Colonial Despatches

I have the honor to submit for Your Grace's information the following abstract of the amount of Imports into the Colony ofBritish British Columbia, and of Revenue collected at the Custom House for the three months ending with the 31st day of December 1860; and also a comparative Statement of the amount of Imports and Customs Revenue for the years 1859 and 1860.

Your Grace will observe that those Returns exhibit a large increase in the value of imports, and in the Revenue derived fromCustoms, Customs, both as compared with those of the preceding quarter and of 1859.
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Official Value of Imports for October,
November, and December 1860 ................ 65,541.6.6.
Official Value of Imports
for same period of 1859 .................... 51,076.6.5.
Increase of imports on the Quarter ......... £14,465.0.1.


Revenue from all sources collected at
the Custom House for the months of
October, November, and December 1860 ....... 9831.17.10.
For the same Quarter of 1859 ............... 6344.14. 6.
Increase of Revenue on the Quarter ......... £3487. 3. 4.


OfficialOfficial Value of Imports for the 12
months ending 31st December 1860 ........... 256,661.1.10.
Imports for the 12 months
ending 31st December 1859 .................. 177,299. 7.9.
Increase on the Imports for 1860 ........... £79,351.14.1.


Revenue from all sources collected at
the Custom House for the 12 months
ending 31st December 1860 .................. 35,519.10.10.

Ditto Ditto for the 12 months
ending 31st December 1859 .................. 18,339.14.9.
Increase of Customs Revenue 1860,
being about 94 per cent .................... £17,179.16. 1.

If those results are to be regarded as tests of the progressive improvement of trade, and of the gradual development of the resources of the Colony, I feel assured they will prove highly interesting to Your Grace.