GENERAL, NEWS.
SHIPPING AND CUSTOMS. A Government return just issued shows that during last year the aggregate tonnage of shipping entered inwards' at New Zealand ports was 765,255 tons, and that but.; wards 765,255 tons,' against 526, ;435 tons in. wards -and; 531,478 -tons outwards in 1888): an increase, of 45.37 and 44.09 per cent respectively. • The ■ Customs revenue for 1898 am<?unted;to £1,961,726, against £r,396;,391' teii; years ? earlier, an increase of 40.49 per, cent. The excise duties were £78.8^2 last year and £52,075 in 1888, a rise- of -'51:40; percent. -7" . ..■" ..' > ..'.■■.'■■
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6514, 17 June 1899, Page 7
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