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cultivated 2278 hectares and produced 2,250,671 Mlo., 

 whilst 8735 native planters cultivated 6416 hectares and 

 produced 2,977,067 kilo., the total product being 5,227,738 

 kilo. This does not differ to any great extent from the 

 result of the previous year. Tobacco is capable of being 

 produced in much greater quantity, says the British 

 Consul, but the market is limited. The colonists them- 

 selves and the Government appear to be the only 

 purchasers. 



Australia. — In the year ending 31st March, 1879, New 

 South Wales had 835 acres under tobacco, and the crop 

 amounted to 7932 cwt. In the same year, Victoria culti- 

 vated 1936 acres, which yielded 15,662 cwt., valued at 

 43,853Z. Queensland grew 36 acres of tobacco in 

 1879. 



Austro-Hungary. — The manufacture and sale of tobacco 

 is a Government monopoly in the Austro-Hungarian em- 

 pire, and the revenue thus derived is the most lucrative 

 item of the indirect income of the State. The only 

 tobacco-growing provinces of Austria are Galicia and 

 Bukowina, producing about 4 million kilo, from 2900 

 hectares; and South Tyrol, where 290 hectares yield almost 

 4 million kilo, of green tobacco. The respective approxi- 

 mate values of the two products are 18^ florin (of Is. ll^d.) 

 and 4f florin per 100 kilo. The chief supplies are furnished 

 by Hungary, which was once so noted for its tobacco, but 

 the industry is now completely crippled by the fiscal regu- 

 lations. The area (in acres) under cultivation fluctuates 

 remarkably; in 1860, it was 679| ; in 1865, 68,141; in 

 1869, 843|; in 1875, 26,817; in 1879, 7316. The total 

 areas (in acres) under cultivation in the whole empire in 



