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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