THE NEW TARIFF.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 63, 6 August 1859, Page 2

THE NEW TARIFF.

The "Act to alter the Duties of Customs," passed in the last session by the General Assembly of New Zealand, having received her Majesty's assent, came into operation in this province on the 4th instant. As will be seen, the new tariff does not alter the duties on imported ale, beer, cider, cigars, or snuff; and salt is placed among the duty-free articles. But on tea, coffee, chicory, cocoa, and chocolate, an additional duty of one penny per lb. is imposed ; on sugar, an additional duty of one halfpenny per lb. ; and on tobacco, an additional duty of 3d. per lb. ; while on spirits of every description the duty is raised one shilling per gallon. The "duty-free" clause embraces every article not enumerated in the following list : —

1. Ale, beer, cider, and perry, in wood, the gallon 0 6 Ale, beer, cider, and perry, in bottle, the gallon 10 2. Cigars and snuff, the lb 3 0 3. Coffee, chicory, cocoa, and chocolate, the lb. 0 3 4. Cutlery, hardware, plated ware, holloware, h-onmongery, of all sorts, and candles and soap of all sorts, the cwt. . . .30 5. Firearms of every description, each . .50 6. Gunpowder, the lb 0 3 7. Manufactures of silk, cotton, linen, and woollen, and all articles manufactured therefrom ; 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), the 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 Sykes' hydrometer, and so on, in proportion, for any greater strength than the strength of proof, the gallon 9 0 9. Sugar, raw and refined, of all kinds, and treacle and molasses, the lb. . • .01 10. Tea, the lb .04 11. Tobacco, the lb. . . . t • .16 12. Wine, in wood and bottle, containing less than 25 per cent, of alcohol, of a specific gravity of .825, at the temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer, the gallon . . . . • • .30 13. Anchors and chains, and rod, bolt, bar, sheet, hoop, and pig iron, and nails ; sailcloth, cordage, twine, cotton yarn, bags, sacks, aud woolpacks; spirits of tar and turpentine, tobacco for sheepwash, nuts of all kinds, powder fit only for blasting purposes; and all unennmerated goods, ivates, and merchandize . . . . ... . Free.