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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4058, 31 December 1881, Page 2

In last Thursday's issue we referred to the Order-in Council issued under the provisions of the Customs and Excise Duties Act of 1881, and gave a list of the articles on which a drawback of duty would be allowed on and after Monday next. The amount of drawback on each article was mentioned, but there is another class of articles referred to in the Gazette on which a uniform .rate of drawback is allowed, a list oi which wo publish, believing the subject of considerable interest to a large section of our readers :—•" Class ll.—-Upon repacked goods liable to duty pu importation ad valorem, that is to say— Chinaware, chutney, clocks, essence of coffee, collars and cuffs, combs, confectionery, copper manufactures, copying presses, bottling corks, cotton counterpanes, cotton manufactures, and articles made of cotton mixed with any other material, curry powder and paste, cutlery, desks, drapery, drawings, dressing cases, drugs and druggists' sundries, drugget, earthenware, engravings, flavoring essences, fancy goods, fish paste, floorcloth, Forfar sheeting, fowlingpieces, rifles/and other firearms, fruits preserved iv syrup, furniture, furs, gelatine, glass— plate, polished, and coloured, and other kinds liable to duty ad valorem, glassware, globes and chimneys for lamps, haberdashery, hair brushes, hardware, harness, hats, heel and toe plates. for boots and shoes, hessians, hollo ware, horseshoes, hosiery, writing ink, ironmongery, isinglass, Japanned and lacquered metal ware, lamps, lanterns, and lamp wick, lead manufactures, leather bags, leather cut into shapes, leather cloth, leathercloth bags, leather leggings, leather manufactures, not otherwise enumerated, linen manufactures, and all articles made of linen mixed with any other materials, liquorice, looking-glasses, a mantelpieces, mats, matting, potted and preserved meats, preserved milk, millinery, musical instruments, perfumed oil, oil (vegetable or other, in bottle), olives, preserved oysters, paper-hangings, writing paper, papier macbe ware, paintings, parasols, parian ware, cayenne pepper, pictures, picture frames, tobacco pipes, gold and silver plate, plated ware, porcelain, portmanteaus, prints and engravings, raspberry vinegar, ground rice, rugs (woollen, cotton, opossum, or other), saddlery, sad irons, iron safes, scrim cloth, shirts (white, rev gatta, Crimean, navy, serge, twilled, and fancy), silks and all manufactures containing iilk, soap powder, stationery, syrups, tinware, toys, moleskin and cord trousers, trunks, tubs (of wood or iron), turnery, twine, umbrellas, preserved vegetables, walking sticks, washing-powder, watches, weighing machines, whips, woodenware, woollen manufactures and articles made of wool mixed with any other, materials, zinc manufactures, zinc (sheet, other than plain): 10 per cent. —Matches of all kinds, scented and fancy soap: 16 per cent, ad valorem. —The following are the regulations and conditions under which the drawbacks may be allowed, that is to say:—l. Drawbacks shall only be allowed upon articles or classes of articles hereinbefore specified in Classed I. and 11, when the same are goods of known foreign production or manufacture. 2. At the time of passing the export entry for drawback there shall be produced to the proper officer invoices in duplicate for the goods described therein, specifying separately—Goods liable to specific rates of duty on importation; goods liable to ad valorem duties on importation ; goods manufactured in New Zealand from materials liable to duty; and setting forth legibly, in respect of each class of goods, the actual cost price received or to be received from the purchaser of, the goods. The said invoices shall be dated and signed by the exporter, and, if the proper officer shall so require, there, shall also be produoed to him the invoice or invoices for the goods which were produced to the (Collector of Customs at the time of the entry thereof. The export, in voices, after being compared with the entry, and with the goods if required by the Collector or proper officer of Customs, shall be stamped at the Customhouse, and one shall be returned to the exporter or his agent, and the other shall be attached to the drawback debenture. 3 The debenture for payment of drawback shall be made out, signed, and presented to the Collector of Customs for payment by the person entitled to the drawback. 4. No debenture shall be paid until .the expiration of seven days after the departure from the colony of the vessel upon which the drawback goods were shipped.