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Statistics of the Port of Launceston, 
There are a number of articles included under the list of 
imports, which might be, and many indeed are produced in the 
colony. We enumerate a few of the most striking items : boots 
and shoes, £1,461 ; butter and cheese, £607 ; coals, £2,149. 
furniture, £287; hops, £2,133 ; live stock, £7,246 ; malt liquor, 
£4,325; salt provisions, £1,472; soap and candles, £3,193. 
salt, £1,091. These articles amount to nearly £37,000, and all 
will acknowledge that whilst many are even at the present ti me 
procurable within the colony quite equal to any imported, there is 
not one here mentioned which might not be supplied by the 
colony, and thus afford increased employment to the industrious 
classes of our population. 
The export return shows a remarkable increase in the quantity 
of grain shipped from this port, and for more distinct reference 
we refer the reader to a table subjoined. The clip of wool has 
also increased by 912 bales; there has been also an increase i n 
the total value of horses exported ; and the item of fruit has risen 
to nearly £3000, which the previous year amounted only to 
£1,726. Potatoes stand at £4,414, against £1,007 in I845. 
There has been a slight decrease in the export of bark, the ship¬ 
ments of 1845 amounting to £1,090, whilst in 1846 they were 
only £875; this is, we believe, the only article of colonial p ro . 
duce that has diminished in export. 
Return of the Value and Quantity of Grain, Flour, Malt, and Bran, 
exported from Launceston, during the year 1846, compared with the 
preceding year. 
1845. 
_ x _ 
1846. 
—a._ 
•£ 
S 
Quantity. Value. 
Bushels. £ 
Wheat. 48126 
Quantity. Value. 
Bushels, £ 
9330.1,37464.. 24731 
§ 
R, 
pq 
Wlioot . 
7763.. 1447 
. 10054 .. 298 ... 
]M •, It 
. 4611 .. 1165.. . 
