1 WELLINGTON RETURNS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 67

1 WELLINGTON RETURNS.

WELLINGTON, December 31. Although to-day only constitutes the completion of the" third quarter of tho Dominion's financial s ear, it completes four quarterly period-, of 1908. and an interesting comparison in Cu-toms reienue for ihe port of Wellington can thu.-. be made with the corie^ponding quarters of 1907. Despite the lar<*e leduction^ in duty on cotton piece good*, etc., made by the Government this* year's tally work'; out at a flight dc- | create on 'that of the previous year. The < iotal for the 12 months just closed amounts | to £807,769 30= Bd, while la*t joar'p figures | were £322,669 5» 4d. The re-,pectne quaiterlv "returr-a are as follow :— March, 1903 £226.430 5s 4<l ; 1907. £207.200 18s 6d. Jupc 1908 £165.071 5* 4d : 1907, £185 503 | 9a9 a ldd September. 1203, £230,382 8* 4cl ; 1907, £242.609 5s Bd. December, 1908. £185.835 6, lOd ; 1907. £187,355 Us 4d. Refund ha\e yet to be deducted from the . la^t quarter'^ return, and this will rcdtire * the amount specified b> a few hundred P< Th?"beor duiy for 1908 is £14.527 17= 7d, and for 1907 it amounted to £14.200 | 16s 2d. The figure- for ench quarter are ' aa follow :-ilaveh. 1908. £3995 9s Id; 1907, £3513 4*. June, 1908 £3381 Os 6d ; 190., _ £3128 6^ llrl. September, 1908, £3312 ]8> 2<l • 1907 £3320 17 B Id. Decpmber, 1908 ■ £3333 9- lOd: 1907, £4218 8s 2d.

■■ I Mr Ralph St. John Ains'ie. the per- j trait painter, has died in London, after | an operation. Ho va- a -0.1 of Archdeacon 1 Ainslie, and had been head ma-tor at ( Groenbank School, Liverpool. I It ha-» 1 • pii ?aul at tin- - lhat the mengUi ' cf t!ie Volunteer-, V cw Z-calaxxl is steadPy <lini.iH~l.ing. bin there is no truth in the statement foi figures compiled during the prteent month t-hovf thit there aie lnoxQ Voutnt-e^rs iij the Dominion now than , at aay iim& ia the past, |