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QUEENSLAND.
The following table shows the centesimal rate of increase of the population during the last five years, 1863-68 : — ■
Years
Males
Females
Persons
1863
33-37
32-76
33-13
1864
21-12
1853
20-11
1865
17-H
20-93
1568
1866
7-48
12-79
9-56
1867
4-41
2-88
3-79
1868
10-04
3-92
760
The number of immigrants, chiefly from the United Kingdom, who arrived in the colony in 1868 was 4,287, of whom 4,135 males, and 152 females.
Trade and Industry.
The total value of the imports and exports of Queensland, in the five years 1865 to 1869, is given in the following table: —
Tears
Imports
Exports
1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
£ 2,505,559 2,467,907 1,747,735 1,899,119 1,717,472
£ 1,153,464 1,366,491 2,198,609 2,107,437 2,104,887
The commercial intercourse of Queensland is chiefly with the other Australian colonies, .and next to them with the United King- dom. The subjoined tabular statement gives the value of the exports, exclusive of gold, from Queensland to the United Kingdom, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures into Queensland in each of the five years 1865 to 1869 : —
Tears
Export? from Queensland to the United Kingdom
Imports of
British Home Produce
into Queensland
1865
1806 1867 1868 1869
£ 177,548 341,362 459,215 420,082 547,584
£ 595,851 533,914 298.638 409,303 433,726
