COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



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NEW SOUTH WALES. 



REPORT BY CONSUL GRIFFIN, OF SYDNEY. 

 IMPORTS. 



The customs authorities do not publish itemized returns of the quan- 

 tity and value of cotton textiles imported into New South Wales. All 

 merchandise of this kind is classed under the general head of drapery. 

 The value of drapery imported into New South Wales during the year 

 1888 was $13,849,562, against $10,844,231 for 1887. Of the imports for 

 1888 Great Britain sent goods to the value of $10,316,497, and the United 

 States only $6,603, the remainder coming from Belgium, France, Ger- 

 many, and other countries. 



The subjoined table, taken from the annual statement of trade of the 

 United Kingdom, shows the quantity and value of cotton goods exported 

 from the United Kingdom to New South Wales for each year from 1884 

 to 1888 inclusive : 



In the Colony of Victoria, the population of which is about the same 

 as that of New South Wales, the returns are made out in a different 

 manner and show the quantity and value of cotjon goods imported into 

 that colony to be, for 1888, $5,495,903, against $4,019,159 for 1887, and 

 $4,682,186 for 1886. Of these, the great bulk comes from England. Of 

 the imports of cotton piece-goods, for 1888, the value from Great Britain 

 was $4,965,265, and of articles of cotton manufacture, $348,708. The 

 United States only supplied $11,158. Of cotton- waste the imports into 

 Victoria in 1888 were $57,724. Great Britain sent 9,705 worth ; New 

 York, $875.97 worth. The imports of cotton- wick likewise were, 3,820. 

 Great Britain furnished, $17,392, and New York only $306.58. 



The value of the imports of all kinds of manufactured cotton goods 

 into the Australasian colonies is about $14.05 per head of population, 

 and as the population of the whole of the group is about 4,000,000, this 

 would make the total value of the imports $58,398,000. The popula- 

 tion of New South Wales at the close of June, 1889, was estimated at 

 little over 1,000,000, so by the same method of calculation the cotton 

 imports would amount to $14,599,500. If the value of the goods mixed 

 with cotton were added to these figures, the value of the imports of 

 cottons would be fully $4,866,500 more for the colony of New South 

 Wales. 



