science and not for sale; specimens of philately; spun yarn of hemp, jute, or flax; statuary: stearine; stone, in rough block stones, mill, grind, oil, and whet; siphon bottles for aërated waters, not being seltzogenes; suet and tallow; sulphur; sumac; surgical instruments.

Tannin and tannin extracts; tar; teasels; terra japonica; ties of iron or steel, cut to length, punched or not punched, with or without buckles or keys, for baling wool or hops; timber in log; tin and tin plates, unmanufactured; tinfoil: tobacco, for sheepwash, or for insecticide, after being rendered unfit for human consumption to the satisfaction of the collector; tools of trade, hand or machine, for all purposes, not being machinery; toxa, and all other poisons for the destruction of rabbits; tree nails: trees and shrubs, ornamental for public purposes: turmeric, in bulk; twine, sewing, seaming, of hemp or flax; typewriters; tablets with movable fixtures, and musical instruments when imported by or for the use of schools for the blind, and being and remaining the sole property of the governing bodies of the said schools, and not of private individuals, the above particulars to be verified by special declaration on each entry when presented.

Ultramarine blue; umbrella makers' materials, viz, sticks, runners, notches, caps, ferrules, cups, ribs, stretchers, tips, and rings.

Vaccine and ivory vaccine points; valonia; veneer wood; vestments imported for use in divine service only.

Washers for patent bottles and siphons; wax, bottling: whalebone and whale fins from whale fisheries; whaling implements and whaling gear; wire, iron or steel, of numbers 13 and 14 gange, flattened and corrugated, used in connection with the machine known as the wire grip and champion nailing machine for the manufacture of boots, shoes, and leather belting: wire netting and woven iron wire; wire, bottling; wire (iron), binding, of Nos. 14, 15, and 16 gauge wire, steel, Bessemer soft-drawn spring, of Nos. 10, 12, and 13 gauge, respectively, and steel wire, tinned, of Nos. 11, 12, 20, 21, and 22 gauge, respectively, to be used in the manufacture of wire mattresses; works of art, all for public institutions; wool, unmanufactured: woolpacks.

Yarns, worsted knitting, not being wool yarns.

Zinc, salts of, and zinc shavings and discs; zinc in blocks and sheets, not perforated or otherwise manufactured.

VICTORIA.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department's circular dated July 29 last, and, in reply thereto, to transmit by separate post copies, as per the accompanying list, of all acts relating to or administered by the customs department of this colony (Victoria) and of the regulations thereunder.

MELBOURNE, October 20, 1897.'

JOHN P. BRAY,

Consul-General.

[Inclosures in Consul-General Bray's dispatch.]

Of the following-mentioned inclosures there are printed herewith: The import tariff and four supplementary departmental tariff decisions, the export tariff, excise duties, and the Melbourne wharfage charges. The other inclosures are filed, for future reference, in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce.

Customs act 1896.

Customs act 1890.
Regulations:

Manufacture and treatment of certain goods in bond.
Border.

Transmission of stock or carcasses thereof, etc.

Transmission of goods via N. S. Wales for reintroduction.

Transmission of goods under bond or for drawback.

Importation of sheep for boiling down.

Importation of goods temporarily.

Admission into Victoria of goods temporarily removed therefrom.

Removal of wheat across border to be ground.

Removal of goods under bond from one warehousing port to another ware-
housing port.

Removal of goods from one warehouse to another.

Minimum quantities of goods deliverable from the warehouse.

Rent payable for goods deposited in the Queen's warehouse.

Conditions relating to appointment of private bonded warehouses.

Regulations:

Exportation and reintroduction of samples of merchandise.
Transhipment of goods, etc.

Drawback and amendments.

1 Corrected up to April, 1900.

Conditions relating to appointment of private bonded warehouses-Continued. Regulations-Continued.

Export entries and amendments.

Examination of masters and mates.

Licensing of boats and boatmen and equipment of boats.
Pilots and pilotage, pilotage rates and addition.

Management of dock and dock dues.

Carriage of animals by sea.

Melbourne harbor trust, act 1890.

Regulations and amendments.

Explosives, act 1890.

List of authorized explosives with additions.
Regulations and orders and addition.

Regulations, general, for powder magazines, and addition.
Regulations, Rackarock.

Beer duty, act 1892.

Regulations.

Trade-marks, act 1890.

Regulations.

Importation of grapevine cuttings and grapes prohibited.
Importation of certain trees and plants prohibited.

Regulations relating to export bonuses.

Advertising matter, printed or lithographed, or any printed 4d. (8.11 cents) per pound.

plates, lithographs, pictures, cards, calendars, almanacs.

or matter of a similar description used or designed for use

for advertising purposes. (See Paper.)

a Reduced to United States equivalents in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce.

Architraves and moldings of all sorts (except picture-frame moldings), wholly or partly prepared, under 3 inches in width.

Architraves and moldings of all sorts (except picture-frame 7s. ($1.70) per 100 linear feet. moldings), wholly or partly prepared, 3 inches and over in width.

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Ash oars

Asphaltum, Egyptian and Assyrian.

Asphaltum, Swedish

Asphyxiators for rabbit killing

a Including packing (measuring outside the package as imported).

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

e Provided that such surgical appliances or instruments are enumerated in any order of the commissioner of trade and customs published in the Government Gazette.

d Provided that such minor articles are enumerated in any order of the commissioner and published in the Government Gazette.

a Including packing (measuring outside the package as imported).

a Including packing (measuring outside the package as imported).