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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 215, 13 November 1866, Page 3

! To uncle or aunt, or their descendants, pays five per cent, duty . . £5 ty cent. To grand-uncle or to grand-aunt, or to' their descendants, pays six per cent, duty . ■ ... , . . . . £6 4f cent. To any more distant collateral relation, pays seven per cent, duty . . £7 cent. And when it devolves upon a stranger •'" to the blood of the deceased, it pays ten per cent, duty . . . £10^cent. And gifts of annuities, or other partial' ; ' i " L interests in such estates as aforesaid, are to be deemed legacies Legatee taking more than . one legacy under the same will, together amounting to £20, pays duty, although neither legacy separately would have •been liable to the duty. But legacies and residues of estates, or effects devolving on husband or wife of the deceased, are exempt from legacy duty. SCHEDULE IV. Duties on Successions to Real and Personal Estate — Where the successor shall be the lineal issue or lineal ancestor of the predecessor, a duty upon the value of the succession at the rate of . • . £1 <{f cent. Where the successor shall be a brother ' : " or sister to a descendant of a brother or sister of the predecessor, a duty upon the value of the succession of £3 <tf cent. "Where the successor shall be a brother or sister of the father or mother, or a descendant of a brother or sister of the father or mother of the predecessor, a duty upon the value of the succession of £5 ty cent. Where the successor shall be a brother or sister of the grandfather or grandmotljer or a descendant of a brother or sister of the grandfather or grandmother of the predecessor, a duty . upon the value of the succession of £& & cent. Where the successor shall be in any other degree of collateral consanguinity to the predecessor than is hereinbeiore described, a duty upon the value of the succession of . . £7 & cent. Where the successor shall be a stranger • " in blood to the predecessor, a duty upon the value of the succession of £10 ty cent. Exemptions from the foregoing duties : — All successions given to, or in trust for, or which shall devolve upon, or be acquired by the husband or wife of the predecessor. The mail for Wellington, South, and Australian Colonies, by the Otago, closes tomorrow, at 11 a.m. The necessity of rigid accuracy in the preparation of legal documents has been illustrated in the Ballarat County Court. The Barford Estate Company sued for calls and was uonsuite'l, with costs, because the certificate of registration read " Barford Estate G-. M. C0.," instead of "Barford Estate Gold Mining Company," the judge ruling that the language did not describe the corporation as that described in the fuller language of the plaint and the company's proper title. / ""TlTe Westland Observer thus complains: — /Our readers may have some conception of I the position of a west country when we state that it is exactly a fortnight siuce we reji ceived, through the post, a siugle copy of an I exchange paper upon which to exercise our '• skill with scissors and paste. ' — ' ' ' — ■ —*^™— A MISSING FRIEND, who left Dunedin on or about the month of July, 1864, will find letters in the Nelson Post-office to his advantage. Nelson, November 12, 1866. 1304 FOUND, on my Premises in Brook-street Valley, on Thursday last, a Ewe LAMB. The owner can obtain it on payment of expenses. 1296 D. DIXON. ONUMENTAL COMMITTEE to MEET, at the usual place, on WEDNESDAY, 14th November, at 7.30 p.m. ' ' ' W. AKERSTEN, 1307 ' Secretary. NELSON PUBLIC BATHS. Vapor, Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths. PACKING and General Hydropathic Treatment, and Herbal Medicines, as practised by Dr. A. I. Coffin, of London." . H. BARRACLOUGH, Medical Herbalist, Hardy-street (near the Government Buildings), Nelson. • - - 1268 SNUFF ! SNUFF! ! XUST RECEIVED and on SALE, Taddy & Co.'a <J Celebrated Snuffs, namely, Prince's Mixture, Brown Rappee, Scented Scotch, Plain Scotch, Irish , Blackguard, Tonquin, and Headache Snuff, : At W. H. WEST'S. 1279' T^IREWORKS— FIREW ORKS— On Sale, for the JU ' Prince of ' Wales* Birthday, ■ : ■•■••' 1280 At W. H. WEST'S.