozen 2s. per dozen Is. 6d. per dozen Free 20 per centum Free 2d. per lb. 2d. per lb. 2d. per lb. Free Free Free Id. per lb. Id. per lb. Id. per lb. 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Free 10 per centum 5 per centum Dried (except currants, dates, and raisins) [ Is. per dozen A 2d. per lb., all kinds (except apples, Id. per lb.) Free Free 3d. per lb. 2d. per lb. all kinds (Except dates, free) 2d. per lb. ]■ 12} per centum (Except dates) 3d. per lb.; dates, 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum I 10 per centum •] 10 per centum { 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Jd. f-lb. (not tropical) l}d. per lb. i Fresh (Pulp) Is. per bushel 4d. per lb. 13 9d per bushel 2d. per lb. Free (Other than preserved by sulphurous acid) Id. x_r lb. Free Free Free 7} per centum Free 10 per centum 25 per centum Furniture Furniture springs 15 per centum Free 25 per centum Free 25 per centum 10 per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum Furs Fuse 15 per centum Free 25 per centum Free 25 per cent, (made up) l}d. per coil of 24ft. Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Gasoline .. 6d. per gallon 6d. per gallon Free 6d. per gallon - -

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'lain galvanised, 30s. per ton Galvanized Iron — Corrugated, unmanufactured 2s. per cwt. 30s. per ton Free Galvanized iron in bars, sheets, or corrugated, 40s. per ton Free . Free 2s. per cwt. 40s. per ton 10 per centum Gelatine Gilt mouldings 15 per centum 15 per centum 10 per centum Free, except gold or solid polished wood, 25 per centum Free Silvered, 25 percent.; plate and sheet, 15 per centum; cut, or bottles, 20 per cent.; medicine bottles, 10 per centum 15 per centum 6d. per lb. Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Free Ginger, green Glass 3d. per lb. Window, 2s. per 100 feet; plate, 15 per centum Free Free (plate and sheet) .Free Free 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 3d. per lb. 12} per centum 4d. per lb. 10 per centum stoppers, ordinary Is. per cubic ft. Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum ware 15 and 20 per centum I Cut, 2s. 6d. per cubic ft.; plain, Is. per cubic ft. 6d. per cubic ft. Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Glassware, and glass bottles for aerated waters and medicines Bottles, free; glassware, 15 per cent. Glassware, not enumerated, 15 per centum; bottles, 20 per centum and 10 per centum 15 per centum Free Glassware — Chimneys, shades and globes, and all other glassware not being cut, engraved, etched, or ground Glass shades and globes, and other glassware, cut, engraved, etched, or ground Glucose 15 per centum Is. per cubic ft. Free 15 per centum 20 per centum 2s. 6d. per cubic ft. Free Id. per lb. }d. per lb. 6s. per cwt. 3s. per cwt. Liquid and syrup, 3s. 4d. per cwt.; solid, 5s. per cwt. Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 12} per centum 6s. per cwt. ljd. per lb. 15 per centum Glue Glycerine— Pure Crude .. Free Free Free Free Is. per lOOlbs. 9d. per lOOlbs. 9d. per lOOlbs. 9d. per lOOlbs. Is. per lOOlbs. Is. per lOOlbs. 9d. per lOOlbs. 9d. per lOOlbs. 9d. per lOOlbs. 2d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 2d. per lb. 3d. per lb. Id. per lb. 10 per centum 2s."per lOOlbs. 2s. per lOOlbs. 2s. per lOOlbs. 2s. per lOOlbs. 2s. per lOOlbs. 2s. per lOOlbs. 2s. per lOOlbs. Is. per lOOlbs. 2s. per lOOlbs. 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 2d. per bushel 2d. per bushel 6d. per bushel 6d. per bushel 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 20s. per ton 4d. per bushel 4d. per bushel 12} per centum 10s. per ton 10s. per ton 4d. per bushel 4d. per bushel 4d. per bushel Id. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Is. per lOOlbs. lOd. per lOOlbs. lOd. per lOOlbs. lOd. per lOOlbs. lOd. per lOOlbs. lOd. per lOOlbs. lOd. per lOOlbs. lOd. per lOOlbs. lOd. per lOOlbs. Peas, split, 2s. *}* cwt. Gold leaf .. Grain, viz. —Flour Gram Beans Peas Bran Pollard Wheat Maize Unenumerated (except barley and oats) Grains (except by sea) Grates, stoves and ovens, and parts thereof (except camp ovens) Grainsowers 2s. per lOOlbs., ex- - cept wheat over- -1 land, free Grates and camp ovens, 20 per cent. Is. per lOOlbs. 2s. per lOOlbs., including oats 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Free 15 per centum 20 per centum Free 5 per centum 5 per centum 5 per centum 12 Fish salted, dried or in brine, 5s. ier cwt. 13 Fresh olives, free.

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Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. Free Free Grease Grindstones Guano and other manures Gum Arabic Gun cotton Guttapercha Gunpowder, Sporting Free Free Free 15 per centum Free Free 6d. per lb. 10 per centum Free Free 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 3d. per lb. 10 per centum Free Free Free 5d. per lb. Free 3d. per lb. Free Free Free Free Free Free 3d. per lb. (tallow, l}d per lb.) 7} per centum Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Id. per lb. 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 4d. per lb. 10 per centum Free Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 6d. per lb.; cartridges, 10 per cent. Hair —Seating and unmanufactured.. Free Free Free — Curled, 2d. per lb. Free 2d. per lb. Free 7} per centum 12} per centum Free 20 per centum Hames, not plated and part plated .. Hams Hardware, not enumerated Harness, minor articles, and mountings (except plated) Harness and saddlery, made up (except saddlers' housings, bindings, gilt mounting, in sets, harness furniture plated in sets, and whip sockets) Harness and saddlery, furniture plated in sets, and whip socket Harvest twines Free 2d. per lb. 15 per centum Free (all) 15 per centum Free, all kinds of 4d. per lb. 25 per cent, and free Free 25 per centum, exceptions, free 25 per centum Free 2d. per lb. Free Free Free 7} per centum 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 3d. per lb. 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum Chaff, 20s. per ton Hatters' materials —Felt hoods, pullover hoods, and any article of felt prepared for the manufacture of hats Hay presses Hay and chaff Hemp and hemp packing 15 per centum Free Free Free Free Free 15 per centum 2d. per lb. (Free up to 31st Dec, 1887.) Free, except unfinished felt hats, 25 per centum 20 per centum 10 per centum Free, hemp packing lis. per cwt. Free Reaping, free; others, 25 per centum Free Free 3d. per lb. 6d. per lb. 25 per centum lis. 3d. per cwt. 5s. per dozen 25 per centum Free Free Free Free (except butchers, 25 per centum) Free Free 2d. per lb. 6d. per lb. 25 per centum Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 5 per centum 10s. per ton Free 12} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum 12s. 6d. per ton 12} per centum Id. per lb. Free 5 per centum Free Free Hides and skins —PawHooks —Butchers' reaping, and shark Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Free 10 per centum Horsepower gear, 20 per centum Holystones Holloware Honey Hops Horsepowers and parts Free 15 per centum Free 6d. per lb. Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 2d. per lb. 2d. per lb. 5 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 3d. per lb. 4d. per lb. 5 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum (iron] 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Free Horseshoes .. *. Hose, Indiarubber 15 per centum Free 25 per centum Free 25 per centum Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Writing, 20 per cent. Imitation cane Indiarubber stamps, erasers, antirattlers, and buffers Ink and ink powders Free 15 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Ink, Printing, Free ; Writing, 15 per cent. Free Free (except coloured) Free 7} per centum 12} per centum Free

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20 per centum Ink —Printing, colored Instruments, Musical Free 15 per centum Free Organs other than pipe, pianos, and harmoniums, 15 per centum; organs, pipe, 25 percentum; unenumerated, 10 per centum Free, except fancy fencing, 25 per cent. 6d. per lb. 25 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Free 10 per centum Galvanized plain sheet, 30s. per cwt.; ornamental ironwork, 20 per cent. Iron —Bar and rod, galvanized sheet plain, girder plates unmanufactured, hoop, ore, pig, plates, rails for rail and tramways, scrap, sheet, tubing cased with brass, wire, wire galvanized, wire netting of all kinds and wronght-iron tubes and pipesunder 6in. in diameter, iron and steel fencing and standards (except fancy fencing and standards, fringe's, friezes, and balustrading) Iron brackets, doors, gates, and galvanized iron manufactures Free (except fencingwire, Is. per cwt.; ornamental ironwork, 15 per cent. « Free Iron, bar, sheet, or corrugated galvanized, 40s. per ton Ore, plain sheet (not galvanized), pig, bar and rod, scrap, hoop, free; other, 7} per centum; castings, 2s. per cwt. Iron, galvanized plain, bar and rod, pig, sheet andplate, wire netting, 5 per centum; iron for railways and tramways, 10 per cent.; hoop, gates, hurdles, and staples, bars for fencing, 20s. per ton 12} per centum Free (except wire, 9d. per cwt.) 20 per cent.; galvanized iron manufactures, 25 per cent. Gates, 4s. per cwt.; other, 15 per cent. 25 per centum 25 per centum Free, including anchors (except galvanized manufactures, 60s. per ton) 7} per centum Galvanized manufactures, 10 per centum Columns and girders, 20 per cent.; gasand water-pipes, 5 per centum Iron —Columns, girders, pipes, tubes.. Free 40s. per ton Columns and girders, 25 per centum; pipes and tubes, 40s. per ton if cast; other, 25 per centum Free Free, except galvanized 12} per centum 10 per centum and free. Barbed, 2s. per cwt. „ Wire, steel, and iron Fencing, Is. per cwt.; other, free Hatters and tailors, free ; other, free Lasts, free ; kibbles, 15 per centum Free Free 20s. per ton; galvanized, 60s. per ton Free 2s. per cwt. 20s. per ton. 9d. per cwt. Irons —Hatters', Italian, smoothing, cloth manufacturers', and tailors' .. Iron lasts and iron kibbles Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum Is. per cwt. 2d. per lb. 25 per centum 2d. per lb. Ivory Free Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Jacks, Lifting 15 per centum; hydraulic, free 1} per lb. 15 per centum 1} per lb. 15 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Jams Japannedware Jellies Jewellery Jewellery (except cameos and precious stones unset), viz. —Rings of gold, finished or unfinished, but without cameos or precious stones set therein Jewellery —All other jewellery of gold, unfinished, mounted, or in parts, but without cameos or precious stones set therein, not otherwise specified 3d. per lb. 25 per centum 3d. per lb. 25 per centum 25 per centum 2d. per lb. 25 per centum 2d. per lb. 4s. per dwt., troy Id. per lb. Free Id. per lb. Free Free Id. per lb. 7} per centum Id. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 12} per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 3s. per dwt., troy 7} per centum 12} per centum Free li Fringes, friezes, and balustradin if cast wire netting, galvanized, not raachine-rnade, welded pipes and tubes under 6in., 25 per centum.

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Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New-South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. Jewellery —Chains of gold unfinished (except machine-made chains for fringes) Jewellery —All other jewellery, whether manufactured wholly or in part, not otherwise enumerated Jute Jute —Piece goods, not exceeding 3ft. in width Jute —Piece goods, exceeding 3ft. in width 15 per centum 25 per centum s. per dwt., troy • Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 20 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum \ 12} per centum | 12} per centum J Free Jd. per yard If not manufactures, others 10 per centurr, Free Free }d. per yard Free 7} per centum Powders, 15 per centum Knife powders and sharpeners Sharpeners, 15 per centum; powders, free Free, except hay 15 per centum Free Knife powder, 20 per centum; sharpeners, free Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Knives —Putty, shoemakers', Hay, and saddlers' Free Free 7} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Lamps, lampware, and gasaliers, or part thereof 15 per centum Free Free 15 per centum, except gasaliers, 25 per centum 2s. per cwt. Free 25 per centum Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Roans, 2d. per lb. Lampblack Lead —Ore, pig, and scrap 7} per centum Lead, pig and sheet, free 7} per centum, except sheet, free 12} per centum 2s. 6d. per cwt. }d. per lb. Free Load —Pipe and sheet, shot Leather —Patent, enamelled, kid, hogskin, levant, morocco, roans, skivers, and imitations thereof Leather —Calf and kid Pipe, 3s. 6d.; shot, 10s. per cwt.; sheet, free Free, except kid, levant, and skivers, Id. per lb. Id. per lb. 2s. 6d. per cwt. Free, except roans and skivers 10 per centum Calf, 15 per centum; kid, free Patent, free; fancy, 15 per centum 15 per centum, except hogskins, free 2s. 6d. per cwt. Lead, pipe and sheet, free ; lead shot, 5s. per cwt. Free 2d. per lb. Lead, pipe and sheet, 2s. 6d. per cwt.; shot, 5s. per cwt. 12} per centum 2s. 6d. per cwt. 10 per centum Id. per lb. 7} per centum Free Id. per lb.; patent, free Leather — Patent and colored fancy leathers Leather — All other leathers, except crust or rough-tanned hogskins, calf, and goat, and sumach-tanned sheep Leather —Cut into shapes, including elastic side uppers, Wellington legs, clogs, and pattens Leather —Unenumerated Free 10 per centum Free 2d. & Id. per lb., except hogskins, free 20 per centum Free 20 per centum 15 per centum, except clog's and pattens, free Id.; sole leather, }d. per lb. 15 per centum 25 per centum 20 per centum Free Id. per lb. (including sole) Leather portmanteaus and bags, 20 per centum 15 per centum 20 per centum Free 2d. per lb. 12} per centum 10 per centum Leatherware, or articles made up of leather, or any manufacture of which leather is the most valuable part, including whips of any description Leather —leggings 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 1 10 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum

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20 per centum 20 per centum ,11 machinery, 20 percent, (except for agriculture, refrigerating, meat preserving, dairying, mining, and printing, free) Limejuiee —Aerated and limejuice cordials, not spirituous Limejuice.. Linen goods, in the piece Linseed Lint Lithographic stones Macaroni and vermicelli Machinery (except engines and shafting) for carding, spinning, weaving, and finishing manufactures of fibrous material, and cards for such machinery ; machinery used in manufacture of paper and for felting (including wire -cloth and felts), and roller machinery, and machinery connected therewith not enumerated, for flour-milling purposes, and hydraulic - presses ; printing - presses and machines; lathes over 3} tons weight; drilling-machines over 2} tons weight; planing-machines over 0 tons weight; punching-machines over 7 tons weight; shearing-ma-chines over 7 tons weight; platebending - machines over 5 tons weight ; slotting-machines over 4 tons weight; shaping-machines over 2} tons weight; bookbinding- and ruling-machines Machinery —Other Machines— Washing and mangle Magnets Maizena Malt Mandrels (blacksmiths') Maps Mantelpieces Manufactures — Air-gratings, ash-pans, barrow-wheels, bedsteads, bells, bench-screws, billfiles, blacksmiths' tongs, boathooks, boilers and furnaces (copper), bottlejacks (lifting), brass mountings and fittings, camp-ovens and three-leg-pots, coal-scoops and scuttles, cork-drawers, crowbars, dampers and frames, distilling apparatus, door-knockers, door-porters, doorscrapers, drain-grates and frames, drain-gratings, dumb-bells, fenders, fire-dogs, fire-guards, flower-stands, forge-backs, furnace -doors and .5 per cent.; aerated free Free 15 per centum 9d. per 1001b. 15 per centum Free Free Free Is. per gallon Bulk, free Free Free Free Free 2d. per lb. Free, except hydrau-lic-presses, 25 per centum Aerated, 10 per cent.; other, 20 per cent. Free (in bulk) Free Free Free Free 2d. per lb. Free, except rollermill machinery and hydraulic - presses, 25 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Id. per lb. *7} per centum * 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum 10 per centum Free 10 per centum and meal, }d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Worked by steam, gas, wind, or water, free; other, 5 per centum 20 per centum Free 15 per centum 15 per centum Is. per 1001b. 2s. per bushel Free Free 15 per centum 15 per centum 20 per centum 25 per centum Free Free 2s. 6d. per bushel 25 per centum Free 25 per centum Part 25 per centum, part free 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 2d. per lb. 3s. per bushel. Free Free 25 per centum 25 per centum Free Free Free Id. per lb. Free Free Free Free Free i 7} per centum 7} per centum Id. per lb. 6d. per bushel 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Castings, 2s. per cwt. 5 per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 2s. per bushel 12} per centum Free 12} per centum 12} per centum Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Is. per bushel. 10 per centum Free 20 per centum Part 20 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum * Machinery for manufacturing, sawing, and sewing, agricultural, mining and pastoral purposes, steam engines and boilers, 5 per centum.

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Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. Part 20 per centum Manufactures — continued. frames, furnace -pans, galvanized and black spouting and guttering, galvanized buckets and tubs, garden-reels, garden-seats, gasaliers and chandeliers, gas-fittings, gasstoves, gas-tongs, grates, gridirons, hasps and staples, hat- and coathooks (cast iron), hat-stands, hayrakes, hinges (T), holdfasts, hookand eye-hinges, horseshoes, iron brackets, iron kettle-ears, japanned and lacquered ware, kettles, and preserving-pans (copper and brass), kitchen-ranges, ladles, lamp-posts, leadenware, letters and figures (wrought-iron or steel), levers (forged), links (connecting or split), manger-rings, mangles, maul-rings, meat hooks, monkeys for pile driving, ornamental gratings, oven doors and frames, picks and mattocks, plyers, portable forges, quarry mauls and picks, quoits, range-cocks, rivets (iron), sack trucks, safes and boxes (iron), sash weights, soldering irons, stands (iron), stench traps, tinnedware and ironware (stamped), tinware, troughs, tue irons, washers (black and galvanised), wedges, wheelbarrows (wrought-iron), wheels (wrought-iron), wirework, zincware (including perforated zinc) Axle blocks, axle boxes, blank nuts, bolts and nuts (iron),, bolt ends (iron), bolt rings, braces (wrought iron), branch pipes (copper and brass), brass cocks, valves, and whistles, brazed copper pipes, brazed wrought-iron pipes, cake rollers, cast-iron of all sorts (moulded), cast-iron cylinders, cast-steel drills, cisterns (wrought-iron), condensers for gasworks, salt water, and steam engines, contractors' forgings, eccentrics for buggies, engine eastings, engineers' forgings, fittings for pumps, engines, and machinery, garden rollers girders (iron), grindstone 15 per centum Part 25 per centum, part free 25 per centum Free Castings, 2s. per cwt. 12} per centum 10 per centum 20 per cent, (except carriage and cart fittings, axle blocks and boxes, blank nuts, bolt-ends, and portable engines, free) ; iron - pipes for water and gas, 5 per centum 15 per centum; part free (carriage fittings, engines, and pipes) Part 25 per centum, part free 25 per centum Free Castings, 2s. per cwt. 12} per centum 10 per centum

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5 per centum 20 per centum Is. per gross spindles, gun-metal steam-engine fittings (moulded), gutters and piping, hammers (napping, quartz, and spalling), horsepower !gear, horse rakes, hydraulic mains, ironwork for wagons, carriages, carts, and buggies, lifts (warehouse), marine engine cranks and pillars, painted and brass cases for engines, pepper, malt, bean, and oat mills ; pipes (wrought-iron, except welded), pulley blocks, pumps, railway chairs, rings and starts, rods (connecting), shafting (bright wrought iron), sluice valves (iron), springs and scrolls (cart carriage, and buggy), stationary or portable engines (or parts of them), truck wheels, union joints, winches. Metalware, placed and mixed (except doorhandles, locks, shafts tips, stump and finger joints, and slot irons used for carriage building, harness mountings, and plated hames) Marble, slate, stone for building (unwrcught) Marble, slate, stone (wrought) Matches — Wood (except safety matches) for boxes containing 100 matches, or under Matches —For each additional 100, or part thereof Matches —Wax vestas, for every gross of metal boxes, not otherwise specified, containing in each box 100 vestas or under Matches —Over 100 and not exceeding 200 Matches —And so on for each additional 100 Matches —For every gross of paper, small round tin, or other boxes containing in each box 100 vestas or under Matches —Over 100 and not exceeding 200 vestas Matches —And so on per gross of boxes for additional 100 vestas or part thereof Mats Matting of all kinds 15 per centum, except fittings for carriages and saddlery, free Free Free 25 per centum, exceptions free Is. per foot 20 per centum Is. per gross 20 per centum Free 15 20 per centum 166d. per gross of boxes Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Free 10 per centum 25 per centum Od. additional fifty 25 per centum Is. per gross 6d. per gross of boxes Free 7} per centum 12} per centum Is. per cubic ft. 2s. per gross 25 per centum Is. per gross Is. 3d. per gross of boxes Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 6d. per gross for ] additional fifty 25 per centum 2s. per gross 2s. 6d. per gross of boxes Is. 3d. per gross of boxes Is. per gross of boxes Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 25 per centum Is. per gross Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 2s. per gross. 25 per centum Is. per gross Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 3s. per cubic ft. 6d. per gross for additional fifty 25 per centum 2s. per gross 2s. per 100 Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 25 per centum Is. per gross Is. per 100 Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 20 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum i» Except not wholly wrought. is Including safety matches.

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Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. 20 per centum Meat, preserved 15 per centum 2d. per lb. "2d. per lb. Free 2d. per lb. Salt beef and preserved beef and mutton, 10 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Measuring tapes Meat, fresh (except pork) 15 per centum Free Free 10 per centum Free Free (including pork) Free Free 7} per centum Free (except pork, Id. per lb. 10 per centum Free (except beef anc mutton), Is. 6d. pei 1001b. 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Metal picture cords Metal lustre Metal services, spoons and forks (except steel table forks) Milk, preserved and compounds thereof 15 per centum Free 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 15 per centum Free 20 per centum 20 per centum Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 20 per centum 15 per centum Id. per lb. Milk, preserved, free; compounds, 20 per centum 25 per centum Free Free Free see Drapery Id. per lb. 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 6d. per lb. Free 20 per centum and 25 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum Millbands, leather Millbands, other than leather Mill silk Mill stones Millinery .. Id. per lb. Free Free Free 15 per centum 25 per centum 10 per centum Free Free 15 per centum and 25 per centum 20 per centum 15 per centum Free Free 3d. per lb. Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Mineral and aerated waters Moleskin clothing and imitations Mops Muntz Metal Mustard Music Myrobalans Free 15 per centum Free Free Id. per lb. Free Free 10 per centum Free Free 2d. per lb. Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Free 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Free 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 2d. per lb. Free 10 per centum Nails 2s. and 3s. per cwt., and free 2s. per cwt. 20 3s. per cwt. Free 2s. per cwt. 12} per centum 2s. 6d. per cwt. Nails, horseshoe Naphtha Needles, packing, sail, and upholsterers' Nets, fishing Nevaka and nickel silverware Newspapers, printed 6d. per gallon 15 per centum Free 15 per centum Free 2s. per cwt. 6d. per gallon Free Free 12s. per cwt. Free Free Free 6d. per gallon Free Free Free Free 6d. per gallon 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Free 6d. per gallon 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Free Is. per gallon 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 15 per centum Free 20 per centum Free Nuts (except cocoanuts) Almonds in shell and others (except barbary and cocoa), 2d. per lb..almonds shelled, 3d. per lb.; walnuts 2d. per lb. Free 3d. per lb. 19 2d. per lb. Free 2d. per lb. 12} per centum 2d. per lb. Nuts, viz: Cocoanuts Free Free Oakum and junk Oars Free Free Free 25 per centum Free Ash, free; other, 25 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum • Free Free

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Oatmeal Oats Oil, baize Oil, cake Oil, cloth oil Oil, cod, whale, seal Is. per 1001b. 9d. per 1001b. 15 per centum Free 6d. per gallon Free 40s. per ton 2s. per cental Free Free Free Free 6s. per 1001b. 2s. per 1001b. Free Free 6d. per gallon Cod free, whale and seal 6d. per gallon *6d. per gallon Free Free Free Free Free 6d. per .gallon (except whale) +6d per gallon 40s. per ton 6d. per bushel 7} per centum 7} per centum 6d. per gallon 6d. per gallon 30s. per ton 4d. per bushel 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 6d. per gallon }d. per lb. lOd. per 1001b. 10 per centum Free Is. per gallon Is. per gallon Olive oil, 6d. per gal. Oil, perfumed, 25 per cent.; cod liver, in bottles, 15 per cent. Oils (except kerosene per gallon, 3d.; cod, seal, and whale, free) Oil of lemon Oil, medicinal and perfumed §See foot note Free 15 per cent, in bottles (except cod liver) 6d. per gallon 10 per centum Perfumed 25 per cent., Patent 20 per centum Perfumed, 10 per cent. Free Castor, 6d. per gallon J6d. per gallon 7} per centum 7} per centum all 6d. per gallon 12} per centum 12} per centum Ills, per gallon 10 per centum 10 per centum Oil of peppermint Oil of rhodium Oil, salad, quarts .. Pints Smaller Free Free 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum Free 20s. per lb. Free Free 10 per centum Free 4s. per dozen 2s. Is. 6d. 2s. per cwt. 20s. per lb. Free Free 12s. per gallon 12s. per gallon 2s. per doz. Is. per doz. 6d. per doz. 20s. per ton 20s. per lb. Free Free Free Free Is. 6d. per dozen 1 9d. per dozen v 6d. per dozen j Free 20s. per lb. Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 40s. per lb. Is. per dozen pints 12} per centum Is. per gallon Onions Opium Ores Osiers 10s. per ton 20s. per lb. Free 7} per centum 10s. per ton 20s. per lb. 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 20s. per lb. Free 4s. per cwt. 2s. per cwt. Paints and colours Paints, mixed Paints, ground in oil Paint boxes, toy Paintings and engravings for public institutions Paper — Copying, felt, marble, red glazed, plaid, printing and writing, except faint lined Free, if dry 2s. per cwt. 2s. per cwt. 15 per centum Free 2s. per cwt., mixed ( 4s. per cwt. j Free Free Free 4s. per cwt. 2s. per cwt. Free Free 3s. per cwt. 3s. per cwt. 3s. per cwt. Free Free } 2s. per cwt. 12} per centum }d. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Free Free (except copying, plaid, and writing) 15 per centum Free, including blotting, albuminised, tracing, coloured, surface, gelatine, morocco striped Free 21 4s. per cwt. Printing free, writinguncut, free ; writing cut, 2d. per lb. Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Paper fasteners Paperhangings Paper, wrapping (brown and whiteybrown) Paper, tissue and blotting 15 per centum 15 per centum 2s. (brown) ; other, 2s. 6d. per cwt. Blotting, 15 per cent. tissue, 2s. 6d. per cwt. 5s. per cwt. Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 3s. 4d. per cwt. (all kinds of) Tissue, 3s. 4d. per cwt., blotting, free 10s. per cwt., and printed 15s. per cwt. I _ i Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 2210 per centum 4s. per cwt. 5s. per cwt. Tissue 5s. per cwt. 4s. per cwt. 4s. per cwt. Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 2210 per centum 7s. 6d. per cwt. Paper bags 10s. per cwt. Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum Id. per lb. Paper, writing, faint lined Paraffin and mineral wax Patent roller composition Patent medicines .. .. Patent groats Pea flour and split peas 15 per centum Id. per lb. Free 15 per centum Free Is. per cwt. 10 per centum Id. per lb. Free 20 per centum Free Free 2d. per lb. Free Free 25 per centum 20 per centum 2s. per lOOlbs. Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Id. per lb. 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 2210 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum }d. per lb. 25 per centum Split peas 2s. per cwt. 17 Meat, salted dried, or jrreserved in brine, 5s. per cwt. 19 Candle nuts, free. 2o Except for trunks and grindery. * Except black, cocoanut, cod, and palm, free. t Except black, cocoanut,* sperm, and palni, free. i Castor, in bottle, Is. per dozen pints. Except palm oil and cocoanut oil unrefined, and from whale fisheries, free. § Oil, castor, Chinese, colza, kerosene, linseed, petroleum, and other, 6d. per gallon. Oil, cocoanut, cod-liver, olive, palm, and whale, free. II Except fish and perfumed oils, free; medicinal, 10 per centum. 21 Copying and writing, 2d. per lb. (cut); printing, free; others, 4s. per cwt. 22 Uncut, 5 per centum.

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Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. Pearl and patent barley Is. per cwt. Free 5s. per lOOlbs. Free 7} per centum 12} per centum Patent barley, 10 per centum; pearl and Scotch, }d. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum Black and white, 2d. per lb.; other, 4d. per lb. 10 per centum ( 3s. per dozen •J 2s. per dozen Pencils, carpenters' and slate Penelope canvas Pepper Free 15 per centum 3d. per lb. ground ; whole, Id. per lb. Free Free 2d. per lb. Free Free Ground, 2d. per lb.; whole, free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 2d. per lb. 12} per centum 10 per centum 3d. per lb. Whole 2d. per lb. 2s. dozen pints Gas and water 5 per centum Phosphorus Pickles, viz., quarts Pints Smaller Picture cards, school Picture frames Pipes —Cast-iron (flanged, spigot, and faucet, knees, and elbows) Pipes, Smoking —wooden Pipes, Smoking —clay and meerschaum Pitch, tar, and resin Free 9d. per doz. pints Free 15 per centum Free Free 4s. per dozen 2s. per dozen Is. 6d. per dozen Free 25 per centum 40s. per ton Free 2s. 9d. per dozen Is. 9d. per dozen Is. per dozen 20 per centum 25 per centum 40s. per ton Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum [ Is. per doz. pints 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12J per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum Free 15 per centum 15 per centum Free 12s. per gross 25 per centum Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12c} per centum 12} per centum Pitch and tar, 10 per centum; resin, 5 per centum Free 10 per centum Free Free Plants and trees Plate aud platedware (except gilt mountings for saddlery and harness furniture plated in sets) Plaster of Paris Plummer blocks and brasses Potatoes Pork (in pickle) Potash, Canadian Precious stones (unset) Preserves Printing presses and machines Free 15 per centum Exceptions free Is. per barrel Free Free Free Free Free 25 per centum Exceptions free 3s. per barrel. 25 per centum Is. per cwt. 3d. per lb. Free Free 3d. per lb. Free Free =1 20 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Id. per lb. Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 10s. per ton 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Id. per lb. 7} per centum 12J per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10s. per ton 10 per centum 12 J per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum, including type 12} per centum 5 per centum Free 12} per centum 9d. per cwt. 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum 15 per centum Free 2d. per lb. 15 per centum l}d. per lb. Free 6d. per cwt. 5s. per cwt. Free Free 2d. per lb. Free 10 per centum Free 20 per centum Printing paperPunching machinery 15 per centum Free Free 25 per centum (see machinery free list) Free Free 25 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 5 per centum 10 per centum Putty Free Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum QuicksilverQuilts, other than cotton Free Free 15 per centum, including rugs 10 per centum Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 12_ per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 15 per centum 20 per centum Quinine .. .. 15 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Babbit traps Raddle Raisins Rattans 15 per centum Free 2d. per lb. Free Free Free 2d. per lb. Free Free Free 2d. per lb. Free Free Free 2d. per lb. Free 7} per centum 7iV per centum 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 3d. per lb. 12} per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. ' Free

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Machinery free Razor strops Refrigerators 15 per centum 15 per centum if not machinery 25 per centum 25 per centum, except dry air refrigerator without engine 3s. per cwt. Free 25 per centum Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 6s. per 1001b. Rice and rice flour }d.perlb.; rice flour, 15 per centum 6s. per 1001b. 60s. per ton Id. per lb. 2s. per cwt. }d. per lb. 4s. per 1001b. 6s. per 1001b. 2s. per 1001b. Rice —Undressed, imported into any bonded warehouse and dressed therein Rice —Of every kind not otherwise enumerated Rice —Of every kind not otherwise enumerated, when prepared ground or in any way manufactured Rice —Imported into any bonded warehouse and manufactured into starch therein Rice —Paddy Rice —offal Royal cord Rugs i 3s. per cwt. 3s. per cwt. Free 4s. per 1001b. 2s. per 1001b. 2s. per 1001b. Free 3s. per cwt. 3s. per cwt. 3s. per cwt. 3s. per cwt. Free 10 per centum 15 per centum 2s. per 1001b. Free 60s. per ton Free Free Free Free Free 15 per centum - 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum 'oors, 20 per centum 20s. per ton Free Saddle-trees, RidingHarness Saddlers' ironmongery (not plated) .. Safes, Iron Sago Sails (new) Sal-ammoniac Salt Salt rock Saltpetre Sarsaparilla (not containing more than 25 per centum of proof spirit) Free Free Free (all) 15 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free 14s. 6d. per proof gallon 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 25 per centum Free 25 per centum 10 per centum 25s. per ton Free Free 6s. per gallon 20s. per dozen 10s. per dozen Free 25 per centum 2d. per lb. Free Free 20s. per ton Free Free 12s. per gallon Free Free Free Free Id. per lb. Free Free 20s. per ton Free Free 4s. per gallon 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum Id. per lb. 7} per centum 7} per centum Free Free 4s. per cwt. 4s. per gallon 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12c} per centum id. per lb. 12} per centum 12} per centum 20s. per ton Free 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Free 10 per centum Is. Cd. per cwt. 10 per centum Is. 6d. per cwt. 10 per centum 25 per centum 20 per centum 20 per centum i Sashes of all kinds Sash weights Sauces, viz. —Quarts Pints Smaller Scales, balances, and weights 2s. per pair plain, 4s. glazed 15 per centum 2s. per dozen pints {Up to and includ-') ing ljin., 4s. per I pair; over ljin., [ 6s. per pair J 25 per centum 4s. per dozen 2s. per dozen Is. Od. per dozen Free, includ'g weighbridges under 20cwt. 25 per centum Free 2s. per pair 25 per centum I 20 per centum -\ 2s. each Free Free Free Free Free 2s. 6d. per pair 7} per centum [ Is. per dozen pints 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum -i 20 per centum Is. per cwt. 3s. per dozen pints ; 2s. per dozen halfpints 10 per centum 15 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 20 per centum Scrapers Scythes and handles 15 per centum Free 25 per centum Scythes, free; handles 25 per centum ss Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Seeds, Grass Free Free Free 7} per centum Free Free 2' Plate of gold, 8s. per oz troy; silver, 2s. per oz. troy. 25 Canary seed, 10 per centum.

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Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. 'wine of all kinds 15 per centum Semoline Sewing machines and slabs .. Sewing twine and silk, shop, and cor_ Is. per lOOlbs. Free 15 per centum, except sailmakers', shoemakers' & saddlers', free 2s. per lOOlbs. Free Silk & sewing twine, free ; twine, shop, and cord, 2d. per lb. 2s. per 1001b. Free twine, 2Jd. per lb. X&. per lb. Free Free 7} per centum 5 per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum Free Id. per lb. Shafting, cold rolled or turned Shears Sheep ear labels Sheep dip ... Shoemakers' nail s—Sparrow-bill, wrought and east tips, bright and black rnal, hobs, wrought hobs, nuggets, Hungarians, cut sprigs, steel bills, and brass rivets Shoe pegs and pegwood Shot Shovels and spades Sickles Sieves Silks and manufactures thereof, containing 5 per centum of silk (except mill and sewing) Slates, School Soap (except fancy soap) Free 15 per centum 15 per centum Free Free Free 10s. per cwt. Free 25 per centum Free Free Free Free, including tingles and iron rivets Free 2s. Cd. per cwt. Free Free 25 per centum Free metal, 25 per centum Free Free Free Id. per lb. Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7J per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 2s. per cwt. 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 5s. per cwt. 10 per centum 10 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 2s. 6d. per cwt. 10 per centum Id. per lb. 5 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 15 per centum Free 15 per centum 25 per centum 15 per centum 25 per centum 2(5 20 per centum 5s. per cwt. Free Free Free Free 20 per centum 5s. per cwt., common; 20 per centum, soft soap Free 3s.6d.percwt.; fancy, 25 per centum Free Id. per lb. Free =' 2d. per lb. Free Free 7} per centum 5s. per cwt. 12} per centum 2s. 6d. per cwt. - Free Id. per lb. Is. per cwt. Is. per cwt., carbonate Sock lining Soda ash Soda crystals Soda, caustic, nitrate, silicate, carbonate, and bi-carbonate Free Free Is. per cwt. Others free ; bi-car-bonate, Is. per.cwt.; carbonate, 2s. per cwt. Free Free 40s. per ton Free, except carbonate and bicarbonate Free Free 40s. per ton Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum Is. per cwt. 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 40s. per ton 10 per centum 10 per centum Free }d. per lb. Free; except carbonate, Id. per lb. 15s. per proof gallon. Case spirit without allowance for under proof Solder Specimens of natural history Spices Spirit levels Spirits —On all kinds, the strength of which can be ascertained by Sykes' hydrometer Free Free 3d. per lb. Free 14s. 6d. per gallon, proof 10 per centum Free 2d. per lb. Free 14s. per gallon. On all kinds used fortifying wine the produce of the province, 2s. 6d. per gallon proof 24s. per gallon 14s. per gallon Free Free 2d. per lb. Free 12s. per gallon Free Free Free Free 14s. per proof gallon 7} per centum Free 2d. per lb. 7} per centum 12s. per gallon 12} per centum Free 3d. per lb. 12} per centum 15s. per proof gallon; spirits of wine, 20s. per proof gallon 10 per centum Free 4d. per lb. 10 per centum 12s. per proof gallon 15s. per gallon Spirits, Perfumed Spirits and Spirituous Compounds —On all, the strength of which cannot be ascertained by Sykes' hydrometer 21s. per gallon 14s. 6d. per gallon 24s. per gallon 12s. per gallon 15s.!per liquid gallon 14s. per liquid gallon 12s. per gallon 12s. per gallon 12} per centum 15s. per gallon 18s. per proof gallon 12s. per proof gallon

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Is. per gallon. 2d. per lb. 25 per centum Spirits, Methylated Starch Stationery, Manufactured — Labels, posting and handbills, and printed paper bags Stearine Free 3s. per cwt. 15 per centum 3s. per gallon 2d. per lb. 25 per cent., including printed bagsnot enumerated Id. par lb. I Scarifier & plough- \ shares, 15 per I centum; others, [ free J Is. per gallon 2d. per lb. * 20 per centum 4s, per gallon Free Free 5s. per gallon Id. per lb. 7} per centum 6d. per gallon 12} per centum 12} per centum 3s. per gallon Id. per lb. 10 per centum lt}d. per lb. Id. per lb. ' 2d. per lb. Id. per lb. 1} per lb. 12} per centum Barbed fencing wire, 2s. per cwt. Steel —Bar, rod, sheet, and fencing wire, and plough and scarifier shares (Free; except wire,) ( Is. per cwt. j 28 J Free ;. except steel rope, 20s. per ton I Unwrought, free 5 per centum Free Strychnine Sugar —Raw Refined 15 per centum }d. per lb. Jd. per lb. Free f 3s. per cwt. -<j Is. per ounce 2s. 6d. per cwt., cane 3s. 6d. per cwt., cane Free 5s. per cwt. 6s. 8d. per cwt. 5s. per cw-t. 6s. 8d. per cwt. 12} per centum 4s. per cwt. 4s. per cwt. 10 per centum 6s. per cwt. Crushed and loaf, Id. per lb. 3s. 6d. per cwt. Molasses aud treacle Other than sugar cane Sulphate of ammonia Sumach and valonia Surveyors' chains Sulphate of magnesia Sulphate of copper Syrups -}d. per lb. Jd. per lb. 15 per centum Free Free Free Free 10 per centum Free Free 3s. per cwt. 6s. per cwt. Free Free Free Free Free 20 per centum 3s. 4d. per cwt. Free Free Free Free Free Free 3s. 4d. per cwt. 7} per centum 7} per centum 7J per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7| per centum 4s. per cwt. 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 4s. per cwt. 10 per centum Free 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 10 per centum Free 20 per centum 20 per centum 15 per centum 5s. of 200 gallons 10s. over 200 gallons Tanks, Iron (except galvanized) 2s. 6d. under and 5s. over 200 gallons ; galvanised, 15 per cent. Free Free Free 8s. each 10 per centum Free 15 per centum 6d. per lb. Tapioca Tarpaulins and tents Tea Telephones Tiles Free Free 4d. per lb. Free Free Free 20 per centum 3d. per lb. Free Free 20 per centum 3d. per lb. Free Id. per. lb. Free 3d. per lb. Free Free Id. per lb. 7J per centum 6d. per lb. 7J per centum 7t} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 4d. per lb. 10 per centum 12} per centum 2d. per lb. 10 per centum 3d. per lb. Free 9d. per cwt. (kiln flooring). 20 per cent., iron, zinc, and earthenware 25 per centum 20 per centum Timber, viz. —Battens, deals, planks quartering, spars 2s. per 100 super, feet 2s. 6d. per load Under 7in. by 2}in., 2s. 6d. per 100 super, feet 28 Is. per 100 super, feet 12J per centum Dressed 4s. per 100 super, feet 3s. per 100 super. feet 29 Is. 6d. per 100 super. feet Is. 6d. per 100 super. feet 2s. 6d. per 100 super. feet Planed, 5s. per 10C super, feet Boards, | to l}in-, rough or planed, tongued or grooved Rough and undressed .. Rough, 2s. per 100ft.; planed, 4s. per 100ft. 2s. per 100 super, feet Is. 6d. per 100ft. Is. 6d. per 100 super, feet Is. 6d. per 100 super, feet 12} per centum Free Is. per 100 super, feet Free Architraves, mouldings.. 15 per centum 3in. and under, 4s. per 100ft. ; over 3in., 7s. per 100ft. 7s. per 100ft. 20 per centum Skirtings 4s. per 100 super, feet Under 3in., 4s. per 100 lineal feet; over 3in., 7s. per 100 lineal feet Is. 6d. per 100 super, feet 12} per centum 20 per centum * Paper —No * Paper —Uncut, blotting, surface, drawing, and other papers (except prii 26 Except pongees, 10 per centum ; hatters' silk, plush, umbrella silk, silk for flour dressin and toilet soap, 4d. lb. 28 Free, except plough shares, 25 per centum, and scariiiei lin. and over, undressed, free. 29 Except laths, shingles, dyewoods, palings, undre; ite, letter, writing, fancv, and blotting, with cut edges, 2d. per lb. rting and writing, in original wrappers and cut edges, as it leaves the mill; paperhangings, cardboard and millboard), 4s. cwt. ig, silk fags, oil silk, fringes, tassels, and gimp for furniture, reps, damasks, and other materials for covering furniture, free. 27 Perfumed l-s 20 per centum. 2S Kauri, cedar, blackwood, undressed timber, and American white pine, California red wood, and sugar pine, ssed sandalwood, staves, and casks in shooks, free.

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Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand, South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. Hardwood 2s. and 4s. per 100 super, feet 2s. per 1,000 2s. per 1,000 2s. per 100 2s. per 100 super, feet Sleepers, 2s. per 100 super, feet; balks and logs, free; posts, 8s. per 100; rails, 4s. per 100 Is. per 100 super, feet Laths Shingles Palings Sandalwood (undressed) Balks, logs, posts, and rails, sleepers (railway), square, over 4in. thick Is. per 1,000 Od. per 1,000 6d. per 100 Free 5s. per 1,000 9d. per 100 9d. per 100 Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7t} per centum 7} per centum 7J per centum Is. per 100 super, feet 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Free Free Free Trenails and spokes in the rough, clear pine, staves in the rough Sawn hickory Free 7} per centum Staves and hoops, 5 per centum Free Free, and sawn blackwood Free (except spokes in the rough, 6d. per 100) 25 per centum Free Free ; except decorated, 25 per cent. Free 25 per centum Free 6s. per lb. Is. per 100 super, feet 12} per centum Free Shutters Tin —Block, ingot, sheet Plates, and tinplates decorated.. 15 per centum Free Free 25 per centum Free Free 2s. each C Tin, block and plate, free; other, 7} ( per centum 7J per centum 7J per centum 7t} per centum 5s. per lb. 12} per centum 1 5 per centum [ 5 per centum 10 per centum Free Free Free 25 per centum Tinfoil Tinware Tiring plates Tobacco, viz. —Cigars Free 15 per centum 15 per centum 6s. per lb. Free 25 per centum 25 per centum 6s. 3d. per lb. Free Free Free And cigarettes (including wrappers), 6s. per lb. 3s. per lb. 3d. per lb. 3s. per lb. Is. per lb. 31 Free Free 5 per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 5s. per lb. 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 5s. per lb. 7s. per lb. 7s. per lb. 2s. 6d. per lb. Manufactured Sheepwash Snuff Unmanufactured 3s. 6d. per lb. 3d. per lb. 6s. per lb. 2s. per lb. 15 per centum Free 2s. 9d. per lb. 3s. per lb. Free 3s. per lb. Is. per lb. 30 32 Free; handles, 25 per centum 20 per centum 3s. per cwt. 25 per centum 2s. Cd. per lb. 2s. 6d. per lb. 3s. per lb. 3d. per lb. 5s. per lb. Is. per lb. 12} per centum 10 and 12} per centum 12} per centum 4s. per cwt. 12} per centum 3s. per lb. 3d. per lb. 5s. per lb. Tobacconist's ware Tools and tool handles 6s. per lb. Is. 7c}d. per lb. 15 per centum Tool handles, 25 per centum; tools, free Free 3s. per cwt. 25 per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 10 per centum Edged tools, 10 pe: centum 10 per centum 3s. 6d. per owt. 1.0 per centum Transfers Treacle and molasses Troughing Free }d. per lb. 15 per centum Free 3s. 4d. per cwt. Galvanised, 60s. per ton; other, free Free 7} per centum 3s. 4d. per cwt. 7J per centum Tubing metal (except iron) Gas-pipes and water, free; other composition, 15 per centum 6d. per gallon 15 per centum Free 25 per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum All kinds 15 per cent. Turpentine Twine (except sewing or seaming of hemp, cotton, or flax) Type .. .. 6d. per gallon 2d. per lb., exceptions free Free Free 2Jd. per lb.; cord, lis. 3d. per cwt. 33Free 6d. per gallon Free 6d. per gallon Id. per lb. 6d. per gallon 10 per centum Is. per gallon All kinds Id. per lb. Free Free 7} per centum 5 per centum Free 20 per centum Umbrellas and parasols 15 per centum 20 per centum Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum

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Free 20 per centum 20 per cantum Umbrella parts Umbrellas, parasols,- and sunshades; parasols and sunshades (plain) up to 18}in. in length of ribs, including covers made up wholly or in part of cotton, woollen, or other material not otherwise specified Umbrellas over 18} in. ; fancy parasols or sunshades under IS}in. in length of ribs, including covers made up wholly or in part of cotton, woollen, or other material not otherwise specified Umbrellas over 18}in. in length of ribs, of silk or silk mixtures ; and parasols and sunshades of all sizes, of similar materials, including covers made up wholly or in part Union Shirtings in the piece 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum Free, except covers, 20 per centum 20 per centum Free Od. each. Is. each. Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum . 20 per centum 15 per centum 20 per centum 2s. 6d. each Free 7} per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum Free, when less than half wool Free Cotton, free ; woollen, 20 per centum Free Is. 6d. per gallon 20 per centum 20 per centum Id. per lb. Varnish .. .. . . • A regetables —Fresh Preserved Vegetable Wax Velvets, Silk Veneer, wood .. Vermicelli Vinegar .. Od. per gallon Free 15 per centum Id. per lb. 15 per centum 2s. and 4s. 100ft. sup. Free Od. per gallon Gd. per gallon 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Free 15 per centum Free 2d. per lb. Containing not more than 5 per cent, of acidity, 9d. gallon; for every extra 1 percent, or part of 1 per cent., 2d. pelgallon 15 per centum Free Free (all kinds of) 25 per centum; others, free 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 10 per centum 25 per centum 6s. per gallon 2s. per gallon Free *2d per lb. Free 20 per centum 25 per centum 2d. per lb. Gd. per gallon 2s. per gallon Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12r} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum Od. per gallon Is. Gd. per gallon Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 2d. per lb. Gd. per gallon Free In wood 9d. per gallon; in bottle Is. per gallon Watches .. ■ ■ Washers —Raw hide Webbing —Boot Weighbridges over 20 cwt. 15 per centum 15 per centum. Free Free 20 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 5 per centum 12} per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 20 per centum 25 per centum 20 per centum Wheels Whim-bows Whim-mountings Whiting .. Wickerware Wine, if not containing more than 35 per cent, of proof spirit Wine —Australian Wine —Sparkling Wine-presses 15 per centum Free Free 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free 7} per centum 7} per centum 7t} per centum 7} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 12} per centum 4s. per gallon 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 9d. per cwt. 10 per centum Wine, in wood, 4s.pt gallon; in bottle, 6s 20 per centum 6s. per gallon Is. per cwt. Free 5s. 6d. per gallon 25 per centum 6s. per gallon - 0s. per gallon 5s. per gallon 5s. per gallon 8s. per gallon 4s. 6d. per gallon. 6s. 6d, per gallon. 15 per centum 10s. per gallon 25 per centum 8«*. per gallon 25 per centum 10s. per gallon Free Gs. per gallon 7} per centum 6s. per gallon 5 per centum Gs. per gallon 10 per centum ■ 450 Excise, Is. per lb. 31 Excise, Is. fid. lb. 32 Wood pipes, 12s. gross; clay, meerschaum, 25 per centum. S3 types, brass, typeholders, ornamental rolls, and line fillets for bookbinders, 10 per centum. * Vegetables —Salted, dried, or preserved in brine, 5s. per cwt.

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Note .—EXE MPTIONS— VICTORIA. Works of art. * All surgical instruments or appliances. Agricultural implements known, as reapers and binders. All carriages and other vehicles used in the conveyance of passengers or goods across the frontier which have been registered with the officers of Customs nearest the place where such carriage or other vehicle may ply or pass, and in such manner as the Commissioner may by any order from time to time approve. * All minor articles of mixed or undescribed materials used in the making up of saddle^'. Ships' fittings. Furniture, second-hand, accompanying any passenger, which has been in such passenger's own use, up to £50 in value, and which is not imported for sale.

* Provided that such surgical instruments or appliances and minor articles are enumerated in any order of the Commissioner and published in the Government Gazette.

Proposed Tariff. Articles. New Zealand. South Australia. Victoria. New South Wales. Queensland. Western Australia. Tasmania. 1 i Wire of all kinds, except gold, silver, and plated Wire-strainers Wringers Wooden hoops for caslcs Wooden rims for sieves Woodware Wool —Washed and greasy Wool-presses Works of Art for public institutions .. Works of Art—Other Fencing, Is. per cwt.; other, free Is. per cwt. 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum 15 per centum Free Free Free Free 34 Free 20s. per ton 7| per centum, except iron 7J per centum 7^ per centum 7i per centum 7| per centum 7i per centum 7£ per centum 12i per centum 10 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum 36 25 per centum Free 25 per centum Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 12$ per centum 12J per centum 12J per centum 12J per centnrn 12J per centum 12i\ per centum 5 per centum Free Free 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum 10 per centum Free 10 per centum 25 per centum Free Free 15 per centum Part, 10 per centum : part, free 20 per centum 20 per centum Woollen —Dress-piece goods Woollen —Blankets, piece goods, being vestings, trouserings, coatings, broadcloths, Witneynaps, mantle cloths, cloakings, and ulsterings Wigs, chignons, hair-plaits, &c. 15 per centum 15 per centum 10 per centum 15 per centum 7^ per centum 20 per centum Free Free 7J per centum 7J per centum 12^ per centum 10 per centum Flax and hemp, free 15 per centum 25 per centum 25 per centum Free 7J per centum 12J per centum 10 per centum Yarn —Angora (wool and cotton) 15 per centum Free Free Free 7J per centum 12j per centum 10 per centum Zincware, 25 per centum Zinc —Sheet, ingot, and perforated .. Ingot and sheet, free; perforated, 15 per centum Free Free Sheet and ingot, free; perforated, 25 per centum Free Free Free 5 per centum Free, and ten per centum Unenumerated articles 10 per centum Free 7J per centum 12J per centum 10 per centum M Machine-made wire netting, free ; other, 25 per centum. 86 Including bellows, picture-frames, and wooden names, turnery (except billiard-balls in the rougli), staves, shaped or dressed, and casks, and finished timber not otherwise enumerated (except artists' materials, engravers' boxwood, shafts and r>oles in the rough, ash oars, gilt mouldings, and headings used in the manufacture of picture-frames of wood or other materials, but not ornamental composition mouldings in the white not gilt).

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ADDENDA. Articles in the New Zealand Tariff, and Resolutions for which no corresponding description is found in the Australian Tariffs.

Department of Trade and Customs, W. T. Glasgow, Wellington, Ist June, 1888. Secretary of Customs. [Approximate Cost oi Paper-Preparation, nil; printing (1,400 copies), £3265.]

Authority : Geobge Didsbuby, Government Printer, Wellington.—lBBB.

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Articles. Hate of Duty. Articles. Kate ol' Duty. Accoutrements Free. Gas-pipes Greenstone, cut and polished 5 per cent. 20 per cent. Beef, salted Brace, elastic Building materials Harness-oil and composition 15 per cent. Capers Catsup Curry powder and paste Chutney Carriage - shafts, spokes, felloes, and naves, not otherwise enumerated .. Cartridges and cartridge-cases .. Carraway seeds Caps, percussion Cork soles 20 per cent. Iron bridges and iron material for the construction of bridges, wharves, jetties and patent slips 20 per cent. 15 per cent. Olives Olive-oil in bulk Oysters, preserved 6d. per gallon, 20 per cent. Is. per 1,000. Free. Pepper, cayenno Provisions, preserved, not otherwise enumerated 15 per cent. 20 per cent. Drain-pipes and tiles Drained peel Drapery, not otherwise enumerated 20 per cent. 3d. the lb. 20 per cent. Railway- and tramway-plant, and materials, not otherwise enumerated Solid wort Gd. per lb. Fire-engines and hose, not otherwise enumerated Tinsmiths' fittings Wax, paraffin, mineral, and Japanese .. Free. Id. per lb.