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mission of any enclosed literary or artistic matter, but exclusive of glass in any form. Name and address of sender may appear on the cover. Postmasters are not allowed to return any letter to the writer or sender, or to any one else, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to that effect be written thereon ; as every letter must be delivered to the person to whom it is directed, and him alone. List of Money Order Offices in New Zealand. Money Orders may be obtained and made payable at the following offices in the Colony of A ew Zealand: j Province of Auckland — Auckland, Alexan- ! dra, Cambridge, Mongonui, Newcastle, Onehunga, Otahuhu, Port Waikato, Raglan, Russell, Wangarei. Province ot Taranaki -New Plymouth. Province of Hawke's Bay-: Napier. Province of Wellington — Wellington, Wanganui. - . . Province of Nelson— Nelson, Collingwood, Province of Marlborough — Picton, pßlenheiin, Havelock., Province of Canterbury — Christchurch, Lyttelton, ,Kaiapoi, Timaru, Akaroa, Hokitika, and Greymouth. 1 Province of Otago— Dunedin, Arrow River, Balclutha, Clyde, Hamiltons, Manuherikia, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Tokomairiro, Tuapeka, Waikouaiti, West Taieri. Province of Southland— lnvercargill, Riverton}. Campbelltown. ' And at Money .Order Offices in the following Australian Colonies :— New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, \South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania. - . MONEY ORDER BRANCH. The commission charged on Money Orders is as follows. On the United Kingdom : — ' ' s. d. For sums not exceeding L 2 - . - 10 For „ „ L 5 - - 2 6 ■"■ For „ " „ L 7 - - 3 6 For „ „ LlO - - 5 0 On Victoria, Few South Wales, Queens- - land, South Australia, and Western Australia: — For sums not exceeding L 5 - - 1 0 For „ „_ LlO - -20 Within New Zealand :— ■ For sums not exceeding L 5 - - 0 6 For „ I „ LlO - -1 0 THE NEW CUSTOMS TARIFF ACT, 1564. WHEREAS it is expedient to alter the duties of Customs payable on the importation of goods, wares, and merchandise into the Colony of New Zealand : — ' Be it therefore enacted by ■ the General Assembly of v New Zealand, in Parliament assembled, as follows : — 1. The Short Title of this Act shall be the New Customs Duties Act, 1864. 2. The duties" of Customs chargeable upon goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the Colony of New Zealand, shall cease aud determine from and after the Bth day of December, 1864. 3. From and after the Bth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in lieu of such duties the following duties of Customs -3hall be charged on all goods, wares, and merchandise hereinafter specified, imported into the Colony of New^ Zealand, or cleared from any warehouse for home consumption, that is to say : — £ s. d. 1. Ale, beer, cider, and perry, in wood — the gallon - - - 0 0 9 Ale, beer, cider, and perry, in -bottle-^the gallon - - - 0 1 0 ,2. Cigars and siiuff— the-lb - - - 0 4 _6 3. Coffee, chicory, cocoa, and chocolate — the lb - - - - 0 0 3 4. Cutlery, hardware, plateware, hollow.are, and-ironniongery of all sorts, and candles and soap of all sorts— the cwt - - 0 4 0 5. Firearms of every description — each ... . -050 6. Gunpowder- the lb. - - 00 3 "7. Manufactures of silk, cotton, linen, and woollen, and alj[ articles manufactured there- , from ; drapery, haberdashery, hosiery, niilinery, furs, hats, boots, shoes, confectionery, bottled fruits, dried fruits, mustard, olive, oil, pickles, preserves, sauces, spices, and oilmen's stores of all kinds, measuring outside the packages — the cubic foot - - 05 0 8. Spirits, and strong, waters of' every kind, sweetened or otherviise, of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Syke's hydrometer, and so on in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of ■proof — the gallon - - - 0 12 0 9. Sugar, raw and refined, of all kinds, and treacle and molasses - —the Ib - ' - -...-■.■-0,01 10." Tea— the 11) -. ...... 0 0. 6 11. Tobacco— the lb „-. - -. 0 2 6 12. Wine, in wood, containing less . than twenty-five per cent of , • alcohol, of a specific gravity "of 82.5, at the temperature of 60 • degrees Fahrenheit's , ther-- x mometer — the gallon -. -.0 4 0 13. Wine, in bottle, containing less than twenty : five~-per cent of * alcohol of a specific gravity of 82.5, at the temperature of 6'o degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer — the gallon - • - 0 5, 0 14. Anchors and chains, and rod, " '. bolt, bar, and sheet, hqpp, and • pig iron ; and nails, sailcloth, ' cordage, twine, cotton, yarn, bags, sacks, and woolpacks, spirits of tar and turpentine, tobacco for sheepwash, nutspf all kinds, powder fit only for blasting purposes, and all un- j, enumerate^ goods, wares, and merchandise - - - .-. Free. 4. A drawback of the whole of such duties shall be allowed for wines intended -for the consumption of the officers of Her Majesty's troops in the Colony of New Zealand, and of "the officers of Her Majesty's,nayy serving on -board any of Her Majesty's ships in the seas adjoining " thereto, or such wines may be landed on first importation, or delivered out of bond free of duty, subject in all cases to such regulations as the Governor shall from time., to time prescribe. Provided alwayE, that if any such -wines shall be subsequently - sold in the said colony, except for the use or consumption of any of Her Majesty's military or navaLcfncers as aforesaid, the same shall be forfeited and liable to seizure accordingly. - 5. All duties of Customs under this. Act shall be charged and paid according to the standard imperial weights and measures, "and where such duties are charged according to any specific quantity, weight, or size, the same shall be chargeable rateably on any greater or less quantity, weight, or size. (5. The duties of \the Customs imposed by . this Act shall" be raised, levied, collected, and paid under, the provisions of-" The Customs Regulation Act, 1858," and subject also to all such provisions and regulations as may for the time being -be in force for the. collection, management, and receipt of the duties ;of import in the Colony of .New ' Zealand. -..,.' . ** 7. 'The " Cuetonis Duties Amendment Act, 1861," and the " Military Supplies Customs Act, lSt'2," shall apply to all duties Customs payable under tnis Act. -