CUSTOMS DUTIES.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 73, 17 July 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

CUSTOMS DUTIES.

Chargeable under thb ' Customs Duties Act, 1858/ in all Ports of New Zealand. 1. Ale, beer, cider and perry in ■wood, per gallon . . „06 Ale, beer, cider and perry, in bottles, per gallon I 0 2. Cigars and snuff, per lb. . .. 3 0 3. Coffee, chicory, cocoa, and chocolate, per lb. .. 0 3 4. Cutlery, hardware, plated ware, holloware, ironmongery of all ports, and candles and soap of "all sorts, per cwt. .. .. 3 0 5. Firearms of every description, each ... o 0 6. Gunpowder, per lb 0 0 7. Manufactures of silk, cotton, linen, and all articles manufactured therefrom ; drapery, haberdashery, hosiery, millinery, 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, per cubic foot 4 0 8. Spirits and strong waters of every kind, sweetened or otherwise, of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Sykes's hydrometer, and so on in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of proof, per gallon 9 0 9] Sugar (raw and refined) of all I " kinds, and treacle and molasses, perlb ..;.., 0 1 10. Tea, per I b. .. ... ... 0 4 11. Tobacco, per lb. .......; 1 6\ 12. Wine (in wood and bottle), containing less than 26 per - cent, of alcohol oi| a specific gravity of -825 at the tempera* ture of 60 degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer, per gallon ... 3 0 Anchors and chains, and, rod, 13 bolt, bar, sheet, hoop, and pig iron and sails, sail cloth, cord- ? age, twine, cotton yarn, bags, sacks, and wool ' pecks,-; spirits, ~ of tar and turpentine, tobacco for shee'pwaslu nuts of all kinds, . powder fit only for blasting purposes,andallunenumerated ' , goods, wares and merchandise Fre»