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Lyttelton Times, Volume XVI, Issue 905, 13 July 1861, Page 3

AUCKLAND. - ; "We have received a copy of the ' Southern Cross* of the 25th June. Prom its columns we learn thit' the Canterbury and Otago Boundary Bill came on for the second reading on the 24th June. The council having gone into committee, several verbal alterations, explanatory of the retrospective action of certain clauses were adopted, on the suggestion of Mr. Swainson.i. . ■ . .. : The council1 xesumed, and the Speaker -haying: reported the bill1, it was read a second time; arid on the motion of Mr. J. C. Watts Russell, ordered to be read the third time on the 25th. Two gazettes had been issued, one on the" 21st and another on the 24th June. The former contains a proclamation by his Exr] cellency, prohibiting the importation of diaeasiwL cattle into the colony. The following is the text of' the proclamation :— - "In pursuance and exercise of the power arid authority for this purpose vested in me by'the ' Customs Regulation Act, 1858/ I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of the colony of New Zealand, by and-with the advice and consent;offchV Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby proclaim and declare that all cattle and parts :d£. cattle are from and after the date hereof prohibited. from being imported into the colony, unless and until the person desirous of importing any cattle or parts of cattle shall procure and produce to the chief officer of customs of the port at which the same are to be imported, a certificate under the hand of some person to be appointed and authorised in this behalf by the Commissioner of Customs or by a Superintendent for any port within the province of which he is Superintendent, to the effect that he has examined such cattle or parts of cattle and that they are respectively clean and free from the disease called pleuro-pneumonia, or from any infectious or contagious distemper or disease." The militia regulations for the several provinces in the colony are published in this Gazette. The Customs' revenue for the past quarter! is published, as are also the shipping returns, and estimated value of imports and exports for the same period. ■ The Customs' revenue for the quarter ended.slsfc March, on the whole colony, amounted to £52,235 15s sd; corresponding quarter, 1860, £46,298 3s. lid; increased revenue over ditto, £5937 11s 6d. The total amount of revenue collected at Auckland amounted to £14,985 7s 4d; New Plymouth, £1561 Os 2d; Wanganui, £1249 4s 8d; Wellington; £8424 10s 6d; Napier, 2170 6s lid; Collinjrwood, £134 18s 6d; Nelson, £4711 15s 4d; Wairau, £437 5s 8d; Lyttelton, £8999 19s lid; Akaroa, £214 19s Id; Dunedin, £7771 3s; Invercargill, £814 4s7d. . ..-:■'.:. The shipping returns for the quarter ended in March supply us with the following information: Vessels cleared out from the colony, 146; tonnage, 57,904; crews' strength, 3151; against 134 vessels of 49,920 tons burthen, with crews numbering 2995 men in 1860. The return of the value of imports at the several ports in New Zealand, for the same quarter, gives the total at £479,635, as contrasted with £402,402 in the same quarter of 1860; being an increase in the estimated value of imports in the period embraced within these returns over last year. The imports of Auckland amounted to £113,644, showing a slight falling off on the quarter; Wellington is given at £80,161, showing a decrease of £6^536 from the corresponding period of 1860; Nelson imports are £52,331, being an increase of £23,509 over the March quarter of last year. There is a falling off in the New Plymouth returns of one-third; Wanganui and Napier have nearly trebled; Lyttelton shows an increase of £13,086; Akaroa has trebled its imports; Dunedin shows an increase of £31,345; and Invercargill has more than doubled. This speaks well for the general prosperity of the colony.

The return of exports for the same period shows a total of £347,581, as compared with £325,230, being an excess of £22,351 over the same quarter in 1860. Auckland exported to the value of £27,267, as compared with £30,376 in the quarter ended March 31,1860. being afalling-off of £3109. There was a decrease of nearly one-third in the Russell exports; a slight increase onJMongonui; Hokianga shows nearly a quadrupled return ; New Plymouth, a slight increase; Wellington shows a decrease of £5037; Napier, nil; Nelson exports have decreased £40,903, as compared with March quarter, 1860 j Lyttelton has fallen-off £18,834; Dunedin has gained £70,403; there is a slight increase in tiie Invercargill returns; and Wairau, which appears to have exported nothing in 1863, is returned at £34,071 this year. It farther appears that during the quarter under notice, the estimated value of articles of New Zea* land produce and manufacture^ exported from the colony, was £337,805 ; as compared with £316,7,89 in the same quarter of 1860. . Of this total Auckland exported £23,343; Wellington £69,429; Lyttelton, £108,501; and Dunedin, £76,814. Nelson exported gold to the value of £12,198, as against £8503 in the corresponding quarter of 1860. Bank op New Zealand.—We understand jbhat this undertaking has met with a decided.succejis. Yesterday morning the amount of capital subscribed in Auckland alone amounted to £97,600, representing 9760 shares.