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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4056, 29 December 1881, Page 2

Thk Governor, in exercise and pursuance of the powers under " The Customs and Excise Duties Act, 1881," and by Order in Council, may from time to time specify the articles on which a Drawback of doty paid on importation into" New Zealand may be allowed. By a late Gazette an order has been issued which comes into force on and after the first of next month* The following are some of the articles mentioned, and the amount of drawback to be allowed:—Ale, porter, beer of all sorts, cider and Perry in bottle, Is 6d,and in bulk Is 3d, per gallon; almonds, in the shell, 2d per lb; almonds, shelled, other than Barbary, Sicily, or French, 3d per lb ; ammunition-—sporting powder, 6d per lb; apples, dried, Id per lb; bacon, 2d per lb; bicarbonate of soda, Is per cwt; biscuits, plain and unsweetened, 3d per cwt; biscuits, fancy, 2d per lb; boiled sugars, comfits, lozenges, Scotch mixtures, and sugar candy, 2d per lb; boots and shoes —Men's, JNo, 6 and upwards, 12s per dozen pairs; youths', "Nos. Ito 5,10s do; boys', Nos. 10 to 13, 6s do; women's, No. 3 and upwards, 8s do; girls', Nos. 10 to 2, 6s do; girls', Nos. 7 to 9, 5s do; children's, Nos. 0 to 6, and slippers, 2s do; women's lasting and stuff boots, without military heels, 5s do; goloshes of all kinds, 2s 6d ; slippers without military heels, other, than children's, 3s do; candied peel, 3d per lb; candles, tallow, |d do; candles, other than tallow, l|d do; caps, percussion, Is per thousand ; cards, playing, 6d per pack; cement, Is per barrel; chalk, Is per cwt; chocolate, 3d per lb ; cocoa, 3d per lb; cocoa beans, Id, do ; coffee, raw, 3d do; composition, piping, 3s 6d per cwt; corn flour, Is per 100 lb; cordage, 5s per cwt; cream of tartar, Id per cwt; doors, plain, 2* each ; doors, glazed with ornamental glass, 4s do; fish, dried, pickled, or salted, 2s- per cwt; fish, potted and preserved, Id per lb or reputed package of that weight, and so in proportion for packages of greater or less reputed weight; fruits, bottled, is per dozen; fruits, dried, 2d per lb; glass, crown, sheet, and common window, 2s per 100 feet super.; glucose, |d per lb; &rain and pulse of every kind, not otherwise described, 9d per 100 lb; grain and pulse of every kind, not otherwise described, when ground or in any way manufactured, Is do; hams, 2d per lb; hops, 6d do; iron fencing wire, staples and standards, straining posts and apparatus, Is per cwt; iron gates and gate posts, 4s do; iron, galvanised, corrugated sheets, ridging, guttering, spouting, washers, screws and nails, 2s do j iron galvanised tiles and rivets, Is do; iron tanks, 5s each; iron tanks of and under 200 gallons, 2s 6d do j jams, jellies, marmalade, and preserves, l|d per ib or reputed package of that weight, and so in proportion for packages of greater or less reputed weight; lead piping, 3s 6d per cwt; leather, sole, £d per lb; leather, other kinds, Id do; maize, 8d per 100 lb ; maizena, Is do ; malt, 2s per bushel; mustard, Id per lb; nails, iron, 2s per cwt; naptha, 6d per gallon; nuts of all kinds except cocoanuts, 2d per lb; oil, mineral, 6d per gallon; oil, vegetable, in bulk (except olive, palm, and eandlenut), 6d do; oil not otherwise described, 6d do; paints and colours mixed ready for use, 2s per cwt; paper bags, 5s do; paper, wrapping, brown, 2s do; paper, wrapping, other kinds, 2s 3d do; pearl barley, Is do; peas, split, Is do; pepper and pimento, unground, Is per lb j pickles, 9d per dozen pints or reputed pints, and in the same proportion for larger or smaller sizes; plaster of Paris, Is per barrel; rice, |d per lb; rope, 5s par cwt; sardines, Id per lb, same as " fob, potted,

and preserved; " sauces, 2s per dozen reputed pints, and in the same proportion for larger or smaller sizes ; sashes, plain, 2s per pair; Bashes, glazed with ornamental glass, 4s do; shot, 10s per cwt; soap, common, 3a 6d do ; soda crystals, Is do : solid wort, 6d per lb ; starch, 3d per cwt; stearine, Id per lb ; sugar |d do ; sulphur, Is per cwt; tartaric acid, Id per lb ; tea, 4d do; timber, sawn, rough, 2s per 100 feet super.; timber, sawn, dressed, 4s do; timber, shingles and laths, 2s per 1,000 timber, paliugs, 2s per 100 ; timber, posts, 8s do; timber, rails, 4s do; treacle and molasses, |d per lb; turpentine, 6d per gallon; varnish, 6d do; vinegar 6d do; whiting, Is per cwt; woolpacks, 2s 6d per dozen; wool pockets, Is 3d per dozen ; zinc tiles, ridging, guttering-, aud piping, Is per cwt.

With to-morrow's issue of (he Stab, we v. ill present our reisers with an filmanac. For a limited number of advertisements we ecu find space on the sheet, so customers desirous of taking advantage of the opportunity should apply at once to the office. A hfpobt was current this morning that the reef known as the Youug Colonial, Waihi, had been cue m the low level drive of the Martha. - Th« several Banks on the Thames wiU be closed on Monday next the 2nd proximo. Thj manager of the New North Devon Co., is celling for tanders for working on tribute certain sections of the mine under his contro'. Mb John Leycon notifies in another column that he will hold his usual New Year sales of general goods at his Grahamstown Mart on Friday and Saturday next. We hare to acknowledge the receipt from the Government printer of a bundle of papers laid before Parliament during the lata session. The Gazette of the 17th December announces the propagation of Parliament to the 13th of February, 1882. Te£ Grthemstotiii Volunteer Fire Brigade contemplate giving a pyrotechnic d'splay on Saturday night.. Preparations ara being made on an extensive, scale. A meeting of he Brigade is called for to-morrow evening. : 4monG the papers received yesterday from the Government printer is one giving an abstract of the revenue and expenditure of the several counties in New Zealand for the financial year ending Merch, 1881. The Thames is put dowu i% lollows.—Government grants, £11,808 16s 5d ; rates, £84019s 8d; with totrl revenue, £16,0191559 d. Expenditure : Management, £1609 5s 2d; charitable institutions, £534 Oa 4d; public works, £9189 6s 9d; with total expenditure, £15,452 16j»3d. ' A 'j. ih&BAV. irom Cambridgein connection with the late Maori murder says :—There was iU-blood between the brothers, fioani, the murdered man, was sober and of a quiet disposition. The elder brother, it is said, tried more than once to take, away the younger man's wife, and he is also said to have uttered threats agdnsi the husband, his brother. Ikj, Returning Officer for one of the Southern districts ffiled to return the writ, which fa his case was transmitted by telegram according to the provisions in the new Act of last session. The Clerk of Writs telegraphed asking an explanation of the delay, and requesting immediate return. The officer replied that he had no writ to return and never bad any, but simply received a telegram instructing him to hold an election, which he did accordingly. The clerk replied that; the telegram, was the writ which he mutt endorse and return forthwith. The officer rejoined that he would be happy to do so, but unfortunately the telegram was no longer in his possession, as he had attached no importance to it: Under these peculiar circumstances, the advice of the law officers has again to be sought as to what is to be done to get out of the difficulty and to validate the election. t Thirb is anew ramour afloat in Wellington that Sir A. Kennedy will succeed £ir A. Gordon as Governor. Mb R. R. MoGejsob will offer for sale tomorrow at 12 o'clock the right to the gates, booths, grand stand, and fruit stalls at the Par«wai races to be held on Monday next. He w'U also offer to-morrow several well known racers, namely, Rocket, Redeemer, and Garry Owen.

A capital programme of sports to be held at Parawai on Monday next appears in another column. The prfzes are good, a d under the management of the gentlemen named as stewards the sports cannot fail being a success. The Rotomahtna w"U leave tha wharf on Monday %iorning at 6 o'clock and Auckland at 11.30 at night. Tb's will gire a long day in the city, and time to see the races. A telegram has been received via Welling* ton from Mr Macffe -lane, Resident Magistrate at Jackson's Bay, stating that a man named Douglas arrived at Haasfc on the 24th, having been,four days in search of the missing returning officers, of whom he could find no traces. Douglas and Macffarlane were to leave again on the 25th, to make further search. MacSarlane telegraphs the election returns for Jackson's Bay:—Filzgereld, 18 ; Reid, 22. The missing men have the Arawata and Okura returns with them. It is feared both men have been drowned, as there was very showery weather on the coast between the 24th and 25th, with heavy rein, s ad there are no subsided ferrio. between the He rfcand Foringa, but several dangerous creeks when fliodedi Both are mauled men with families, The Ashburton school committee have selected Mr Heotor Demsey a recent arrive! from England, and Mr Dixon, the present master of tho Hikuhaia State School, for the appointment of head mastership of the Ash* burton School, and referred the matter tj tho Board of Education for final selection. Thr following tables-extracted from tho Registrar General's report on the vital statistics of the undermentioned Boroughs for the month of November, 1881—gives the popula* tion, number of births and deaths, and pro* portion of deaths to the 1000 of population of each borough:—

At the meeting of the Aucl V id Chamber of Commerce, the following resolution was carried:—This Chamber is of opinion that a representative for the Ne^yZealand Q-overj-ment, to not. with jSjir Henrj Pf.i'kee, should be sent to Washington to urge upon the Gorerument of the United States the importance of reducing their present wool tiiff, v fc" as New Zealaad je concerned, and the

committee of this Chamber are requested to interview the Hon. Mr Win taker and urge the importance of sending such a representative. The following gentlemen were elected last night office bearers for the ensuing year in tbe Thames branch of the H.A.C.B. Society :— President, Mr James Moran ; Vice-President, Mr H. Sullivan; Secretary, M. Landers; Treasurer, B. Twohill; "Warden, Mr S. Papa ; Guardian, Mr P. Clarken; Sick Visitors, P. P. Byrne and V.P. H. Sullivan ; Medical Attendants, Drs CMlan and Huztable. The returns and balance-sheet were read and adopted, and disclosed on the wbole v satisfactory state of affairs. There is lo the cre.iib of the Sick Fund £612 17s 4d, and to the Incidental and Management l/und £276 5s 3d, . ncluding assets, making iv all £889 2s 7d. The number of members, financially and otherwise is 78.

BQWQIJ. Auckland .. Wellington., Qhristchurch Dunedin.... Thames .... Napier Wanganui .. Nelson .... Sydenham . s Lyttelton .. Timaru .... Oaniaru .... Hokitika .. Caversham.. Invercargill.. Estimated frppula- ' WonV 15,022 21,582 15,150 23,959 5,8H 6,650 4,163 6,804 7,796 3,653 3,791 5,098 2,668 3,786 4,283 51 ■■" 90 39 65 8 ■29 24 11 34 21 21 2i 5 11 14 Total girths. Total Deaths. 27 19 1« 21 4 9 6 6 11 1 3 2 2 Proportion of Deaths to 1000 of population. 1-62 0-92 1-05 0-86 0-83 J-5« 1-29 0-B'J 1-30 024 0-77 0-35 077 'i 1-52 T0ta1.... 447 134 _______ ___