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Show To Keep Down the I'rlee of Cereals. Lisbon, March 5. The government has issued a decree granting permission to traders to import 80,000 tons of w heat at a duty of l,1, reis per kilo. The object of the decrease in duty is to prevent a rise iu the price of that cereal here through the purchase of large amounts of foreign wheat at the present rate of exchange. It is estimated esti-mated thl this measure will stimulate the cultivation of wueat in this country and eventuate in Portugal the growing of cnoxgh grain to supply all her own needs. |