The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 735, 30 April 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1853.

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Although \vc were enabled to lay before our readers in our last number, in externa, several valuable Returns taken from the Government Gazelle issued on the preceding day, yet the pressure of other demands on our editorial columns prevented our even briefly calling attention to their importance. We are not willing’, however, to permit their appearance to pass finally by, without congratulating the friends of the Province of Auckland on the satisfactory and most encouraging evidence which they afford of the continued and rapid advancement of this district. When, two nr three weeks since, we gave in general terms some view of what I his* evidence would probably be, we ventured (o predict that the officially attested details would prove] that the figures which by anticipation we then presented were rather under than above the actual amounts; and the Gazette now fully bears out that statement. Notwithstanding our having inserted the particulars on Wednesday, it may be acceptable to our readers that we should here repeat a few of the chief totals. The Exports of New Zealand Produce from the Port of Auckland from the Olh of January to the sth of April, 1853, amounted in declared value to 4 22,030 ss. Od. The articles were, for the most part, such as the district can continue to supply in increasing quantities. Thus the two items of Timber (hewn and sawn) and Polatoes amounted to 12,135 I. being more than half the total value of the Exports. The hiPOivrs of Live Stock and the principal kinds of Provisions amounted to 12,4-40/. We have befare noticed the significant fact that more than one-third of tins amount was for horses, cattle, and sheep, a correspondence being ihns indicated between the increased cultivation going forward in the district and the importation of remunerative stock. The Coasting Trade for the quarter ending March 51st (of which we had no accurate information when we last adverted to this subject) is thus exhibited in the Returns: Inwards, 18-4 vessels, of 4,104 Tonnage, and Crews numbering 405; Outwards 184 vessels, of 3,003 Tonnage,—Crews, 402. The value of tin' Imports Coastwise for the quarter is declared as 13,320/. The very interesting and important Canoe Trade stands in favourable prominence. During the quarter, 533 canoes visited the port of Auckland, with Crews numbering 2531, and bringing Native Produce of the estimated value of 1240/. os. Od The Returns it should always be borne in mind, do not include the large quantities of Native Produce brought, overland and in coasting vessels, and therefore, though valuable so far as they go, exhibit no adequate view of the industrial efforts of the Natives, which are yearly, and almost daily, becoming more energetic, skilful, and successful. . . The return for the adjacent port of Oiieimnga shows during the quarter 45 canoes belonging to the Waikato 'Tribes, bringing produce valued at 203/ 7s. Od.: to which it is added that within the same period the Waikato Natives brought to Onehunga, in a cutter, produce (chiefly their own Wheat and Flour) valued at 245/. Jss. Were it possible to estimate accurately the quantity and value of the produce brought overland by back-loads, we should have a most striking evidence of the commercial importance of the Natives to the progress of this Settlement, whether as purveying for our markets, or circulating money amongst our storekeepers and tradesmen, as well as contributing to our revenue, —it being well known that much of the money received for their produce is immediately expended in the purchase of European manufacture. In addition to the Quarterly Returns, the Gazette contained two Annual Returns, to which we can now barely direct attention in a word, as further illustrative of the growing prosperity of the Auckland Settlement. I’he number of Shipping entering inwards at this port during the year 1852 was 40, with a tonnage of 11,071 ; the estimated value of the goods imported at Auckland was 138,578/. , , The Shipping entered outwards numbered 55, of 12,830 tonnage ; the value of the exports from Auckland, was 78,053/.