No. 25, Financial

I have the honor to inform your Grace that the total value
of all articles imported into British Columbia for the Quarter ending 31st March has been 248,000 Dollars. For the
corresponding Quarter of the year 1860 it was 215,625 Dollars, shewing an increase in the present year of 32,375 Dollars.

2. I have also the honor of enclosing for your Grace's
information a comparative statement of Customs Revenue collected
at New Westminster for the Quarter ending on the 31st day of
March 1860 and 1861 respectively, shewing an increase on the latter Quarter of £967; and I have further to inform your
Grace that there has been a marked increase of trade in British Columbia since the beginning of the present month.