REVENUE RETURNS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8686, 25 December 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)

REVENUE RETURNS.

(Fnojt Our Om Correspondent.)

Wellington. December 2.

The customs revmuo for Woveiuber ISE» yielded £122,082. This is uearly £5000 m-jre tliim the October receipts, but nearly JB56.00I) less than tho customs revenue of November IBSB, which reached the unpreceden'edly large 3um of £177,M5. That, however, as i explained (it the time, was duo to special clearances ct spirits in case anticipator? ot the increased duties on that class of imports which came into force vn the ls^ December 1888. A careful compilation lias fr-en mtide of the amount received in cxwsb of this sum, and it is found to lmve been £60.000. If, then, that Bum is deducted from the customs of November 1883. to aa to lewo only the nominal revenue, this y-.r's returns give more th*n J250U0 to the good. WBtobi-rt > November, however, are almost ulwiivs slunk mouths in respect of cuttornß, and it is estimated that there will be, as usual, some heavy takings during the current month on account of Christmas k°' ds, and also in January and February, when the importation of antumii stocks in tho way of eoft goods, &c. begin, the winter importations following them up in'Marcb. (Vm these sources it is expected that ti a customs dutieß will be augmented n«srly, if not quite, to tho amount of the original estimnt-, hut it is unlikely now that there will bo a material overplus on (his head. The beer duty for November vtm £5"55, a> afainst £s<»(> in October, au'l £1105 in November 188s. Tho receipts fur eight mou'lis amounted to ffH iflQ. k> he ni|!ht-twelfths of the estimate (£50.000) would be #3iS,£U, the boer duty for eight, months is £3a7 in uxceßs,