STATISTICS AND RETURNS

■The^otal ambur»b;of beer duty- collected in the colony last month-was Auck land, contributing,£B6s. < f . f ;,• ■~,.; j)r.£ - The NewiZealand railwayjevenue forthe month .of j April,: ; was £114,380,.... of which Auckland contributed £10,199.- t V ■ , ' ,' The revenue returns for the qolpnyfjor last r mp i nth,s.amount -,tOr £129,935 ,5s 3d, Auckland's chare being £24,165. :, ['[ '. , During the month of April,last ,the im iports into the port of ,Tahiti (Society Is lands) wero valued at 343,944; francs;, The the' .same period . totalled" 358,715 francs. ' ''"'' ;i"" ;" '; -l :[ Thegrairi'traffic'pnthWSout^^ railway 'frbm cthe Jfirßfc^eek .pf^Ma^bh'tiU^tlfeyiriidiilla'. of May reached x 28f,000 ''sacks "against 180,0001 for the-correspondingl^period of 'the previous yearj being1 an Increase 6i93,000 | bushels,1 or nearly1 fifty percent.. '- " ■-'

. During the month' of April the number of arrivals were'exceeded.by the departures by ,633, • the- 'respedtive J totals - being—arrivals, : l ) 048;:departure3, f l ) 681. The 1-argesb totals are in connection with New iSputh; Wales, '525.,persons;ileaying^fpr that cplony, ; and; #84 arriving from it.
;' The/newjbusihees^pf the Government In surance Department for last year, shpws an increase!over; 1890.. It; comprised the issue of 2,911 policies, assuring, £699,901, \ and. yielding, an. annual .premium revenue- of £20,556.,", The .total revenue for .the year ■was £330,895; t ari:incre^se ! £17,470 ; r the death claims amounted' t0'£84,0,74. . Atthle close of the year, 29,226 policies were in force, insuring £8j390,803. -'The total funds were £1,872,797, 'maki.hg additions to the accumulated fund for 12 months of £132,603.
