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Besolved, That the duties of Customs now charged on the under-mentioned articles shall cease and determine, namely:—

Aetists' canvas, colours, brushes, and pallet- Machinery for mining purposes knives „ refrigerating and preserving meat Ash timber, unwrought Metal fittings for portmanteaus, travelling-bags, and leggings Bbass tubes Metallic capsules - Blind tape Bolts and nuts under fin. diameter Passengees' baggage and effects, including only Bags, seamless calico wearing apparel, jewellery, and other perButtons, braids, tapes, wadding, pins, needles, sonal effects that have been worn or are and such minor articles required in the in use as personal ornaments by persons making-up of apparel, boots, shoes, hats, arriving in the colony; also implements, caps, saddlery, umbrellas, parasols and sun- instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, shades, as may be enumerated in any Order or employment of such persons; and houseof the Commissioner of Trade and Customs hold effects not exceeding £100 in value and published in the Gazette used abroad for more than a year by the persons or families bringing them to the Candlenuts and candlenut kernels colony, and not intended for any other perCandlewick son or persons or for sale; also cabin fur-Cardboard-boxes, Materials for — namely, gold nishings belonging to such persons and silver paper plain and embossed, gelatine Perambulators, bicycles, tricycles, and the like and coloured papers, known as box papers vehicles (fittings for), not otherwise enumeCarriage- and cart-shafts, spokes and felloes in rated the rough, elm hubs and poles if unbent and Photographic cameras unplaned Portable engines 'Children's boots, shoes, and slippers, Nos. oto 3 Precious stones unset Cochineal Coil-springs Bails for railways and tramways Cocoa beans Bivets and washers of all kinds Cotton piece-goods and linen hollands invoiced at or under sd. the yard Steam-engines, non-condensing, the area of whose cylinder or cylinders exceeds 1,000 Dye-stuffs, and dyeing materials, crude circular inches; and condensing engines, the area of whose cylinders exceeds 2,500 cirEngineees' machine tools cular inches Steam boiler-tubes, corrugated and welded flues, Glassmakebs' moulds and Bowling's expansion rings Gum arabic and tragacanth Steam fire-engines Gum-boots Shale waste or unrefined mineral oil Strychnine leon and steel cordage Stones, mill, grind, oil, and whet „ boiler-plate and end plates for boilers Ships' rockets, blue lights, and danger signals , rolled girders Tacks of all kinds Kangaeoo skins, undressed Tanning materials—crude Locomotives Umbbella silk and other fabrics, when cut into pieces not larger than the size required for Machineet for agricultural purposes, also mate- covering umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, rials for manufacturing the same, viz. : and to be specially used for such purposes reaper-knife sections, fingers, brass and Upholsterers' imitation hair-seating steel springs and tilt-rakes, chaff-cutting knives, set screws, malleable castings, fit- Wiee, brass, copper, and lead tings for threshing-mills, discs for harrows, Waterproof material in the piece forgings for ploughs, mouldboard-plates and Wax, bottling steel share-plates cut to pattern, and skeithplates Yaen, flax and hemp Machinery for dairying purposes Besolved, That, on all goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the colony, there shall be levied and paid at the time of making import entry therefor a primage duty of one pound per centum on the fair market value thereof in the country whence the same were exported, as such value is defined in " The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882." Besolved, That, in lieu of the duties of exise now charged on the undermentioned goods, there shall, on and after the first day of January, 1889, and until the thirty-first day of December, 1890, be charged thereon, and be paid at the time of making entry therefor, the following duty, namely :—■ On all cigars, cigarettes, and snuff manufactured within the Colony ... ... One shilling and sixpence the pound.

Authority: George Didsbubt, Government Printer, Wellington.—lBBB,