68 On Colomal Wines. 
The subjoined table, taken from the statistics just pub- 
lished, shows our total amount of wine for 1866 to have been 
195,953 gallons. Taking the population of Victoria to be 
633,000, this quantity would allow about five half-pints to 
each individual—a quantity hardly sufficient to supply the 
colony for three days if ours had become a wine-drinking 
population. There isan end then to all talk about this 
colony being in a position at present, or likely of becoming 
so for a few years, to supply anything approaching the wine 
required by the people in proportion as their instincts draw 
them more and more to it. 
VICTORIA. 
Tue ACREAGE UNDER VINES, AND THEIR PRopUCE IN EACH COUNTY AND 
UNSETTLED DisTRICT, AND IN THE ENTIRE COLONY; DURING THE 
YEAR ENDING 81st Marcu, 1867. 
VINES. c) 
COUNTIES 3 6 
No. of Grapes Gathered. 3 = 
AND Acres ; SAU : A 5 5 
UNSETTLED under | No. of 3 ch} a a =e 8, Ba 
DISTRICTS. Vines. Vines. aes Ses Total. q = 
Soo zee = A 
Za #6 
Counties. No. No. Cwt. Cwt. Cwt. Gals. Gals. 
Anglesey oa.) Gece. coe 4. 4,000 10 Se 10 30s oe 
Bourke.,..... Percre 704 | 1,008,970 | 2,299 | 3,097 | 5,396 | 17,546 | ... 
Dalhousie .,........ 50 §2.300 235 29 264 206 Me 
Dundas ............ " 13,162 99 198 297 B60, oe 
Evelyn ...........-| 365 | 929,348 110 | 5,231 | 5,341 ; 33,004 
Follett oc ASOT bad fat eae He ae Laie aie 
Grant ...........--| 1,004 | 2,241,881 | 1,972 | 7,409 | 9,381 | 50,758] 21 
Grenville... ..:6.02.: 36 76,400 . 64 308 372 | 2,083 st 
Elampden, ...s2212: Die i ie ag aa ay : 
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Mornington ......, 56 | 115,840 62 245 307 O75.) ae 
Normantiy ...... : 23 | 30,000 43 13 56 60 hice 
Polwarth |......0- +. 4, 10,000 3 ily 20 110 ik 
Ripon ......-00.-| 60 90.000 234 184 418 USM eines 
Talbot ...... .....-.-| 270 470,000 | 2,875 1,300 4,175 5000 iets 
Natinets ss. eas e@nsee 42, 67,000 92 130 222 432 ste 
Unsettled Districts. : 
Gipps Land......... 10 17.020 112 80 192 450 
ite Modder) i290 io 495 744,614 | 4,854) 278 7,632 | 15,116 
Mie MOOrTay : ccioesc 848 | 1,874,080 296 | 14,5384 | 14,830 62,935 
Rodney ...sercenees 58 | 147,750 383 326 709 2,254, 
The Wimmera .,.. 95 236,691 760 139 899 _ 569 
| Total, 1867 ..... 4,051 | 7,669,126 | 14503 | 36,019 | 50,521 | 195,953 21 
| Total, 1866 ...... 4,078 | 8,199,618 | 18,063 | 31,686 | 49.749 | 176,959 | 795 
i Tnerease ......... Hee Las Agile 4,332 772 18,994: 
| Decrease .........)' 27 530,492 | 3,560 Cee ae ‘ 
Norr.—The acreage and number of vines are for the year ending 31st March, 1867 ; the 
quantity of grapes gathered, and of wine and brandy made, are for the previous season. 
The grape crop comes in too late to admit of its being returned when the agricultural 
statistics are collected. . : 
Witutiam Henry Arcuzr, Registrar-General. 
