CUSTOMS DUTIES.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 34, 25 January 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

CUSTOMS DUTIES.

Chargea.ilFa under the ' Customs Duties Act, 1858,' ix all Pouts of New ZEAT.4ND. 1. Ale, beer, cider and perry in wood, per gallon .. .. Of. 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 lh .. .. ... 0 8 4. Cutlery, hardware, plated ware, liollowarc, ironmongery of all sorts, and candles and soap of all sorts, psr cwt. . . . . 3 0 5. Firearms of every description, each ... ... ... ... 5 0 G. Gunpowder, per lb ... ... 0 3 7. Manufactures of silk, cotton, linen, and all articles manufactured there 'rom ; 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 S3 T kes*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 kinds, and treacle and molasses, per lb 0 1 10. Tea, peT lb 0 4 11. Tobacco, per lb 16 12* Wine (in wood and bottle), containing less than 25 per cent, of alcohol or a specific gravity of -825 at the temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer, per gallon ... 3 0 13 Anchors and chains, and rod, bolt, bar. sheet, hoop, and pig iron and sails, sail cloth, cordage, twine, cotton yarn, bags, sacks, and wool packs, spirits of tar and turpentine, tobacco for sheepwash, nuts of all kinds, powder fit only for blasting ' purposes. and all unenunierated £CodsA wares and merchandise Tree

DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON. From the Provincial Government Gazette Nov. 21. The entrance to this port being intricate, a stranger should not, nnder any circumstances, attempt to sail in without, a pilot, but should make fast to the mooring buoy painted black, which is placed in twenty-one, feet at low water spring tides with' the following bearings : Steep Head, S.E. by E. North-west end of Stewart's Island, on with Howell's -Point, S. by W. half W. The flagstaff on Bailey's Point, W. halfN. Th: mooring anchors of this buoy are placed four hundred and fifty feet apart, east and west from each other; on each side ofthe buoy care should be taken in dropping an anchor near by, not to hook the moorings. On and after the Ist of November, 1863, between sunrise and sunset the. following signals will be made at the flagstaff, on Bailey's Point, viz. : — When a vessel is approaching the harbor a number from Marryat's code indicating in feet the depth of water on the bar at the time, will be hoisted at ths north yard arm. A black ball hoisted above this number will show that the sea is too high on the bar for the pilot to get off. Two bluck balls without the number will mean that some recent change has taken place in the channel or that it is dangerous in the opinion of the pilot even for a coaster acquainted with the placH to attempt to run in. Vessels outside the bar or at the mooring buoy, when the pilot cannot got off may hold communication with him by means of Marryat's signals which in this case will be hoisted at the south yard arm. The pilot who is provided with a boat and crew of four man will, when it is practicable, always put off in his boat on the appi oaeh of a vessel not having the exemption flag flying. ' The depth of water on the bar is at the highest tides fourteen feet, and there is rarely less than eight feet at high water lowest neap tides, J. B. Gr.F.in, Harbor Master. Harbor Oflice, Invercargill, 24th October, 18G3.