Revenue Returns.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3168, 1 April 1889, Page 2

Revenue Returns.

Wellington, April 1. The Customs revenue for March was £128,311, the following being the amounts at the principal ports: -Auckland, £22,377; Wellington, £15,569 ; Ohristohuroh £16,316; Dunedin £25,866. The total for the financial year just onded was £1,473,217, showinc; adefioit on the Treasury estimate of £51,750, The beer duty for the year was £51,018, giving a surplus of £4B, For last month the amount was £4,877, the amounts at tho principal towns being: Auckland £9BO, Wellington £477, Ohristohuroh £lOlB, |Dunedin£lo3l.

An Important Recommendation. Dunedin, Monday. A. J. Towsoy has been to the appointment of Musical Con-' ductor for* tbo Exhibition,. Addington Gaol, Caaisionoßon, March 31, Mr Hislop arrived from Wellington tliis morning and leaves for the South to-morrow. A deputation, consisting of Messrs Jones, Beeves, Rhodes and Taylor, M.H.R.'s, with residents of Addington', waited'upon Mr Hislop, asking that the gaol might not ho made a crimiual.lunatic asylum, and suggesting that the Bite should bo sold and a building erected at Sunnyside. Mr Hislop promised that tho Cabinet would reconsider the matter,

The Late Mr Gould. CußiSTOiiuncH, May 30, Tho funeral of the late Mr George Gould, which took place this afternoon, was ono of the largest witnessed in Christen uroh; 70 carriages and a large number of mourners on foot followed the hearse. Those present included the Bishop, the ministers of several denominations, and nearly all the principal residents, The burial took place at the Wesleyan Cemetery, the service being performed by the Revs W. Aldred <tnd W. Motley. The Cathedral bell tolled during the afternoon, Flags were hoisted half-nrat throughout the city,