The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY MAY 30, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1687, 30 May 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY MAY 30, 1874.

The Customs Revenue for the month

reaches the sum of £1005 13s 4d. Of -course this amount, Urge as it is com* pared with collections during other months, scarcely represents a tithe of the contributions of this district to the Customs Bevenue of the Colony; because, owing to the jealousy of Auckland merchants and importers, the greater portion of dutiable articles consumed Here pay

duty in Auckland,, which port gets the

credit for what is really revenue derived from this district. From the ■ abstract published in another column it will be noticed that the revenue is principally derived from spirits, wines and tobacco;

a significant fact which plainly shows

that Good Templary has not yet made 'itself felt in the direction of the revenue. The item for gold duty it one that does hot often figure in our

abstracts. The large sun> of 18s 9d gold

duty has been collected in one month at a port which depends altogether upon goldmining as an industry—another instance of the effect which our proximity to Auckland has in keeping down the Port of Thames, which would, under more favorable circumstances, soon rival, as its population now exceeds, several provin-

eial capftflls