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Appendix No. 3.
SOME statistics of New South Wales in 1810, twenty-two years after its first settlement; compiled from Returns appended to Report of a Committee of the House of Com- mons on Transportation, 1812.
Population
(Of these about 7,000 appear to have been
convicts, and 3,450 free),
Horses
Horned cattle
Sheep
Swine
Acres in cultivation
10,452
1,114
11,276
32,818
8,992
7,274
Gross expense in the 13 years from 1798 to 1810 (the earlier years not given in the Committee's Appendix):
Transport.
Stores, Provisions, and Establishments.
Total.
£
Average per annum
277,907
21,877
£ 1,233,236
94.864
£ 1,511,143
116,241
The following Statement is quoted in the "Edinburgh Review," 1819, from a letter addressed to Lord Sidmouth, by the Hon. H. Grey Bennet, M.P.:
"The Colony of New South Wales, from 1788 to 1815 inclusive, has cost this country the enormous sum of 3,465,9831."
Some similar statistics are subjoined, from the latest Returns, viz., 1855, connected with Western Australia:
Population
(Of these 9,300 free, and 8,536 convicts). Horses
·
12,836
4,887
Horned cattle
Sheep
Swine
Acres in cultivation
21,083
184,114-
5,309
13,682
Stores,
Transport.
Provisions, and
Total.
Establishments.
£
£
£
84,180*
322,525
406,705
Average per annum
16,836
64,505
81,341
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This sum is assumed by a computation at the rate of 237. a-head for 3,6CO convicts.
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The date of these Returns is twenty-six years from the first settlement of Western Australis, and five years from the first introduction of convicts. It will be seen that the comparison between the progress of this Colony, and of New South Wales in its early days, is decidedly favourable to Western Australia.
Although not bearing immediately upon the object of the foregoing review, yet, as a matter of general interest, a brief account is subjoined of the same particulars in the latest Returns (1853) from the two Governments comprised in the original Colony of New South Wales.
New South Wales.
Victoria,
Total.
Population
Horses
231,288
236,798
468,086
139,765
Horned cattle
1,552,285
15,166
410,139
154,931
1,962,424
Sheep
Acres in cultivation
7,929,708 5,594,220 13,523,928
138,052
34,816
172,868
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