Marlborough Provincial Gazette – 1864 – No. 68

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✨ Customs Revenue and Provincial Notices

COMPARATIVE RETURN, showing the amount of Customs Duties collected at the Port of PICTON, in the Colony of New Zealand, (according to the several Heads of Revenue undermentioned) for the Quarters ended respectively last March, 1864, and 31st March, 1863.

HEADS OF REVENUE.	Quarter ended March 31, 1864.		Quarter ended March 31, 1863.
	Quantity	£ s. d.	Quantity
Spirits (gallons)	183 24-32	84 0 9	...
Cigars and Snuff (lbs.)	...	...	505
Tobacco (lbs.)	505	37 17 6	...
Wine (gallons)	65	9 15 0	...
Ale, Beer, &c., in wood (galls.)	...	...	...
Ditto, in bottle doz.	1,485	28 8 4	228
Tea (lbs.)	1,485	11 17 6	446
Coffee, Cocoa, etc. (lbs.)	950	11 7 6	386
Sugar (lbs.)	11,827	47 3 11	7,858
Fire Arms	...	0 15 0	...
Gunpowder (lbs.)	...	...	250
Goods, by measurement, at 4s. per cubic foot	175 11-12	35 3 8	480
Goods, by weight, at 3s. per cwt.	71 42-112	10 14 2	80 98-112
Total		281 19 10

Custom House, Picton,
the 1st day of April, 1864.

JOHN ALLEN,
Collector.

Superintendent's Office,
Picton, 5th April, 1864.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED for general information that the undermentioned gentleman has been duly elected a member of the Provincial Council of Marlborough, for the Electoral District of Lower Wairau:

JAMES SINCLAIR, Esq., Blenheim.

Superintendent's Office,
Picton, 6th April, 1864.

TENDERS will be received at this office, until MONDAY, the 18th instant, for supplying about 8½ chains of SPLIT FENCING, to be delivered in Picton.

Full particulars may be had at this office.

THOMAS CARTER,
Superintendent.

PRINTED FOR THE MARLBOROUGH PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT BY COWARD AND MILLINGTON.

VUW Te Waharoa — Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1864, No 68

The Marlborough Provincial Council used two modest buildings in Blenheim (depicted) as their council chambers.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏭 Comparative Return of Customs Duties at Picton

Domain🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Dated1 April 1864
KeywordsCustoms duties, Revenue, Picton, Marlborough, Trade statistics
👩‍💼 Officials

JOHN ALLEN, Collector

🏘️ Election of Provincial Council Member

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated5 April 1864
KeywordsProvincial Council, Election, Marlborough, Lower Wairau
👱🏽 Names

James Sinclair (Esquire), Elected member of Provincial Council

🏗️ Tender for Split Fencing

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Dated6 April 1864
KeywordsTender, Fencing, Picton, Public Works
👩‍💼 Officials

THOMAS CARTER, Superintendent

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