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Warsaw Wool Fair. 



The above provisions came into operation on the publica- 

 tion of the Decree. 

 Reduced rates : — 



Portable engines (locomobiles) for working multiple action 

 threshing machines and steam ploughs, 4s. iid. per cwt. 

 (old rate 13s. g^d. per cwt.]. 



Reapers and binder?, reapers with self ejectors, steam 

 ploughs, clover threshers with two drums and beaters, steam 

 threshers with drums not less than feet broad and joint 

 pins not less than 40 inches broad, hay-makers, horse rakes, 

 grass-seed dressers, dressers with spiral wire cylinders, 

 potato sorters, powdered manure spreaders, crushers, bellows 

 and injectors for vines and trees, grape crushers, grape 

 presses, centrifugal cream separators and their parts, all 

 newly invented or perfected agricultural machines and 

 implements imported for experimental farms or museums. 



All spare parts imported, with portable engines, threshers, 

 and steam ploughs, are to be free of duty, but those of the 

 agricultural machines and implements here specified to pay 

 duty at the rate of 4s. iid. per cwt. Manila hemp twine 

 for binding sheaves as well as linen bands for sheaf binders 

 and graders to be imported duty free. 



The reduction and partial abolition of the rates on agri- 

 cultural machinery and implements are to come into 

 operation from September 13th, 1898, and all the reductions 

 and modifications are to remain in force to December 30th, 

 1903, when the period for which the commercial tariff 

 between Russia and Germany was concluded will expire. 

 \Foreign Office Repoj't, Annual Series^ No. 2169. Price 5*^.] 



Warsaw^ Wool Fair. 



The Foreign Office have recently published a Report by 

 Mr. Consul-General Murray on the Warsaw Wool Fair of 

 1898. In this Report Mr. Murray remarks that the chief 

 feature of the wool markets of the world dunng the past year 

 w^as a rise in prices owing to the smaller production of wool. 

 At the end of 1897 and at the beginning of this year there 



