Trade Returns.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 124, 5 November 1901, Page 3

Trade Returns.

T'na Custom rev-inn for the quarter ended September 30th last, am .tinted to £621.535, as against £577,7:57 for the corresponding quarter of the preceding yetr. Of this am on it £139.119 was derived from spirit*. £711)2 from miuufactinvd tobacco, £33 162 from sugar, molasses, etc , and £263,501 from uuenumerated duties. The ex.-ise- duties "for the -quarter amounted to £20.779. as against £19.910 for lb-* cirresprmding quarter of last year. n f this amjunt £19,322 was derived from beer. Tiio vilu.i of imports at the sevetal ports for theqnarter was £3.314.936. as .against £2 931 05) for tin corrjsp >n 1iug quarter of 1900. The imports from the United Kingdom increased as between the two periods from £1,815,453 10 .£2,168 908. Gtiier large items in the import are: New South Wiles. £272,246. United .-States, £312,737. Victoria. £lO5 038. Bengal, £39,624 The exports for the quarter amounted to £2 432,828, agiinsl £2 315,369 Of this amount £1.475,323 wis th value of the exports to the United Kingdom, as agunst £4.605,175 for the same quarter of 1939. O.hei large

amounts were : Victoria, £245,617. New S.vitli Wiles, £233,433. Natal, £210,752. United .States £104.138. Tiie principal iteim of export were as follows. Minerals, £473 4-13.

Fisneriesp oloots, £3 372 Timbsr, gum, etc, £214 019. Aniui ils a id pro lac s, £1.0J4.033. Agricultural products, £173,2J3. Manufactures, £104,371.