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2. ARTICLES ON WHICH DUTY IS PROPOSED TO BE DECREASED.— (ESTIMATED LOSS IN REVENUE.)

Articles. Present Rate of Duty. Proposed Rate of Duty. Estimatec Annual Loss in Revenue. Class I.— Foods, and Articles for Human Consumption —I Drained peel ... ... ... ... ... ■ Glucose Saccharine Salt ... 3d. per lb. Id. per lb. 5s. per oz. 10s. per ton 2d. per lb. ■Jd. per lb. Is. 6d. peroz. Free £ 75440 3,478 Class IV. — Non-alcoholic Beverages, and Materials for making same — Coffee, raw ... ... ... .... Tea ... 3d. per lb. 6d. per lb. Id. per lb. 4d, per lb. 2,261 31,032 Class V.— Drugs, Medicines, Druggists' Sundries, and Chemicals — Alumina, Sulphate of ... ... ... Anhydrous ammonia Annatto and annatto-seed . Bluestone, or sulphate of copper... Catechu Chlorate of potash ■ Chloride of lime Soda, Nitrate of Soda, Acetate of Soda ash Sal-ammoniac... Sulphur Turmeric 15 per cent. 15 per cent. Free Free 15* 75* 6d. per cwt. 15 per cent. Free Free 54 15* Class VI. — Clothing and Textile Goods — Bootmakers' coloured canvas Collar lining ... Cotton piece-goods Crochet-, darning-, and knitting-cottons ... Hatters' materials, Sundry additional Hollands, rough brown and dressed, flax, forfar, &c. Tailors' trimmings, Sundry additional Umbrella-makers' fittings, Sundry additional 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 10 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 200* 40* 15,922 250* 50* 1,000* 100* 200* Class X. — Fancy Goods and Musical Instruments — Sundry exemptions ... ... 2,000* Class XII. — Manufactures of Metal — Artificers' tools and tools of husbandry Chaff-cutters, corn-crushers, corn-shelters, and seedcleaners Caps, percussion Nails Tinsmiths' furniture Wire, fencing, barbed ... 20 per cent. 20 per cent. Is. per 1,000 3s. per cwt. 25 per cent. Fencing, Is. p. cwt. Barbed, 2s. p. cwt. Free Free Free Free Free Free 2,000* 50* 320 14 250* 10,611 Buckles, butchers' saws and cleavers, crucibles, bolts of certain sizes, eyelets, emery-grinding machines, fish-hooks, hammers (quartz, knapping, and spalling), iron drums, iron- and brass-wove wire and wire gauze, iron pipes for local governing bodies, mattocks; machinery for rope- and twine-making, planing and wood-working, and for electric-light-ing when imported by local bodies; picks, reapinghooks, saws (band- and folding-) and frames for same, set-screws and studs (engineers'), sheepshears, spiral springs, sheet-zinc or -iron (perforated or cellular), soldering-irons, steam and hydraulic-pressure and vacuum gauges - 20 per cent. Free 2,000* Class XIII.— Timber, and Articles made from Timber — Hubs Lancewood Veneers Wooden handles for tools 15 per cent. 15 per cent. 15 per cent. 15 per cent. Free Free Free Free 40* 5* 5* 500* Carried forward