REVENUE RETURNS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2493, 3 April 1882, Page 3

REVENUE RETURNS.

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(JFBOST THE "PRESS."] WELLINGTON, April 2 The oomplote revenue returns for the financial year will not bo ready for at least ten days, and probably a week longer will elapse before the expenditure returns are in, so as to enable an acourate balance-sheet to be prepared. However, some of the chief items are alreadj known with a close approximation to correctness. It will be remembered that, basing my calculation on the eleven months' results, I estimated the total Customs for the year at £1,470,000, but the aotual yield is even better, amounting to £1271 more, viz., £1,471,271, exolusive of the Kaipara returns, whioh have not yet been received, but are expected to be between £IOO and £2OO, consequently the Customs have exceeded Major Atkinson's estimate by £126271, The stamps can only be approximately given ; as owing to the system of accounts between the Treasury and the Stamp Oflxoe it does not always follow that the payments for a particular period are identioal. The stamp revenuo for the year, as colleoted by the Stamp Office, amounts to 174,103, or £24,103 abovo the estimate. The postal and telegraph revenue return iB also opon to a possible slight correction. It is in round numbers, £226,000 for the oombined department, which is exaotly the amount estimated by the Treasurer, taking the subdivision separately, howevor, the postal has yielded £153.000, whioh is £3OOO short. Thus, on the two items above the Treasury is £150,000 to the good, as against the estimate, and the other departments, so far as known, are fully up to the mark, excepting the Railway Department, whioh, howevor, is not expected to be far bohind.

[FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] The approximate total for the Postal Department is £153,200, or £3200 in cxobbs of estimate. Telegraph, £73,000, or £3OOO under the estimate. The Stamps Department, £174,000, or £2400 above the estimate. The colonial beer duty was estimated to yield for the year £60.000. Total reoeipts have been £58,467 5s 7d, or £1532 14s 5d below the estimate. The largest receipts for any month were £6598 15j lid, for December last. The smallest were in July, £3675 14s sd.