NEW TARIFF.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 77, 9 August 1873, Page 3

NEW TARIFF.

The following resolutions have been passed by the House of Representatives, and Collectors of Customs have been instructed to levy duty accordingly. Persons passing entries must enter into bond to pay duty as may hereafter be decided by Parliament. In the meantime, measurements to be ■ taken as usual, and recorded. Resolved —“ That in lieu of the duties of Customs now charged on the articles undermentioned, the following duties of Customs shall, on and after the 30th day of July, until otherwise ordered by Parliament, 1873, be charged thereon on importation into New Zealand, or on being cleared from any warehouse for. home consumption, viz : — Confectionery ; furniture and cabinetware, desks, dressing-cases, pic-ture-frames, painting, engraving, and prints; looking-glasses, papicrmache ware. Turnery ; buckets and tubs of woed, woodenware not otherwise enumerated ; matches and vestas; musical instruments. Oilman stores: viz., arrowroot, in bottles, jars or tins ; baking powder, capers, carraway seeds, catsups, chutney, curry powder and paste, essence of coffee, fish, potted and preserved fish, pastes, fruits, bottled or preserved in syrups; flavouring essences, gelatine, groats, prepared isinglass, jams, jellies, and marmalade ; liquorice, macaroni, maizena, and cornflour ; meats potted and preserved; mustard, olives; oysters, preserved; pepper, cayenne, pickles, raspberry, vinegar ; rice, ground; sago and tapioca, in bottles, jars, or tins ; sauces, syrups, or vegetables, or other in bottjp; oil, perfumed ; starch and blue, soap p iwder, washing pow’der; vegetables, dried or p-eserved; vermicelli, 15 per cent, ad valorem, as above. Apparel and readymade clothing, and all articles made up wholly or in part, from silk, cotten, linen, or wool, or of other or of mixed materials, bonnets, hats and caps, furs, collars, and cuffs, of paper or other material; blankets, woollen, cotton, and opossum, or other rugs, cotton counterpanes, boots, shoes,’ slippers or goloshes, boot and shoe vamps and upper, cork soles, clogs, and leather leggings, leather cut -into shapes, and leather manufactures not otherwise enumerated; brushware not otherwise enumerated, and brooms; chinaware, porcelain, parianware, earthenware, glassware, plate glass, and globes, and chimneys for lamps ; carpet, drugget, mats, matting, and floorcloths ; cotton manufactures not otherwise enumerated, and all articles made of cotton mixed with ‘any other material ; drapery not otherwise enumerated; Forfar sheeting, scrim, cloths, and hessians ; gutta percha manufactures, not being apparel; haberdashery, millinery, and hosiery; linen manufactures not otherwise enumerated, and all articles made of linen mixed with any other material; portmanteaus, trunks carpet bags, and leather or leather-cloth bags ; saddlery and harness, whips, and walking-sticks; shirts, white, regatta, Crimean, navy, serge, twill, &.; fancy silks, and all manufactures containing silk ; trousers, moleskin and corduroys ; tabacco pipes, and fancy goods, umbrellas, and parasols ; woollen manufactures not otherwise enumerated, and all articles made of wool mixed with any other material, 12| per centum ad valorem, as above. Bagging, bags, sacks, and woolpacks ; empty baskets and wickerware, carriages, carts, drags, and waggons; carriage and cart wheels, axle arms and boxes, perambulators, drugs, druggist’s sundries and apothecary’s wares, cream of tartaric acid and carbonate of soda, perfumery, scented and fancy soap, hair brushes and combs, grindery, lasts and shoemaker’s wooden pegs. Hardware; ironmongery, cutlery, plateware, holloware, nails, tacks, brass, copper, zinc, and lead manufactures not otherwise enumerated ; horse-shoes, iron safes, iron buckets, and tubs of iron; tinware, japanned and lacquered metalware, artificer’s tools, not otherwise enumerated ; weighing - machines, lamps, lanterns, and lamp-wick, bellows (blacksmith), black-lead, sheet and pig lead, lead piping, sheet zinc; chains, except of gold and silver, made of wire or rods, or half an inch in diameter. Under leather, cloths, hair seating, curled hair, upholsterer’s cord, and tape, mantelpieces, stationery, account books, writing paper, writing ink, copying presses, paper bags, wrapping paper, paperhangings, unframed paintings, drawings, pictures, engraving, and prints, at 10 per cent., advance on above. Biscuits, . fancy, the lb., 2d; rope cordage and twine the cwt.,s3.”—W. Seed, Collector of Customs