TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

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gold found in the "Western Field and in the whole colony, in each of the five years 1863 to 1867 : —

Years

Western Field

Total

Quantity Yalue

Quantity

Value

1863 .

1864 .

1865 .

1866 .

1867 .

Oz. 215,443 149,709 141,251 130,835 134,448

£ 818,741 562,425 536,395 499,794 521,963

Oz. 423,407 316,429 280,810 241,489 222,715

£

1,629,049

1,211,169

1,077,905

928,275

863,797

New South "Wales likewise possesses valuable copper mines, the average yield of which, during the years 1863 to 1867, was nearly 1,000 tons of ore. Of this, the exports to the United Kingdom, in the year 1868, amounted to 1,490 tons of copper, valued at 106,204/., besides 1,370 tons of ore, of the value of 14,264/. Oil mines, be- lieved to be of great extent and importance, were discovered in 1865 and 1866 in the colony.

New South Wales has four short lines of railway, called, respec- tively, the Northern, the Southern, the Western, and the Richmond line. They together conveyed 751,587 passengers in 1865, 668,330 in 1866, and 409,280 in 1867. The receipts from all sources were 166,032/. in 1865, 168,534/. in 1866, and 189,072/. in 1867. The working expenses amounted to 117,324/. in 1867, and the total ex- penditure exceeded the revenue by 615/. Of electric telegraphs there were in the colony 3,567 miles of wire, at the end of lt>67, constructed at a cost of 160,796/. The number of telegrams sent during the year was 130.447, of which 41,049 from Sydney.

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