COMMERCIAL.
Daily Times Office, Monday evening.
The amount of customs revenue received to-day on goods cleared for consumption was £1035 Ga j j.
The revenue collected at the Dunedin custom house duriug the past month ou goods cleared for consumption amounted to £.'4,3,15. The beer duty for the month amounted to £1160 5s 3d. During the corresponding month of last year the revenue on foods cleared for consumption came to .£24,672 2s, and the beer duty to £132133. The large estate owners are, viewing the prices going for wheat, not putting any extensive areas under crop this year. We are informed that on Tokorahi, Totaia, Elderslie, and Windsor Park little or no wheat will be put in, and farmers are not ploughing so much for wheat crop this season. Cropping during tho past three or four years has not paid, and landed proprietors are realising that it will be bettor to lay down in grass for stock than to crop and lose money. Of course, if the duty is knocked off wool in America, there will be a boom in both sheep and wool.—North Otago Times. The following is the number of bags of grain a id produce which arrived at the Dunedin railway stations on Monday :—
Wheat. Oats. Barley. Potatoes. Produce. Total. 390 1789 31 176 - 2356
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10037, 1 May 1894, Page 2
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