The customs receipts for the quarter amounted to $13,794,912, gold, and $210,651, paper, being a decrease of $112,873, gold, and $147,592, paper, as compared with the same period of 1905.

The receipts of merchandise from the United States show an increase over the same quarter of 1905 of $1,498,122; from the United Kingdom of $754,594; France, $610,723; Germany, $342,976; Holland, $273,531; Chile, $184,547; Uruguay, $153,268; Belgium, $94,039; Spain, $58,513; Bolivia, $4,555. Countries showing a decline in shipments to the Republic were: Italy, $468,588; Brazil, $194,595; Paraguay, $68,659; Cuba, $52,542, and Africa, $2,984.

EXPORTS, FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1906.

The leading articles of export from the Argentine Republic during the first four months of 1906 (January-April) with comparisons with the corresponding period of the preceding year were as follows:

In November, 1905, the National Government of the Argentine Republic instructed the Governors of National Territories to have a complete census of their respective sections taken. From the returns. of this census, the following figures showing the pastoral and agricultural status of Misiones, Chaco, Formosa, Pampa Central, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Chubut, and Santa Cruz are reproduced. The figures showing returns of the national census of 1895 are also furnished for purposes of comparison.

The areas under cultivation in the respective territories are as follows:

The above area of 426,058 hectares under cultivation, in 1905, were distributed among alfalfa, 236,584 hectares; wheat, 101,411 hectares; maize, 47,491 hectares; linseed, 6,774 hectares; barley, 3,611 hectares, and cotton, 2,284 hectares. The remaining hectares are under cultivation in potatoes, beans, vineyards, sugar cane, tobacco, etc. The largest increase in cultivated areas is indicated for alfalfa, for whereas returns in 1895 show 7,412 hectares under this culture, the 1905 result gives 236,584 hectares.

LIVE-STOCK CENSUS OF ENTRE RIOS.

The statistical department of the Province of Entre Rios has published the figures of the live-stock census of that Province for 1905, the statement for 1895 being also furnished for purposes of comparison.

INTERNAL REVENUE, FIRST QUARTER, 1906.

Comparing the internal revenue of the Argentine Republic for the first quarter of 1906 with the corresponding period of 1905, there is indicated an increase from alcohol of $89,500; from tobacco, $472,000; wine, $6,280; beer, $374,300; matches, $121,000; also a decrease from artificial beverages of $1,111, and from insurance $1,300 gold, which gives an effective increase in favor of the 1906 period. of over $1,000,000 currency.

STATE LICENSES FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.

The commercial traveler in the Argentine Republic has to pay the following licenses in the various States:

The English consul at Rosario, Argentine Republic, reports that the French company constructing the port of Rosario have, in accordance with the terms of their contract with the National Government, opened to the service of shipping a section comprising 1,094 yards of wharfage, in virtue of which they have commenced to collect from shipping the following charges:

Entrance dues at $0.15 gold per ton.

Permanence, cleaning, lighting, and health, at $0.05 gold per each 10 tons or fraction thereof per day.

Wharfage at $0.10 gold per each 10 tons or fraction thereof per day. It is calculated that on a steamer of 2,490 tons register, with ten days permanence in port, $747 gold would have to be paid, as compared with $135.45 under the old tariff.

Besides the above tariff to be paid by shipping, wheat, linseed, and maize, whether shipped from the company's premises or from those of private persons, will have to pay in accordance with the following tariff until the close of the present year, when the company will collect their full tariff as per contract:

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BOLIVIA.

TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES, FIRST HALF, 1906.

Following is a statement showing the shipments of merchandise from the ports of New York and San Francisco, United States, to Bolivia, as reported by the Bolivian consuls at the ports mentioned:

MERCHANDISE EXPORTED FROM NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO TO BOLIVIA IN THE MONTHS OF APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE, 1906.

Merchandise exported from New York and San Francisco to Bolivia in the months of April, May, and June, 1906-Continued.

BOUNDARY TREATY WITH DUTCH GUIANA.

Senhor BARON RIO BRANCO, Minister of Foreign Relations of Brazil, and FREDERIC PALM, Minister of the Netherlands, accredited to Brazil, signed on May 8, 1906, a treaty fixing the boundary between Brazil and Dutch Guiana, or the Colony of Surinam. In accordance with this treaty the frontier follows the watershed of the Tumucumaque range of mountains from the headwaters of the Maroni River to those of the Corentyne, near which the line meets the frontiers of French and British Guiana.

COMMERCE OF SANTOS, FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1906.

The commerce of the port of Santos for the four months January to April was as follows:

Compared with the first four months of 1905 the trade of Santos shows an aggregate falling off of £198,067. The shrinkage is all in exports, which fell off £359,142, while imports increased £161,075. Among imports an increase is shown in chemical products, skins and hides, jute yarn, kerosene, rice, codfish, wheat flour, wheat and various alimentary substances. Imports showing a falling off are cotton, steel and iron, industrial and agricultural machinery, coal, wine, and foreign gold and bank notes. Among exports coffee, rubber, and bran all show a falling off, while salted hides increased slightly. Among countries of origin for imports, increase is shown by Germany, Argentina, United States, and France, while a decline is shown by Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, and Portugal. Among countries of destination for exports Belgium, France, Holland, and Italy show an