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blue, wove and laid cap, 15 to 1 8 pounds; medium, demy, and royal, 

 same substance. 



Handmade for scrip large post, cream wove, 13 pounds; me- 

 dium, cream wove, 15 pounds. 



Commercial and good printing cap, n, 15, and 18 pounds; also, 

 same in large post, medium, double demy, royal, and double crown. 



Printing double-demy printing paper, white and colored, in all 

 weights and qualities. A fair amount of double crown is also used. 



Account-book paper cream and blue laid double cap, 30 to 36 

 pounds; cream and blue laid medium, 21, 27, and 32 pounds; also 

 double crown, double demy, royal, and imperial. 



Brown and wrappings double imperial, 80 to 100 pounds; casing 

 and extra casing in same; principal paper used, glazed, brown, or 

 rope, 80 to 100 pounds for double imperial. 



PRICES. 



Market price: Loans and bank, 4d. to i2d. (8. i cents to 24.3 cents) 

 per pound, according to quality; handmade, lod. to 25. (20 cents to 

 48.6 cents), according to quality and supply; cream laid, 4d. to 7/^d. 

 (8. i cents to 15.2 cents) ; printing, ifad. to 4d. (2.8 cents to 8. i cents) ; 

 account book, 4d. to i2d. (8.1 cents to 24.3 cents). For browns and 

 wrappings, the market fluctuates considerably. Glazed brown rope 

 costs from ->] 105. to 9 IDS. ($36.50 to $46.23) per ton of 2,240 

 pounds. Other qualities, from^7*to ^n ($34.06 to $53.53). Ger- 

 man wrapping paper is the cheapest. 



DUTIES, BANKS, MAILS, AND FREIGHTS. 



Printing paper enters free of duty; all other paper is taxed 7^ 

 per cent. 



The banking facilities are good, with connections everywhere. 

 Mails come weekly by steamers from England. Transportation is 

 effected by regular and tramp steamers. Rates from the United 

 States have been less than from Great Britain, and yet British bot- 

 toms bring all the imports from the United States. 



AMERICAN TRADE. 



In former reports, I have given the methods by which American- 

 made goods have been sold in this country, and, while the means 

 used have been successful in some lines, in others but little work has 

 been done. Sometimes, too many lines are represented by one per- 

 son. I regret my inability to reply to other questions, but it must 

 be remembered that this is a new country, comparatively speaking, 

 and has not yet published books of information and full statistics. 

 That it is a country which is fast becoming a good customer of 



