COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Statistics ofthi Colonies — continued.
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Possession >
Area
Population
Sq. miles
Number
Hongkong .
32
115,098 1
Labnan
45
3,828
Ceylon
2-1,700
2,088,027
Mauritius .
70S
322,517
Natal.
16.145
193,103
Cape of Good Hope
200. (Uo
566.158
St. Helena .
47
6.860
Sierra Leone
468
41,800
Gambia
21
6,939
Gibraltar .
Is
24,005
Malta
115 4,556,317
116,852
General total .
161,111,574
The difficulty of making accurate measurements of the area, and of taking enumerations of the population of many of the Colonial Posses- sions, reduces many of the statistics of the above table to mere estimates; and they differ as such, often to a considerable extent, from other official returns.
The commercial importance of the various colonial possessions of the United Kingdom is exhibited in the following table, which gives he total value of their imports and exports, including bullion and pecie, in the year 1868 : —
Colonial Possessions
Total Imports
Total Exports
India (year ending March 31, 1809)
£
50.9-13,191
£ i
53,706,830
Straits Settlements
7,711,680
7,086.005
Ceylon ......
4,403,177
3,786,722
Mauritius .....
2.200.097
2,339,342
Labuan ......
229,726
203.853
Hong Kong (no returns) . Australasia :
—
—
New South Wah-s
8,051,377
7,192,904
Victoria .....
13,320,662
15,593,990
South Australia ....
2,238,510
2,819,300
Western Australia
225,614
192,636
Tasmania .....
845,152
920,820
New Zealand ....
4,985,748
4,429,198
Queensland .... Total of Australasia .
1,899,119
2,107,437
31,566,182
33,256,285
