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results may be expected. Of gold, Queensland alone has ex- 
ported, in twelve years, in value, about £15,000,000 sterling. 
During the last year the yield diminished somewhat, but may be 
expected to increase, to which increase deeper sinking now 
being put under the direction of the Government will be an 
important auxiliary power. Then there are the other mineral 
sources of wealth with which Queensland is so richly endowed. 
With regard to the mining in this and the other cvlonies, hind- 
rances, by taxation and other legislative measures, have been 
placed on Chinese occupying goldfields, as it was found that — 
these people, who came here by thousands, elbowed out the 
Europeans. South Australia, however, has not woke up to the 
understanding of the value of a goldfield in attracting a Huro- 
pean population. It is well known that the stimulus of gold 
has worked wonders in Queensland, and it is much to be 
regretted that in the Northern Territory of South Australia the 
mines are considered of no value, and are being ransacked by 
Chinese—a people who, removing the gold, go to China, leaving 
behind them improvements of no greater value than a bark hut 
and an earth dam. It is to be hoped that in the future Federal 
Council some effort will be made to rectify this wasteful 
conduct. | 
Grain our friends in the Southern Colonies find to be so 
cheap as to repay them poorly for their farming, and maize in 
Queensland realises a higher price per bushel than wheat in 
South Australia. We also find that wheats grown in India will 
grow in similar parallels of latitude in Queensland without 
destruction by rust, and whenever farmers chose to pay atten- 
tion to the industry, breadstuffs may be easily grown to supply the 
wants of the colony. My paper relating to experiments on the 
growth of Indian wheats in Queensland was read to you a few 
months past, and with the assistance of the Government some 
extension of the industry may be expected. 
