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Explorations in Australia: 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.Forrest, John Forrest, Baron

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Explorations in Australia: 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.

Name: Explorations in Australia: 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.
Author: Forrest, John Forrest, Baron

Forrest, John Forrest, Baron

Australia -- Description and travel; Australia -- Discovery and exploration

42. Should your lordship, considering the position in which I found
Western Australia--the reduction of imperial expenditure it has been my
duty to effect, the failure of the wheat crop for four successive seasons
and consequent depression, the inexperience of a new Legislature, the
absence of any propositions for the benefit of the colony from the
opposition, the obstacles thrown at first in the way of all measures
which have eventuated in good--should you, considering these things and
the present state of the colony, be of opinion that the administration of
its affairs during the last five years has not been unsatisfactory or
unfruitful, I beg that you will award a due share of credit to the
Colonial Secretary, who, as my mouthpiece in the Legislature, has carried
on single-handed all parliamentary business, and also to those gentlemen
who are now, or have at various times been, members of my executive, and
who have ever united to support me; to the nominated members of the
Legislature who have steadily voted for all the measures which have led
to the present progress of the colony, and whose merits the
constituencies have fully recognized by electing them as representatives
on vacancies in every case where they have stood; to the elected members,
who every session have given me increased support, and who, forming
two-thirds of the Legislature, had it in their power entirely to have
reversed my policy; and lastly, to the people of Western Australia, who
on each election have increased my strength, on whose ultimate good
sense, I--knowing colonists, myself an old colonist--put my reliance, a
reliance which has not been disappointed.

I have, etc.,

(Signed) FRED. A. WELD,

Governor.

The Earl of Carnarvon,

etc. etc. etc.

...


STATISTICS IN POUNDS/SHILLINGS/PENCE.

VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FROM 1861 TO 1873.

1861 : 147,912 : 95,789.
1862 : 172,991 : 119,313.
1863 : 157,136 : 143,105.
1864 : 169,856 : 132,738.
1865 : 168,413 : 178,487.
1866 : 251,907 : 150,066.
1867 : 204,613 : 174,080.
1868 : 225,614 : 192,636.
1869 : 127,977 : 101,359.
1870 : 213,258 : 200,984.
1871 : 198,011 : 199,288.
1872 : 226,656 : 209,107.
1873 : 297,328 : 265,217.

VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FOR 1874.

COLUMN 1: COUNTRIES.
COLUMN 2: IMPORTS.
COLUMN 3: EXPORTS.

United Kingdom : 188,243/10/8 : 268,726/4/0.

British Colonies:
 Victoria : 75,588/7/0 : 8,038/1/0.
 South Australia : 44,021/9/2 : 41,004/11/0.
 New South Wales : 1,236/4/9.
 New Zealand : 2,065/1/6 : 12,768/6/0.
 Mauritius : 23,247/7/4 : 3,435/1/0.
 Singapore : 11,346/19/2 : 53,648/16/0.
 Ceylon : 1,135/2/0 : 437/0/0.
 British India : 20/10/0 : 1,345/0/0.
 All other British Possessions : 20/10/0 : 130/3/7.

Foreign Countries
 China : 11,461/18/0 : 36,133/17/0.
 Java : 5,646/2/6 : 2,934/19/6.
 Timor : 246/14/4.
 U.S. of America : 3/15/0 : 101/0/0.
 Macassar : - : 118/0/0.
 Whaling Ground : - : 16/0/0.

Total : 364,262/15/0 : 428,836/19/1.

REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE FROM 1861 TO 1873.

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Explorations in Australia: 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.

Forrest, John Forrest, Baron

Australia -- Description and travel; Australia -- Discovery and exploration

42. Should your lordship, considering the position in which I found
Western Australia--the reduction of imperial expenditure it has been my
duty to effect, the failure of the wheat crop for four successive seasons
and consequent depression, the inexperience of a new Legislature, the
absence of any propositions for the benefit of the colony from the
opposition, the obstacles thrown at first in the way of all measures
which have eventuated in good--should you, considering these things and
the present state of the colony, be of opinion that the administration of
its affairs during the last five years has not been unsatisfactory or
unfruitful, I beg that you will award a due share of credit to the
Colonial Secretary, who, as my mouthpiece in the Legislature, has carried
on single-handed all parliamentary business, and also to those gentlemen
who are now, or have at various times been, members of my executive, and
who have ever united to support me; to the nominated members of the
Legislature who have steadily voted for all the measures which have led
to the present progress of the colony, and whose merits the
constituencies have fully recognized by electing them as representatives
on vacancies in every case where they have stood; to the elected members,
who every session have given me increased support, and who, forming
two-thirds of the Legislature, had it in their power entirely to have
reversed my policy; and lastly, to the people of Western Australia, who
on each election have increased my strength, on whose ultimate good
sense, I--knowing colonists, myself an old colonist--put my reliance, a
reliance which has not been disappointed.

I have, etc.,

(Signed) FRED. A. WELD,

Governor.

The Earl of Carnarvon,

etc. etc. etc.

...


STATISTICS IN POUNDS/SHILLINGS/PENCE.

VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FROM 1861 TO 1873.

1861 : 147,912 : 95,789.
1862 : 172,991 : 119,313.
1863 : 157,136 : 143,105.
1864 : 169,856 : 132,738.
1865 : 168,413 : 178,487.
1866 : 251,907 : 150,066.
1867 : 204,613 : 174,080.
1868 : 225,614 : 192,636.
1869 : 127,977 : 101,359.
1870 : 213,258 : 200,984.
1871 : 198,011 : 199,288.
1872 : 226,656 : 209,107.
1873 : 297,328 : 265,217.

VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FOR 1874.

COLUMN 1: COUNTRIES.
COLUMN 2: IMPORTS.
COLUMN 3: EXPORTS.

United Kingdom : 188,243/10/8 : 268,726/4/0.

British Colonies:
 Victoria : 75,588/7/0 : 8,038/1/0.
 South Australia : 44,021/9/2 : 41,004/11/0.
 New South Wales : 1,236/4/9.
 New Zealand : 2,065/1/6 : 12,768/6/0.
 Mauritius : 23,247/7/4 : 3,435/1/0.
 Singapore : 11,346/19/2 : 53,648/16/0.
 Ceylon : 1,135/2/0 : 437/0/0.
 British India : 20/10/0 : 1,345/0/0.
 All other British Possessions : 20/10/0 : 130/3/7.

Foreign Countries
 China : 11,461/18/0 : 36,133/17/0.
 Java : 5,646/2/6 : 2,934/19/6.
 Timor : 246/14/4.
 U.S. of America : 3/15/0 : 101/0/0.
 Macassar : - : 118/0/0.
 Whaling Ground : - : 16/0/0.

Total : 364,262/15/0 : 428,836/19/1.

REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE FROM 1861 TO 1873.

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Explorations in Australia: 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.

Explorations in Australia: 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.

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