COASTING TRAFFIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 772, 5 May 1866, Page 4

COASTING TRAFFIC.

The coasting traffic has been about as brisk as usual during tho peroral of our regular traders having both arrived and departed with full cargoes. Below we give tho produce returns, but it must not be taken as tho total amount received coastwise, in consequence of several of tho smaller crafts keeping cargo books, and thceforo do not enter or clear at the Customs, and the exact amount of their cargoes can not bo ascertained. The following are the receipts from our Customs entries:— From Hokianga—29 tons kauri gum, 100 bushels maize, l.\ tons quinces, i ton jams, 1 ton bacon, 1 cask pork, 2 do. lard. From Wangaruru—l2 tons towai bark, i ton onions, 3 pigs. From Mongonui— 12 tons kauri gum, 3 horses. 3 head cattle. From the North Cape—B tons kauri gum, 2 casks pork, o3 pigs. From Russell—36 pigs, 40 boxes apples, 7 tons kauri gum, 2 casks pork, 34 dozen dried fish, 12 turkeys, and 13 goeso. From Matakana—B head cattle, 7 boxes butter, 8 ■ e gf? s » 10 do. fowl?, k ton uumpkine. From the Great Barrier—2 horses. ™^ ro o\ P '? Ver , ty Ba >'—'100 bushels maize, 6 casks pork, 3 do lard, 50 hides, 2 tons onions, 14 pigs. iJrom Wangaroa—ll tons kauri gum. j From Waipu— 25 bushels oatf., 50 do. wheat, 50 1 do. gr„ss seed, 40 boxes butter, 40 do. eggs, 50 tur•keys, 60 fowls. a "& ai- ei—s7 tons coal, 1 ton kauri gum, 12 boxes apples, 50 do. fruit, S bides. From tho Thames—22l ion 3 kauri gum, A ton fowl', P ' 40 * " ' pple3 ' 8 d °' 1 d°From Mangawai—6 ca se 3 cheese, 4 boxes butter. Prom Puhoi 20 bush els grass seed. l-rom Cabbage Bay- 3 tons kauri gum. TI.MMJEIt, I'ALI >; GS| SHINGLES, &C. From Tnirua 71,0f jo foot sawn timber. From Mercury Bay —38.000 feet sawn tinibor. ~Rom the Wado- -10 000 fcot sawn timber, 180 palings, 2000 shingl es . From Wangaroa- -8000 shingles. From Omah 1? / posts, 40 feet house blocks. b rom Puhoi—l 1 5)0 00 shingles, 2500 laths. brom Cabbage 8ay—27,000 feet sawn timber. £Rom Mahura- agi—2B,ooo shingles. From Ngu.ur ulu p i]es . b firewood, &c. )lacesf-^]tr V 7 are fl ' lß receipts from the following Vaiheki >7/ • alfana > 85 tons; Kawau, 45; Puhoi, 42 ;

Recap it ciation. 1 11 head cattlo, 65 sheep, 5 horses, 85 pigs, 62 turkeys, 13 geese, 71 boxes fowls, 150 bushels wheat, 75 bushels oats, 500 bushels maize, 170 bushels grass Boed, 1 ton bacon, 1.1 casks pork, 5 casks "lard, 48 boxes ogga, 50 boxes fruit, J ton flax, 84J tons kauri gum, tons onions, 1J tons quinces, J- ton jams, 12 tons towai bark, G casos checßO, 69 boxes butter, 57 tons coal, i ton pumpkins, 92 boxes apples, 34 dozen dried fish, 58 hidos, $ ton flax, 11 piles, 180 palings, 12 posts, 40 "feet house blocks. 2500 laths, 153,000 shinglos, 146,300 feet sawn timber, and 498 tons firewood. Customs Revenue* Tho roceipts for Saturday last were £496 9s 3d, ; making the total for the week £3,010 6s sd. The receipts for Monday last, tho 36th ult., wero £329 lis 8d; and from Mond&y to Monday £3,339 18s Id. The total roneipts for the month of April were £14,003 Sd ; tho previous month being Bd, showing an increase of of £1,558. To this must be added the following extras ; —Pilot dues, 13133 15s Id; light dues, £90 5s lid; gold duty, £171 5s ; fees under Arms Act, £21 19s; ditto Under Merchant Shipping Act, £18 I7s; miscellaneous, £9; total, £440 Gs 2d ; making gross receipts, £15,006 18s IOJ. The following have "booli tho receipts sinco : — Tuesday, £795 7b 9d; Wednesday, £625 19s 6d; Thursday, 3SB 10s lOd; total, £1809 18s Id.