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Spanish Customs Duty on Wheat. 



branch of husbandry in which they intend to engage. 

 Intending settlers are warned of the importance of their 

 observing this caution if they wish to escape the disasters 

 which have overtaken so many of their inexperienced and 

 confiding countrymen. Farms of almost every description 

 may be rented or leased in any part of the State, and by 

 adopting this method a prospective fruit grower is enabled to 

 find out by actual experience whether he has an aptitude tor 

 the business or not. At the same time he will get a more 

 reliable idea of what returns he may expect from his con- 

 templated investment than he would have from any other 

 source. 



{Foreign Office Report, Annual Series. No. 2349. Price 2^d.] 



The Board have received from the Foreign Office a copy 

 of an official decree, which was published 



S Dut2Mm Whla? S in the Madrid Gazette on September 29th 

 last, whereby the duties which are 

 imposed on wheat, and wheaten flour, under the exist- 

 ing Spanish tariff of imports, were re-established as 

 follows : — Eight pesetas and thirteen pesetas twenty cen- 

 timos respectively per hundred kilogrammes, which are 

 equivalent to 13s. nd. per quarter of wheat, and 5s. 4JKL 

 per cwt. of wheaten flour. These duties were applicable 

 after midnight of September 30th, 1899, to all consignments 

 of wheat and wheat flour delivered from abroad at any port 

 in Spain, the Balearic and Canary Islands. 



Information has been received through the Foreign Office 

 that phylloxera is very prevalent through- 



Phy Si5fy, a ^ out the whole of Sicily * Nurseries of 

 American vines have been created in 



various districts with a view to replacing the diseased plants 



by stocks immune from the pest, and the Italian Government 



has assigned a subsidy of £400 in aid of this work. As, 



