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ADVANCED AUSTRALIA

The statement appended shows the relative importance of the Australasian Colonies as a market for the productions of the United Kingdom: —

Exports of Home Productions from the United Kingdom in 1896, to
£
British India and Ceylon 31,103,596
Germany 22,244,405
Australasia 21,888,292
U.S.A. 20,424,225
France 14,151,512
South Africa 13.821,357
Holland 8,333.935
Belgium 7,816,152
Other countries—less than £700,000 in each case.

The Australasian Colonies, with a population of 4½ millions, thus take third place as consumers of our produce, the exports thereto being more that two-thirds the value of those to British India, with 290 million inhabitants.

TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.