STATISTICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8473, 26 January 1891, Page 11

STATISTICS.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Imports for the last quarter totalled £1,559,508, and exports £2,257,300. For this year ending December 31st imports were £0,300,577, and exports £9,824,109. These figures show an increase in both instances, imports for 1889 being £6,297,097, and exports £9,339,265. Tho values of the principal agricultural exports for the years 1889 and IS9O are ;is follow :— ISS9. IS9O. £ X Wool 3,97(5,375 4,150.599 Meat 890,140 1,238,(>14 Butter... ... ... 146,840 122,690 Cheese 67,105 84,986 Grain ... ... ... 9*0,659 1,007,025 Totals £6,031,125 £6,603,844 The wool and meat returns do not include sheep and rabbit skins, bacon, hams, hides, tallow, or live stock. Grain does not include bran, chaff, flour, hops, oatmeal, potatoes, seeds, etc. All these smaller items are increasing year by year. The Minister of Lands has had prepared a return of the principal exports for the last decade of years, that is from from 1881 to 1891). The totals in these tables will be read with interest by all who are concerned in the prosperity of New Zealand. The export of wool from ISSI to 1890 increased from £2.908.700 to £4,150,599 ; frozen meat from £22,391 to £1,238.644 ; butter (from ISB2 to 1889) from £52,088 to £146,840. There is a decrease in 1890 to £122,690. Cheese, from £6112 to £84,396 ; grain, from £995,700 to £1,007,825. THE REVENUE RETURNS. The following are the revenue returns for the nine months ended December 3lst : — Customs, £1,121.989; stamps, £401,181; postal and telegraphs, £39,211 ; property tax, £211,408; beer duty, £41,615; railways, £784,791 ; registration, etc., fees; £29,903; marine, £14,101; land fund (ordinary sales), £82,228; deferred payments, £35,739; miscellaneous, £28,202; Territoral, £104,597. Total, excluding shillings and pence, £2,898,033. The actual collections are considerably, more than the above figures, as the latter only represent money brought to account by the Treasury. The accounts for the last quarter of the financial year always contain the largest receipts, because the revenue is telegraphed on the last day from all parts of the colony. The expenditure for the nine months is well within the bounds, and the Treasury officials anticipate that the financial results of the year will be up to expectations.