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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 4, 6 January 1868, Page 2

We give the following returns of Custom Revenue at this port, for the year ending on. the 31st December last (which it will be seen, exceeds the estimated revenue for the year from that source by upwards of £11,000), and also the Customs Revenue for the last quarter. Customs Revenue at the port of Nelson for the year ended 81st December, 1867 :— • * Customs Duties £36,755 3 2 Gold Duties 1,140 9 7 Lighthouse Dues 830 7 1 Fees under Arms Act 104 6 0 Merchant Shipping Fees ... 17 10 0 Duty on Bonded Warehouses 300 0 0 Oyster Licenses 6 0 o 39,153 15 10 Pilotage 1,900 17 1 £41,054 12 11 Customs Revenue at the port ofNelson for the quarter ended 31st December, 1867 : — Customs Duties 7,292 6 2 Gold Duties 332 15 4 Lighthouse Dues 221 0 1 Fees under Arms Act 81 0 O Merchant Shipping Fees ... 6 2 0 • 9,873 4 5 r Pilotage ... .... 484 6 l £1©,357 10 8

The mail for Europe via Panama, by the Taranaki, closes this evening — for registered letters at 5, for newspapers at 7, and for letters at 8 o'clock.

Telegraphic communication has, we understand, been resumed with all the various stations.

An application was made this morning at the Resident Magistrate's Court, to the Sitting Magistrates, J. Poynter, Esq., R.M. and the Hon. Dr. Renwick, J.P., under the Alteration of Roads Ordinance, by the Provincial .Engineer and the Chief Surveyor, for an order for the stopping up, diverting and opening of certain roads ia the districts of Suburban North , Waimea South, Motueka, Mot'upiko, and Takaka, which was granted accordingly. The Auckland Annual Races took place) on the Ist and 2nd instant, neither the weather nor the attendance being so good as on former occasions. The Auckland Jockey Club Plate and the Grand Stand Stakes were both won by Mr G. Cutts'a Moss Rose ; the Maiden Produce also falling to Mr G. Cutts's Brunette.

The nomination of an additional representative for Westport iu the Provincial Council takes place on the 25th inst. The Westport Times of the 3rd, in stating that the only candidature at present before the public is that of the Rev. C. L. Maclean, admits his claims upon the suffrages of the electors as a man of education and ability, but would prefer a practical man well acquainted with the requirements of the district, darkly hinting that it is not at all improbable ' that a well-known merchant will come forward whose intimate acquaintance with the wants of the district and thorough business habits will render him not only a desirable candidate, but a useful member.' The inuendo contained in the assertion that the people of Westport ' do not care for a brilliant debater, for his powers in that line would be lost upon the Nelsou Provincial Council,* will, doubtless, be duly appreciated by those whom it most concerns.