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 TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

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The value of the total imports and exports seaward, including bullion and specie, in each of the five years 1864 to 1808, was as follows : —

Years

Total Imports

Total Exports

£

&

1864.

9.836,042

8,117,217

1865.

9.928,595

8,191,170

1866.

8,867,071

8,512,214

1867.

6,599,804

6,880,715

1868.

8,051,377

7,192,904

Rather more than one-half of the total imports into New South Wales come from the United Kingdom, and about one- third of the exports are shipped to it.. The rest of the trade is chiefly with British Possessions. The commercial intercourse of the colony with the United Kingdom is shown in the following tabular statement, which gives the total value of the exports from New South Wales to Great Britain and Ireland, and of the imports of British produce and manufactures into New South Wales in each of the five years 1865 to 1869: —

Exports from New South

Imports of

Years

Wales to

British Home Produce into

Great Britain

New South Wales

1865

3,319,628

£ 3,571,133

1866

3,162,615

2,917,577

1867

3,101,108

2,050.820

1868

3,222,417

2,889,970

1869

2,992,765

3,144,983

The staple article of exports from New South Wales to the United Kingdom is wool, of the value of 2,152,964/. in 1865, of 2,782,034/. in 1867, of 2,483,770/. in 1868, and of 2,385,347/. in 1869.

In the year 1850, about 70,000 acres of land were in cultivation in New South Wales, and the colony had 5,660,829 sheep ; 952,852 horned cattle ; 63,890 horses; and 23,890 pigs. In 1859 the numbers were : land in cultivation, 217,440 acres ; sheep, 7,736,323 ; horned cattle, 2,110,600; horses, 200,700; and pigs, 92,800. In nine years the number of acres of land in cultivation had been trebled ; and above 2,000,000 sheep and more than 1,000,000 head of cattle had been added to the stock. The extent of land alienated in the colony, deprived, meanwhile, of the vast territories of Queensland and Victoria, on March 31, 1866, was stated to be 7,900,360 acres ; of unalienated, 93,852,305 acres. The number of live

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