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No. VII.—SHIPPING. BRITISH AND FOREIGN VESSELS ENTERED AND CLEARED. RETURN of the Number, Tonnage, and Crews of Vessels Entered and Cleared at New Zealand Ports during the Year 1877.

No. VIII.—REVENUE. ABSTRACT of all Duties and Revenue collected by the Customs Department during the Year 1877.

Ente: El). With Cargoes. In Ballast. Totals. Nationality of Vessels. Vessels. Tons. | Crews. Vessels. Tons. Crews. Vessels. Tons. Crews. iritish foreign 726 66 320,135 64,254 12,53° 2.371 19 3.839 1 34O 215 10 745 67 323.974 64.594 12,745 2,381 Totals 384.389 8l2 388,568 15,126 792 14,901 20 4.179 225 Clea i:d. Iritish foreign 495 4 6 22S.3I4 5i>9i4 9,681 2,026 284 23 "0,153 13,228 3,274 353 779 69 335.467 65,142 '2,955 2,379 Totals 54i 277,228 11,707 307 123,381 3,627 848 400,609 15,334

Heads of Receipts. Rate of Duty. Quantity. Amount Collected. Spirits ,, New Zealand Cigars and Snuff ... Tobacco ... „ Sheepwash Wine Ale, Beer, &c. (in bottle) „ (in wood) Tea Coffee, Cocoa, &c. ... „ Roasted Sugar and Molasses Opium Goods by weight Ad valorem Other Duties not specified above 12s. per gallon... 6s. per gallon ... Ss. perlb. 2s. 6d. per lb. ... 3d. per lb. ... I 4s. per gallon ... is. 3d. per gallon is. per gallon ... 6d. per lb. 3d. per lb. ... 5d. per lb. id. per lb. 20s. per lb. 614,038 gallons 19,066 gallons ... 71,3801b. 1,029,840 lb. 11,600 lb. 186,335 gallons 318,800 gallons 79,880 gallons 3,112,760 lb. ... 641,280 lb. 1,296 lb. 30,162,720 lb. ... 2,689 "». £ 368,423 5.720 17.845 128,730 J45 37.267 19,925 3.994 77.819 8,016 27 125,678 2,689 72.445 303,143 41.613 Rents, Seizures, &c. Bonded Warehouse Duty Merchant Shipping Act Fees Arms Act Lighthouse Dues Oyster Act Fees Gold Duty Pilotage, &c. Distillation Other Receipts £1,213,479 87 5.497 1.023 '.7°4 11,150 12 36,686 19,170 667 43.8oi Total Duties and Revenues ... £1.333.27' Customs Department, 5th July, 1877. William Seed, Secretary of Customs. ton.—1878. Authority : Geobgb Didsbuby, GoTernment Printer, Wellini