Opiumi. including all goods, wares, and merchandise mixed or satu-
rated with opium or with any preparation or solution thereof, or
steeped therein, respectively
Paints and colors (except artists' colors):

------ per pound..

£ s. d.

------- per ton..
do..

Ground in oil, including patent dryers and putty
Mixed ready for use, from or of any substance
Powders, baking, seidlitz, washing
Spirits, methylated*

CLASS II.-TEXTILE FABRICS AND DRESS.

Carpeting and druggeting....

20

Woolen manufactures or manufactures containing wool, except
printers' blankets and collar check, viz:
Blankets, blanketing, rugs and rugging

25

Piece goods, whether in the piece or cut into lengths or shapes, being vestings, trouserings, coatings. shirtings, broadcloths, witneys, naps, flannels, mantle cloths, cloakings, ulsterings, kerseys, serges, costume cloths, melton cloths, and tweeds. Dress goods, not otherwise enumerated, containing wool, free. Silks (except hatters' silk plush, umbrella silk, silk for flour dressing, silk fags, of silk, fringes, tassels and gimp for furniture, reps, damasks, and other material for covering furniture) in the piece or piece goods containing silk, whether cut into lengths or shapes or not

Handkerchiefs (except of cotton or linen only), whether made upor in the piece...

Tent and tarpaulins

Drapery and haberdashery apparel:

Articles of, being wholly or partly made up from meterials containing wool, the duty on which is 30 per cent ad valorem on importation

Slops, clothing, underclothing, and articles of attire not other-
wise enumerated, whether wholly or partly made up (except
diving dresses, including the boots, gloves, and helmets for
such dresses)

Hair, articles of artificial human hair manufactured, viz: Head-
dresses, hair plaits, hair-plait items, side pads, chignons
Bonnets (see Hats).

Boots and shoes-English sizes of 1888 to be the standard (except children's Nos. 0 to 3, and slippers of straw only), viz:

Men's No. 6 and upwards.

-per dozen pairs..

Youths' Nos. 2 to 5..

...do.

Boys' Nos. 7 to 1

...do.

with or without leather toe caps, but not goloshed or vamped

Slippers, Nos. 7 to 2.

per dozen pairs..

19 0

4.62

....do..

Slippers not otherwise mentioned.

...do.

Shoes, spiked..

Goloshes or overshoes

Hats, caps, and bonnets (except of braid, chip, straw, tape, willow,
untrimmed, and all such, being both untrimmed and unlined;
paper or glazed calico not being considered lining), viz:
Hats and caps, cloth, sewn, and not upon any foundation or
--per dozen..
Hats, children's, boys', men's, or women's felt and pith hats or
helmets..
per dozen..

frame

Hats with a calico or other foundation or frame, and covered with any material

Hosiery (except of cotton, linen, and elastic silk stockings for surgical purposes, or otherwise specified)

NOTE. Hosiery means stockings, socks, and other machine or hand knit covering for the feet or legs, and no other articles. (Sec. 7, act 769.)

25

*Exclusive of duty on bottles.

TABLE A.-Import duties—Continued.

Articles.

CLASS II.-TEXTILE FABRICS AND DRESSES-Continued.

Ruffling (see Frilling).

Ruchings (see Frilling).

Parasols, sunshades, and umbrellas, with or without covers, made up wholly or in part, viz:

From materials not containing silk.
From materials containing silk..

£ 8. d.

..each..
.do..

Parasol, sunshade, and umbrella sticks, when wholly or partly fitted with frames.

.each.

Bags and sacks (except gunnies and sugar mats), the capacity of which is less than 3 bushels.

-per dozen..

Bags, woolpacks...

Cordage (except unserviceable, when cut into lengths of not over 3
feet, metal cordage, coir yarn, reaper and binder twine), viz:
Coir rope.

.do...

per cwt.

Other cordage, including engine packing (not being sheet) and
housing and seizing lines, and spun yarn.
Reaper and binder twine (see Twine).

Hoods, felt, pullover hoods, and any article of felt prepared for the manufacture of hats..

Twine (except sewing or seaming, of hemp, cotton, or flax) per pound.
Reaper and binder, and yarn made from jute, hemp, or flax. per cwt..

25

20

20

30

Potted, and meats, fish, soups, and vegetables (extracts of), or concentrated

Preserved, not salted or dried or preserved in brine. *

Provisions, including vegetables, salted, dried, or preserved in brine (except fish not otherwise enumerated)

Preserved (not dried), packed in bottles, jars, or other vessels, as under

per pound..

22020

22

04 .04

.24

.04

.48

.04

.04

Grain and pulse of every kind not otherwise enumerated...................do............

per cental.
...do..

3 0

.73

2.11

.70

*Per pint or pound or repated package of that quantity or weight, and so in proportion for any such reputed quantity or weight.

79A- 40

Beet root and all other sugar.

Potatoes

Sugar, the produce of sugar cane

Bonded on and after the 27th day of July, 1887, and refined in Victoria in a bonded warehouse under regulations to be framed by the governor in council

Sugar candył.

Vegetables:

Preserved (see Fruits).
Salted (see Provisions).

Vermicelli (see Macaroni).

Aërated or mineral waters

For 6 reputed quart or for 12 reputed pint bottles. per gallon..
In bulk or in bottles containing an imperial quart or pint, respec-

per pound.

2

.04

per ton.

- per cwt.

per cwt..
do...

-------- per pint or pound..

Ale, porter, spruce, and other beer, cider and perry:

do..

.do..
.do..

Mustard

per pint or pound

- per pound.

Oilmen's stores (except essential oils and essences not containing alcohol), packed in bottles or jars, not exceeding 1 reputed quart in size, or in canisters or vessels not exceeding 1 quart in size. Oilmen's stores, not otherwise enumerated (except isinglass, uncut). Oleomargarine (see Butterine).

Pickles (packed in bottles, jars, or other vessels, not exceeding 1 gallon in size), as undert

Sauces (packed in bottles, jars, or other vessels not exceeding 1 gal

Half pints and smaller sizes.

- per ton..

1 0 0

4.86

per dozen.

4 0

97

do..

20

.48

Spirits or strong waters of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Sykes's hydrometer, and so in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of proof++..........per gallon.

12 0

2.92

*See also exemption list.

+ Per pint or pound, or reputed package of that quantity or weight, and so in proportion for any such reputed quantity or weight.

Exclusive of duty on bottles.

Or 488. for each reputed 4-gallon case, or 248. for each reputed 2-gallon case, when the said cases do not contain, respectively, more than the reputed contents, and so on for each reputed gallon or part of a gallon.

Spirits, cordials, liquors, or strong waters, sweetened or mixed with
any article so that the degree of strength can not be ascertained
by Sykes's hydrometer (including all alcohol diluted or undiluted
with water or other menstruum, and containing in solution any
essence, essential oil, ether, or other flavoring or other substance,
whether of natural or artificial origin)*†.
Spirits, methylated.

Spirits, perfumed

..per gallon.. .................per liq. gallon.. ...per gallon..

Spirits, mixed with essential oils so as to be unfit for human con-
sumption, to be used in the manufacture of soap under commis-
sioner's permit, provided the mixing is performed in the pres-
ence of an officer of customs, free.
Tea....

per pound.. Tobacco (except sheepwash, including tobacco soaked on the landing from the importing ship or on delivery from the warehouse, in turpentine, ofl, or other fluid, in the presence of some officer of customs, so as to render it unfit and useless for human consumption):

Manufactured.

per pound..

Unmanufactured.

Vinegar, not being acetic acid or crude vinegar, aromatic, or rasp

berry.

-per gallon..

(Wine containing more than 25 per cent of alcohol of the specific gravity of .825 at the temperature of 60° Fahrenheit is chargeable with duty as spirits.)

...per pound.

(Except crust or roughed-tanned, viz: Calf, goat, hogskin. sheep or kangaroo, when not exceeding 7 pounds each skin, and English bend, sometimes called butt) Kid, calf kid, mock kid. and patent calf, free. Being furniture and bookbinding morocco, roan and paste grain skiver per pound.. Leather ware, harness, saddles, or articles made up of leather or any manufacture of which leather is the most valuable part, including whips of any description, trunks, portmanteaus, and leather cut into shapes not otherwise enumerated.

------- per pound....

Blue..

Casks or shooks, new or second-hand.

Corks, cut.

Paper:

(Except writing and printing, in original wrappers and uncut
edges, as it leaves the mill: paper hangings and millboard) cut
----- per pound.
Advertising matter, printed or lithographed, or any printed
plates, lithographs, pictures, cards, or matter
scription used or capable of being used for
poses

CLASS IV.-ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES-Continued. Paper-Continued.

Other.

Bags

£ 8. d.

-per cwt..
do.

.do

Cardboard, pasteboard. Boxes, cardboard or paper, including paper or cardboard (with or without printing) cut into shapes for wrapping or boxing.. Boxes, cardboard, containing noñdutiable goods ordinarily imported therein free. Seeds, canary.............

Starch..

Timber and building materials:

25

------

10

-per pound

.01

Except ash, Australian and New Zealand pine, blackwood, cedar,
hickory, oak, posts and rails, staves, sycamore, walnut, white-
wood, undressed.

Hard wood, undressed logs of the size of 9 inches square or larger.
California redwood, sugar pine, American white pine, undressed,
1 inch and over.

All other undressed, of the size of 7 inches by 24 inches or larger.
Spokes and felloes of hickory, in the rough.

Spars in the rough.

Architraves and molding of all sorts, wholly or partly prepared:

Skirtings, wholly or partly prepared.
Spokes and felloes, in the rough

Timber

Staves, shaped or dressed

-per 100 feet, linear.

Of sizes less than 7 inches by 24 inches..per 100 feet, superficial..
Bent.

Finished

Cut into shapes, for making into cases, boxes, or similar ar-
ticles.
-per cubic foot..
..per gallon...

Varnish, including lithographic
Wickerware.
Woodenware, including bee hives, bellows, picture frames, and
wooden hames, turnery (except billiard balls in the rough), staves
shaped or dressed, and finished timber, not otherwise enumerated
(except artists' materials, engravers' boxwood, shafts and poles in
the rough, ash oars)

Oils and paste, furniture.

Oils, in bulk (except cocoanut, fish of all sorts, mineral refined, of
which the point of ignition is below 80° Fahrenheit, kerosene, palm.
lubricating, of which the chief component part is mineral, and
resin)*
Oils, packed in bottles, jars, or other vessels, not exceeding 1 gallon
- per gallon.
in size:

CLASS V.-MINERALS AND METALS.

Bottles, glass or stone, containing a reputed quart or any less quantity of spirits (not perfumed), wine, ale, porter, or other beer, and bottles containing aërated or mineral waters.

Bottles containing pickles

Brown ware and tiles.

---- per dozen..

.do...

Chinaware and porcelain (except photographic, scientific, and tele-
graphic materials)

Earthenware, including packing (except photographic. scientific,
and telegraphic materials), measuring outside the package, as im
ported.....
per cubic foot..

See exemption list.