The undermentioned goods will not be warehoused, but will be dealt with in the open, and when deposited to order, or owing to absence of order, will remain there at owner's sole risk; but owners may at their own cost protect with tarpaulins and dunnage. The board will supply tarpaulins, if they can be spared, at 6d. per diem each. Special arrangements to be made for dunnage:

The above will be stored on such open spaces under the control of the board as may from time to time, in the opinion of the board, be available and suitable for such storage purposes. In the event of the space so occupied being required by the board, fourteen days' clear notice will be given to owners or agents of such articles. at the expiration of which the said articles must be removed and the ground clear of all encumbrances. For storage charges, see rent for goods stacked in the open, under landed "Rent or demurrage," clause 28, page 8.

FREE STORAGE.

Machinery as defined from time to time by the customs department, railway material for mining purposes, and rough timber, such as logs, deals, and the like, not planed or grooved, for Rhodesia and Transvaal, will be stored free of charge at owner's risk on such open spaces under the control of the board as may from time to time, in the opinion of the board, be available and suitable for such storage purposes. In the event of the space occupied by such machinery or timber, as defined in the preceding paragraph, and railway material for mining purposes, being required by the board, fourteen days' clear notice will be given to owners or agents of such articles, at the expiration of which the said articles must be removed and the ground cleared of all encumbrances.

GOODS NOT ALLOWED IN WAREHOUSES.

Oils in bulk or in tins, salt, saltpeter, and tar may not be placed in any of the board's warehouses, special stores for such goods being provided.

No acids or explosives will be allowed to be placed in the board's warehouses, and matches only in the special stores provided for the purpose.

Carbide of calcium may be stacked in the open (at owner's risk) on dunnage and covered with tarpaulins, both to be supplied at the expense of bill of lading consignee.

RHODESIA.

Consul-General Stowe writes from Cape Town, September 23, 1899:

A new customs tariff came into force throughout Rhodesia on the 1st of August. It is almost the same as the South African customs-union tariff. Fifteen per cent of the receipts will be retained by Cape Colony for collecting the duties at its seaports. Considerable objection is made on account of its retrospective effect on stocks existing January 1, 1899. The duties imposed are:

Articles.

CLASS I.-Special rates.

Unit.

Rate.

English United States currency. equivalent.

Ale, beer, and cider: All kinds of strength exceeding 2 per cent of proof spirit:

(a) In vessels of not greater content than 1 imperial quart.

(b) In other vessels, bulk, or wood Almonds and nuts

Beads known as "Kaffir beads".
Confectionery, including sweetened cocoa or
chocolate, honey, jams, jellies, preserves,
sweetmeats, candied or preserved ginger, or
chowchow, and all other kinds compounded,
made, or preserved with sugar, but not in-
cluding purely medicinal preparations, prop-
erly classed as apothecary ware.
Fruits: Preserved, of all kinds, bottled, tinned,
or otherwise preserved, including pulp and
candied peel.

Gunpowder and other explosives suitable for
use in firearms.

Per barrel
....do

Each

.....do

Per imperial gallon..

(b) Liqueurs and cordials exceeding 2 per.....do
cent of proof spirit, and methylated
spirits.

(e) Other sorts, exceeding 2 per cent but not
exceeding the strength of proof by
Sykes's hydrometer, and so in propor
tion for any greater strength.

..do

The following articles shall be liable to a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem: Blankets and sheets or rugs, cotton or woolen, or manufactured of cotton and wool, commonly used as cotton or woolen blankets or rugs, the single article, in pairs, or in the piece, and coats, jackets, or other apparel made of blanketing or baize.

Bonbons, surprise packets, and crackers, and other similar fancy confectionery.

Carriages, carts, coaches, wagons, and all other wheeled vehicles intended for the conveyance of persons or goods, including finished or fashioned parts thereof, not being metal parts not usually made in the union, but required in the manufacture of wheeled vehicles therein, but not including bath chairs, perambulators, toy carts, store trucks, or barrows.

Extracts and essences of all kinds used as a food, flavoring, or perfumery, including saccharine. Fireworks of all descriptions.

Medicinal preparations, not being drugs for dispensing purposes.

Perfumery, cosmetics, dyes. powders, and soap, or other preparations for toilet use, and soap powders and extracts. Shawls.

CLASS III.-Ad valorem, 74 per cent.

The following articles shall be liable to a duty of 7 per cent ad valorem:

Articles of wearing apparel and personal adornment, including both shoes and slippers (exclusive of blankets, sheet, rugs, etc.).

Cottons, linens, silks and woolens, or mixtures thereof, in the piece or otherwise (exclusive of blankets, sheet, rugs, etc.).

Drugs and chemicals (exclusive of medicinal preparations not being drugs for dispensing purposes, and chemicals for use in the extraction of metal from ores, or other mining or gold-recovery purposes). Furniture, including brush ware, cabinet ware, carpet ware, household utensils, lamps, glassware. and musical instruments.

Haberdashery, drapery, and millinery.

Jewelry, plate, clocks, watches.

None of these duties shall extend or apply to any articles ground, produced, or manufactured within the South African customs union, or to any articles described in the free list attached to the said customs-union tariff.

THE CUSTOMS-UNION FREE LIST.

The following is the customs-union list of free articles alluded to, to which is subjoined the special Rhodesian list of free food stuffs and other articles:

Agricultural implements and machinery, and all apparatus and plant usually and principally employed in farming operations.

All raw produce of South Africa imported overland.

All articles grown, produced, or manufactured within the customs union, and brought across any inland border of any state, colony, or territory belonging to the customs union (except (a) flour, wheaten or wheaten meal, manufactured from other than South African wheat; (b) spirits distilled from the produce of and within the customs union of a class upon which, by way of excise, a duty may, at the time of importation into such state, colony, or territory, be by its law imposed or levied unless it be proved that a like duty of not less amount has been paid elsewhere within the customs union in respect of the spirits so imported); provided that if such a duty shall have been so paid elsewhere within the customs union, but if of less amount, then there may be by law imposed or levied upon such spirits, when imported, a duty of customs not greater than the difference between the

excise duty here legally imposed or levied on spirits of the same class and the duty of less amount which has been so paid elsewhere.

Ambulance materials imported by recognized associations, corps, or hospitals, lawfully established for instruction or drill in first aid to the wounded.

Anchors and chain cables for the use of ships, tugs, or lighters.

Animals, living (except mules and geldings, and cattle and sheep for slaughter).

Arms, ammunition, appointments, and uniforms for the regular military, naval, or volunteer, imperial, or colonial forces of Her Majesty, or for similar or burgher forces of any government belonging to the customs union.

Asbestus packing and boiler composition.

Atlases, charts, globes, and maps.

Bags, jute, for flour, grain, manure, produce, sugar, wool, coal, and minerals (not including paper bags), and jute bagging and sacking in the piece.

Bands and belting of all kinds for driving machinery, binding twine or harvest yarn, boiler tubes, bolting cloth and mill silk.

Band instruments and stands, the bona fide property of any government belonging to the customs union, or of a regular military or volunteer corps, and not the property of individuals.

Bones, feathers, ivory, hair, hoofs, horns, shells, skins, teeth, wool, and other parts of animals, birds, fishes, or reptiles, not being manufactured, polished, or further prepared than dried and cleaned, but in their raw and unmanufactured state.

Bookbinders' requisites, consisting of boards, cloth, leather, marble paper, skin, thread, tape, vellum, webbing, and wire.

Books and music, printed, including newspapers and periodicals, not being foreign unauthorized prints of any British or South African copyright work.

Bottles and jars of common glass or earthenware, empty or imported, full of any articles liable to be rated duty, and bottles, empty, commonly used for aerated waters.

Boxes, empty, cardboard and wooden, put together or in pieces or shooks for packing.

Brass and copper, and composition metal in bars, ingcts, plates, and sheets; plain, including perforated, but otherwise unmanufactured.

Bullion, coin or specie.

Carriages, carts, wagons, and other wheeled vehicles, the manufacture of South Africa, imported overland.

Church decorations, altars, bells, fonts, lecterns, pulpits, organs, plate or vestments, and illuminated windows, imported by or for presentation to any religious body.

Coir, candlewick, cotton, flax, fiber, flock, hemp, and jute; raw, waste, or unmanufactured.
Consular uniforms and appointments and printed official consular stationery.

Cork dust, paper shaving, sawdust, husks, and other waste substances intended and suitable for use only as packing material.

Corks and bungs.

Cups, medals, and other trophies imported for presentation or presented as prizes at examinations, exhibitions, shows, or other public competitions for excellence in art, bravery, good conduct, humanity, industry, invention, manufactures, learning, science, skill, or sport, or for honorable or meritorious pblic services; provided that such articles shall on importation or delivery free from the customs ear engraved or otherwise indelibly marked on them the name of the presenter or presentee, and the crasion or purpose for which presented.

Dhagrams, designs, drawings, models, and plans.

Diamonds and other gems or precious stones in their rough state.

Dye nuts. gambier, myrobalans, sumac, valonia, and other dyestuff, in bulk-for leather.

Engravings, lithographs, and photographs, and enlargements or reproductions of the same.

Fire escapes and fire hose and hose reels.

Fire clay, terra alba, and fire bricks.

Fish, fresh, and fish ova; also dried, cured, or salted fish, and raw fish oil of South African catching. Flowers of sulphur and other substances, in bulk, suitable for destroying diseases on animals, plants, or trees.

Fruit: Fresh or green, including cocoanuts.

Fruit and other produce, driers or evaporators of.

Glue.

Gnano and other substances, animal, mineral, or vegetable, artificial or natural, suitable for use as fertilizers or manures.

Haircloth, and springs for furniture.

Ice.

Iron and steel: Angle, bar, channel, hoop, rod, plate, sheet, or T; plain, including perforated and galvanized, rough and unmanufactured, not including corrugated sheets.

Lead: Bar, pipe, and sheet.

Leather: Patent, enameled, roan, and morocco, and pigskin, in the piece; for boots, shoes, harness, saddlery, cart trimming, and other leather manufactures.

Lifeboats, belts, and buoys, and other life-saving apparatus imported by any recognized society. Machinery fitted to be driven by cattle, electric, gas, heat, hydraulic, pneumatic, steam, water, or wind power, including spare parts and apparatus and appliances used in connection with the gener ating and storing of electric power or gas (but not including electric cable or wire, or the posts for earrying the same, and not including lamp-posts, gas lamps, or their fittings).

Metal of all sorts in bars, blocks, ingots, and pigs, for founding, not elsewhere described. Mining buckets, skips, trucks, and tubs, wheeled or otherwise, for hauling minerals on ores ou rails or wires.

Packing or lagging for engines and machinery.

Paper for printing books, phamplets, newspapers, and posters, or for lithographic purposes.
Paintings, pictures, picture books, and etchings.

Pipes, piping, and tubes of earthenware or metal of all kinds, for gas, drainage, sewerage, irrigation water supply or pumping (not including down piping and guttering, or cocks and taps). Potash and soda, carbonate, bicarbonate, caustic, crystals, and silicate.

Printing and lithographic inks.

Printing, lithographing, paper cutting, folding, numbering, and perforating machines or presses, blocks, forms, fonts, plates, rollers, stones, and type; and other apparatus suitable only for use in the book binding and printing industries.

Public stores, imported or taken out of bond by, and bona fide for the sole and exclusive use of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, or the government of any colony, state, or territory belonging to the customs union, provided that a certificate be delivered to the customs given under the hand of a principal imperial, military, naval, civil, commissariat, or ordnance secretary or officer, or under the

hand of a secretary to any government within the customs union, setting forth that any duty levied on such public stores would be borne directly by the treasury of his government; and provided further that no portion of such stores, used or unused, shall be sold or otherwise disposed of so as to come into the possession of or into consumption by any parties not legally entitled to import the same free of duty, until the intention so to sell or dispose of the stores shall have been notified to the principal officer of customs in the colony, state, or territory where they were first imported, to whom the duty leviable according to the tariff then in force shall be paid by the government selling or disposing of

the stores.

Railway construction or equipment requisites, such to mean the following: Rails, sleepers, fastenings for rails or sleepers, girders, iron bridge work, culvert tops, locomotives, tenders, ballast trucks, goods wagons, carriages, trolleys, engine water tanks, turntables, weigh bridges, and permanent or fixed signals.

Rattans, cane and bamboo, unmanufactured.

Resin and carbonate of ammonia.

Saddletrees.

School furniture and requisites: being all articles certified by the superintendent general of education, or any official appointed for that purpose in any colony, state, or territory in the customs union, to be for use in any school.

Sculpture, including casts or models of sculpture.

Seeds, bulbs, plants and tubers for planting or sowing only, under such regulations as regards edible kinds as the customs authorities may impose to safeguard the revenue against diversion into ordinary consumption.

Sheep dip, sheep-dipping powders, materials suitable for dips, and dipping tanks.
Specimens illustrative of natural history.

Sprayers and sprinklers, and other apparatus for destroying pests or diseases in stock, plants, or
trees.
Staves.

Steam launches, tugs, and lighters; provided that, when condemned or landed to be broken up, duty shall be paid at the customs on the hull and all fittings, according to the tariff that may then be

in force.

Sulphur: Substances for destroying pests or disease in stock, plants or trees, and disinfectants. Thread: Boot and shoe makers', saddlers', and sailmakers', and seaming twine.

Tin and zinc: Bar, plate or sheet, plain or perforated, but otherwise manufactured.

Telegraphs and telephones: Materials and instruments for use in construction and working of telegraph and telephone lines.

Tobacco, the produce of South Africa, imported overland.

Tramway-construction requisites, such to mean the following: Rails, sleepers, fastenings for rails or sleepers, iron gates, girders, iron bridge work, and culvert tops.

Vaccine virus and toxin.

Vegetables, fresh or green, but not including potatoes or onions.

Water-boring apparatus.

Wine presses and wine pumps.

Wine, spirits, and beer, imported direct or taken out of bond by, and for the sole use of, commissioned officers serving on full pay in the regular military or naval forces of Her Britannic Majesty, subject to such regulations as the customs may make for the due protection of the revenue, provided that if any such liquors shall be sold or otherwise disposed of to, or for consumption by, any other person not legally entitled to import the same free of duty, without the duty being first paid thereon to the cus toms according to the tariff then in force, then they shall be forfeited, and the parties knowingly disposing of such liquors, or into whose possession the same shall knowingly come, shall be liable to such penalties as may be prescribed by law.

Wire and wire netting for fencing, droppers, gates, hurdles, posts, standards, strainers, staples, stiles, winders, and other materials, or fastenings of metal ordinarily used for agricultural or railway fencing. Wire rope.

Wool, straw, hay, and forage presses.

SPECIAL RHODESIAN FREE LIST.

Acetic acid.

Animals, viz: Mules and geldings, and cattle for slaughter, and sheep for slaughter.
Bicycles, tricycles, and velocipedes, including accessories.

Blasting compounds, including all kinds of explosives, suitable and intended for blasting, and not suitable for use in firearms.

Butter, butterine, margarin, ghee, and other substitutes for butter.

Candles.

Cement.

Cheese.

Chicory, and substitutes for coffee.

Coffee.

Cocoa and chocolate, unsweetened.

Cocoa and milk, chocolate and milk, or coffee and milk.

Condensed, dessicated, or preserved milk or cream.

Coals, coke, or patent fuel.

Corn and grain, viz: Barley, maize, millet, oats, rye, wheat, beans, and pease, in the grain or crushed, flaked, ground, hulled, malted, pearled, split, or otherwise prepared, oats not in the grain and bran meal, flour, wheaten or wheaten meal, including pollard.

Dates.

Fish, cured, dried, pickled, preserved, pressed, or smoked.
Fodder, viz: Chaff, hay, lucerne, oat hay, and other fodder.
Fruit, dried, of all kinds, including almonds and nuts.

Ginger, green and dry.

Meats, cooked, dried fresh, chilled, frozen, pressed, pickled, salted, smoked, or otherwise cured or preserved, including lard, fats, and other similar substances and soups, but not including extracts and