The duty on imported flour is to be raised from Is per cental to 2s per owt; on barley from 9d to Is 6d per lOOlbs; on maize from 9d to Is ditto; on malt from 2s to 3s per bushel; on beans and peas from 9d to Is 6d per lOOlbs; on wheat and other kinds of grain from 9d to 2s per lOOlba; on linseed from 9d per 100 lbs to £3 per ton; on potatoes £1 per ton — how the Motneka farmers who are only too anxious to export their surplus stock will laugh at this 1 Hopgrowers will perhaps derive some satisfaction from the fact that the import duty on their particular produce is to be raised from 6d to 9d per lb, and bee keepers may possibly look forward to larger receipts when they learn that honey, hither to admitted free., is to pay 2d per lb. Gxeea fruits, except those ef a tropical or a semi tropical kind are to be charged 2s per cwt instead of being admitted free as now; dried apples 2d instead of Id per lb, bottled fruits Is 6d instead of Is per dozen quarts, and on fruit pulp now admitted free, there is to be a duty of 25 per cent. But now for the other eide of the question. Wo will »nppoae the farmer to be the father of a family, and consequen'ly the 1 enforced purchaser to a considerable extent of one of the first items on the liat, namely, "apparel and sl>p« whether wholly or partly made up from woollen piecs goods, beinj vestinss, tr«us«r. ings,- coatings and sfcirrings containing wool, witney, flannels," &c., and ask him how h« likes the idea of the du'.y on such articles bring doubled? To put the mattor more plainly, wherea3 he now has to pay 15 per cen or three shillings ou every pound's worth purchased, hie friends of thi Conference proptse thrit- in ftnnro ho shall pay six shil lings inotiad of tbrea. 