DUTIES ON WOOL.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1237, 3 June 1880, Page 3

DUTIES ON WOOL.

The following 1 is the text of a petition forward by the Auc' land Chamber of Commerce to the Chunboisof Commeroft at Wellington, Chris teh inch, and Napier, which we have beeu requested to publish :— "To His Excellency the President of the United States of Amcuca. '•We, the undesigned, representing the Chambers of Commerce, of the city of Aticklnma, Provincial District of Aueklind, in the colony of New Zealand, being the trade medium through wMon the meroantite community of'thi* Province expresses its w<int=, di mo-t rw-pectfully desire to rail your attention to thu question of a reduction of the duty or the importation of wool into the United Stute-s, sustaining this request on the folloAvmg grounds: — "Fiistly — We have done all in our power to foster trade with your great lvitioa by giving your most powerful steimship company an eight years' subsidy for carrying the mails between San Francisco and this port, thereby creating and maintaining a highway for the interchange of merchandise. " Secondly, — We have never legislated against the importation of American merchandise, taking from you yearly a large amount of goocK and paying for the same in cash, which represents a manufactured article, instead of returning to you raw material, to give your manufacturers and laborers profitable work, you again shipping a portion of 'the same back to us in the form of a manufactured article, thereby also encouraging your mercantile marine. •'Thirdly, — From what we can learn of your wcollen industry, if our wools and those of Australia, which are fine and of a high grade, could be imported into your country at a moderate duty, we are led to believe that, mixed with your own low grades of wool, a better fabric could be manufactured for the cost than any which you now import, thus beiner able to supply, not only your own home consumption, but also to export largely to these colonies, thereby increasing the demand fpr wool of your own production, _ "Fourthly,— We do not wish to propose a^means by which the above can be accomgßghed, but think that if the classification on the higher grades of wool produced in these colonies could be done away with, making all duties on wool^ an ad valorem duty only, at a figure that would admit our high grades without injuring your own production of low grades, the matter would be Batisfactorily adjusted fof the benefit of both."

The baggage master of the Central Pacific Railroad says that he recently saw a Chinese cigar manufacturer pasting on hia boxes lables on which was printed, "The Chinese Must Go." Asking the Chinamen what he did that for, the reply was, " Sand-lot men he r> ai that, buy the box, fcjnoke my cigar."