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No. 2. STATEMENT showing the REVENUE of the GOLD FIELDS collected in the several Districts, and the GOLD DUTY of the COLONY of NEW ZEALAND, for the period from 1st JANUARY to 31st MARCH, 1873. PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

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Miners' Rights. Business Licenses. Water Races, Sluices, &c. Gold Mining Leases, Rents, and Royalties. Registration.' Fees and Fines, Wardens' Courts. Survey Fees. Memorial Deposits of Companies. Depasturing Licenses and Assessments. Timber and other Licenses. Withdrawal of Leases. Miscellaneous. Net Amount Gold Fields Revenue. Total Received, including Publicans' Licenses. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 4 15 0 £ s. d. 35 0 0 4 4 0 £ s. d. Shortland Coromandel ... £ s. d. 1,092 0 0 113 0 0 15 0 0 £ s. d. 16 0 0 10 0 0 £ s. d. 257 12 2 251 6 4 £ s. d. 25 2 0 3 17 6 £ s. d. 7 16 0 3 0 0 £ s. d. ... £ b. d. 48 0 0 44 10 0 £ s. d. 1,461 5 2 444 17 10 £ s. d 1,486 5 2 444 17 10 ... ... 1,205 0 0 15 0 0 , 1 28 19 6 i 26 0 0 508 18 6 10 16 0 4 15 0 39 4 0 92 10 0 1,906 3 0 1,931 3 0 Gold Duty received in the Province during the Quarter, £4,664 Os. 5d. PROVINCE OF NELSON. Nelson Collingwood ... Westport Brighton and Charleston Cobden Ahaura Reefton Wangapeka ... 33 0 0 95 0 0 146 0 0 45 0 0 277 0 0 157 0 0 3 0 0 ... 15 "6 0 97 0 0 16 0 0 237 0 0 140 0 0 ... 7 "7 6 16 15 0 3 17 6 18 7 6 5 15 0 26 4 0 109 12 6 234 14 0 6 17 6 19 5 0 58 7 6 4 10 0 55 15 0 27 12 6 0 2 6 17 0 6 4 0 5 4 0 16 0 4 17 0 7 11 0 ... 13 0 12 5 0 0 10 0 68 11 6 264 14 0 558 10 6 75 5 3 129 8 9 22 17 6 15 "6 0 0 16 6 14 6 2 2 0 71 10 0 669 9 3 484 9 3 26 0 0 505 0 0 52 2 6 598 2 0 15 0 0 I 756 0 0 172 10 0 26 9 0 18 1 0 2,143 4 6 2,143 4 6 Gold Duty received in the Province during the Quarter, £3,512 Os. 4d. PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH. Blenheim Havelock '.'.'. 19 0 0 '.'.'. 0 2 6 19 0 0 ... 0 2 6 52 13 10 2 0 0 ... 10 0 0* 16 17 6 0 15 0 52 13 10 38 15 0 52 13 10 48 15 0 2 0 0 52 13 10 ... 10 0 0* 16 17 6 0 15 0 91 8 10 101 8 10 Gold Duty receh Note. —The items marked thus * represent fees on Publici ed in the Pri m's Licenses, >vince during the Quarter, £77 16s. Id. and are excluded from last column but one, and included iu thi