The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1883. CUSTOMS RETURNS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 270, 18 October 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1883. CUSTOMS RETURNS.

Accoßßisa to the official return jof the. Customs Bevenueac the several ports of New Zealand, during the quarter ended 80tK September, .1888, its pub^/ lished in'tnV'G-azetfce, a very considerable falling off is apparent. . . Beginning with the larger ports, we find Auckland with a dific.it for the quarter,: as cpmpared with 'the Corresponding quarter of ,laj3t^ear,, ftf; £s,ssß,; Wellington, 48,768; Dunedin, £17,323 • Lytteltdii] N ; lson^ Napier, £1,408 ; Wanganui, £1,162; Foxtpn £247; New PlymoutHi £1,009 j . West; ort, £1,128; Invercairgiil',iei;Bo2. The only ports showing an increase for the relative periods,' are Mongpnui, £85 |last quarter, £41 for corresponding quarter of last year/poverty Bay, differ nee f r the heifer £752; JNcfc-n, 1 st quarter £42, sam« last y.ar £33; Hokit;ika;r ■improvement, £874 ; Eiverton, improvenrent, £14. The > tal. •disparity tetween tue two p L riods 'is £57,552, which is the falling off be-' tweenthe September quarter I^2, arid the corresponding 1 quarter of the yea'^: Things were bad enough auring 'he year 1882, mali conscience, but of the Customs*revenue shows a* further falling of nea ly £60,000, for one quarter, it shows that trade V not mending. If we take- that quarter as the basis of calculations for one' year, a deficit of nearly a quarter of a million m Customs revenue Tyill have to be set down. When a con- J siderable deficit is apparent at every chief port, it is clear^that %rade tnust be m a very depressed sfette everywhere. The' quarters taken being, the same m each year the comparwon' sKould be fair. In Foxton the revenue for last quarter was only £138, whereas m the same quarter? of . ? .thW 1 ■ year • ? ifc ; was £885, or nearly three times as much 'as last quarter. Whatevjßriin>y . be said about times mending there is no getting away from the above figures, iwhieh haye t their .iown Special Significance. Certainly the outlook is not cheering, when there is such an apparent falling off m the consumption of dutiable ; artipleß, ; pointing plainly to the fact that scarcity of money is a prevailing complaint with the great bulk of our population