COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
SouctiajSD Times Opeice. ■_■'-■ - ;. . Monday Evening. The amount of revenue collected at the : Customs on goods for home consumption on Friday and Saturaay was little below the average, but to-day, an extraordinary amount of business was done. Tliis is to be accounted for by the fact that several merchants received by telegraph timely notice of a new and increased tariff, particularly on spirits.' The result -was that before the Collector of Customs could be authorised to exact more than the old.rates, his office, was rushed by a crowd eager to take goods out of bond. The following are the figures for the three days,:— Eriday, £52 19s. 3d. ; Saturday, £25 4s. 2d. ; .andio-day, £3,629 05. V1., making" a total of £3,^07 3s. 6d., levied as follows :—
Brandy, 4,197 galls.. £2108 14 .2 Whiskey, 1,511 galls 659 0 2 Geneva, 512 galls 224 10 8 /Bum, 483 galls ../. 222 6 0 "Wines, 835 galls 125 5 0 : Hollands 131 galls, 103 14 9 Beer, 494 galls 24 14 O Me, 200 galls 5 0 0 Sugar, 4,406 lbs 18' 7 2 Tea, 4,128 lbs... 68 16 .0 Tobacco, G63 lbs '.. 4914- 6 Sundries..'. ' 77 1 1 Total £3,707 3 6
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 84, 20 December 1864, Page 2
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200COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 84, 20 December 1864, Page 2
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