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No. III.—IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. RETURN showing the Value of the Imports and Exports of the Colony of New Zealand from and to each under-mentioned Country, Colony, or Port, during the Year 1873.

Iettten o: luam ;y ani ie o. ;ic !es Ixpori I — continuet Articles. Quantity. Value. Articles. Quantity. Value. Meal —Oaten Meats —Preserved Millinery Miscellaneous Nails Oilman's Stores Oil —Cocoanut „ Kerosene „ Linseed „ Sperm ... „ Whale... Onions Paints and Colours Paper —Waste Plants Phormium, N.Z. Potatoes Printing Materials Provisions —Bacon and Hams ... „ Beef, Salted „ „ Fresh „ Pork, Salted Pearl Barley Rags Railway Material Saddlery and Harness Sauces Seeds —Grass Shells Silks Ship Chandlery Silver Skins —Seal... „ Sheep „ Rabbit 2,077 cwts. 59,439 cwts. 10 pkgs. £ 2,006 154,049 206 7,706 266 1,389 720 742 108 2,057 3,934 143 216 160 517 143,799 2,350 195 Soap Specimens of Natural History ... Specie—Gold „ Silver Spirits—Brandy „ Cordials ,, Geneva „ Gin, sweetened ,, Perfumed „ Rum „ Whiskey Stationery ... Stone —Building Sugar Tallow Tea Tin—Ore ... „ Sheet ... Turpentine and Varnish Timber —Sawn „ Logs „ Laths and Shingles ... „ Spars „ Other Kinds, Firewood... 730 cwts. £ 886 146 cwts. 612 pkgs. 4,935 gals. 7,328 gals. 418 gals. 6,958 gals. 26,325 gals. 12 tons 90 cwts. 12 tons 75 pkgs. 6,454i tons 545J tons 13 pkgs. 64 pkgs. 2,550 gals. 87 gals. 3,252 gals. 1,212 gals. 60 gals. 2,074 gals. 3,317 gals. 59 pkgs. 33J-tons 36 tons 15 cwt. ... 39,843 cwts. 5,746 lbs. 40 tons 657 cwts. 2,937 gals. 6,225,463 feet ... 4,629 feet 1,081 11,400 510 1,695 69 827 220 147 435 877 984 121 1,424 67,118 546 1,300 1,825 371 27,764 15,248 3,164 cwts. 1,292 cwts. 115 cwts. 360 cwts. 60 cwts. 193 cwts. 15 pkgs. 144 pkgs. 6,273 bushels 406 pkgs. 2 pkgs. 82 pkgs. 36,187 oz. 1,602 No. 105,476 No. 36,716 No. 10,568 2,328 205 626 86 140 650 264 316 2,289 1,231 305 1,233 9,850 1,847 14,387 1,263 Tobacco ,, Cigars Whalebone ... Wine Wool Woollens Zinc 546,300 No. 136 No. 401 tons 77,054 lbs. 2,434 lbs. 5,784 lbs. 4,421 gals. 41,587,049 lbs. ... 30 pkgs. 184 cwts. 342 873 163 6,791 688 212 2,352 2,705,351 823 155 Total £5,610,371

Country, Colony, or Port. Imports therefrom. Exports thereto. Country, Colony, or Port. Imports therefrom. Exports thereto. Fnited Kingdom iritish Possessions — New South Wales Norfolk Island Queensland South Australia ... Tasmania Victoria... Western Australia Africa —Cape Town China —Hong Kong Mauritius £ 3,781,130 £ 3,702,416 Brought forward Foreign States — China ... France... New Caledonia ... Norway Sandwich Islands South America ... Montevideo South Sea Islands Southern Whale Fishery ... United States of America ... 6,199,432 £ 5,269,73! 455,020 2,696 52,493 83,504 1,603,232 4,600 2 18,141 198,614 175,714 2,636 2,393 6,094 1,334 *1,349,316 230 61,003 653 510 271 13,269 5,87: 4,21^ 46,136 140 143,273 6,464,687 4,931 51 2: 60,43! 2,761 262,341 29,602 Carried forward 5,269,735 Totals 5,610,37: 6,199,432 * This ini :ludes gold of the value of £1,217,062.