Again, your correspondent referring to niy statement that proportionately to the number of men employed a larger number of masters were found in N.S.W., says " the many masters are accounted for in this way, that in N.S.W. every person who has a chaff cutter is classed as a manufacturer." Need I cay this assertion is pure invention ? Yet again. " Machinery happens t© be iiree in Victoria !> says Mr Levestam. Let me recommend him to study the Victorian tariff before committing; himself again to so erroneous an assertion. Some agricultural implements are free of duty, but there is no machinery of any real importance that is not subject to a heavy duty. ' I must go no further. But let me recom mend Mr Levestam the next time he sends you a long letter with a lot of tables to candidly state the source from which they were obtained. The whole of the ridiculous tables, and most of the figures and arguments used, are taken from a series of articles which appeared in the Age of Melbourne in Maroh- April ©f laat year, and which were at the time so effectually demolished by my self, that few people now are to be found who have audacity enough to use them. I am, &c, Edward Pulsfgrd. Sydney, Nov. 14, 188 S.
