Vol. VIII. No. 89. 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
[May, 1902.] 135 
The Bishop of Grahamstown , who takes the keenest interest 
in emigration work, lays great stress upon the kind of women 
wanted, “ the best in every class, women of high character, firm 
religious principles, to reproduce the best traditions of the old 
country.” It is hoped that Grahamstown will become a distrib- 
uting centre for a large district. A committee is working at 
Durban, of which Mrs. Escombe is president and Mrs. Crofts 
hou. secretary. It has started a small fund, and undertakes to 
find rooms for a few days for travellers needing them. 
A committee is being formed in Bloemfontein, but as yet 
no hostel has been required ; should any girl need temporary 
shelter the Mother Superior has offered protection at 
St. Michael's Home, but arrangements are being made so that 
©ne will be ready by the time any considerable number of 
women are allowed to go out A scheme which is being inau- 
gurated to help trained women to start small farms on a co- 
operative system of their own is meeting with encouragement 
from those who understand the country and the difficulties in 
the way. 
At present the temporary financial depression caused by the 
war renders any large development premature ; but through the 
kindness of the Chartered Company, a hostel will shortly be 
opened in Salisbury, under the superintendence of Miss Dalby, 
where a few ladies having daily engagements, at the school and 
elsewhere, will reside with mission workers. The question of a 
hostel for Bulawayo is also under consideration. For the latter 
a lady of experience and ability has offered her services as super- 
intendent gratuitously. Miss Dalby hopes to start with her 
mission workers early in May, and the opening of the railway 
between Salisbury and Bulawayo will remove many difficulties 
and greatly facilitate that freer circulation on which so much 
depends. 
The special loan fund given by the Chartered Company has 
been of very great service to Rhodesians, and the generosity of 
the railway companies in granting free passes over their lines to 
persons recommended by the Association is gratefully recognised 
by all concerned. 
Mrs. Wybergh was asked to establish a hostel at Johannes- 
burg as soon as one was needed, and in September a cable was 
received through the Colonial Office asking for funds for this 
purpose. The South African Expansion Committee replied by 
■cabling out £ 200 to start it. The hostel, a house in Bree-street, 
is already open, and receiving boarders, but owing to the diffi- 
culties in the return of refugees it cannot for a while be self- 
supporting. 
The first call for immigrants has been for domestic servants, 
as there is a pressing demand for them in Johannesburg. We 
have already received permits for ten from Lord Milner, and 
they are all engaged by definite employers in Johannesburg at 
wages varying from £3 to £6 a month, under agreements to 
stay six months or a year, in most cases the passage money 
being withheld until the term of agreement has expired. It is 
hoped that before long there will be more openings for teachers, 
nurses, secretaries, shop-assistants, dressmakers, etc., but while 
the country is under martial law and permits are necessary, 
only a limited number can be sent out. 
COLONIES. 
The April circulars of the Emigrants’ Information Office and 
the new annual editions of the penny handbooks show the 
present prospects of emigration, and may be obtained, free of 
charge, at more than 800 public libraries, Urban District 
Councils and institutions throughout the country. 
This is the best season of the year for emigrants to go to 
Canada. Even inexperienced hands may get places, provided 
they are willing to learn and are strong ; their wages at first 
will be nominal, but board and lodging will be supplied free. 
As a rule, single men are preferred everywhere, but married 
men, with wives competent to take charge of dairy or laundry, 
and families able to work have no difficulty in obtaining 
employment. Female servants also arc in great demand on 
farms and in towns. In some parts there is a demand for 
miners, navvies, and general labourers. There is a good 
demand for men in the iron and steel works at Sydney (Cape 
Breton), Hamilton, Sault St, Marie, and elsewhere ; and some 
demand throughout Canada during spring and summer for 
carpenters, painters, masons and others in the building trades. 
In Npw South. Wales the labouring classes generally are 
compl aining of the increased cost of living, owing to the new 
tariff. Domestic servants continue to be in steady demand 
throughout the State. There are more than enough of ladies' 
helps, ladies' companions and governesses. The demand for 
female labour in such industries as tailoring and general soft 
goods continues, and there is a good opening for girls and 
women in this direction. 
In Victoria there is no general demand for more labour, but 
a competent mechanic, has not much difficulty in finding work. 
In country districts competent farm labourers and milking 
hands are very scarce, most men preferring the higher wages 
and shorter hours of the towns. 
In South Australia there is practically no demand for 
more mechanics, but a skilled hand, such as a mason, brick- 
laj^er, engine fitter, blacksmith, joiner or carpenter can generally 
find employment after looking about for a little. In country 
districts there is good employment for agricultural labourers, 
for men able to work binders and strippers, for boundary riders, 
and for married couples without children for stations, but the 
local supply of labour is generally sufficient. There is no 
demand for miners. 
In Tasmania miners and mechanics at Zeehan, Queens- 
town, and Gormanston, on the west coast, and in the surround- 
ing districts are well employed ; good fitters can generally get 
work without difficulty, In other parts of the State there is no 
general demand for more mechanics, but there is an opening 
for them if they have a little money. The supply of farm 
labourers is not quite sufficient, and skilled men can get work. 
British East Africa.— Openings foe Settlers.— At a 
meeting of the European Colonists’ Association of East Africa, 
held in Nairobi, Sir Charles Eliot stated that the climate was in 
every way suitable for European colonization. Besides the 
better-known parts, he thought that such comparatively distant 
districts as the Nandi escarpment possessed a most excellent 
climate, an ample water supply, and a fertile soil. He also 
recommended the Taru jungle. Merely nominal rents would be 
charged to any one disposed to try what could be done with this 
district. The Government would encourage settlers. Land 
laws were in course of preparation and would, he hoped, be pro- 
mulgated within the next three months. They would probably 
include the grant of freeholds and be on the general lines of the 
regulations in force in British Central Africa. There had been 
proposals, he said, to settle Indians on land near the railway, 
but nothing further had been done, and it was not likely that 
Indians would be settled in the parts of the Protectorate coloniz- 
able by Europeans, but rather between Kibogoro and Kibas, 
near the lake, where the climate was damp and hot and more 
suitable for Asiatics than for white men. Mining laws would 
shortly be promulgated similar to those in force in Zululand. 
He was prepared to regi ster at once any claim which prospectors 
might make to pieces of land on which minerals were found, and 
such claims would be dealt with under the mining laws. He had 
already urged the Foreign Office, he added, to establish model 
farms, and as soon as funds would allow of it he was sure that 
the matter would receive favourable attention. It was also pro- 
posed to appoint a woods and forest department with a forester. 
A pamphlet will shortly be issued by the Association which will 
contain the necessary information required by intending settlers. 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
German Emigrants to the United States. — The emigra- 
tion from German ports to the United States, especially from 
Bremen, is assuming proportions far in excess of any previous 
records. During the first three months of this year 36,396 
persons left Bremerhaven for America, against 31,347 in 1901 
and 14,725 in 1898. In four years emigration has increased 
147 per cent. The North German Lloyd Company are unable 
to cope with the rapidly-increasing stream of emigrants and are 
chartering ships from other companies. Over 75 per cent, of 
the emigrants belong to the Slavic races, and but a small 
portion of them can read and write. During the second quarter 
of this year over 6o, 000 emigrants, it is believed, will sail from 
German ports for the United States. 
CUSTOMS TARIFFS. 
COLONIES. 
Canada. — Tariff Amendment. — With reference to the 
notice relating to the free entry of steel castings, in the rough, for 
the manufacture of scissors and hand shears, the Canada Gazette 
for 22nd March last contains an amended Order in Council 
dated 12th March, 1902, which provides for the addition to the 
list of articles which may be imported free into Canada of the 
following articles, viz. : — 
“Malleable iron or steel castings, in the rough, for the 
manufacture of scissors and hand shears, when imported by 
manufacturers of scissors and hand shears to be used in making 
such articles in their own factories." 
Cyprus.— Imposition of Additional Duty on 
Tobacco, etc., Imported in Packages weighing less 
than 20 okes net EACH. — An Order in Council, dated 2nd 
January, 1902 (No. 348) has been issued, amending the Order 
in Council of 18th May, 1901 (No. 345), which provided for the 
imposition of an additional duty of 6d. per oke upon tobacco, 
cigars, cigarettes, and snuff imported through the Parcels' Post 
into Cyprus in packages weighing less than 20 okes net each. 
The new Order in Council amends the Order in Council of 
the 18th May, 1901, by adding thereto the following clause : — 
“(3) Whenever tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, or snuff are 
imported into the Island otherwise than through the Parcels' 
Post., under special permission from His Excellency the High 
Commissioner, in packages weighing less than 20 okes net each, 
there shall be levied and taken upon every oke or fraction of an 
oke of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, and snuff so imported, in 
addition to the Customs duty thereon, a further import duty of 
one shilling.” 
The Customs duties imposed at the present time on 
tobacco, etc., imported into Cyprus are as follows : — 
s. d. 
Tobacco, unmanufactured (except 
Tumbeki) Per oke (2 ‘8 lbs.) 
Tobacco, unmanufactured, known as 
Tumbeki or Persian (including ad- 
ditional duty imposed under the 
Tobacco Law of 1899) ... ,, 
Tobacco, manufactured (except cigars, 
cigarettes, and snuff) .... ,, 
Tobacco, manufactured cigars . . Per hundred 
,, ,, cigarettes. . Per oke 
o 
1 
3 
2 
5 
5 
6 
8 
o 
6 
o 
o 
Mauritius. — Revocation of Proclamation Pro- 
hibiting the Importation of Certain Articles from 
Reunion. — A Proclamation, dated mh March last (No. 8 of 
1902) has been issued, revoking Proclamation No. 66 of the 
14th December, 1900, whereby, in consequence of the existence 
of cattle plague in Reunion, the importation of certain articles 
(principally animals (dead or alive), rags, manures, plants, and 
vegetables) from that Island into Mauritius was prohibited. 
Natal. — Regulations under Excise Act, 1901.— The 
Natal Government Gazette for 25th February last contains 
Notices (Nos. 128, 130, and 131 of 1902), relating to regulations 
made by the Governor in Council, under the provisions of the 
Excise Act of 1901, as follows: — 
1. Regulations as to methylated spirits made in, imported 
into, and stored in the colony. 
Under these regulations it is provided, inter alia, that : — 
“ Imported methylated spirits mixed with any ingredient or 
substance of any description or kind, whatsoever, on being 
landed, must be placed in a warehouse approved by the Con- 
troller of Excise, and shall not be removed therefrom until after 
a sample of such spirits taken from each package or vessel as 
imported shall have been examined and certified by the Govern- 
ment chemist or other person authorised by the Minister, to 
contain not less than 80 per cent, of crude methylic alcohol.” 
2. Regulations as to the sale of methylated spirits by retail. 
3. Regulations for payment of drawback of duty on rectified 
spirits, colonial compounds or liqueurs. 
The above regulations came into force on 25th February, 
1902. 
New Zealand.-— Decisions. — The following Decisions 
under order of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs 
(No. 685 of 4th March last), having reference to the Customs 
Tariff of New Zealand, have been received : — 
Articles, and how classed. Rate of Duty, 
Corn starch and also potato-farina in casks or 
bags, when imported by or for a manu- 
facturing confectioner, on declaration being 
made that the importation is to be used for 
moulding starch — 
As confectioner's moulding starch . . . Free. 
Druggists’ shop-fittings, bottles for — 
As druggists’ sundries (C.O. 675) . . • 15 % a d val. 
(This refers to bottles with painted labels ; 
plain stoppered bottles are free under item 
No, 364). 
Fire extinguishers (Champion and Babcock) — 
As fire engines, including Merryweather’s 
chemical fire engines ..... Free. 
Gelatine, powdered and icing gelatine — 
As gelatine . . . . . . .20 % ad val. 
Machinery, electric, including electric motors for 
mines, mining dredges or dairies — 
As machinery, elec. ric and appliances . .10 ,, ,, 
Manure mixer — 
As machinery for agricultural purposes . - Free. 
Rock drill — 
As machinery for mining purposes (C.O. 684) 
when supported by certificate or declaration 
that it is imported for mining purposes 
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Articles, and how classed. Rate of Duty, 
Sago-flour — 
As sago Free, 
Ships' segment lenses for mast-head lights . 
Tapi oca- flour — 
As tapioca ....... > > 
Turbine for saw-mill — 
As machinery for saw-mills . . . . ,, 
Vacuum Company's mineral sperm-oil — 
As kerosene ....... »• 
“Xylolith " flooring — a mixture of sawdust and 
ground stone — 
As building materials, n.o.e, . . . . ,, 
Somaliland Protectorate. — Customs Regulations, — 
By the Customs Regulations, dated 27th February, 1902 1 No. 2 of 
1902), under Ardcle 32 of the “Somaliland Order in Council, 
1899,” the Tariffs are amended as follows : — 
Zeyla. 
The import duty on ‘ ' alcoholic liquors (except for hairar) ” 
is as provided by Articles 1 and 2 of the “Alcoholic Liquors 
Regulations, 1901.” 
The following is the text of the Articles referred to 
1. A duty at the rate of 2 rupees the gallon at 50 degrees 
centigrade shall be paid on all alcholic liquors imported for sale 
or consumption in the Protectorate. 
2. The said duty shall be augmented proportionally for 
each degree above 50 degrees centigrade, and shall be dimin- 
ished proport : onally for each degree below 50 degrees centigrade. 
Berber a and Bulhar. 
The export duties on mules and donkeys have been 
assimilated to those in force at the port of Zeyln, and are now 
as follows 
Mules . . . . 8 rs. per head. 
Donkeys . . . x re, per head. 
The present Regulations, inter alia , provide that — 
1. At the port of Berbera no goods (other than Government 
stores and goods and baggage of officials and live stock, which 
may be landed at the Shaab pier in the presence of a Customs 
officer) may be landed at or shipped from any other place than 
the Customs pier. 
2. At the Ports of Zeyla and Bulhar all goods must be 
landed or shipped at the Customs pier and landing-stage 
opposite the Customs-house respectively. 
3. No Customs duties shall be levied on goods exported 
from one Customs port of the Protectorate to another, except 
that goods exported from Zeyla to another Customs port of the 
Protectorate shall pay an import duty equivalent to the 
difference between the import duty at Zeyla and that at the port 
of destination. 
4. All firearms, ammunition, and explosives shall be 
deposited in the custody of the chief Customs officer, and shall 
be subject to special Regulations made from time to time, 
Trinidad and Tobago. — Imposition of Export Duties 
for Immigration Purposes during 1902. — An Ordinance 
(No. 34 of 1901) provides for the imposition of duties, in aid of 
immigration, upon the following articles raised or manufactured 
in the Island of Trinidad and shipped for places beyond the 
limits of the colony during 1902 : — 
Export Duties. 
Sugar .... 
Per 1,000 lb. 
s. d, 
2 8 
Rum .... 
,, 100 galls. 
6 0 
Cocoa .... 
,, 100 lb. 
0 7 h 
Coffee .... 
H » t 
0 7 i 
Molasses 
,, 100 galls. 
2 O 
Cocoanuts 
,, 1,000 
0 7 h 
Copra .... 
„ 1,000 lb. 
1 11 
(And on lesser quantities in 
each case in proportion). 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
France. — Exemption from Consumption Duty of 
Salts for Agricultural Purposes.— According to a recent 
circular of the French Director-General of Customs, it has been 
decided that ihe exemption from duty accorded by the Law of 
the 8th November, 1869, to denaturated salts intended for use 
as cattle food or as manure, or in the preparation of manure, 
applies only to exemption from the consumption tax. Conse- 
quently, imported salts intended for the uses specified can only 
be exempted from the consumption tax on proof that the import 
duty leviable thereon has been paid. 
Germany (South West Africa). — Regulations as to 
Importation of Animals into German South-West 
Africa. — The Deutsches Kolonialblatt for the 1st March con- 
tains the text of a Decree of the Governor of German South- 
West Africa, issued with a view to the prevention of cattle 
diseases in the Protectorate. The following are die principal 
provisions of the Decree : — 
The importation into the Protectorate of animals suffering 
from any contagious disease is forbidden. 
In the case of imported horses, donkeys, mules, hinnies, 
cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, the importer is required to produce 
the following certificates : — 
(a) A certificate from the proper authorities at the place 
of origin, stating that no contagious diseases affecting the 
particular kind of animal to be imported has occurred at that 
place. 
(b) A certificate signed by the police authorities at all the 
stations on the route followed' by the animals up to the frontier 
of the Protectorate, stating that the animals have not, during 
transit through their districts, touched any place at which the 
existence of contagious disease has been proved. 
(r) In the case of animals imported from Europe an 
additional certificate is required, showing that the animals were 
inoculated with tuberculin before embarkation, and that no rise 
in the warmth of the body exceeding o - 5 degrees has taken 
place. 
A prdcis translation of the regulations, containing a list 
of the diseases declared contagious, may be seen on applica- 
tion at the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board 01 
Trade, 50, Parliament-street, S.W., any day between the hours 
of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
Italy. — Surtax on Explosives. — The Italian Bolletlino 
Ufficiale for February last, contains the text of revised regula- 
tions, in virtue of which the internal manufacturing tax on 
gunpowder and other explosives and the surtax on gunpowder 
and other explosives imported from abroad are fixed at the 
following rates : — 
Blasting powder, and powder in the form of dust, 50 lire per 
100 kilogs. (41. os. 4d. per cwt. ). 
Sporting powder, and blasting compounds other than 
blasting powder, 125 lire per 100 kilogs. (£2. 10s. iod. per cwt.). 
All other explosives for sporting purposes or for firearms 
in general, 250 fire per 100 kilogs. (£, 5. is. 7d. per cwt.). 
Powder in granular form, employed in the manufacture of 
miners’ fuses, shall be entitled to' claim the return of the 
difference between the duty on sporting and on blasting powder. 
The complete text of these regulations, in the original, may 
be seen by those interested at the Commercial Intelligence 
