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
£
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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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