COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 987, 24 August 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The revenue collected at the Customs on Wednesday .amounted to £9O-1 Is od. The following were the items: —Wine and spirits, £l2O 5s lid; tea, £99 19s 9d; sugar, £llO 16s 7d ; rice, £2B ; marmalade, £3 14s; engravings, £5 Cs; drapery, £2lO 12s; musical instruments, £1 Gs; leather, £5 3s 2d ; woolpacks, £3 Gs ; apparel, £123 12s; boots, £42 6s; stationery and fancy goods, £9 14s. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Wellington, August 23. Flour, colonial, £lB to £lB 10s; Adelaide, £23; oats, 4s ; bran, Is Id ; wheat, 4s 4d; hams, 91d; bacon, 9d; maize, 4s Gd ; pollard, 7s Od ; potatoes, £3 10s to £4; cheese, 7cl. THE REVENUE RETURNS. By the returns appended to the Financial Statement it appears that the falling oR in the Customs duties for the last financial year occurred principally in Dunedin and Auckland. The following are the figures of some of the principal ports

The tables showing the rates of imports and exports per head in the colonies of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand give the following figures as the average for ten years

' Port. Sum collected. Increase. Decrease. Auckland ... £197,641 — £19,781 "Wellington ... 167,855 £5,549 — Lyttelton ... 195,247 15,285 — Dunedin ... 545,910 — 14,399 Nelson 34,533 — 6,100 Napier 39,653 — 1,350 Greymonth 40,458 3,099 — Hokitika 55,999 8,578 — "Wanganui 22,061 — 5,022 Bluff 31,830 — 2,932 The comparative figures in the imports and exports for the years 1876-1877 Imports. Exports. 1875-1876 ... £7,417,111 5,049,573 1876-1877 0,894,380 — 5,470,749 Decrease £512,731 £172,824

Population. Imports. Exports. £ s. d. £ s. d Victoria 736,909 14 10 9 14 0 3 New South Wales,.. 514,359 13 8 0 12 10 0 New Zealand 269,982 20 10 0 18 3 4 New Zealand (including natives) 310,474 18 0 10 15 19 3