726
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
The exports of the colony are made up chiefly of the two staple articles, corn and wool, the first of the average value of 600,000/., and the second of 1,200,000/. per annum. The quantities and value of the principal exports, in each of the two years 1867 and 1868, Avere as follows: —
Total Exports
18C7
1868
Principal Articles.
Bullion and specie .....
£
325
49,221
r Corn: Flour!
Tons
£
43,703 498,223
23,591 405,982
Wheat (
Qrs.
301,543
55,876
£
521,690
148,603
Metal, copper . . . . . . }
Cwts.
156,863
104,227
£
627,384
400,691
Tons
11,686
20,836
£
119,162
210,012
f
Lbs.
22,633,792
29,629,525
Wool {
Balis
66.395
86,913
I
Total value of principal and other "1 articles . . . . .J
£
£
1,144,341
1,346,323
3,164,622
2,819,300
The subjoined table shows the commercial intercourse of South Australia with the United Kingdom, giving the value of the total exports, exclusive of gold, from the colony to Great Britain, and of the imports of British produce into South Australia, in each of the five years 1865 to 1869: —
Exports from South Aus-
Imports of British Home
Years
tralia to the United
Produce into South
Kingdom
Australia
&
£
1865
1,223,895
1,506,514
1866
1,274,007
1,454,396
1867
1,665,870
906,720
1868
1,313,695
1,177.097
1869
1,278,639
1,375,681
The chief export article to the United Kingdom is wool, of the value of 961,132/. in 1865; of 768,925/. in 1866; of 877,611/. in 1867; of 859,720/. m 1868, and of 774,002/. in 1869. The next most important article of export to Great Britain is copper, part wrought and part ore, of the total value of 226,847/. in 1869. The British imports comprise mainly, textile fabrics and iron.
Mining operations are pursued on a very extensive scale in the colony. The mineral wealth as yet discovered consists chiefly in
