THE NEW TARIFF.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10718, 31 July 1895, Page 5

THE NEW TARIFF.

DUTIES IMPOSED. Tfeom ottr own correspondent.! WELLINGTON, July 30. The following is the new tariff, as proposed in the Financial Statement, to be levied on and after July 31 Candied peel and drained peel, 8d the lb, Confectionery-Chocolate in plain trade packages, 3d the lb. Confectionery in fancy packages or small boxes for retail sale, £25 per cent ad valorem. Fruits, fresh, namely, currants, raspberries, gooseberries, blackberries and strawberries, id the lb. Fruits, preserved in juice or syrup, £25 per cent ad valorem. Fruit, preserved by sulphurous acid, Id the lb. Gelatine, cayenne pepper, carraway seeds and isinglass, £2O per cent ad valorem. Jellies, solidified or tablet, 4d the lb. Pickles, 8s the imperial gallon. Sauces, 4s the imperial gallon. Rices and rice flour, 4a the cwt. Rice malt, Id the lb. Vinegar, 6d the gallon up to 5 per cent of acidity, and Id for each additional 1 per cent the gallon. Ale, beer, porter, cider and perry, 2s the gallon. Spirits, the strength of which can be ascertained by Sykes’s hydrometer, iu bulk, 16s the proof gallon. Spirits in balk, sweetened or mixed, also cordials, bitters and liqueurs in bulk, 16s the liquid gallon. Coffee, raw, 2d tbe lb. Coffee essence, £2O per cent ad valorem. Syrups and raspberry vinegar, £25 per cent ad valorem, Tea in bulk, 5d the lb. Tea in packets, for retail sale, 6d the lb. Acid, acetic. Id the lb for every 10 per cent of acidity. Drugs (not otherwise enumerated), £2O per cent ad valorem. Tinctures and medicinal spirits, containing more than 50 per cent proof spirit, on and after Jan. 1, 1896, la the pound. ........ Tinctures and medicinal spirits, containing less than 50 per cent proof spirit, on and after Jan. 1, 1896, 6d the lb. Druggists’ sundries and apothecaries’ wares (not otherwise enumerated), £2O per cent ad valorem. Chemicals (not otherwise enumerated), £2O per cent ad valorem. Baking powder, £2O per cent ad valorem. Essences, flavouring, spirituous, 16a tbe gallon. Glycerine, refined, £2O per cent ad valorem.

Saccharine (except in the form of tabloids or tablets). Is 6d the ounce. Articles of apparel made by British or foreign tailors to the order of residents in the colony and intended for the individual use of such residents, whether imported by the residents themselves or through an importing firm, rates of duty £4O per cent ad valorem.

Hats and caps, £25 per cent ad valorem. Cotton piece goods (not otherwise enumerated), including shirtings, £lO per cent ad valorem.

Cotton piece goods, namely, tapestry, cretonnes, chintz, art crape, frieze, velvets, damasks, towelling, prints, moquette, Utrecht and Genoa velvets, muslins, all kinds of window nets, laces, Hollands and blinds, diapers in the piece, cotton tick and coloured Belgian cotton tick, £2O pec cent ad valorem.

Flanelettes, also flannels, shirtings, imitation flannel, raised cotton and soft spuu piece goods, £2O per cent ad valorem. Union shirtings, without distinction of value, £2O per cent ad valorem. Lace of all kinds, except gold and silver lace for military trimmings, £25 per cent ad valorem.

Boots and shoes, slippers, goloshes, clogs and pattens, vamps, uppers and laces, £25 per cent ad valorem. Heel and toe stiffeners and plates, £25 per cent ad valorem. Bags of leather or leather cloth, £25 per cant ad valorem.

Harness and saddlery, whips and whip thongs, £25 per cent ad valorem. Leather, viz., belting and belt leather, harness, bridle, legging, bag kip, other than East India, buff and split, 4d the lb. Cordovan, Levant leather, roans, sheepskins, Morocco (not otherwise enumerated), basil, sole leather, 3d the lb. East India kip, Persians, lambskins and goatskins dressed (other than Morocco), kangaroo and wallabi dressed, stained and coloured calf, 2d the lb. Leather (not otherwise enumerated). Id the lb. Leather chamois, £2O per cent dd valorem. Leather board or compo, 4d the lb. Leather cut into shapes, £25 per cent ad valorem. Leather leggings, £25 per cent ad valorem. Leather manufactures (not otherwise enumerated), £35 per cent ad valorem. Portmanteaux, trunks (other than iron), travelling and carpet bags, £25 per cent ad valorem. Carpets, druggets, floorcloth, mats and matting, £2O per cent dd valorem. Furniture, knife and plate powder and polish, £2O per cent ad valorem. „ Bricks of all kinds, £2O per cent dd valorem. Glassware, also glass plate, polished, coloured and other kinds (not otherwise enumerated), and globes and chimneys for lamne, £2O per cent ad valorem. Lamps, lanterns and lamp wick, £2O per cfinb ad valorem. Artificial flies, £25 per cent ad valorem. Jewellery (including precious stones cut or uncut), greenstone, cub and polished, £25 per cent ad valorem. Musical instruments of all kinds, £2O per cent ad valorem. Perfumed spirits, £1 10s the gallon. Pictures, paintings, drawings, engravings and photograpns, picture and photograph frames and mounts, £2O pec cent ad valorem. Pipes, tobacco, cigar and cigarette holders and cases for same, cigarette papers and cases, £25 per cent ad valorem. Plate, gold or silver, £25 per cent ad valorem. Calendars and show cards, all kinds, £25 per cent ad valorem. Cardboard boxes complete, or cardboard cut and shaped for boxes, £25 per cent ad valorem. Directories of New Zealand, or of any part thereof, £25 per cent ad valorem. Newspaper supplements, £25 per cent ad valorem. .

Stereotypes and matrices, £25 per cent ad valorem.

Printed matter relating to patent or proprietary medicines, trade catalogues and price lists for firms or persons in the colony, .£25 per cent ad valorem. • Stationery manufactured, viz., account books, manuscript books, billheads, invoice and statement forms, printed or ruled paper, counter-books, cheque and draft forms, tags and labels, blotting wads, sketch-books, copying letter-books, manifold writers, albums other than for photographs, diaries, plain or faint-lined ruled books, printed window tickets, other printed, lithographed or embossed stationery, and Christmas, New Year, birthday and other similar cards and booklets, .£23 per cent ad valorem. Stationery and writing paper not otherwise enumerated, .£2O per cent ad valorem. Paper wrapping, viz., blue candle, glazed cap, glazed casings, small band, lumberhand and tissue, Ga the cwt. Paper wrapping (other kinds, including brovra cartridge and sugar papers), 5s the cwt. Cartridges, 10 to 24-bore, 3s per 100. Cartridge cases, la 3d per 100. Cartridges (not otherwise enumerated), £2O per cent ad valorem. Copying presses, £2O per cent ■ ad valorem. Weighing machines, .£2O per cent ad valorem. Firearms, £2O per cent ad valorem. Gft'omctpra end other apparatus for g ■. .vov kr, £LQ par ecu ad valorem. Iron fencing-wire, 6d the cwfc. Iron barbed-wire, la the cwt. Woodenware and turnery. and. veneers^,. tedywi ' ' ' ” 'h

Traction engines, £2O per cent ad valorem, .. .... Kerosene, 5d the gallon* Axle grease and solid lubricators, £2O per cent ad, valorem: Paints and colours ground in oil, 3a the cwt. • Paints and colonrs mixed read; for use, 6a the cwt. Varnish and gold' size, 2a the gallon. Tarpaulins, tents, rich and waggon covers, aprons and elevators for, reaping, and binding machines, £2O per cent ad valorem. Cattle, horned, 10s each. Horses, £1 each. Linseed, £2 the ton. Onions, £1 the tons Potatoes (except for seed purposes), £l' the ton. Prepared calfmeal, £1 5s the ton. Brooms and brashes and brush ware (not otherwise enumerated), £25 pet cent ad valorem. Corks, cat (including bangs), £2O per cent ad valorem; Flock, £lO per cent ad valorem. Marble, granite add other stone (dressed or polished and articles made therefrom), £26 per cent ad valorem. Matches—Wax " plaid vestas,” in cardboard boxes containing under 100 matches, lathe gross; "pocket vestas,” in tin or other boxes containing under 100 matches, la 6d the gross; "Sportsmans,” "Ovals,” and "No. 4 tin vestas,” in boxes containing not more than 200 matches, 4s the. gross; other kinds, for every 100 matches or fraction thereof contained in one lot, 2s the gross. Sausage skins, 3d the lb, including brine or salt. Spirits, methylated in the colony, 6d the gallon . In addition to any duty chargeable by law on any goods imported into the colony a further duty of 20 per cant ad valorem shall be charged when the goods are prison-made.

DUTIES ABOLISHED. The Customs duties now levied on the undermentioned articles are to be abolished from July 31 Mutton birds, manures, alumina, sulphate, bluestona or sulphate of copper, catechu or Cutch chloride of calcium,.iron: sulphates, gallnuts, potassium cyanide, potassium chlorate, sal ammoniac, soda acetate, crude soda ash, soda nitrate, soda silicate, sodium sulphate and sulphide, sulphur, turmeric, terebine, zinc chloride, surgical and dental instruments and appliances, scientific and assay balances, retorts, flasks and other appliances for chemical analysis and assay work, hatmakers’ materials, namely, hat leathers, hat linings, hat blocks, monlds, frames, ventilators, tassels, lace (gold and silver) for military clothing, canvas of linen or flax, Hessians plain or etripsd, crochet, darning and knitting cottons, and Angola mendings, tailors* trimmings. . The following items are to be substituted for those in Schedule B of the Act of 1888, namely, plain coloured imitation haircloth, canvas plain, Verona and Italian cloth, buckram, wadding and padding, silk, worsted and cotton bindings and braids, stay binding, silesias, drab, slateand brown jean pooketinga, slate and black unions, slate and black linens, umbrella makers’ materials, namely, gloria and satin dechene not less than 44 inches in width, also piece goods other than those mentioned in Schedule D of the Act of 1888 (on such conditions as the Commissioner may approve), fur skins (grasn or sun-dried), bootmakers* canvas (plain and coloured), saddlers* collar-lining (known aa collar chick), and the same article plain, cork soles and sock soles, carpenters* baskets, bottles empty, plain glass not being cut or ground jars not exceeding three inches in diameter at the mouth, jars containing free goods or goods subject to fixed rates of duty (provided they ate the ordinary commercial packages for such goods), sensitised surfaces for photographic purposes, zinc plates and engraved glass plates for photo-lithographic work, magic lanterns and lenses and slides for same, musical instruments specially imported for volunteer bands, microscopes and astronomical telescopes, cloth-lined boards not less than “ royal,” cloth-lined paper and enamelled paper not less than "demy,” hand-madia cheque paper, ivorite, gelatine and metallic paper not less than “ demy,” batter paper (known as parchment paper and waxed paper), band saws and folding saws (including frames), bicycle and tricycle fittings in the rough and not machined, bolts. 5 inches by H inches and under and nuts for same (the exemption in Schedule B of the Act of 1888 in favour of bolts and nuts for carriage-making and ship-building to be withdrawn), butchers’ saws and cleavers, sbeepshears, reapinghooks, soldering irons, paperhangors* scissors, picks, mattocks, and quartz and knapping hammers, caps (percussion), chaff-cutters, corn-crushers, cornshellera and seed - cleaners, crucibles, platinum, buckles of all kinds, emery grinding machines, iron drums (empty, not exceeding ten gallons in capacity), eyelets, fishhooks, blacksmiths* fans, iron and brass wove wire and wire gauze, iron and zinc perforated or cellular sheets,' engines for dairies, machine pumps for mines, machines for flour mills,, woollen mills, rope and twine making, dredging, aawmilling, planing and wood-working (including lathes), scythe handles, set screws, engineers'studs and split pins, spiral springs, steam and hydraulic pressure and vacuum gauges, furnace flues, tinsmiths’ fittings (to include stamped or blocked tin, unplanished), timber, namely, lancewood unwrought, wooden hubs of all kinds, carriage iron fittings, excluding ateans, lamp-irons, dash-irons and seat-rails, wooden handles for tools, shale oil once tun, suitable for gas - making, turpentine and driers, wool-packs and wool - pockets, apparatus and appliances for teaching purposes as may be approved by the Commissioners, hawsers 12in and over, net-makers’ cotton twine, brushes for cream separators, card clothing for woollen mills, couch, roll, jackets, machine, wires, beater, bar and trainer plates for paper mills, aniline dyes, belting for machinery other than leather belting, jute bagging, bags, sacks, woolpacks and wool-pockets, paper-makers* felts, tea-packing lead, tubular woven cotton cloth, official supplies for Consular' officers of countries where a similar exemption exists in favour of British Consuls, spirits rendered non-potable by manufacture into perfumery, &o. This exemption to cease after Dec. 31, 1895.

[Per Frees Association.] WELLINGTON, Jolt 30. The report of the Tariff Commission, with the evidence attached, was laid on the table of the House after the delivery of the Financial Statement to-night. The Commission submitted an amended tariff, in which it made a distinction between articles which might be described as luxuries and articles of necessity, with a view to bringing the former under the highest rate of duty and the latter under the lowest, The highest rate of duty recommended was on articles of bamboo manufacture, which are chiefly imported from Japan, In the soft goods lino certain articles of daily use were recommended for admission duty free, constituting a relief to the purchasing public of nearly £20,000. The suggested reduction of 2d par lb on tea meant a remission of £34,000 in duty. The suggested reduction of onehalf on kerosene meant a remission of £IB,OOO, and the suggestion to admit fencing wire free of duty was equivalent to a remission of £14,000. A duty of £1 per bead upon horses and 10a per head upon cattle was recommended. Altogether, the reductions recommended in various items amounted to £101,707, bat such reductions were balanced as nearly as possible by increases made on articles of luxury. Mr Thomas Mackenzie submitted a dissentient report, in which he said:—" Whilst thoroughly in accord with and supporting moat of the exemptions recommended, I regret that resolutions should have been carried recommending some increases of duties which obviously for the purpose of protection.'” Ha also objected to soma of the other leading features of the report. The report and evidence form a bulky do^meat