WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7979, 20 May 1904, Page 2

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Customs and Excise-

Drapery Experts.

The Last Loan.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, Last Night. The customs and excise duties collected in New Zealand for the year ended March 31st, as compared with those of the previous year, were • — Customs, 1903-4, £2,595,649; 1909-3 £2,285,043; excise, 1903-4, J6102.397 ' 1902-3, £94,482. *m,W ,

The duties collected at the chief port* during the year ended March last were: £28 fi4R ' w ßn- mß ' exci.e, £12'SS: 656."2 and fwim' C^lßtc^ urch. £391,411 and IS'go?'" Dunedln' £m&1 and

MTht oV 3"0, 8 for the garter endecE March dlst last, as compared with therevenue for the corresponding quarter ™' y eßr were:—Customs, 1903-4, gf'Of; 1902-3, £626,283; excise £27,362 and £24,987. The following were the principal items of revenue for the quarter, the ngures for the corresponding 'quarter iol, yea n,,beinS alßt> given :-Spiriti, l?04, £113,750 ; 1903, £103,642; cigars and snuff, £6371 and £7254----cigarettes, £21,281 and ±18,375; tofe 4®? m and wine, f5137 and £5380; Auatralian wine' S?« and 2891 > tea> 418a «nd J-M M 5 alf' beer« ctc, £5751 an* £24 028 CXCIBe ' je26 '308 and

M. Orchard (Christcburoh), B. Williams (Dunedin), and F. Sherwood U>elson) have been appointed draperv experts to the Customs Department Inquiries at the Treasury show thai sales over the counter of debentures of the last loan are regular. It i s Ba id Xf • thl H auce of the lo« will b. Sr^ reoourse to the l°°-