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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4248, 31 October 1874, Page 2

The Gazette which reached us yesterday contains a return of the revenue received through the Custom House' for the quarter ending on the 30th of September last. The total amount was £311,631, as compared with £243,325, or an increase of £68,306. The great increase, of course, is through the ad valorem 10 per cent, duty, the yield of which was £106,315, as compared with £51,326. In “other duties not specified,” there was a decrease of £6BO. There was an increase in the receipts for imported spirits of £8832, and of £1750 on colonial spirits ; on cigars and snuffs, tobacco (excepting sheep-wash), wine, ale and beer (both in bottle and wood), tea, sugar, and goods by weight; but a decrease in coffee and opium. Measurement duties, which contributed £12,110 in the September quarter of 1873, being abolished, of course do not appear in the list for the past quarter. By far the largest contributor to the revenue through the Customs was Dunedin, which figures for £94,212 ; the other chief ports following as under : Auckland," £63,540 ; Lyttelton, £43,946 ; Wellington, £34,647 ; Nelson, £10,850 ; Napier, £10,743 ; Greymouth, £10,509 ; Hokitika, £8648 ; and Invercargill, £7373. Of sugar, the importations amounted to 5,749,200 lbs. ; tea, 615,880 lbs. ; tobacco, 205,800 lbs. No return was received from the Chatham Islands during the quarter. The imports of spirits at the principal ports returned the following sums to the Treasury : Dunedin, £19,138; Auckland, £13,338; Lyttelton, £12,963 ; Wellington, £7BOO ; .Napier, £3967 ; Wanganui, £3086 ; Nelson, £2581 ; Greymouth, £4247 ; Hokitika, £3014 ; Westport, £2131 ; Timaru, £2400 ; Invercai'gill, £2844 ; and Oamaru, £1532.