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Catalogue of the British Section. 
TROUETTE & BLANCHPIED, Great 
Western.—Wine. 
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TRUSTEES OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 
Melbourne.—Specimens of Australian Animals. 
TYNAN, John, Ballarat.—Double Wheeled 
Plough. 
UNITED OVENS GOLD AND TIN 
MINING COMPANY.—Lead, Antimony, and 
Iron Ores. 
VETTLER, John, Echuca.—Wines. 
VICTORIA MEAT PRESERVING COM 
PANY, ii 8, Market Street, Melbourne.—Preserved 
Meats and Soups. 
VICTORIA WOOLLEN COMPANY', 
Geelong.—Woollen Tweeds and Shawls. 
WATSON & PATERSON, Bourke Street 
West, Melbourne.—Bacon and Harns. 
WEBER, Jacob, Leigh Road.—Wine. 
WESTERN MEAT PRESERVING COM 
PANY, Colac.—Preserved Meats, Game, andPoultry. 
WITTBER, August, 43, Gipps Street, East 
Melbourne.—German “ Australian Gazette.” 
ZORN, Edward, Oakleigh, near Melbourne. 
—Tomato Sauce. 
NEW ZEALAND. 
The Colony of New Zealand consists of three principal islands, called respectively the 
North, the Middle, and the South (or Stewart’s) Island, and several small islets (mostly 
uninhabited); the chief of which are the Chatham Isles and the Aucldand Isles. The 
three principal islands extend in length 1,100 miles, but their breadth is extremely 
variable, ranging from 46 miles to 250 miles; the average being about 140 miles. 
Statistics of New Zealand.—Thecensusof 1871 showed that the population ofNew 
Zealand (exclusive of the Aborigines), amounted in the February of that year to 256,393 ; 
having increased from 99,021 in 1861. The revenue, the trade, and the other elements of 
material prosperity have increased during the same period in nearly equal proportions. 
Thus the revenue was in 1861, 691,464/., and in 187.1, 1,342,116/. The population of the 
chief towns, (including their suburbs) was in 1871, in round numbers, as follows :—Welling 
ton, (the seat of the General Government), 8,000; Dunedin, 21,000; Aucldand, 20,000; 
Christchurch, 12,000; Nelson, 6,000. 
Revenue, (Ordinary and Territorial).—1860,464,739/.; 1870, 1,384,639/.; 
2871, 1,342,116/. Public Debt ofNew Zealand in 1872 was, 9,983,341/. 
Imports and Exports.— 1860, Imports, 1,548,333/.; Exports, 588,953/. 1870, 
Imports, 4,639,015/.; Exports, 4,822,756/. 1871, Imports, 4,078,192/. ; Exports, 5,282,084/. 
Land and Crops. (Land and cultivatiotis of aboriginal natives not included.)—The 
extent of holdings in the Colony in February, 1871, was returned as 22,774,498 acres, 
against 18,762,057 acres in December, 1867, viz. : freehold, 5,637,838 acres, against 
5,068,440 acres in 1867, and leasehold, 17,126,660 acres in 1871, (against 13,693,617 acres 
in 1867. The total number of acres fenced was 6,778,773, against 3,455,588 in 1867. 
The quantity of land broken up but not under crop, was, in 1871, 116,204 acres, against 
94,311 acres in 1867. The total quantity of land under crop, as shown by the Census of 
1871, (including sown grasses) was, 1,042,042 acres, against 676,909 acres in 1867. Inthis 
total were 77,082 acres of wheat, against 47,786 acres in 1867; 123,135 acres of oats, 
against 101,563 acres in 1867; 23,071 acres of barley, against 13,136 acres in 1867, 
12,901 acres of potatoes, against 14,372 acres in 1867; 776,402 acres of sown grasses, 
against 472,893 acres in 1867. In other crops there were 29,450 acres, against 27,159 
Acres in 1867.