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New Zealand Mail, Issue 558, 14 October 1882, Page 18

Avery comfortable assurance as to the steadily increasing prosperity of the colony is afforded by tho returns of Customs revenue collected during the half-year ended 80th September last. The Colonial Treasurer's estimate has been exceeded by a very tangible amount. His estimate for the year was £1,500,00, or £750,000 for the half-year, a monthly average of £125,000. The totals for the Bix months are thus given : April, £109,363 13s 3d; May, £126,696 15s 6dj Jane, £110,187 19s lid; July, £139,165 15s ; August, £137,170 14s ; September, £140,092 3s 8d ; total, £762,577 Is 4d, which gives a surplus of £12,577 Is 4d over the amount calculated on. In September, laßt year, the Customs revenue was £118,862 lis 2d : in August, 1882, £137,170 14s ; and in September, 1882, as shown above, £140,092 3s. Bd. As gauging the amount of prosperity prevailing at any given, period, Customs returns are accepted as a good guide, and the inference to be drawn from the figures above quoted therefore suggests itself. It is further satisfactory to learn that every other branch of public revenue in the colony shows a generally proportionate improvement.