THE TRADE OF THE COLONY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 36, 16 February 1901, Page 2

THE TRADE OF THE COLONY.

BATISFAOTOKY UKTUKNS FOB 1900. (Plill PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) Wellikgtos, February 14. Tho value of tho import? at • L'vot'l oorts of Now Z alutui for the Dc- mii, r 31*, 1000, u,:t!udiiig £122,9' > vr-.ta of s..£irjiiut.:d t.) .€'2.95.-:),'2oii, : i comj.xred sviih £2,400,460 l:.i- tho last quarter <i 1899. Impoio iV.ra the "Uni.e.l Min■..(■m fur thet.'O \ :ci< Is show *n j, Hl v. .yfo.'thfl l-.-it <iMM- <£ 1900 of £402,696, the tutil v.ilue of import k. th-'t quartar bein<: i 11,772,829. IV incre i«in impor'.s fiorn Australia nnd Tasnvnia wa« £57,898, tin o'.ily individual iocrw.HO being in tha caso of Quewsland. From Biit;<;h Pacific Islands tho invents lv.ve improved by £50,090. Fiji was ljspnsiblc far uo increase ef more tbsn tl's amount, the aggregate bbiDs; reduced by rn apptren' Falling off in impo-f? of gasn.) from Maiden Islands. For the whole year the impoi'U amounted to £10,646,096, 8 g ngairst £8,739,633 for t!;e year 1899. Napier is the only port in the colony which showed a :"a impor< s. Turuing to exports frow the rilony, during the quar'oi' oml< 1 Dn t;>iii>.-r| "Ist, in the r«gingat#i •3 £2,343.922, of ,i/400j worth of specie, as against ?s aj, ■•»■<>&•, ■itj value of £2,762.537. (Mounts !ti a decrease as between the !-is> •quarter of 1900 and 1899 of £418,615 i'or the whole c.lony, Tb'> fal'ing off is at counted for chii.fly by deficiencies at twelve diff-Tont poits, and in th« parcels posted. The principal of tha deficiencies are Wanganui £21,400, Wellington £79,400, Napier£lßo,loo, W* ; roa and Picton £13,000, Nelson £SOOO, Grey mouth £52,000, Hekitika £6OOO, Lyttelton £175,600, and Timam £70,800. Auckland shows an increase of £33,500 for the quarter, Poverty Fay an increisd of £07,500, Oamaru £35,800 and Dunedin £25,000. The United Kingdom alone took £401,000 wor-.h less of New Zealand goods than in the last qmrter of 1899. Uape Colony also figures in the same light by taking £1215 worth of goods, as agiinst £45,869 in the hat quarter of 1899, and quite a number of other customers have bken reduced quantities of export*. The following were the principal articles of expirt:-—Mine product-,' L 374.539 (gold L 338.957); fi»beri s, L.4488; forest Products, L 223.752 (kauri gum L 146,658); unimal produce, LI ,274,810; agricultural produce, L 331,776; manufactures, L 86.070. The following are tho values of certain exports in January last, and for the coiresponding month Inst year: But'er, 1901, £116,902; 1900, £142,981; cheese, £28,727 and £33,749; frozjn besf, £20,594 ard £32,161 ; frozen nvittrn, £72,033 and j £82,3-13; logs an-' pkos, £2659 and I £8865; f;oz3n limb, £22,112 and i £53.209. For the ten months of tbe year ended 31st January, 1901, and a similar perieJ tha previous yoar, the expc.t'were in value:—Gutter, 1901, £523,021; 1900, £490,950; cheese, £153,524 and £137,458; {<■<■; ->n bet', £257,179 and £195,557; frozen mutt* ~£756,031 rnd £988,805 ; legs and aiecas, £52,112 and £47 675; frozen lamb, £443,760 ai.d £444,419.