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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5906, 11 August 1890, Page 2

Ouk export trade is still growing, and for tho year ending 30th June lust the increase

was from £9,038,000 to £9,703,000, while two years ago our exports only totalled £7,215,000. Lyttelton is still the leading port of the colony, followed at a considarable distance by Wellington, wLile Dunedin, Auckland, and Napier are in the order written. It is satisfactory to us to note that the exports from Napier aro growing faster than at any other port in the colony. The increase for the year for .Napier was 18 per cent., and comparing last year with two years ago 70 per cent. As the three ports ahead of us—excluding Lyttelton—are all but stationery, at no distant date Napier promises to be the second port in the colony. The total exports of New Zealand produce amounted to £9,482,000, and of this large total wool is- responsible for £4,172,000, the item ooming next being frozen meat £1,010,000. Of other notable items gold figures at £811,000; grain at £847,000; flour, pollard, and oatmeal, £205,000; tallow, £163,000 ; butter, £145,000; cheese, £78,000 ; rabbitskins, £96,000 ; sheepskins, £120,000; hides and leather, £107,000; gum, £318,000 ; timber, £189,000 ; hemp, £503,000 (the previous year the value was only £181,000); potatoes, £95,000 ; grassseed, £23,000; ooal, £74,000. There is no mention in the above list of manufactures, to aid which we have submitted to a very strong dose of Protection, though the exported manufactured goods, if there be any, raav be found in this item— " other N.Z. produce" £294,000. Surely these figures should convince everyone that Now Zealand is an agricultural country, and that the growth of manufactures must be a slow process.