50 [February, 1902.] 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
Vol. VIII. No. 86. 
hands to anything, could earn £3 a week," but that at Will- 
cannia there is no demand for any kind of labour. (Victoria). 
— The Boards appointed under the Factories Act have deter- 
mined that the lowest wages which may be paid to a copper- 
plate engraver shall be 80s. a week, of 48 hours, to male tailors' 
cutters and machinists in the clothing trade 7s. 6d. a. day and 
to females 3s. 4c!., to a harness maker or saddler 48s. per week 
for males (48 hours), and 20s. for females (45 hours). There is 
no demand at Melbourne for more mechanics. The carpenters 
at Melbourne have struck for a rise in their wages from 9s. to 
10s. a day ; the latter rate is already being paid to the more 
expert hands. Round Bendigo and in other country districts 
there is an opening for competent farmers and farm labourers. 
(Queensland). — The Report of the Government Labour Bureau 
for the quarter ending 30th September last, showed that there 
was a demand for a few mechanics at Charters Towers, Towns- 
ville, etc., but none elsewhere ; that there was a good demand 
for agricultural labourers, and general labourers, especially in 
the South ; that plantation hands were wanted in the districts 
of Bundaberg, Maryborough, etc.; that neither station hands 
nor miners were wanted anywhere; and that female servants 
were wanted in the North. (Western Australia). — Many of 
the carpenters at Fremantle, who are being paid less than the 
12s. a day which others receive, have struck work. There is a 
good demand for farm labourers and female servants. There 
is no demand for miners, and very little for mechanics, unless 
they bring a little money, or are specially skilled. 
New Zealand. — -The building trades have been busy 
almost everywhere (but not at Wellington or Dunedin), and at 
Invercargill bricklayers have been in demand. The engineer- 
ing trade is not giving full employment to men at Dunedin and 
Wellington ; but elsewhere it is fairly good, and in Auckland 
blacksmithing and boiler-making have been brisk. The boot 
trade has been very good at Blenheim, and one or two other 
places, but very slack at Wellington and dull elsewhere. Both 
men and women in the clothing trades have been busy every- 
where, and in Auckland, Dunedin and Invercargill there has 
been a scarcity of hands. Coal-miners have been busy at 
Westport. Unskilled labour has been for the most part well 
employed, but there is no demand for more, except in parts for 
dairyhands and milkers. 
South Africa. — No one is now allowed to land in South 
Africa without a permit. This must be applied for at the Permit 
Office, 39, Victoria-street, London, S.W. The applicant must 
possess fioo, or prove that he is in a position to maintain him- 
self in South Africa. Applicants living within fifty miles of 
London must apply in person. These permits are no guarantee 
that the holders will be allowed to proceed inland. Only 
refugees, Government employees, and persons engaged in a 
service of a public nature will be permitted to proceed to the 
Transvaal. Candidates for the new South African Constabu- 
lary in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony should apply 
to The Recruiting Officer, S.A.C. Recruiting Office, King’s- 
court, Broadway, Westminster, S.W. ; they must be good 
riders, good shots, single, strictly sober, and from 20 to 35 
years of age ; they will be given free passages to South Africa. 
Fa triers also are wanted for this force. 
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EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION. 
%* The Imperial Institute acts in concert with the Emigrants' 
Information Office ( which is under the direction of the 
Colonial Office) , of gr, Broadway, Westminster , S.W.; 
and also with the British Women's Emigration Asso- 
ciation, now temporarily carrying on its work in 
rooms at the Institute. The Handbooks and Quarterly 
Circulars issued by the Emigrants' Information Office 
may be obtained at the Commercial Intelligence Office. 
Special information and practical advice respecting 
Canada and Cape Colony will also be furnished by the 
Curators of these Sections. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
General Emigration. — The number of passengers that left 
the United Kingdom for places out of Europe during 1901 was 
302,848, being an increase of 4,287 over the previous year. 
Nearly two-tliirds of the total — namely, 194,888 — went to the 
United States, and 28,636 passengers went to South Africa, as 
against 23,518 in 1900. There was a set-back in the movement 
to Canada, the number of emigrants in 1901 being only 43,013, 
or nearly 7,000 less than in 1900. Of the total — 302,848 — only 
172,140 were of British origin. 
The hon. sec. of the British Women's Emigration Associa- 
tion reports 312 applications during the month ended January 
si, from women of all classes, for information about their 
chances of employment in the colonies. In many cases some 
previous special training is recommended, that there may be 
sufficient proof of the suitability of these volunteers for useful 
service in some outlying portion of the Empire. 
The County of Gloucester has inaugurated a special course 
of instruction for intending colonists, in its scheme of Technical 
Education. It includes Dairy work, Laundry, Cooking, etc., 
and all through the United Kingdom there are now oppor- 
tunities within reach of almost every one, for acquiring some 
scientific knowledge of practical domestic and agricultural 
work. The number of travellers sent off through the Associa- 
tion in the past month is 26 ; eight went to Australia and New 
Zealand. A party of teachers for South Africa sent out by the 
Government for the Refugee Camps sailed on January 18th. 
Many applications continue to be received from employers in 
South Africa, or returning there, for servants, and these are 
carefully selected, generally by the employers themselves or 
their friends, from those whose applications and references have 
been investigated and approved by the Association. This seems 
to show that the article on “Female Emigration to South 
Africa " in a well-known monthly magazine does not accurately 
express the opinion and experience of ladies resident in the 
Cape Colon} * I * * * 5 * 7 . The writer, after censuring both mistresses and 
servants, urges as a remedy that the former should close their 
doors to all imported assistance “until such times as they shall 
have made the people of the country realise the almost 
sacred nature of the bond between faithful attendants and 
grateful heads of households." — " That the importation of any 
form of individual talent testifies to the absence, in the new 
land immigrated to, of the peculiar qualifications in demand." 
“We should devote ourselves to training for domestic service 
some of our colonial girls — that we should use every argument 
in our power to remove the mistaken idea, which is taking such 
root in the colonies, that domestic service is degrading." 
- Earlier we read — of course it will take time, perhaps years ; 
are the mistresses to be willing to wait to have their beds 
made and their dinners cooked until the Cape girls attain to the 
highest ideal of the dignity of domestic service? 
Speaking further of lady colonists, it is admitted that assist- 
ance must be imported, and that they must not venture to marry 
until “from some corner of our world has been collected 
efficient paid assistance." 
It is consoling to read the admission “ that the higher class 
of .servants are as reliable and as faithful abroad as at home." 
COLONIES. 
Farm Pupils in Canada. — In consequence of the agri- 
cultural prosperity in Canada, a number of agencies have 
sprung into existence in the United Kingdom which offer to 
secure situations on Canadian farms for young settlers, for 
which a premium is demanded. The High Commissioner 
announces that any young man possessing a sound constitution, 
and who is prepared to accept the conditions of farm life, can 
secure the opening he desires by giving his services in return for 
board and lodging as one of the farmer's family, together 
with a nominal wage for the first year. The circumstances are 
not such as to necessitate any payment as a premium. Assist- 
ance will be given to enquirers at the High Commissioner’s 
office, Victoria-street, S.W. 
In this connection a letter, written from Ottawa to the 
Times, is of interest. It dears away misconceptions which 
exist in England as to the necessity for “roughing it," under 
which would-be farmers in Canada are supposed to lie. 
Englishmen who know something of agricultural pursuits and 
have a little capital, can secure established farms in the eastern 
provinces at reasonable prices with little difficulty ; and on such 
properties they will find farm buildings already standing, and be 
generally close to church, school, and railway. “ In the strictly 
agricultural districts,” the writer says, “ the size of these farms 
is usually 100 or 150 acres each (two can sometimes be acquired 
together); in the fruit-raising parts of the Niagara peninsula 
the acreage is generally less and the price greater. The price of 
the class first mentioned is about ^1,000 to ^ 1,500, according 
to size, etc., and the bulk of the purchase money is nearly 
always payable by instalments, if the purchaser so desires. 
There is no ‘roughing it in a new country ' about this. Nor 
is there any difficulty in finding such properties. An estate 
agent's books will supply a list to select from, and the inspection 
of those selected is no more difficult in an Ontario county than 
in an English shire." 

CUSTOMS TARIFFS. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
Drawback Regulations for Syrup or Molasses of 
British Manufacture. — The Board of Trade are in receipt 
of a notice which has recently been issued by order of the Com- 
missioners of Customs with regard to the drawback allowed on 
the importation of syrups or molasses of British manufacture. 
The. following is the text of the notice : — 
“ Subject to the conditions specified in the second Schedule 
to the Finance Act, 1901, the Board of Customs allow, on the 
exportation of syrups or molasses of British manufacture, 
drawback at the rates of import duty for molasses (is., 2s. , or 
25. 9d. per cwt. ), according to the amount of sweetening 
matter contained in the article. 
“ Any claim for drawback, as to which the exporter may 
be able to prove that the amount allowable under the preceding 
paragraph is not equal to the duty paid in respect of the quantity 
of that article, which appears to the satisfaction of the Treasury 
to have been used in the manufacture or preparation of the 
goods, will be dealt with upon its merits ; but a statutory 
declaration will be required in each case showing the quantity 
and description of the sugar or other article used in the manu- 
facture, and the relative rate of duty paid upon importation. 
“The Board of Customs, however, will, on application, be 
prepared to consider whether, and on what conditions, a 
statutory declaration in each instance may be dispensed with in 
the case of regular exporters of British manufactured syrups or 
molasses." 
Regulations witi-i regard to Coal Shipped under 
pre-Budget Contracts. — The following notice lias recently 
been issued by order of the Commissioners of Customs with 
regard to coal shipped under pre-Budget contracts : — 
“ With reference to Section 3 (2) of the Finance Act, 1901, 
which limits the concession in regard to pre-Budget coal con- 
tracts to coal exported before the 1st January, 1902, exporters 
of coal are hereby informed that duty must be paid on all coal 
liable to duly which has been shipped after midnight on the 
31st December last. 
“ Shipments under accepted contracts, for which authorities 
for free shipments may have been given, are not exempt from 
this direction, notwithstanding that the coal covered by the 
authority may not have been all shipped by midnight on the 
31st December. 
“ In order to insure that duty is paid on any balance that 
may be shipped after that hour on any such authority, shippers 
will have to enter into bond or make a deposit in cash, sufficient 
to cover payment of duty on such balance." 
COLONIES. 
British Honduras. — New Export Duties. — The Board 
of Trade have received from the Governor of British Honduras 
a copy of an Ordinance (No. 20 of 1901), which repeals 
Ordinance 13 of 1899, and provides for the imposition of new 
duties on logwood and mahogany on export from the colony. 
The export duties leviable have been fixed by an Order- 
in-Council, dated 5th December, 1901, and made under 
Section 1 of Ordinance 20 of 1901, as follows :— 
Export Duty, 
Logwood .... 25 cents per ton. 
Mahogany . . . .75 ,, 1,000 sup. ft. 
The duties previously in force were, on logwood, 50 cents 
per ton ; and on mahogany, 1 dollar 50 cents per 1,000 sup. ft. 
Ceylon, — Exportation of Arms, etc., may re Pro- 
hibited. — Ordinance No. 12 of 1900, repealing Ordinance 
No. 7 of 1900, empowers the Governor to prohibit, by 
Proclamation published in the Government Gazette, the ex- 
portation from Ceylon of arms, ammunition, military and 
naval stores, and such articles as may be made useful for the 
purpose of increasing the quantity of arms, ammunition, etc. 
Jamaica —Excise Duty on Matches.— The “Match 
Excise Duty Law, 1901" (No. 12 of 1901), which was passed 
on 30th March, 1901, provides for the imposition of an Excise 
duty on matches manufactured in Jamaica, as follows : — 
Excise Duty. 
Matches, per gross of boxes containing 30 sticks 
or less per box . . . . . , 3d. 
[And in proportion for boxes containing a greater nnmber 
of sticks. ] 
Provision is also made for the payment by persons engaged 
in the business of manufacturing matches in the Island, of a 
licence duty of £1 per annum in respect of each manufactory. 
Southern Rhodesia.— Exportation of War Materials 
may be Prohibited.— An Ordinance (No. 3 of 1901), 
promulgated on 22nd November last, empowers the Adminis- 
trator to prohibit (by notice in the Gazette) the export or removal 
from Southern Rhodesia of any of the under-mentioned articles 
or things, being materials of war, except under permission 
granted in writing given by himself or by some officer or person 
authorised by him to grant such permission : — • 
1. Guns and arms, comprising every weapon which can be 
used or employed in war of whatever kind, and the machinery 
for manufacturing the same. 
2. Ammunition and explosives of all kinds, as also the 
ingredients used in their manufacture, and the machinery for 
manufacturing the same. 
3. Military stores, comprising clothing, equipments, 
accoutrements, harness, saddlery, implements, and tools, wire, 
chemicals used in the manufacture of explosives, signalling and 
searchlight equipment, telegraphic and electric light plant suit- 
able for field use, limelight apparatus, heliographs, optical 
instruments used in military operations. 
4. Naval stores of all kinds, including, inter alia, materials 
used in ship construction, such as rivet iron, angle iron, round 
bars, rivets, sheet plate iron, forgings, and armour plates ; 
marine engines and the component parts thereof, including screw 
•propellers, paddle-wheels, cylinders, cranks, shafts, boilers, tubes 
for boilers, boiler-plates, fire-bars ; every article, which is, or can 
become, applicable for the manufacture of marine machinery ; 
anchors, chain cables, wire hawsers, capstans, windlasses, steam 
winches, masts, derricks, davits; torpedoes and their component 
parts, and machinery for manufacturing them ; all apparatus 
for projecting inflammable materials or firing torpedoes ; steam 
and other boats suitable for use for \v: a like purposes ; submarine 
cables, submarine mines and apparatus appertaining to them ; 
Marconi apparatus; electrical fittings used on board ship, 
Transvaal.— Customs Law. — A proclamation relating to 
the importation of goods into this colony provides that the 
duties on goods consigned to other places than Pretoria and 
Johannesburg shall be payable at the colonial ports of entry, 
and that duties on goods consigned to these towns shall be 
payable on delivery. The Customs law of the late South 
African Republic remains in forcce. 
INDIA. 
Merchandise Marks Act. — Decision Respecting 
Cigars. — Customs Circular (No. 17 of 1901), dated 29th Novem- 
ber, 1901, refers to the indication of the country of origin of 
cigars on importation into India, as required by the Merchandise 
Maries Act, 4 of 1889. The Government of India have given 
their decision and are of opinion that “ the use of words of a 
particular language on the paper bands round cigars shall not be 
regarded as a ‘ false trade description,’ so long as the country of 
manufacture is clearly indicated on the box containing the 
cigars, and so long as the bands themselves are not stamped 
with a counterfeit trade mark,” 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Belgium.— Import Duties on Acetic and Sulphuric 
Ether. — The Board of Trade have received a copy of a Belgian 
Royal Decree, fixing the import duties on sulphuric ether at 
5 francs per 100 kilogs, , and on acetic ether at 8 francs per 
100 kilogs. 
Germany-Samoa.— Introduction of German Mone- 
tary System into Samoa. — The Board of Trade have 
received copies and translations of two Ordinances of the 
Imperial Governor of Samoa affecting the monetary system and 
tariff of that country. 
The first of these Ordinances decreed that on and after the 
1st July last the German I mperial standard of coinage should 
take effect in the Protectorate of Samoa. British sovereigns 
and half-sovereigns, however, are to be legal tender, and the 
rate of exchange is to be for the present yji— 2042 marks. 
British silver coins will also be accepted by the public Treasury 
to the amount of 20 shillings, and for a period of at least two 
years at the rate (liable to alteration) of 1 shilling - 1 mark. 
The second of these Ordinances, which also came into force 
on 1st July last, gives the scale of import duties leviable in the 
new currency. The Tariff is now as follows : — 
Tariff 
No. 
Tariff Classification. 
Rates of Duty. 
English 
Equivalents. 
I 
Ale, porter, and beer . 
Mks. 
Litre 0 
Pfg. 
20 
s. d. 
Gall. 0 11 
2 
Spirits .... 
,, 2 
50 
,, 11 4 
3 
Wines, except sparkling 
wines 
0 
So 
>> 23 
4 
Sparkling wines . 
1 
Kilog. 4 
40 
.. 64 
5 
Tobacco 
5 ° 
Lb. 2 0 
6 
Cigars .... 
,, 9 
Each 16 
00 
1 , 4 0 
7 
Sporting arms 
00 
Each 16 0 
8 
Gunpowder . 
Kilog. 2 
5 ° 
Lb. 1 i| 
9 
All other articles . 
10 % ad val. 
10 % ad val. 
The Ordinances, which are too long to quote in full, may 
be seen in the original and in translation at the Commercial 
I ntelligence Branch of the Board of Trade, 50, Parliament-street, 
S.W. , any day between the hours of 10 a. m. and 5 p.m. 
Russia. — CUSTOM Decisions. — The Russian Department 
of Customs have recently issued circulars relative to the classi- 
fication of the following articles under the Imperial Customs 
Tariff:— 
Solid fat worked, crude, or melted, and degras, are to be 
dutiable under Section 51, Point 2 (instead of Point 3) of the 
Tariff, at the rate of r rouble 12 \ copecks per poud gross 
(7s. 4fd. per cwt. gross), with the 20 per cent, surtax laid down 
by the Imperial ukase of the 5th August, 1900. [See Board of 
Trade Journal for the 9th August, 1900.] 
Rollers and oval plates for phonographs, gramophones, and 
graphophoncs, are to be dutiable under Section 172, Point 4, of 
the Tariff, at the rate of 15 copecks per funt (j£i. 19s. 4d. 
per cwt. ). 
Sau Salvador. —Customs Modifications.— Several Law’s 
and Ministerial Ordinances affecting the tariff of San Salvador, 
appeared during last year in the Salvadorian Diario Oficial. 
The following modifications of the Customs Tariff have accord- 
ingly to be noted : — 
Bags containing coffee intended for export arc exempt from 
all duties. 
Coloured cotton yarn is subject to an import duty of 
5 centavos per kilog. 
Unbleached cotton tissue (“ mantadril"), with a single 
coloured stripe not exceeding 1 centimetre in width, is dutiable 
as “cotton drill, uncoloured," at the rate of 20 centavos per 
kilog. 
Sheet cotton wadding for padding the interior of clothing is 
dutiable at the rate of 2 centavos per kilog. 
Bags. Empty bags, intended to contain indigo for export, 
are dutiable at the rate of 50 centavos per kilog. The amount 
ot import duty paid on bags in which ores are exported, will be 
refunded in cash to exporters of ore, at the time of exportation. 
Indigo is now exempt from all duties on exportation. 
