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STATISTICAL REVIEW — KEW SOUTH WALES. 



Exports from G-reat Britain in the year 

 Britisli India 

 Australia 



Nortli American Colonies . . . 

 "West India Islands and Gruinea 

 Hongkong ... 

 The Straits Settlements 

 Cape of Good Hope 



Malta 



All other Possessions ... 



Total... 



1870 to 



. £20,093,749 



. 10,735,481 



. 7,584,427 



3,639,011 



. 3,570,733 



2,407,577 



1,962,377 



. 1,156,982 



. 4,240,995 



£55,391,332 



The imports from Australia were 22 per cent, of the whole, 

 and the exports to Australia were 19 per cent, of the whole. 



Ton will, perhaps, excuse this digression. It occurred to me 

 that the information might be interesting to many who have 

 never realized the important commercial position Her Majesty's 

 Australian possessions occupy — second only to British India, with 

 its teeming millions of inhabitants — and far in advance of the 

 North American Colonies, with a population three times that of 

 the Australias. 



But to return to our own statistics, it should be notified that 

 our trade with Great Britain constitutes no preponderating share 

 of the whole, for T find that in the ten years we imported from 

 Great Britain to the value of £32,575,549 ; Australian and other 

 Colonies, £37,926,609 ; Foreign Countries, £14,330,145 ; that is 

 to say, from Great Britain 40 per cent. ; other Colonies, 42 per 

 cent. ; Foreign Countries, 17 per cent. ; as also in exports during 

 the same period, we exported to Great Britain to the value of 

 £30,203,485 ; Australian and other Colonies, £41,467,718 ; and 

 Foreign Countries, £2,472,673 ; that is to say, at the rate of 41 

 per cent., 56 per cent., and 3 per cent, respectively. 



The importance of our intercolonial trade is here very remarkably 

 exemplified, for we see by these figures that as regards "Imports " 

 it constitutes nearly one half, and as regards " Exports " more 

 than one half of the entire commerce of the Country. 



It may be interesting here to notice the extent to which the 

 export trade is indebted to the produce and manufactures of the 

 Country, because the prosperity of the Colou}^ may be judged by 

 the productions over and above its own wants of articles, the 

 result of its own people's industry. Well, in this point of view, 

 we may derive satisfaction from the returns ; for I find that of 

 the exports, valued at £74,148,876 for the ten years, no less than 

 £52,043,742 represent the produce and manufactures of New 

 South Wales, exhibiting an annual average of over five millions 

 sterling, and at the rate of £12 3s. 6d. per head of the population. 



