0 2 02 0

0 3 0

0 0 6

0

0

0 1

0 0

0

0

0 0

0 0

1

3

6

2

8. d. metal); chutney, cement, crockery, clocks, carriages, chains (galvanised), chains (black inch in diameter and under), cutlery, cartridges, chinaware; doors, drapery (including apparel and slops, and all materials composed wholly or in part of cotton, silk, linen or wool); earthenware; fish (dried, preserved, and salt), furniture, fuse, fireworks, floorcloth; glass and glassware, galvanised manufac3tures, grindstones, glue, gutta percha or indiarubber (or manufactures of, in whole or in part); hardware, hats, holloware; ironmongery, ink, iron tanks; leather, leatherware (all manufactures in whole or in part of leather), lines (fishing, clothes, lead, and similar lines); matches, matting, musical instruments; nails; oilman's stores, oakum; paints, (wet or dry), pickles, paper (writing and fancy), potted meat, printed forms, plate powder, pipes (tobacco), pictures, picture frames, printing material (type, paper, ink), plated ware; sauces, sashes and shutters, sewing machines, sails and tents, stationery, sponges, steel; toys, tinware, twine; umbrellas and parasols; vegetables (preserved); whiting, woodenware (including implement handles), workboxes, wall paper, whips and walking sticks; zinc and zinc manufactures.

0 15 0

006

0000

1

6

6

0 2

30

1

0

30 2

2 0

List of Articles Exempt from Duty.

Animals, anchors (black); biscuits (unsweetened), ballast (ships-pig and scrap iron), bêche-de-mer, 0 1 books and periodicals (printed), boiler-plates, bags, and sacks; casks and tanks for exporting molasses, coin, copper-sheathing, chain cables (black) over 0 14 0 three-sixteenth inches in diameter, coal, coke, cocoanut fibre, cocoanuts, cocoanut oil, copra, cotton, curiosities, canvas, copper (rods); flour, felt; 0 14 0 garden seeds, guano; hides, horns; iron and steel rails; lead for lining tea-chests, living oysters, luggage (personal); machinery (agricultural, mining, sawing, steam-engines and boilers), meat 0 14 0 (preserved and salt), maLures, metals (old), metal yellow for sheathing, matting for ships' dunnage, mats for sugar; oars, ores; paving-stones, pitch, plants, powder (blasting); resin; sandalwood, shell (tortoise and pearl), skins, slates for roofing, South Sea Island produce, steel punts and lighters and material for building the same, steel railway. sleepers; tar; water-pipes, woolpacks, outside packages in which goc ds are ordinarily contained, O sulphur, tin cut for exporting produce. 020

02

420000

0

1134

0 0

0

General Duty.

On all articles not specified or not included in the free list an ad valorem duty of 5 per cent.

Export Duty.

£ s. d.

500

[N.B.]-The Chief Justice and the Commissioner for Native Affairs sit with the Executive Council for the re-hearing of claims to land, under Ordinauce No. XXV of 1879.

Official Members:

Legislative Council.

The Governor.

The Hon. Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice.
The Colonial Secretary.
The Attorney General.
The Receiver General.

The Secretary for Native Affairs.

The Acting Agent General of Immigration.
Unofficial Members:

Roger Beckwith Leefe, Esq.
John Hill, Esq.

James E. Mason, Esq.

Alexander Barrack, Esq. George Morgan, Esq. Matthew Wilson, Esq. Clerk, James Stewart.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, 4,000l. (vacant). Officer Administering the Government, John Bates Thurston, Esq., C.M.G.

Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp, Frank Spence, Esq., 1007.

IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT.

Agent-General of Immigration, H. Anson, 4007.
Sub-Agent of Immigration, John Forster, 3007.; J. F.
McK. Carruthers, 3007.

Accountant, A. L. M. A. Bureau, 2751.

Inspector, F. Otway, 2501.

Clerk and Government Agent, G. A. F. W. Beauclerc, 2001.; J. Woods, 2201.; and (for Lau), Á. De Silva.

Superintendent, Polynesian Depôt, H. T. Milne, 2007. Clerks and Hindustani Interpreters, H. M. Michael 1757.; A. De Silva, 2007.; J. W. Davidson, 1402. H. G. Scott, £180.

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, SURVEYS, AND WORKS. Commissioner of Lands and Works and Crown Surveyor, John Berry, 5001.

Chief Clerk, Lands Department, and Clerk of
the Executive Council, M. T. Dods (acting), 2507.
Staff Surveyors, G. Moore, H. Reeve, 3501. each.
Draughtsman.

Surveyors, T. Keaney, 3007.; E. J. Moore, 1501.
Foreman of Works, C. Hansen, 2007.

POSTAL DEPARTMENT.

Colonial Postmaster, L. J. Walker, 300Z
Clerk and Accountant, J. McFadyen, 2007.
Clerks, A. Buchanan, 1751.; M. Hedstrom, 50%.
Postmaster, Levuka, E. C. Turner, 2501.
Clerks, H. St. Julian, 1207.; L. Johnston, 50%.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Chief Medical Officer, W. McGregor, C.M.G., M.D., 3507. Medical Officers, B. G. Corney. 350.; D. Blyth, F. J. Pound, W. Patullo, R. Beith, J. Armstrong, A. J. Skottowe, 3007 each, and 50% allowance for house rent.

Vaccinator for District of Lau and Visitor of Hospital Plantations.-A. De Silva.

Chief Warder Public Lunatic Asylum, Norman Smith, 1501.

Suva Hospital, Warder and Matron, Mr. and Mrs.
A. Ferrais, 150%.

Dispenser, A. G. Swann, 1507.
Assistant ditto, F. Moore, 241.

Levuka Hospital, Warder and Matron, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Croker, 1257.

Clerk and Dispenser, E. J. F. Powell, 150%.
REGISTRAR GENERAL.

Registrar-General and Registrar of Titles, H. G. C.
Emberson, 4507.
Clerk, L. J. W. Bruun, 2751.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

Chief Justice and Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Fielding Clarke.

Registrar of Supreme Court, and Curator of Intestate
Estates, John Langford, 4001.

Levuka District Registrar, A. Eastgate, 1007.
Attorney-General, H. E. Berkeley (acting).
Clerk to ditto,

Commissioner of Rotumah, W. M. Gordon (on leave),
4501.; A. R. Mackay (acting), 3007.
Commissioner of Colo East, W. S. Carew, 4007.
Commissioner of Colo West, E. O. B. Heffernan
(acting).

Stipendiary Magistrates, H. Hunter, 400%.; A. Eastgate, A. Taylor, E. O. B. Heffernan, J. K. M. Ross, C. R. Swayne, W. L. Allardyce, Wm. Sutherland, B. H. Thomson, Alfred Sharpe, H. L. Tripp, A. B. Joske, 3001. each.

Sheriff, A. W. Boyd, 1007.

PROVINCIAL DEPARTMENT.

Superintendent of Police, John Fowler (acting) £300. Inspector of Police, H. Olive, 2501.

Superintendent of Prisons, H. T. Milne, 501. (acting). Gaoler, Suva, T. Allan, 2007.

Assistant, ditto, B. Birch, 1351.

1877

£ 8. d. 112,086 0 0 134,688 0 0

1878

136,607 0 0 142,212 0 0

Secretary and Commissioner for Native Affairs, James Blyth, 4501.

Assistant Native Commissioner and Clerk Native Regulation Board, James Cocks, 3001.

Ditto at Lau., C. R. Swayne, 50%.

Chief Clerk and Interpreter, P. S. Friend, 2501.
Clerk, J. McFadyen, 751.

Clerk and Interpreter, A. Marriott, 150.

13 Roko Tuis, or Native Administrators of Provinces, and one Assistant, with salaries varying from 100%. to 3407.

There are also 156 Bulis, or Administrators of Districts, and a number of other native officers with small salaries.

Debt, 275,000l.

1004

GIBRALTAR.

The Rock of Gibraltar was captured by the British Forces on the 24th of July, 1704. The territory consists of an elevated promontory, running southwards. Its greatest elevation is 1,439 feet, its length is 2 miles, and its greatest breadth of a mile.

The promontory forms one side of a bay, called the Bay of Gibraltar, which is about 4 or 5 miles across, and affords good anchorage for the shipping passing through the straits. Gibraltar is extensively used as a port of call by shipping, and it is also an entrepôt of the trade between England and the Arabian states of Northern Africa, for which it has many advantages, having been ever since its occupation by the British a free port.

The revenue is derived from port dues, the rent of the Crown estato in the town, duties upon wine, spirits, and beer, and a few licence duties. The eastern face of the Rock is an inaccessible precipice. The larger portion of the town lies on the northern portion of the west slope of the Rock. It is one of the most thickly inhabited places in the world, the population being at the rate of 60,000 to the square mile; but it is very healthy, and the drainage and water supply are good.

The two portions of the town are separated by a picturesque public garden, called the Alameda. There is no Executive Council, nor any legislative body; the Governor, who is also the General commanding the garrison, exercising by himself all the functions of government and legislation. The customs tariff is as follows:

Male. Female.

59,235

52,508

1,124

1,290

400

396

796

2,678

1,552

4,230

8

40

4,784

880

5,664

in bottles, per doz.. Spirits, per proof, gall.

and so in proportion. Malt liquor, per gall.

05

Area of Fiji, 7,403 square miles.