TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1395, 4 June 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[UNITED PRESS AS3OUIATION Wellington, Monday. The Customs duties collected throughout the colony for last month amounted to £118.639 ss, the beer duty for the same period being £4,470 15s 9d, For the corresponding month, 1882, the Customs revenue was £126,596 15s 6d, beer duty £498419s Bd. The decrease in last month as against that collected in May, 1882; was owing to the receipts for the latter period being exceptionally large. The amounts collected at the principal centres last month were: Auckland, £29,191 10s sd; Wellington, £15,968 2s 4d; Lyttelton and Christclwrch, £19,068 7s lOd; Dunedin, £31,454 13s 3d.

SAFETY OF THE MISSING SURVEYOR. New Plymouth, June % Mr Oarkojk and his party arrived at Urenui last night, and lwve just reached town. Mr Carkeek is annoyed that there should have been an alarm about him, and says if the weather had been fine he should have remained out another week. He has been at work all the time, and, having arms and ammunition, was not afraid of being short of provisions. The country the party has been over is much in the same direction Messrs Cheal and Robinson went through some six years ago. Mr Carkeek's party are all in good health. THE GOVERNOR'S RETURN. Napier, June 2. The Hinemoa, with the Governor and suite, left at 3 p.m. yesterday. It was blowing fresh from the south, and the steamer meetiug a gale at night, put back, arriving"'- in the roadstead early this morning, Dunedin, this day. A seven-roomed house and shop at Ocean Beach, owned by Mr Patterson, and occupied by Messrs Clifford and Williams was burned down. The building was insured in the Standard for £2OO, and Williams' furniture in the South British for £IOO, Invercaroill, this day. A four—roomed cottage at North Invercargill was burned down this morning, owned by E. Sexton, and insured for £125 in tho South British, The furniture was insured in the same office. Auckland, Monday. Information was received at Wellington of the drowning on Thursday last of Captain James of the cutter Wave on a voyage from Mercury Bay to Suva, He was washed over. The deceased was formerly a pilot at Wellington, and leaves a wife and six children, Wellington, this day. A six-roomed house at Newtown, Wellington, owned by the Equitable Building Society, and occupied by a family, named Fulton, was burned down, early this morning. The building was insured for £3OO in the South British and the furniture for £l5O in the National. The fire originated in the back portion of the house, where Mrs Pulton states there has been no fire used for the last three weeks, Shortly before the alarm was given she says she heard footsteps at the back of the house, and consequently suspects incendiarism. ;