Mar. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 485

48. Plate and plated ware.
49. Provisions, not otherwise described.
50. Rags and other materials for paper.
51. Salt.
52. Seeds of all sorts.
53. Silk, thrown, twist, and yarn.
54. Silk manufactures—
    a. Broad piece-goods.
    b. Of other kinds.
55. Skins and furs.
    a. British.
    b. Foreign, British dressed.
56. Soap.
57. Spirits.
58. Stationery, other than paper.
59. Stones and slates—
    Slate by tale.
60. Grindstones, millstones, and other sorts of stones.
61. Sugar, refined.
62. Telegraphic wire and apparatus.
63. Umbrellas and parasols.
64. Wood and timber manufactured—
    Staves and empty casks and unenumerated.
65. Wool—
    a. Sheep and lambs.
    b. Flocks and rag wool.

c. Foreign, dressed in the United Kingdom.
d. Noils.
e. Waste.
f. Combed or carded and tops.
66. Woollen and worsted yarn.
67. Woollen and worsted manufactures—
a. Woollen tissues—
Heavy broad, all wool.
" mixed.
Heavy narrow, all wool.
" mixed.
Light broad, all wool.
" mixed.
Light narrow, all wool.
" mixed.
b. Worsted coatings, broad, all wool.
" " mixed.
" narrow, all wool
" " mixed.
c. Flannels.
d. Blankets.
e. Worsted stuffs, &c., all wool.
" mixed.
f. Carpets and druggets.
g. Of all other sorts.
68. Yarn, alpaca, and mohair, and other sorts unenumerated.

ANNEXE II.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE RETURNS.

1. Each article in the classified list which comes within the description given in the despatch, i.e., of which the importation from all foreign countries amounts to 5 per cent. of the total importation of the article (not being less than £500), should be included in the return.
   Articles in the list which do not answer that description in the case of the returning colony should be omitted.
   It has been thought better to present the Board of Trade classification as a whole, although some of the articles enumerated in it are not likely to be part of the importations into many of the colonies.

2. Each article returned should be returned with the number prefixed to it in the list.

3. The list is general in its headings, and in making up the returns under those headings the actual articles of trade coming under each heading should be distinguished by sub-heads (a), (b), (c), &c., and by the general trade name under which the articles are sold in the returning colony. These sub-heads will often be obtainable from the tariff classifications of the returning colony; but, wherever possible, the principal merchants should be consulted, and the returns of commodities with the reports upon each should be elaborated in the light of their experience of the actual articles in demand in the colony which are properly included under the general headings set down in the list.

4. The return of reasons, &c., should be made in respect of each commodity in order, with the "list" number and sub-head index-letter prefixed for facility of reference.

5. The return of reasons, &c., should deal with each of the headings mentioned in the despatch in respect of each article returned, that is to say:—
   (a.) Price. (N.B. In the case of textile goods the "width" in inches should be given for each pattern.)
   (b.) Quality.
   (c.) Suitability.
   (d.) Packing.
   (e.) Other causes, in so far as they affect the choice of the article he uses by the consumer.

6. In sending Home patterns, a large discretion is left to each colony, but it is desirable to include everything within reason in which the foreign style and pattern is preferred—e.g., spades, knives, tools; yarn and textile goods of every description; writing-paper, &c.
   Where patterns are sent, the fact should be recorded in the return; more than one pattern should, where possible, be sent, and each pattern should bear the "list" number of the commodity it refers to, the name of the country of its origin, and of the colony from which it is transmitted.

7. The packages containing patterns of all goods sent from the colony under your government in response to this despatch should be consigned to the Secretary, London Chamber of Commerce, Eastcheap, London, E.C., as that Chamber of Commerce has undertaken the duty of housing and distributing the samples in this country, and of carrying out any expressed wish of any colony in regard to their subsequent distribution and ultimate disposition.

The cases containing these patterns should be marked L.C.C.