1 32 Statistics of Van Diemens Land, 



was 576, comprising 141 officers, superintendents, magis- 

 trates, &c., 54 chaplains, catechists, and schoolmasters, 

 29 medical men, and 51 clerks, in the class of educated 

 persons; and 83 tradesmen and seamen, and 218 other free 

 persons, in the uneducated class. The expenditure in 1848 

 for pay of officers, and food and clothing for Convicts, was 

 £152,800 4.S. Sd. ; and £91,777 2«. 4.d. was expended in 

 pay of MiUtary Guard and Staff Officers, including rations — 

 together about a quarter of a million sterling. The estimated 

 consumption in 1849 for Convict purposes of articles the 

 produce of the Colony, deducting the quantities grown at 

 stations, is valued at £37,222 Is. Od. 



Table 72 is a return from the Port Officer of the Light- 

 houses of Van Diemen's Land, which are six in number ; 

 viz., Kent's Group, Brune Island, and Low Heads, exhibit- 

 ing a revolving light ; Goose Island, and Iron Pot Island, 

 having a fixed light ; and Swan Island, with its revolving 

 flash. The maintenance of these Light-houses cost, in 

 ]848, £2066 13s. 9d., averaging £344 8s. ll^d. each. 

 The amount of Light Dues received during the year was 

 £1359 5s. 'id., or 65f per cent, of their expence. 



Table 73 is a return from the Port Officer of the Steam 

 Vessels employed in 1848, being 4 in number. Two of 

 these, the Derwent (35 h. p.) and Kangaroo, (32 h. p.) are 

 employed by the Convict Department, — the Native Youth 

 (20 h. p.) is used as a passage boat on the Derwent, — and 

 the Gij)sy (2 engines of 32 h. p.) is similarly used on the 

 Tamar, although not so stated in the return. 



Table 74 is a valuable register of Meteorological facts, 

 illustrative of the climate of Van Diemen's Land, by Lieut. 

 Kay, E.N., of the Observatory. The atmospheric pres- 

 sure and temperature for the year are first given, being the 

 montlily barometrical and thermometrical observations. The 

 maximum pressure was 30'402 inches in June, and the 



