67 
and that the whole of the rest of the amount (£241,132) was 
for wine of foreign growth, whether arriving direct or com- 
ing through other colonial ports. 
In round numbers Victoria imported from South Australia 
9,000 gallons, valued at five shillings (5s.) per gallon, and 
very nearly, if not quite, the whole may be presumed to 
have been of South Australian growth. 
From New South Wales, Victoria received 13,300 gallons, 
at a declared value (average) of 10s. per gallon. Con- 
sequently very little of this could have been colonial 
produce. 
So that the whole importation of colonial wine imported 
into Victoria from the Australian colonies, calculated at half 
a bottle per head, would about suffice for the population of 
Melbourne for one day. 
One may be pardoned for wishing to see a much larger 
proportion of our cash spent on the purchase of colonial 
wine, which, for its generous qualities, deserves better of us 
than our custom has been hitherto. 
VICTORIA.—1866. 
RETURN SHOWING THE QUANTITY AND VALUE oF WINE ImPpoRTED 
DURING THE YEAR 1866, ARRANGED UNDER THE SEVERAL PLACES 
OF SHIPMENT. 
On Colonial Wines. 
Place of Shipment. Quantity. Value. 
183 pipes, 67 butts, 20 puns, 1,437 hhds., 50 
United Kingdom { half-hhds., 104 brls., 108 casks, 13,380 qr.- £203,156 
cya 511 octaves, 17, 965 cases, 21 301 galls. 
hhds., 4 casks, 242 qr -casks, 46 octaves 
New South Wales 139 eee, 1 733 aiteeyi i ; 6,662 
New Zealand 13 qr.-casks, 281 galls. 351 
South Australia 105 bhds., 18 qr.-casks, 6 cases, ap 882 galls, 2,262 
Tasmania ... a. | Pthhd 67S casks 3 ae -casks, 3 cases, 182 ace 286 
Western Australia,. | 2 galls. . eco 1 
FOREIGN STATES. 
Bordeaux ..,, is hhds., 100 oe ae 6,144 oe 486 ies, 10,213 
Bourbon eae eee, 1 
Cadiz ee eS galls. .. i 4 
Cape Town... 24 galls, as Ae 23 
Charente ... | 1,259 cases, 296 alls... oa dee 1,198 
Hamburg ..., Bee 30 cases, 15 galls, Lae 96 
Mauritius ... . | 5 galls. ... 5 
Oporto tac «. | 50 hhds,, 1, 242, qr.- -easks, 185, cases, 2 "20 galls, 14,282 
Rotterdam ... 1,213 cases, 52 galls. ... sare 50 1,834 
San Francisco ae 72 galls. Bs es ae wie 8. 28 
Tomé 10 galls. bei ay eee 10 
183 pipes, 67 butts, 20 puns, 1,768 hhds., 50hf.- 
Totaleics. siete hhds., 104: brls., 120 casks, 14,998 qr.-casks, £241,132 
557 octaves, 26,944 cases, and 27,373 galls. 
abi G. Francis, Commissioner of Trade and SU 
Custom-house, Melbourne, 26th ae 1867. 
