MAIL NOTICES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 6 January 1910, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. ft Wellington, Northern and Southern Offices: Per Pateena, at 7.15 p.m. Australia (due in Sydney January 11), Tasmania, Ceylon, India Straits Settlements and China; a l so Continent of Europe and United Kinedom, via Suez (due in London Febru\Z7il '', Connecting with s.s , at Wellington; Per Pateena, at 7.15 * FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. Wellington, Northern and Southern Offices: Per Takapuna, at 7.15 p.m _Nolson, Westport, Greymouth and Hok;tika:-Per Pateena, at 3 30 p m SATURDAY, JANUARY 8. ' Wellington, Northern and Southern Offices: Per Pateena1, at 10 a.m. Nelson, Westport, Greymouth and Hokitika : Per Arahura, at 3.30 p.m.

The average smoker (says the .Wanganiii Chronicle) will be surprised to learn that tobacco yields more .revenue to-the State than is-obtained throiigh the medium-of the land tax • ".yet...this -is actually the s case. Last year tobacco yielded £600,000 in taxation * whereas the land tax" in 1908 only realised £537,000. And the returns show that the bulk of the tobacco used in the Dominion is plug "tobacco,", smoked by the working man. The duty on tobacco is 3s 6d per Ib.j and upon cigarettes 17s 6d per 1000,' which means 300 per cent, on tobacco and over 117 per cent, on cigarettes. -And now a"surtax is to wring another £14,000 per annum from tobacco Risers. . j