A FLOURISHING COLONY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1872, 30 March 1889, Page 3

A FLOURISHING COLONY.

It is a relief (saya the Times) to turn from the Blue Books of most of the "West Indian colonies, with their doleful tales of debt and depression, to that of a flourishing colony like Hong-£ong, with an increasing revenue and a substantial balance to the good at the year's end. The revenue for the past year amounted to 2,582,723d01, and the expenditure, including extraordinary works, to 2 023,002d01. The extraordinary extraordinary expenditure, including defensive works, amounted to 744 820dol, ©r more than a third of 'the total expenditure. The revenue, ordinary and extraordinary, was higher than any year during the last five. Every year the assets have exceeded the liabilities, and every vear important public works have been completed. The estimated population at the end of the year was 212 9511 the males numbering 152,4-27 and the females only 60,524. In both cases the numbers show-a steady increase year by year. Similarly, the expenditure in education, the money in circulation, and the number and tonnage of vessels arriving in harbor show increases each year since ibßi. The shipping in 1887 amounted in number to 22,599, with a total tonnage of 6,401,837 'tons, including native junks. Immigration and emigration of Chinese also show a very large increase, 92,375 arriving and 82,897 departing from the colony. The statistics for the current year under this head will be interesting, as thev will show the effect of the recent agifetion in Australia against the Chinese on the departures from ___^_