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

 leafy, 6-7^d. ; ordinary and brown, 4-4^d. Virginia : 

 Fine Irish and Scotch spinners, 7-1 Od. ; good and 

 middling, ordinary light and dry, Q-lOd. ; fine black 

 sweet scent, and middling do., Q^l^d. ; part blacks, 

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

 nary and good, middling and fine, 5^6^d. ; stripped leaf, 

 4:d.-ls. Kentucky: fine long light leaf, 7-lld.; good to 

 middling do., 5^-7^d. ; fine and middling blacks, 6-8d. ; 

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

 middling and ordinary, Ah-lld. Negrohead, ll(Z.-ls. 6d. 

 Cavendish, i^d.-ls. Amersfort and German, 2f d.-ls. Qd. 

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

 Turkish and Greek, 2^-9d. E. India, Japan, and China, 

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

 Manilla, 8cZ.-4s. Manilla cheroots, 4s.-7s. 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 

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

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

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

 14,585/.; Belgiiam, 515,009 lb., 15,501/.; Argentine 

 Eepublic, 470,309 lb., 10,870/.; Germany, 426,139 lb., 

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

 tish India, 246,305 lb., S605/. ; New Granada, 241,638 

 lb., 9621/. ; Canada, 121,920 lb., 3473/. ; other countries, 

 497,043 lb., 14,256/. ; total, 38,861,220 lb., 1,165,488/. 

 (h) Snuff: From all countries, 7719 lb., value 92/. 

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



