CUSTOMS DUTIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 1 July 1911, Page 7

CUSTOMS DUTIES.

Excise duty: June, 3911, £l3l. 36s 9(1; .lane. 1910. £154 lis 2d - decrease £22 4s sd. The (Customs duties collected iii June 1910, totalled £2057. IGs, there l>i• i 1 a decrease as compared with last month of £IOO (5s Id.

In pursuance of a decision of the •Judicial Senate of the Supreme Court Marshal's Office, a decree has< been published in Vienna declaring the death of the- Archduke John Salvator, l etter known as John Orth, on July 21. 1890, to be sufficiently proved, and accepting the application of his heir, the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, that the death bo duly registered. An appendix to the -decree discusses and confutes the various stories of John Orth's survival, and establishes beyond reasonable doubt the fact that he perished with his ship, the Santa Margarita, during the voyage from Buenos Ay res to Valparaiso.

Sarah Bernhardt and Jane Hading were recently asked to give their opinions as to when a woman, is at her best and they decided that it was at 40. The question arose when a colleague was pelted off the stage and lost her contract because certain critics considered her too old. She gave her age as 39, pointing out that she looked less than 30 behind the footlights,

The beauties of Paris have discovered a new way to accentuate their charms. It is their custom to surround themselves with xig'v, deformed servants, and to have as their constant companions the most 'hideous pets imaginable. Mdlle. Mistinguette, for instance, a favourite dancer, is* waited on night and day by a Hindu servant with ringed ears and a face altogether calculated to give one the creeps. Mdlle Man on Loti, an equally celebrated beauty, keeps a hideous dwarf, "with a tremendous head, a malevolent expression; and iiardly any legs.''

J pour ()P A'1' LK<) \ r . The fol i«nv 1 no- are 1 he C'ilsi oms duties (.-"I lt'i'1 nl ;it t' 1 > Port. ol' X i '1 - ri<> 11. during the month of June:— i* r- i.l Spirits — I '|«;'| 1-ct tos 1 04 1 3 Tobacco 7G1 8 G ; "Wines .1.:3 12 S> Ale and beer 70 S 0 Chicory _ He. 3 J 5 •0 Goods by wcitili't 158 fi. ]0 <iooils ad valorem :i 73 i) 3 _ Or her dill it's not. «p° eified : — 0 PL :n il'OSS ] G ;i - Preferential IS 19 5 £2057 1G 2<