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Coal, native, Kurow to Oamaru, reduced. Coal, native, Waihao Forks to Timaru and Oamaru, reduced, A, B, C, D goods, Christchurch to Timaru, also rate for small lots, reduced. Beet, carrots, mangolds, and turnips in small lots, reduced. Rate for native brown coal, lignite, and peat reduced. Rate for milk consigned to Wellington reduced. Cream, rates reduced. Huntsmen's horses going to hunt-club meetings returned free if sent back within three days of meeting. Time-limit for discharging trucks standing under load extended from four to five hours. Bonedust, guano, manure, salt, and artificial manures reduced to Class P; minimum quantity reduced to 1-| tons. Stock, implements, dogs, and poultry exhibited at agricultural shows, and entire horses exhibited at horse-parades, returned unsold, half outward freight refunded. Dogs accompanying drovers carried free. Truck-load of Class F goods increased from 5 to 6 tons. . Exhibits for Imperial Institute, London, carried free if consigned to Agent-General. Goods for sufferers by Queensland floods carried free to ports of shipment. Copra, candlenuts, peanuts, rapeseed, linseed, sodas, and other raw materials, and for oil, soap, candles, soda crystals, refined tallow, and oil-cake, between Westfield and Auckland, reduced. Cheese in lOcwt. lots, rate reduced. Butter in 4-ton and dead meat in 2-ton lots consigned to Wellington, reduced. Permanent-way railway material, rate reduced. White-pine timber, rate reduced. Pelts, limed, and tallow in casks, Longburn to Foxton, rate reduced. Dead meat, hides, tallow, and pelts, Woodville to Spit, reduced. Fruit in 4-ton lots, New Plymouth Breakwater and Waitara to Wanganui, reduced. Wool, Spit to Hastings and Wangaehu to Wanganui, reduced. Bonedust and guano, rate reduced. White-pine from bush districts to sawmill for dressing, reduced. Coal, Foxton to Longburn, reduced. Cheese direct from factories in 10 cwt. lots, rate reduced. White-pine from bush districts to sawmills, rate reduced. Pelts, Petone to Wellington, rate reduced. Cased meats, tallow, pelts, manure, wool, and coal, Ngahauranga to Wellington, reduced. Bonedust, guano, manures, rate reduced. Sheep-rates from stations south of Wanganui to Wellington, Johnsonville, Ngahauranga, and Petone. Hides and pelts to Picton, rate reduced. Class E to Picton, for shipment, rate reduced. Wool, Belgrove to Nelson or the Port, reduced. Coal and coal-dross, rates reduced. Goods of Classes P and Q from coal-mines, rates reduced. Coal and coal-dross consigned to port for shipment from Brunner and Wallsend, reduced. Coke for export beyond New Zealand, rate reduced. Timber from Mount Somers, local rate abolished. Paper from local paper-mills, reduced. A, B, C, D goods, Dunedin and Port Chalmers to Inveroargill, reduced. Goods to Inveroargill Jetty, reduced. Bar-iron and castings in 4-ton lots, Burnside to Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, and Inveroargill, reduced. Class E and oil, soap, candles, bar-iron,' iron castings, artificial manures, sulphur, linseed, guano, tar, raw materials used in manufacture of acids and sulphuric acid in 2-ton lots between Dunedin, Burnside, and Cattle-yards, reduced. A, B, C goods, Christchurch to stations between Ashley and Amberley inclusive, reduced. Branch charge on goods of Classes X, N, and P cancelled. District railway rates abolished except for the Waimea Plains Railway. Wire-netting on Port lines, reduced. Carriage-covers returned free. Wool ex Livingstone Branch, reduced. Frozen meat and butter, Lyttelton to ship's side, reduced. Timber, Springburn to Tinwald and Ashburton, reduced. Flax, native, dressed, rate reduced. Cement, Auckland or Auckland Wharf to Onehunga, reduced. Goods of Class E, reduced. Pressed straw to Picton for shipment, reduced. Bark, native, rough, Wakefield to Nelson, reduced. Timber, Kaiata to Greymouth, reduced. Wool from Hakateramea-Duntroon and intermediate stations to Oamaru and Breakwater, reduced. Cased meats, tallow, and pelts, wool, native coal, artificial manures, and ships' ballast, Ocean Beach to Bluff, reduced. Nightsoil, Kensington to Wingatui, reduced.