DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 62, 18 July 1913, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

[Per Press Association.]

The Customs duties collected' s in June at all ports totalled £782,074, compared with 5?78,(M0 for the corresponding period of, last year. Tlje excise 'duties"collected amounted to £3o,llo^aV £ with £29,04:3 'for the Juke* quarter of 19112: *"] r " ,'.''". The iMil* Value 'of impbrls,' including specie, for the quarter "was £4,784,214, compared with £4,764,044 in the June quarter of 1912, and the total value of exports, including specie, in the WtfW rfctftfd of T9l,rva'sr£6,635,296, compared with £6,111,454 in the of 1912. !

PIGEON SHOOTING MATCH

Mastertori, July 18

The live: I»rd pigeon match for £IOO stake was shot to-day n ecnnoevioi: with the Masterton Gun Club. MeiSSrs R. Buick, W, D, McCalnDnr, T. Harvey, and H. Co&. each kilbvl fourteen birds and divided the staiv".

SENTENCED FOR THEFI

Auckland, July IS

At the police court this morning, John Nolan, aged 27 years, admitted having committed twenty-eight thefts in the city from the shop fronts of various places, between May 2-i and July 14. The goods taker included tivo wringers, a large number of carpenters' and plumbers' tools, the total value being £25. Accused handed in a written statement in which he said he had stolen.the goods to buy medicine, and asked to be given reformative treatment rather than a term in gaol. Mr Eraser, S.M., stated that this sort of theft would have to be stopped, but accused was entitled to be sentenced to reformative treatment. He would be iiententvd to reformative treatment for a period not exceeding three years.