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AUSTRALASIA. 



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... liriiain v the 7 Aurtral- 

 v ,- _ been estimated at 815,000- 

 000.00 which mTWMW of interest was paid 

 in 18K which woe less than the sura paid in the 



CiJaiirc*i < Production. The following 

 Use foreign and intercolonial trade 



of the 



__ iextrnrt. 18.825 ; of hides and skins, 848,- 

 919; of pearl shell, 142,454. 



Australia in 1804 there were 13,- 

 618.048 buahels, compared with 15.255,000 bu>h. Is 

 toria, 6^07,000 bu> N- u South 



Walc.and 4.892.000 bushels in New Zralaml. 

 The wine crop was 712,845 gallons. The copier 

 product was 208,967 in value. 



Tasmania exported silver and silver ore of the 

 ralue of 158,859; tl '~>6; timber ad 



l>ark, 57^56 : hops, 18,948; fruit, green and 

 preserved, 122,188. 



. Inrf exports of Western Australia in 

 1898 were, besides gold and wool, pmrl shell for 

 79.259, sandal wood for 82,160, timber for 

 1 skins for 28,975. 



New Zealand has a varied culture, i-n.-luc -iii^. 

 in addition to wheat, large crops of oats, barley, 

 and hay. The export of grain and flour for 1898 

 was valued at 597,829; of fm/, -n n i rat, 1,085,- 

 167; of Kauri gum. W 10,775; of tallow, 

 588; of timber, 101,082; of hides, skins, and 

 leather, 390,640 : <>f butter and cheese, 854,- 

 271 ; of New Zealand hemp or phonnium 



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MM was 844.982*76 pounds; tin w 

 of Victoria was 150.802,425 pounds. 



:n N-w s.nth Wales in 

 wool export 

 s, about one 



half being the product of the colony ; the export 

 from Qneinelind was about 107,000,000 pounds ; 

 from Tasmania. 9.000.000 pounds ; from West- 

 en Attftm is; from South 

 Autfralio. 60.000.000 pounds; from New Zea- 

 land, 11*160,000 pounds. 



The gold product of New South Wales for 

 1808 was 651 f 2H6,nv*lu. 



.V>4 : for <jwtiland. 2.159,290 ; for Tasmania, 

 181.104; for Western Australia, 421,885; for 



Zealand, 918.188. 



In New South Wales 282,606 tons of sugar 

 cane. 748*0 gallons of wine, and 800,024 cases 

 L80i TI..V .. :.,-,v 



not hoa a forest conservation deportment since 

 1887 which looks after 5.148^00iKis of forests, 

 from which 196,114.000 square feet of saw, 

 bar wot token In 1808. Thevalueof the silver 

 ettver-tead ore and metal raised in 1808 was 



f copper. 78.287; of tin. 126 

 IM qmaatitv of2M^7M88 tons. 



In Victoria wheat and other cereals and root 

 ems are more extensively cultivated than in 



>-th Wale* and the manufacturing 

 eats ore larger. The export of breadstuffs was 

 vatoed in llM at Slflffjin ; leather and leath- 

 er fooda, 218.436 : refined eogar, 99^97. 



QaMniland in 1808 exported tin of the value 

 of 10tJMi.ond silver and silver lead of the 

 rmlue of 4*408. The product of raw sugar 



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at 758JB88; of preserted and salted 

 141JM8; of frozen meat, 877,089; of 



875 ; of preserved meat and bacon, 52,N 

 grass seed, 57,544. 



Communications. The length of the rail- 

 road lines in the Australian colonies at the end 

 of 1893 was as follows: New South Wales, 2,501 

 miles; Victoria, 2,975 ; Queensland. -J,:{?1 ; South 

 Australia, 1,810; Western Australia, 1.184; Tas- 

 mania, 475; total, 11,324 miles. In N.-w Xealand 

 there were 2,112 miles open on March 31, 1894, 

 including 164 miles of private lines. 



The telegraph system in all the colonies be- 

 longs to the Government. The lines of New 

 South Wales in 1893 had 27,326 miles of win- : 



ria there were 7,105 miles of lin< 

 14,220 miles of wire; in Queensland, 10,004 

 miles, with 17,810 miles of wire; in South Aus- 

 tralia, 5,546 miles, with 13,082 miles of win : in 

 Western Australia, 3,578 miles, with 4,303 miles 

 of wire; in Tasmania, 2,187 miles, wild 

 miles of wire, besides 366 miles of cable ; in New 

 Zealand, 5,518 miles, with 13,515 miles of wire. 

 Thi- number of dispatches sent in 181 

 2,858,691 in New South Wales, 2,476,178 in Vic- 

 toria, 1,104,311 in Queensland (1892), 2S 

 in Western Australia. -J' >:.:,! l in Tasmania, and 

 2,069,691 in New Zealand. 



The postal traffic for 1898 was as follows: In 

 New South Wales, 77,540.500 letters, 850,420 post 

 cards, 68,702 parcels, 12,060,600 packets, 4 

 900 newspapers, and 5:t0.546 money order-: in 

 Victoria, 62.526,448 letters, 7,491.316 packets, 

 and 22.T2Ji.005 newspapers; in Queensland, 16,- 



; let tors, 67,487 parcels, 8,925,415 IK. 

 and 10.545,485 newspapers: in - 'ralia, 



16.597.JUT letters, 1.402,540 pookeK and 8,909,- 



5.555.641 letters, 166,828 post cards, 1.399.973 

 pockets, and 4.231,868 newspapers; in Nc 



-.2,085.449 letters, 2,607,110 post cards, 14,- 

 478.985 books and parcels, 19,556,030 newspapers, 

 and 210,957 monev orders. 



Navigation. the number of vessels and the 

 tonnage entered and cleared at the ports of the 

 several colonies during 1893 are shown in the 

 following table: 



