THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH MARCH, 1861. 97
Tariff-continued.
Description of Articles.
Rates of Import Duties.
1960.
1864.
Former Duties (adding the two decimes.)
VARIOUS ARTICLES.
Artificial flowers
Modes........
Mercery of all kinds.......
Buttons, fine or commou, other than haberdashery Brushes of all kinds
Musical instruments and parts of instruments
Tins of all kinds..
India-rubber manufactures :--
Pure or mixed
Per 100 kilogrammes.
Fr.
Free.
C.
10 per cent, ad valorem.
Per 100 kil
50f. from the 1st Dec., 1860.
Fr. c.
12f. per cent. ad valorem 12f. per cent. ad valorem
Per 100 kil.
120f. to 240f.
120f. to 240f.
Pianos, 360f. to 480f. each; church organs, 480f. ; harps, 43f. 20c.
Per 100 kil.
Applied upon tissues in pieces or upon other materials
Made-up wearing apparel
In elastic tissues of any dimensions.....
Boots and shoes
N.B.-Articles of gutta-percha pay the same duties as india-rubber.
Oil and floor-cloth:-
For packing.....
For furniture, hangings, and other purposes.
Scaling-wax
Blacking of all kinds..
Ink, printing, drawing, and writing
Cordage, cables, and fishing-nets
Fish, fresh water:-
Fresh
Prepared
Fish, sca:-
Fresh, dry, salted, or smoked (except cod)
Sauces and pickles.....
Cheese, hard...
Beer
Molasses:---
Containing less than 50 per cent. of saccharine matter.. Containing more than 50 per cent, of saccharine matter
Alcohol, per 100 degrees
Slates:--
For roofing
In squares or tablets......
No. 28.
20
00
100 00
120
200
60
8838
00
00
00
15
20
428422
5
00
30 00
20 00
888888
00
00
Free.
10
10 00
25
00
10
888 8
00
2f. per hectolitre, in addition to the internal tax
11 00
same as raw sugar
15f. per hectolitre, in addition to the internal tax
4
00 per 1000 10 00
100
24f. to 60f.
240f.
240f.
240f.
240f.
84f. to 264f..
120f. 147f. 60c. 721. to 1201.
30f.
Free.
48f.
48f.
240f.
18f.
7f. 20c. per hectolitre
Prohibited.
Sof. per hectolitre
9f. to 55f. 20c. per 1000 36f. per 100
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct the publication of the following letter from. the Venerable the Archdeacon of Calcutta, and the Extracts from the Indian Press by which it was accompanied.
The undermentioned Gentlemen have kindly consented to act as a Committee for the reception and transmission of Subscriptions raised for the relief of the Famine now prevalent in India:- The Honourable Chief Justice ADAMS (Chairinan),
The Honourable ALEXANDER PERCEVAL, Esquire,
F. CHOMLEY, Esquire,
P. CAMPBELL, Esquire.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th March, 1861.
To His Excellency
SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
CALCUTTA, 22nd February, 1861.
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, &c. SIR,--The Calcutta Famine Relief Committee have requested me to address yon, in the absence of our President, Colonel Baird Smith, and solicit your aid in raising Subscriptions in Hongkong and its Dependencies, under your government, in be- half of the thousands, I may alnost say millions, who are starving in the North Western Provinces of India from a sad failure of the periodical rains. Large sums are being raised throughout this country, and we have appealed to the Lord Mayor of London, and to others out of India, to assist in succouring the distressed and saving them from death.
The enclosed papers will give your Excellency some account of the distress prevailing, and which there is every reason to fear will last till the close of the year.-1 am, your Excellency's obedient servant,
JOHN II. PRATT, Archdeacon of Calcutta,
on behalf of the Culcutta Famine Relief Committee.
THE FAMINE AND ITS PALLIATIVES.
As the season advances, the calamity impending over some of the Districts of the North-West Provinces gathers deeper shodes and becomes invested with a more tragic interest. It is no longer a question of fact as to whether Famine is to be met or no in the Northern Doab. On authority above all question or suspicion, the reality of the terrible visitation has been placed beyond doubt. In the details published in the Supplement to the Gazette of the 29th ultimo, a series of pictures of suffering
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