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SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The exports of the colony are made up chiefly of the two staple articles, corn and wool, the first of the average value of 600,000/., and the second of 1,200,000/. per annum. The quantities and value of the principal exports, in each of the two years 1867 and 1868, Avere as follows: —

Total Exports

18C7

1868

Principal Articles.

Bullion and specie .....

£

325

49,221

r Corn: Flour!

Tons

£

43,703 498,223

23,591 405,982

Wheat (

Qrs.

301,543

55,876

£

521,690

148,603

Metal, copper. . . . . . }

Cwts.

156,863

104,227

£

627,384

400,691

Tons

11,686

20,836

£

119,162

210,012

f

Lbs.

22,633,792

29,629,525

Wool {

Balis

66.395

86,913

I

Total value of principal and other "1 articles . . . . .J

£

£

1,144,341

1,346,323

3,164,622

2,819,300

The subjoined table shows the commercial intercourse of South Australia with the United Kingdom, giving the value of the total exports, exclusive of gold, from the colony to Great Britain, and of the imports of British produce into South Australia, in each of the five years 1865 to 1869: —

Exports from South Aus-

Imports of British Home

Years

tralia to the United

Produce into South

Kingdom

Australia

&

£

1865

1,223,895

1,506,514

1866

1,274,007

1,454,396

1867

1,665,870

906,720

1868

1,313,695

1,177.097

1869

1,278,639

1,375,681

The chief export article to the United Kingdom is wool, of the value of 961,132/. in 1865; of 768,925/. in 1866; of 877,611/. in 1867; of 859,720/. m 1868, and of 774,002/. in 1869. The next most important article of export to Great Britain is copper, part wrought and part ore, of the total value of 226,847/. in 1869. The British imports comprise mainly, textile fabrics and iron.

Mining operations are pursued on a very extensive scale in the colony. The mineral wealth as yet discovered consists chiefly in