STATISTICAL REYIEW — NEW SOITTH WALES. 115 



In tobacco, soap and candles, tallow and lard, refined sugar, 

 and distilled spirits — which constitute the only remaining speci- 

 mens of manufacturing industry exhibited in the tables, there is 

 nothing to notice that would justify my detaining you ; I shall 

 therefore pass on to the consideration of the statistics of our 



4. — Teade and Commerce. 



In attempting to illustrate the growth of our commerce, it will 

 be well to examine the returns of imports and exports " seaward" 

 in the first place, leaving what is called the "overland" trade 

 for after consideration. 



jPollowing this plan, I find that in the ten years, 1862 to 1871, 

 inclusive, we imported seaward goods to the value of £84,832,363, 

 and we exported goods to the value of £74,148,876 ; that is 

 equal to a yearly average of imports to the value of nearly eight 

 millions and a half sterling, and of exports nearly seven millions 

 and a half ; or, putting it in another shape, at the rate of — for 

 imports, £19 l7s., and for exports, £17 7s. per head of the 

 average population. The value of the imports into Grreat Britain 

 during the same period was at the rate of £9 5s., and of export,? 

 at the rate of £5 16s. per head of the population. 



I have looked through the statistics of the Board of Trade for 

 the last ten years, and I cannot find amongst all the dependen- 

 cies of the British Crown — British India excepted — any trade 

 that approaches in value to that of " Australia." 



The Colonies are not separately specified in the returns ; but 

 as it may be interesting to show what rank the Australian 

 Colonies take amongst " the British Possessions " in their trade 

 with the Mother Country, I will take leave to quote the follow- 

 ing figures from the Statistical Abstract for 1871* 



Imports into Grreat Britain in the year 1870 from 



British India £25,090,163 



Australia 14,075,264 



North American Colonies ... ... ... 8,515,365 



West India Islands and Gruiana ... ... 5,949,199 



Ceylon 3,450,974 



Cape of G-ood Hope ... 2,873,910 



The Straits Settlements 2,-547,320 



All other Possessions 2,330,219 



Total ...£64,832,413 



* The total value of " imports " from British Possessions in the year 1871 

 is set down at £73,267,156, but the value of the exports had not been 

 ascertained. 



