Customs Revenue.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2911, 1 March 1893, Page 3

Customs Revenue.

. , (PIRFHESS ASSOCIATION) Wellington, March 1. 1 The Customs revenue for February was £163,072, against £127,248 for the preceding month, and £164,846 for the corresponding month last year. Auckland contributed £37,376, Wellington £31,900, Lytteltbn and Chrißtchurch £29,873, Dunedin £38,746. For the eleven montha ending yesterday the total Customs revenue collected in the colony was £1,500,307, which exceeds the Treasurer's estimate for that period by £36,557.; The beer duty last month was £5038 -^preceding month £5066, and February, 1892, £5145. Auckland paid £1089, Wellington £534, Christchurch £873. Dunedin £1209. For the eleven months the tax paid was £53,847, exceeding the estimate for that period by £680.

At a meeting held on Tuesday night in one of the Somerset sample rooms, it was decided to form a football club to be icalled "The Ashbcrton Junior Football Club." The meeting was largely attended and about forty members have already been elected. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr Lane for the use of the room. A collision occurred in T.yttelton Harbour on Tuesday between the steamers Bimutaka and Coptic and the coal hulk Lota, iv which the Coptic got knocked about a good deal The accident was caused by the breakage of the telegraph wire from the bridge to the engine-room of the Rimutika, by which the order '• full speed ahead " was wrongly given. The Government propose to dispose of the Cneviot land in paddocks as fenced. They will be put up separately on whatever tenure ', may We considered bestl. The agricultural land will be leased till the Ist October next, and the pastoral land till the Ist April, 1894.