Population.—Census, 1886.

Being an increase of 88,132 since the census of April 1st, 1881, on total Population of Colony.

Being a decrease of 1,026 of population for the same period.

The Maori Population is 41,432, in addition to the above, a decrease of 2,665 for the same period.

The Occupations of the People are in process of tabulation.

Customs Revenue Returns for the year ended 31st March, 1886, for all Ports of Entry.

Comparative Table of Imports and Exports for the Port of Dunedin for the years ending June 30th, 1884, 1885, and 1886, respectively.

Principal Items of Export.

Intercolonial Trade for the Year ending 31st March, 1886.

Return of Shipping at the Port of Dunedin for the year ending 31st July, 1886.

Registered Tonnage of Colonial Owned Vessels, Port of Otago.

Return showing the number of Foreign and Intercolonial Vessels Entered and Cleared at New Zealand Ports during the year ending 31st March, 1885.

Return of Gold Exported from 1st April, 1857, to 31st December, 1885.

Exported for the year ending 31st December, 1885, 237,37 ozs., of the value of £948,615, of which Otago exported £71,359 ozs., of the value 286,517.

Number of miners employed, 11,178.

Coal Industry.

Crown Lands.

Land held Under Pastoral Lease.

Average per acre ranging from ¼d. in Auckland to 4.36d. in Canterbury, Otago 4.3d.

Twenty-four small grazing runs in Otago, comprising 55,739 acres, let at an average of 8½d. per acre.

Amount Remaining Secured by Mortgage under Land Transfer Act.

Freehold Estate.

30,684 persons and 80 companies own 18,511,350 acres Freehold Land outside Boroughs and Townships, of the value of £53,350,812.

Of these, two companies own areas over 150,000 acres, two over 100,000, one over 75,000, and three over 50,000. The total number of Freeholders in the Colony is 73,000, of whom 30,764 own 5 acres and upwards of country land.

Property Tax Returns.

This valuation is also exclusive of Government Railways, Telegraphs, and other Public Works.

Showing that the value of Real Estate in the Colony has increased from £100,000,000, in 1882, to £112,000,000, in 1885

The total amount of Personal Property has not yet been ascertained.

Agricultural Statistics.

The Official Statistics for Victoria give the total yield of wheat in that colony for the year 1885 at 10,433,146 bushels, being an average yield of 9.52 bushels per acre; Oats, 23.40; Barley, 17.38.

Estimated Number Of Live Stock on March 31st, 1886.

Exclusive of Stock belonging to Natives.

Classified Average of Occupied Holdings.

Sheep Returns.

An increase of 3,579,510 since 1881.

Wool Shipments.

During the past year 4,130 bales of Wool, of the value of £43,365, were consumed by the Mosgiel, Kaikorai, Roslyn, and Oamaru Woollen Mills. These, added to the quantity exported, raised the production of Otago for 1886 to 79,937 bales, and the value to £839,338. An increase of 2,262 bales.

In addition to the above, the Kaiapoi Mills, Canterbury, worked up 2,250 bales.

Export of Frozen Meat.

In addition to the above 97,579 Sheep have been used at Preserving Works, 69,214 boiled down; making a Total Export of 795,349 Sheep for the year.

Banking Returns for the Quarter ending June 30th, 1885.

Being an Increase of Deposits of £944,023 on the Year.

Advances, £15,864,823, being an increase on the Year of £557,836.

Savings Banks—Government and Private.

Total Amount of Deposits in the Colony at the end of Year 1885, £1,638,036; Interest thereon, £62,228, and an increase of £138,924 on the year.

Depositors, 69,557, being an increase of 3,840, averaging £23 8s. 4d. each Depositor.

In addition to the above, there were in Private saving Banks Deposits amounting to £504,691, with 15,812 Deposits, averaging £31 18s. 4d. each Depositor.

The total Deposits at the end of the year amounted to £2,142,729, an increase of £216,119.

The National Debt of New Zealand.

From which, deducting cost of construction of Railways, £13,726,166, and expenditure on Immigration, £2,072,831, from the total indebtedness of £31,688,349, leaves £15,798,997 as the National Debt of the Colony at the present time.

Amount of Public Debt per head, less Sinking Fund accrued, £54 15s. 11d.

Annual Interest and Sinking Fund, £1,667,873.

Receipts and Expenditure for the financial year ended 31st March, 1886.

Railways.

Railway Revenue over Expenditure is approximately estimated up to 31st March last at £357,078. The amount realised on the estimated cost of the Railways is £2 18s. 6d. per cent, per annum, and the proportion of expense to revenue, 65.91.

Post Office for the Year 1885.

Telegraphs.

Telephone Exchange.

Dunedin Harbour Improvements.

Vessels drawing 19ft. of water now discharge at Dunedin wharves.

Australian Statistics.—Total Cultivation.

Comparative Provincial Expenditure.

Annual Production of Butter and Cheese, the Number of Agricultural Machines, and the Quantity of Grain in hand, in Provincial Districts.

Amounts contributed by each Provncial District to the Colonial Revenue for the Financial Year ending 31st March 1886.