LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 30, 3 January 1884, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

[Per United Press Association.] Christchurch, Jar. 2. It is stated that the Hon. E. Richardson will contest the Selwyn seat vacant by the death of Mr. E. J. Lee. The Champion Fours at the Lyttelton Regatta resulted as follows: —Kaiapoi, 1; Canterbury, 2; Union, 3 ; Wellington, 4. The New Zealand Shipping Co.’s British Queen left Plymouth on Dec. 29th with immigrants for Wellington and Lyttelton. The Ruapehu arrived in London from the Clyde, and will be despatched for Auckland about Jan. 10th. A man named Jacobs was drowned list night, returning in a boat from the Ellesmere Regatta. Wellington, January 2. The Customs revenue collected last monuh in the Colony, with the exception of Taaranga, amounts to £102,799 12s. lOd. The sum collected for the corresponding month last year was £113,296 7s. 2d. The receipts for the quarter just ended are below the average required to make up the estimated amount for the year. It is expected that the falling off will be pulled up next quarter, which is usually the best quarter of the yeai. The amount collected at Tauranga averages about £3OO per month. The beer duty for December last amounted to £6478 ss. 7d. In December last year it was £7070 9s. Id. Mr. Conolly returned to Wellington last night.