THE NEW TARIFF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9067, 30 May 1888, Page 5

THE NEW TARIFF.

In the House of Representatives yesterda evening Sir H. Atkinson, the Colonh Treasurer, delivered his Financial Stat* ment, which will be found on page 0. Th following is the revised tariff which th Government propose to enforce : — Proposed ' Preser Duty. Duty. Ale, porter, beer of all sorts, cider, and perry, in bulk, tho gallon .. • 016 01! Aerated and mineral waters .. { Bitters, cordials, and liqueurs, the gallon 015 0 014 £ Spirits and strong waters of every kind, of any strength not exeeding the strength of proof by Sykes' hydrometer, and so on in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of proof of such hydrometer (provided, howevor, that until the 30th November, ISSS, an allowance shall bo made for any less strength than the strength of proof as aforesaid), the gallon 016 0 014 6 Spirits and strong waters mixed with any ingredient in any proportion exceeding 33 per cent, of proof spirit, and although thereby coming under tho designation of patont or proprietary medicines, or under any other designation, tho gallon 016 0 014 C Spirits and strong waters sweetened or mixed so that tho degreo of strength cannot bo ascertained as aforesaid [ whon not exceeding the strength of proof the gallon spirits 016 0 014 6 Mothyiated spirits, tho gallon.. 015 0 Free Spirits in cases shall be charged as follows, on and after the Ist December, 18S3, namoly, 3 gallons and under as 2 gallons; over 2 gallons and not exceeding 3 as 3 gallons ; over 3 gallons and not exceeding 4 as 4 gallons, and so on for any greater quantity contained in any case. Lime and lemon juice, sweetened or sorated 20% ad val 15% Syrups 20% „ 15% Tea, per lb 000 00' Wine, sparkling, per gallon ..0 8 0 0 0 I Australian, containing not more than 35 por cont of proof spirit, verified by Sykes' hydrometer the gallon, or for 0 reputed quart bottles, or for 12 reputed pint bottles .. .. 0 5 0 0 41 Other than sparkling and Australian, containing less than 40 per cent of proof spirit, verified by Sykes' hydrometer the gallon, or for 0 reputed quart bottles, or for 12 reputed pint bottles 060 06( Beef and pork, salted, por cwt, ad valorem 20% Free Biscuits, ship's, plain and unsweetened, per cwt .. ..0 8 0 0 3 ( Biscuits, other kinds, per lb ..0 0 2 005 Butter, ad valorem .. .. 20% Free Chocolate, confectionery, and all preparations of chocolate or cocoa, per lb 003 0! Capers, ad valorem; .. .. 20% 15% Catsup, ad valorem .. .. 20% 15% Cheese, ad valorem .. .. 20% Freo Chutney, ad valorem .. .. 20% 15% Confectionery not otherwise enumerated, por lb .. ..0 0 2 15% ad valorem Curry powder and paste, ad valorem.. 20% 15% Candied peel, por lb .. ..0 0 8 00 3 Fish—dried, pickled, or salted, per cwt 010 0 020 1 Fish (including sardines),potted i or preserved, or reputed package of that weight, per lb ..0 0 2 0 0 1 1 Fruits, preserved, ad valorem .. 20% 15% Fruit pulp and partially preserved fruit, per lb ..0 0 0} Free Fruit, fresh, including apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, quinces, tomatoes, per lb .. 0 0 0} Free Glucose, per lb 001 0 0 0} Jams, jellies, ' marmalade, and preserves, per lb .. .. 0 0 S 0 0 1} Meats, potted or preserved, ad valorem 20% . 18% Milk, preserved, ad valorem .. 20 % 15 % Mustard, tho lb .. .. 002 001 Olives, 20 por cont. ad valorem 20 X 15 % Oysters, preserved, ad valorem 20 % 15 X Poas, split, per cwt .. ..0 2 0 0 1 0 Pepper and pimento, unground, 0 0 2 0 0 1 Pickles, tho dozen pints or reputed pints, and In the same proportion for larger orsmallor sizes 020 009 Provisions, preserved, not otherwise enumerated, ad valorem 20 % Froo. Raspberry vinegar, ad valorem 20 % 15 % Rice and rice flour, tho lOOlbs .. 0 6 0 per lb Rice, undressed and dressed, in bond, the 100 lb .. ..0 4 0 16% Rice, manufactured into starch, in bond, the 1001b .. ..0 2 0 18% y? Salt, except rock, the ton .. 10 0/ Free. Sauces, per dozen pints, ad 1 valorem 20 % 2s per dos. pts Vegetables, dried or preserved, ad valorem 20% 15% Vegetables, fresh, ad valorem.. 20% Free Opium, per lb 200 100 Cigars cigarettes, and snuff, per lb 070 060 Tobacco unmanufactured, entered to be manufactured in the colony at the tlmo of removal from a bonded warehouse, or from any importing ship to any licensed tobacco manufactory for manufacturing purposes only into tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, or snuff, from the 31st December, 1888, to tho 31st December, 1800, per lb 026 020 Blacking and boot' gloss, ad valorem 20% 15% Black lead, ad valorem .. .. 20% 15% Blue, per lb 002 001 Candles, the lb or reputed packago of that weight .. .. 0 0 2 0 0 0 Tallow, the lb 000 0 0 0} Other kinds, tho lb .. ..0 0 0 0 0 1} Furniture, knife & plate powder and polish, ad valorem .. 15% Free Glue and size, por lb .. .. 0 0 1} Free Matches, wooden, in boxes containing 100 matches or fraction thereof, the gross of boxes 0 1 0 25% ad valorem For every additional 50 matches or fraction thereof, ditto .. 0 0 6 Ditto Wax matches in boxes containing 100 matches or fraction thereof, ditto ..0 2 0 Ditto For evory additional 50 matches or fraction thereof, ditto ..010 Ditto Olive oil, in bulk, the gallon ..0 0 6 Free Paints and colours mixed ready for use, the cwt. ..0 4 0 0 2 0 Paints and colours ground in oil, the cwt .. 0 2 0 Free Sausage skins, ail valorem .. 20 % Free Soap, common, per cwt .. ..0 6 0 0 3 6 Soap powder, extract of soap. dry soap, and soft soap, ad valorem .. 20 % 16% Stearine, per lb 0 0 1} 0 0 1 Starch, per 0 0 2 Sspercwt Varnish, per gallon .. ..0 1 0 0 0 6 Washing powder, ad valorem .. 20 % 15 % Wax, paraftlne, mineral, vegetable, and Japanese, per lb .. 0 0 1 0 0 1 Brooms and brushos. not otherwise described, ad valorem .. 20% 16% Brushware, not otherwise described, ad valorem .. .. 20% 16% Bellows, except forge, ad valorem 16% Free Cabinetware, ad valorem .. 25% 15% Furniture, ad valorem .. .. 25% 16% Mantelpieces, ad valorem .. 20% 15% Upholstery, not otherwise enumerated, ad valorem .. ~ 25% Free Wire Mattress, ad valorem .'. 20% 15% Buckets and tubs of wood, ad valorem 20% 16% Desks and dressing cases, ad valorem SOp.c. lßp.c. Fancy goods and toys, ad valorem 20p.c. 15p.c. Fireworks, ad valorem .. .. 20p.c. Free Mapic lanterns and dissolving view apparatus and slides, ad valorem 20p.c. 15p.c. Musical instruments, namely. organs, harmoniums, and pianofortes, and parts of oither (except action works not made up), ad valorem .. 20% 15% Organs, harmoniums, bolls, and furniture imported for places of public worship, ad valorem 20% 16% I Statues, statuettes, casts and bronze, ad valorem .. .. 20% Free WalkingHticks, ad valorem .. 20p,e. lOp.c, Baskets and wickorware, ad valorem 20p.e. Free Hair brushos and combe, ditto 20% 165; Oil, perfumed, ditto .. .. 25% 15% Boots, shoes, slippers, goloshes, clogs, and pattens not otherwise enumerated, ad valorem ZOp.e. Various rates at per doe. pairs Boot and shoo vamps and uppers, ditto 20p.c. 15p.c. Harness and saddler, ditto .. 20p.e. 15p.c. Harness oil and composition and leather dressing, ditto .. 15p,p. Free Leather belting and Delta, harness, bridle, legging, and bag leather, the lb 0 0 8 16p.c. Kip (other than East India), kip, cordovan, buff, split kangaroo (tanned), levant, cow and horse hides, per lb ..001 081 Roans, Porsians. sheepskins or basils, lambskins and goatskins (dressed), per lb.. ..60S 001 Not otherwise enumerated, including sole leather, per lb.. 0 0 1 0 0 0} Portmanteaus, trunks, and travelling bags, ad valorem .. 20% 16% Filters . 20% Free Fish paste, ad valorem .. .. 20p.e. 16p.e. Chaff, per ton 10 0 Free Acetic acid, per lb.. ~ ..0 0 8 00 0} Cod liver oil, refined, ad valorem 16p.c, Free Glycerine, refined, ad valorem 15p.e. Froo Patent and proprietary medicines, and medicinal and other preparations or compounds not otherwise enumerated, recommended to the public nnder any general name or title as specifics for any disease or affection whatever affecting the human or animal bodies, ad valorem .. ~ 20p.e. Free Pearl ash, potash, and caustic potash, ad valorem .. .. I6p.e. Pearl ash l&p.e. Potash.. ..' Free. SarsaparilljL, ad valorem.. .. 25p.c. 15n.c. Soda ash, the cwt 0 1 0 Free, Soda, carbonate, the cwt M' 0 l 0 0 10

Stationery, manufactured, in- Proposed Present eluding account books, bill- duty. duty, heads, cheques, labels, and other printed and ruled paper, ' blank and head - line copy J books, drawing books, blotting il pads, sketch books, manifold writers, albums, diaries (plain and faint), lined ruled books, 0 an( other printed and lithographed stationery, ad va--0 lorem .. .. .. 25p.c. 15p.c. Ink, writing, ad valorem.. .. 20% 15% Paper bags, per cwt. .. ..0 7 6 05 0 it Paper Wrapping, brown, per cwt. 0 4 0 0 2 0 Paper wrapping, other kinds, perewt. 050 026 Pictorial calendars, show cards, ! and < other pictorial lithographs and prints, on and after the Ist December, 1883, ad valorem 25% Free Cordage, viz., coir rope, perewt. 0 5 0"\ Cordage, viz. white lines, per I ~, , • j„ cwt. .. .. ... 010 0 V AII klnds Cordage,not otherwiseenumer- I 53 ated, per cwt 0 7 6 J Twine for fishing nets, per cwt, ad valorem 15p.c. Free Twine, sailmakers' seaming and roping, ad valorem .. 16p.c. Free Drainage pipes and tiles, ad valorem 20p.c. Free Earthen flooring and garden „ tla 20p.c. 15p.c. Earthenware gas retorts .. 20p.c. 15p.c. Earthenware, stoneware, and crown ware ' 20p.c. 15p.c. Firebricks and fireclay goods, ad valorem 20p.c. lßp.c. China and parian ware and porcolain, ad valorem .. .. 20p.c. 15p.c. Apparol and ready-mado clothing and all articles made up wholly or in part from silk, cotton, linen, or wool, or of other or of mixed material .. 25p.c. 15p.c. ! Bonnets, trimmed .. .. 25p.c. 15p.c. Collars and cuffs 25p.c. 15p.c. Drapery, not otherwise enumerated 20p.c. 15p.c. £ u ™ , 20p.c. ISp.c. toothers, including ostrich .. 20p.c. 15p.c. Haberdashery, not otherwise enumerated 20p.c. Isp.c. Hats n-d caps 20p.c. - 15p.c. Milhne-y, viz., trimmed hats, caps, and bonnets ■.. .. 25p.c. ISp.c. Millinery, not otherwise enurated 20p.c. 15p.c. Shirts of all kinds 25p.c. ISp.c. Trousers of all kinds .. .. 25p.c. 15p.c. Umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades 20p.c. 15p.c. Blankets, rugs, and shawls .. 20p.c. 15p.c. Hosiery, woollen,and mixed with wool 20p.c. 15p.c. Woollen piece goods and piece I goods containing wool.. .. 20p.c. lop.c. . Cotton, linen, silk and othor textile piece goods not otherwise enumerated .. .. 20p.c. Free Cotton counterpanes .. 20p.c. ISp.c. Cotton, linen, silk and othor textile manufactures not . otherwise enumerated.. .. 20p.c. 15p.c. Holland, _ rough brown, not otherwise enumerated .. 20p.c. 15p.c. Machinery for boring, brick and tile making, planing punching, sawing, shearing, turning, mills, and looms, steam vessels, wool and hay pressing, ad 1 valorem .. 20p.c. Free Machinery not otherwise enumerated .. 20p,c. Free Metal, manufactured, including I air gratings, ash pans, barrow i wheels, bill flies, brackets, bolts and nuts of J-inch and over (except blank nuts and. bolt ends), blacksmiths'tongs, I boathooks, copper boilers and furnaces, bolt rings, lifting bottles, jacks, wrought iron braces, copper and brass branch pipes, brazed copper pipes, cakerollers, camp ovens and three-logged pots, cast iron of all sorts, moulded (not otherwise enumerated), castings of steel (not otherwise enumerated), cast iron cylinders, wrought iron cisterns, coal scoops and scuttles, contractors' forgings, condensers for salt water and steam engines, wiro and steel cork drawcers, rowbars, black lead crucibles, damporsand frames, door knockers, porters and scrapers, drain prates and frames, drain gratings, dumbbells, engine castings (not other wiso enumerated), engineers' forgings (not otherwise enumerated), fenders, lire-dogs, fireguards, flower-stands; fittings for pumps, engines, and machinery (not otherwise enumerated); garden reels, rollers, seats, and syringes; grates, gridirons, grindstones, fittings. gun metal, engine fittings; napping, quart*, and spall ing hammers ; hasps and staples; hatstands, holdfasts, hook and eye hinges, horse-shoes, hayrakes and horse rakes; horse - power gear, hydraulic mains, kitchen ranges and colonial ovens, lamp pouts, leadenware, wronght-iron or steel letters and figures, forged levers, connecting or split links, hydraulic lift. l ?, mango* rings, mangles, marine engine cranks and pillars, maul rings, " meat hooks, monkeys for piledriving, ornamental gravinga, painted and brass casings for engines, pepper, malt, beans, and oat mills, picks and mattocks, pulley blocks, quarry mauls and picks, quoits, railway chairs, bolts, fastenings and rail dogs, connecting rods, rollerskates, sack trucks, iron safes and boxes, sash weights, bright wrought Iron, shafting iron, sluice valves, soldering Irons, Iron stands, stamped ironware (not otherwise enumerated), stench traps, troughs, truck wheels, cast steel irons, wedges, wrought iron wheelbarrows and wheels, ad valorem .. 20p.c. Free Bolts and nuts of J-inch diameter and others 20p.c. Free Brass cocks, valves, unions, lubricators and whistles.. .. SOp.c. Free Boilers, land and marine .. 20p.c. Free Chaff-cnttors, corn-crushers,and corn-shellers 20p.c. Free Grab winches, cranes, capstans, and windlasses 20p.c. Free Fire engines and hose not otherwise enumerated .. .. 20p.c. Freo Gas-pipes sp.c. Freo Galvanised iron manufactures.. 26p.c. Is per cwt. Tin stamped into shapes .. 25p.c. ISp.c. Tinware 25p.c. ISp.c. Japanned and lacquered metalware 25p.c. 15p.c. Zinc ware 25p.c. 15p.c. Iron and zinc tiles, ridging, guttering, and spouting .. 20p.c. Is per cwt Iron bridges, and iron material for the construction of bridges, wharves, jetties, or patent flips 20p.c. Free Iron gates and gateposts, staples, standards, straining posts, and apparatus .. .. 20p.c. 4s per cwt Iron, plain galvanised sheet, per . ton 110 0 Free Iron tanks, each 0 10 0 050 Iron tanks of and under 200 gallons, each 050 026 Iron weighbridges, ad valorem.. 20p.c. Freo Iron-barbod fencing wire,perewt 0 2 0. 0 1 0 Iron pipes, wrought, ad valorem sp.c. Free Iron columns, for buildings and other structural ironwork .. 20p.e. Free Iron doors, for safes and vaults 20p.c. Freo Iron and wire work, ornamental 20p.c. Free Lawn-mowers 20p.c. Free Pumps and other apparatus for raising water 20p.c. Froo Railway and tramway plant and materials, not otherwise enumerated 20p.c. Free Sad irons 20p.c. Freo Steam engines and parts of steam engines not otherwise enumerated 20p.c. Free ! Waterpipcs .. .. .. .. sp.c. Free Cement, tho barrel .. ..0 2 0 0 1 0 Carriages, carts, drays, waggons and perambulators, and wheels for same 20p.c. 15p.c. Bicycles, tricycles, and tho like < vehicles ... 20p.c. 15p.c. Buggy shafts, bent wheel rims and other bent carriage tlm- ■ ber not otherwise enumerated ISp.c. Froe Carriage shafts, spokes, felloes and naves, not otherwise enumerated ISp.c. Free Completed parts of carriages, v carts, drays, waggons, perambulators, bicycles and tricycles and the like vehicles .. .. 20p.c. Froo Bags (flour) 20p.c. Freo Bags (calico), Forfar, Hessian and linon 20p.c. Froo Bags (carpet) 20p.e. 15p.c. Cartridges and cartridge cases.. ISp.c. sp.c. Greenstone, cut and polished .. 20p.c. Free Marblo, granite and other stone, „ sawn on not more than two sides, and not dressed or polished .. .. Bp.c. Froe Marble, granite and other stone dressed or polished, and articles made therefrom .. .. 20p.e. Free Photographic chemicals.. ISp.c. Free Photographic goods not otherwise enumerated .. 20p.c. Free Tarpaulins, tents, rick and waggon covers, aprons, and elevators for reaping and binding machines 15p.c. Free Wooden tackle blocks .. 20p.c. Free THE TARIFF RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were agreed to .— Resolved, That, in the event of any of the duties hereby imposed not being confirmed, or of reductions being made in the rates specified above, the amounts levied, collected, and paid in excess of the duties that may be imposed by the Customs Act. based on these reductions, shall be refunded to the persons who paid the same." Resolved " That the duties of Customs now charged on the undermentioned articles shall cease and determine—namely artists' canvas, colours, brushes, and palette knives; ash timber, unwrought brass tubes, blind tape, bolts and nuts under $in. in diameter, bags, seamless calico, buttons, braids, tapes, wadding, pins, needles, and such minor articles required in the making-up of apparel; boots, shoes, hats, caps, saddlery, umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, as' may be enumerated in any order of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, and published in the Gazette ; candle nuts and candle nut kernels, candle wick, card board boxes, materials for, namely, gold and silver paper plain and embossed, gelatine and ooloured papers, known as box papers, carriage and cart shafts, spokes and felloes in the rough, elm limbs and poles if unbent

and unplaned, children's boots, shoes and slippers Nos. 0 to 3, cochineal, coil springs, cocoa beans, cotton, piece goods ana linen hollands invoiced at or under 5d per yard, dye stuffs and dyeing materials (crude), engineers' machine tools, glassmakers' moulds, gum arabic and tragacanth gum, boots, iron and steel cordage, iron boiler plate and end plates for boilers, iron rolled girders, kangaroo skins (undressed), locomotives, machinery for agricultural purposes, also materials for manufacturing the same, viz., reaper knives, knife sections, fingers, brass and steel springs, and tilt rakes, chaff-cutting knives, set screws, malleable castings, fittings for threshing-mills, discs for harrows, forgings for ploughs, mould board plates, and steel share plates cut to pattern, and skeith plates, machinery for dairying purposes, machinery for mining purposes, machinery for refrigerating and preserving meat, metal fittings for portmanteaus, travel-ling-bags and leggings, metallic, capsules, passengers' luggage and effects, including only wearing apparel, jewellery, and other personal effects that have been worn, or are in use as personal ornaments, by persons arriving in the colony ; also implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment of such persons, and household effects, not exceeding £100 in value, used abroad for more than a year by the persons or families bringing them to the colony, and not intended for any other person or persons, or for sale ; also cabin furnishings belonging to such persons, perambulators, bicycles, tricycles, and the like vehicles (fittings for) not otherwise enumerated, photographic cameras, portable engines, precious stones (unset), rails for railways and tramways, rivets and washers of all kinds, steam engines (non-condensing), the area of whose cylinder or cylinders exceeds 1000 circular inches, and condensing engines the area of whose cylinders exceeds 2500 circular inches, steam boiler tubes, corrugated and welded flues and bowlings, expansion rings, steam fire engines ; shale, waste, or unrefined mineral oil; strychnine, stones (mill, grind, oil, and whet), ships' rockets, blue lights, and danger signals , tacks of all kinds, tanning materials (crude), umbrella silk, and other fabrics when cut into pieces not larger than the size required for covering umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, and to be specially used for such purposes, upholsterers imitation hair seating, wire (brass, copper and lead), waterproof material in the piece, wax (bottling), yarn (flax and hemp)."

Resolved, " That on all goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the colony, there shall be levied and paid at the time of making import entry therefor a primage duty of £1 per centum on the fair market value thereof in the country whence the same were exported, as such value is defined in the Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882."

_ Resolved, " That, in lieu of the duties of excise now charged on the undermentioned goods, there shall, on and after the Ist day of January, 1889, and until the 31st day of December, 1890, be charged thereon, and be paid at the time of making entry therefor, the following duty, namely, on all cigars, cigarettes, and snuff manufactured within the colony one shilling and sixpence the pound."