Caution to Shippers and Emigrants to California.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 379, 1 December 1849, Page 2

Caution to Shippers and Emigrants to California.

An unprincipled attempt at extortion having been practised with success, in one or two instances, upon persons unaccustomed to measure goods, and ignorant of their rights, it is well to inform such what is under, •tood by a Ton — Ship meaiurement ; this especially becomes a duty, when any fraudulent system by which freights are increased in an underhand way, would have the effect of at once shutting out a valuable export (sawn timber) of this Colony from a good market. All goods of medium weight arc calculated at Forty Cubic feet to the Ton ; in India, with light goods Fifty Cubic feet go to the Ton, and very heavy goods such as metal, bricks, ore, &c, &c, arc taken ut their dead weight. Now Forty Cubic feet would be equal to 480 superficial feet of boards one inch, 640 feet of £of an inch and 96*0 £ inch thick. This being the correct metho.l of measuring sawn timber for shipment, and such as no honest merchant would dispute, it is to be hoped that a 1 unprincipled attempts Jo establish a dishonest precedent will fail. I am.&c, JIIbTITIA. Auckland, Nov. 30, 1849.