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coloured, 7-9 ^d. a Ib. ; colory, 5-7d. ; light-brown and 

 leafy, 5-7Jd. ; ordinary and brown, 4-4Jd. Virginia : 

 Fine Irish and Scotch spinners, 7-1 OcL ; good and 

 middling, ordinary light and dry, 6-1 Od. ; fine black 

 sweet scent, and middling do., 6J-7JcL ; part blacks, 

 5-6d. ; ordinary and heated, 3-5d. ; mixed parcels, ordi- 

 nary and good, middling and fine, 5J-6Jd. ; stripped leaf, 

 4c?.-ls. Kentucky: fine long light leaf, 7-lId. ; good to 

 middling do., 5^-7^d. ; fine and middling blacks, Q-8d. ; 

 ordinary and mixed, 2-5d. ; stripped leaf, fine, light leafy, 

 middling and ordinary, 4J-lld. Negrohead, lld.-ls. 6d. 

 Cavendish, 4Jd.-ls. Amersfort and German, 2|d.-ls. 6d. 

 St. Domingo, 5-7%d. Havana, Cuba, and Yara, Is. 2d.-6s. 

 Turkish and Greek, 2J-9dL E. India, Japan, and China, 

 2-9<2. Java, 5d.-2s. Colombia (New Granada), 5d.-2. 6d. 

 Manilla, 8c?.-4s. Manilla cheroots, 4s.-7*. 6d. Havana 

 cigars, 5-40s. 



Imports, Duties, and Values. Our imports of tobacco in 

 1879 were as follows : 



(a) Unmanufactured: From United States, 25,743,880 

 Ib., value 682,253Z.; Holland, 6,215,930 Ib., 266,109/. ; 

 China, 1,444,192 Ib., 36,265Z. ; Turkey, 1,214,319 Ib., 

 32,627Z.; Japan, 805,928 Ib., 24,003Z. ; France, 651,350 Ib., 

 14,585Z. ; Belgium, 515,009 Ib., 15,501Z.; Argentine 

 Eepublic, 470,309 Ib., 10,8707.; Germany, 426,139 Ib., 

 25,602/. ; Straits Settlements, 267,258 Ib., 29,718Z. ; Bri- 

 tish India, 246,305 Ib., 3605Z. ; New Granada, 241,638 

 Ib., 9621Z. ; Canada, 121,920 Ib., 3473Z. ; other countries, 

 497,043 Ib., 14,256Z. ; total, 38,861,220 Ib., 1,165,488Z. 



(b) Snuff: From all countries, 7719 Ib., value 92Z. 



(c) Cigars: From Spanish W. Indies, 495,518 Ib., 



