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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2789, 2 March 1882, Page 3

The total amount of the property tax received at the Chief Post-office, Dunedin, up to last evening was £19,302 14s 4d. Of this £12,535 18s 2d was received yesterday, the last day on which the tax could be accepted without the penalty of 10 per cent being added. A satirical correspondent of the ChristBhurch “ Press” points oat that the Acclimatisation Society, deserves praise and not blame, for many of the things they have done. He shows that by introducing the sparrow they have saved farmers a good deal of the expense of threshing and carting grain ; that by introducing the Ligurian bee, which robs the hives of the common bee, beekeepers are saved the trouble of taking the honey from their bees; and that by introducing “ water-lillies ” from Tasmania, they have supplied the Drainage Board with hundreds of tons of voidable manure, whic'. • ■ yet out of to • i .■•••!• f.t of only £4OO a year. There are nearly 4000 licensed publichouses in the colony of New South Wales, and in the district of Sydney alone their are 900 hotels, and it is computed Ihat from £2,000,000 to £3,000,000 4ro spent every year in that colony in slrjdi;.