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Evening Star, Issue 8406, 6 January 1891, Page 3

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The amount of revenue oollected at the Custom-house on goods cleared to-day for consumption was L 1.68195. MINING NOTES. Gilbert Brown aid party have been down from the Da-1 for their Christmas holidays, and they speak highly of the Dart VaUey as a goldfield. They have, moreover, brought some very tangible results of their labor with them, which fact speaks for itself. It is a great pity that a track is not made to give access to this field, as at least sixty men could make a good living there. Apropos of gold, I will give you a little anecdote that ought to stimulate some of our dre Iging companies to action. Mrs Harris was prepariogsome good oheerforOhriatmas, and amongst the other nice thinga was a common tame duck, in the stomach of which, while cleaning it, she found a very nice nugget of gold. The duck in question spent her spare hours—in fact nearly all her hours—on the shingly beach of the Rcea River. I leave it for dredging people, and others interested te extract the moral from this true tale —Glenorchy correspondent of the • Wakatip Mail.' THB M'KINLEY TARIFF. The following is an epitome of the new tariff of the United States as far as regards wool : Class I, —Merino, or of merino blood, Down clothing wools, and wools of Ike charaoter.— New rate, lie rer lb; old rate, 100 and 12c, according to value. Class 11. Leicester, Cotswold, Lincoln, Down combing, or other liko combing wools of English blood ; also camolß' and goats' hair ; alpaca and kindred qualities.—New rate, 12c per lb; old rate, 10c and 120, according to value. Glass 111. Dunskol and infeiior classes of "low" wool —Value with oharges, 13c per lb or under; new rate, 32 per cent.; old rate, 2J and 5o per lb, according to values. Class lll.—Exceeding the above values.— New rate, 50 per cent.; old rate, 5 centum per lb. Wools, shoddy waste. —New rates, 30 centum per lb; old rate, 10c per lb. Rags, mungo, etc.—New rato, 10c per lb ; old rate, 10c per lb Wools of class 1., if washed, pay now twice the above duty, and of classes I. and 11., if scoured, thrice the above duty. Post Offioci Notlos. Malls clone at the Chief Post Offion, Punadln, lubjeot to any neoeasaty alterations as under;—• For Northern Porte, o»erl«nd dally, at 10.80 a.m., at Chief Post Office. Late intter», guard'* »an. North train *t 11 a.m. Wednesday, Janoahy 7. For Northern Porto. —Per Te Armi, at, 150 l> in. Late letters, guard's van, Tort Chalmers train, at 2.30 p.m. Thursday, Januaby 8. For Southland, Australian Colonies (via Hobavt), India, China, Japan, Continent of Europe, United Kingdom, etc.—Per Rotomihana, at 1.20 p.m. Money orders (for Australian Colonies only), registered letters and newspapers at 12 20 p.m. Lata letters, C.P.0., at 1.30 p.m. DIRECT HAIL SERVICE. Wednesday, January 7. Thd contract steamer Tainul will leave Wellington for Plymouth via Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, January 8. Mails close here as under: — For the United Kingdom and Foreign Countries via the United Kingdom, eta, at 10 a.ro. on Wednesday, 7th. Book packets and newspapers at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, 7th. The above mall will close at the Branch Post Office, Dunedin North, fer letters at 9.30 a.m. and newspapers at 5.80 a.m. on the 7th. At the Branch Post Office, South Dunedin, for letters and newspapers at 5 a.m. on the 7th. At the Fort Chalmers Office at 8 a.m. on the 7th. Late letters bearing an additional single rate of postage as a late fee (2sd) can be posted in the mail van attaohed to the North train leaving the Dunedin railway station at 11 a.m. on the 7th. The b.s. Invercarglll will leave InvercargUl for Coal Island and Milford Bound on January 8, at 10 a.m. (Signed) Edwabd D. Butts, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Dunedin, January 6,1891.