Olservations on Tasmaniati Statistics. 21 



value of £326,096, and of the oil, the quantity was 339 tons 

 only, valued at £30,106. 



Table 17 sets out the quantity and value of the gold 

 dust exported, or rather re-exported, from Tasmania; it 

 having been mostly brought hither from Victoria by the 

 successful diggers from this colony. The returns are, of 

 course, for the years 1851 to 1853, — and are as under: — 



OUNCES. VALUE. 



1851 7,636 iG24,717 



1852 145,420 £472,615 



1853. 59,054 £217,538 



The total quantity exported for the three years is 212,110 

 ounces ; and its declared value 30714,870, or at the rate of 

 £3 7s. 4f a?. ^ ounce. 



Tables 18 to 21 relate to the shipping interests of Tas- 

 mania independently of the whale fishery. The stimulus 

 to commerce from the gold-fields is seen at once by the in- 

 creased amount of shipping which has since visited our 

 ports. In 1850 the number of vessels inwards was 674, 

 being an increase of 4 per cent, over 1849; in 1851 the 

 number was 782, or 16 per cent, increase ; and in 1853 there 

 were 1024 vessels, or 29 per cent, increase. The tonnage 

 in 1850 was 104,017, and in 1853, 192,420; its progressive 

 increase having been, 1851, 15'5 per cent.; 1852, 12"7 

 per cent.; and 1853, 42 per cent. Upon the average of the 

 three years, the proportion of shipping annually from Great 

 Britain was 49 vessels, 21,726 tons ; from the British 

 Colonies 771 vessels, 1 15,465 tons ; from the United States 

 18 vessels, 7061 tons; and from foreign states 18 vessels, 

 5096 tons. 



In 1852 the comparatively small increase of vessels, at a 

 time when the stimulus to colonial trade was so powerfully 

 felt through the operations of the gold-fields, is obviously 



