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Comparative Customs Duties of the Australasian Colonies— continued.

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).