COLONIAL POSSESSIONS*
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Cost of Colonial Possessions of Great Britain — continued.
Colonial Possessions
Annual Cost
1866-7
1S67-8
Plantations and Settlements :
£
£
Jamaica .....
170.606
144,9.50
Baltamas .....
42,797
58..") 17
Honduras. ....
17,870
27,892
West Indies ....
172,129
1.5.5,930
Canada .....
864,980
937.90.5
Nova Seotia ....
289,818
303.121
New Brunswick
6,325
2.097
Prince Edward's Island
1,649
1..500
Newfoundland ....
24,182
24,76 1
Vancouver's Island and British
Columbia ....
6,635
1.29.5
West Coast of Africa
167.161
109.382
Ceylon .....
22,808
35,845
Labium .....
13,946
,5,1 (.5 6
Straits Settlements .
1,120
12,386
Australasian Settlements :
Western Australia
82,259
78,984
South Australia
1,422
1,97.5
Queensland ....
866
300
Victoria .....
49,322
6.5.707
New South Wales
6,964
3,763
Tasmania .....
35,558
3.5. US
New Zealand ....
4.56,920
173,255
Sundry Colonies
9,376
10,177
Total .
4.103,004
3,969,426
Iii accordance with repeatedly-expressed views of the Parliament of* the United Kingdom, the policy of the British Government in recent years has been to secure the greatest possible independence and self-reliance for the colonies. It is specially aimed at that the American and Australasian settlements shall provide their own military resources, and to accomplish this object the reduction of the British forces in the Dominion of Canada to the number of 5,000 was ordered in 18f>9. At the same time, the Secretary of State for the Colonies addressed a circular despatch to the Governors of the various Australasian Colonies, intimating that it was the intention of the Administration of the United Kingdom to withdraw from these possessions all troops in excess of a single regiment, preparatory to the entire ceasing of military occupation.
For further details concerning the Constitution and Government, Pevenue and Expenditure, Population, and Trade and Commerce of the principal colonies and dependencies of the United Kingdom, see Part II. of the Statesman's Year-book.
