The Daily News. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1903. BRITISH COLONIAL TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 220, 13 October 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1903. BRITISH COLONIAL TRADE.

In two Imperial Parliamentary returns issued in September some interesting pirticulars are given concerning trade with the Colonies. The duties on imports into the Commonwealth ct Australia in 1882 amouutcd to £5,047,076. The following depado showed a rapid growth of import", for by 18S2 they bad reached £7)286,313. In the next 10 years there was no considerable increase, and in 1901 the returns were £7,699,860. The increase of population, excluding aborigines, during the years 1882 to 1892, was from 2,412,067 to 3,326,560. As in the case of imports, from 1892 to 1901 there was no great expansion of population, which in the latter year -totalled only 3,771,986. In New Zealand, on the other hand, the greatest development appears to have taken place in more recent years, the import duties for the 3 years, 1882, 1892, and 1901 being re spectively £1,515,917, £1,654,064, ard £2,191,798, and the populationsl7,7o7, 650,433, and 772,719. A similar ex pansion in late yetrs is noticed in the returns from the Cape of Gi od Hop?, where the figures f>r the three® year? 1882, 1892, and 1901 were £1,252,249, £1,361,955,-and £2,679,921, while the population was 1,027,168, 1,527,224, and 2,433,000. „ The returns from India showed that the impart duties were far less in proportion to the population than in the other parts ol the Empire. In 1882 thev were £1,784,217; in 1892, £2,119,255 ; and in 1901, £4,825,301; while the figures for the population for those years werr 253,891,821, 287,314,056, and 294,360,356, In 1890 the colonics imported good?, including bullion and specie, to the value of £195,728,000, and of this enormous quantity no less than £110,975,000 worth went from the United Kingdom. Foreign countries sent good? valued at £1)1,179,000, and British possessions £33,573,000. By 1900 the value of goods imported by the Oolonief

value of goods imported j the Colonies had reached £243.938,000, the United Kingdom sendiDp £ 116,823,000, foreign countries £80,839,000, and British possessions .£46,276,000. The larges portion of the increase, it will b>noticed, is credited to foreign countries and British possesions. Colonial exports in 1890 were valued at £187,564,000, ot which Great Britain purchased £85,276,000 worth; foreign countries, £68,549,000; and British possessions, £33,739,000. Ten years later the total exports Btood at £238,273,000, and then of thia Great Britain took £107,932,000; foreign countries, £86,778,000; and British possessions £43,563,000.