Australian And New Zealand Gazette (Newspaper) - June 4, 1853, London, Middlesex WITH WHICH ABE THE AND A OF INTELLIGENCE FROM NEW south south and van and new 84.-New JUNE 4, 1853. Price 6d. Of Til OT 521 of Events in 526 Report of the Melbourne Chamber of 588 Miscellaneous 529 Labour Market 521 Miscellaneous 531 Var Laud Late and Important from 532 Letter from a Merchant 532 Miscellaneous New Sooth Australia as it is in 1858 522 Gold 6J8 Commercial Prices of Produce Prices 524 Spirits and Mr. Mort's Produce 524 Sydney 525 The 635 Miscellaneous 525 Latest Colonial 633 Shaeb CiTt Intelligence 633 Opening of a Fresh Block of 535 Miscellaneous News 536 Miscellaneous Letter by a Sheep 636 Miscellaneous 637 687 Gold 683 The Condition of Auckland and its Gold 538 - Beward for the of 635 Queen's 8mwch 637 TO 688 New lealand Shipping LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS FOR THE By the 3rd of and of every alternate Letters must under the Overland vid on the 8th of tho same Letters must be prepaid Is. under 2*. The contract vid the having been occasional contracts are entered into by the Post which are Letters must be prepaid Is. under the by writing the To other Places in New South under Is. To all other Australian must tie under in each 1<2. If a Private noted for quick and sailing be this is at present the better New By Overland charges as By must he prepaid 8dt under GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE SOUTHERN Sarah Sands arrived from Australia at Plymouth on Saturday evening with 300 passengers and 80,000 ounces of value 320,000/. Her somewhat protracted passage has been owing to the bad weather which she as well on this Bide of the as on the Indian Ocean She brings one of the largest mails which have yet reached this country from urns making our files complete to the of her Besides the 80,000 ounces brought by the Sarah the following ships have arrived since our last with extensive gold - 17,054 11,608 10,000 20,718 May 650 56,820 27,380 224,230 of the value of 896,920*. The arrival of the Melbourne has already been notified by vessels which left subsequently to the Sarah but she brings copious accounts of inconvenience and disappointment consequent on the of 'the mail The Melbourne's mail is said to be seriously injured from the access of water to the bags during the many of the letters being in a defaced and rotten states Even such as were were almost useless from the the mystery in which they had involved commercial goods having in many in- stances arrived in sailing vessels before the advices and bills of lading on board the so that in place of an steam has hitherto been productive of nothing but irregularity and We last week pave an abstract of a statistical table relative to the gold production of which table was compiled by Mr. In our present number will be found a paper on the same subject by Mr. drawn up for the Melbourne Chamber of which embraces the whole industrial condition of the province of As too much value cannot be attached to documents from such a we shall give a synopsis of it in our The estimated quantity of gold brought to Melbourne and to 31st December 1852, was 4,890,926 From the 1st of January 1853, to the 5th of February 275,308 So that the total product of the province since the discovery of the gold fields has been 5,166,234 at the average rate of 75*, per amounts in value to 19,373,317/., or at the English value to 20^664,936/. In the present Mount Alexander has produced the Ovens district the next largest and Ballarat the The effect of the gold discovery upon the commerce of the province has truly In 1838, the imports 71,000/,; in 1852, they were 4,043,896/. In 1838, the exports were 21,000/.; in 1852, they were 7,451,549/. In 1838, the population was 5000; in 1852, it was 200,000* Even in two 1850 to 1852,-^the revenue has risen from 261,000/. to the Imports from 744,000/. to 4,000,000/ Jrom a last year they amounted to 4^34,000/. The coin and from no return in the former is set down at 3,000,000/. in the latter and the valuation of the town of which in 1850 was 154,000/., in 1852, was more than or 638,000/. The expenditure of the province is upon almost a national Thus we find 64,000/. set down as the post office expenditure in the present public works alone to cost 719,000/.; and order is maintained at an expense of 317,000/. is vided for at an expense of 79,000/, or one twentieth of the whole a fact which should operate as an example on the English Some items relative to the trade of the province should demand the attention of English In 1852, the imports from foreign states were just one half of those from The figures - Foreign 1,027,000/.; British 2,013,000/. This state of things has increased in 1850, the imports of foreign produce were 125,000; those of British 517,000/., so that the imports of foreign produce two years ago were only one fourth that of The staple exports in the last year had increased in wool from 16,000,000 in 1851, and 18,000,000 in 1850, to 20,000,000, notwithstanding the gold but the increase is in some measure accounted for by a proportion of the wool of the preceding year having been thrown into 1852, from the derangement of the labour market in 1851. Some of the wool was also in The export of tallow had decreased more than one in consequence of the supply of sheep required for the sustenance of the additional The gold produced is thus accounted The total exported was 3,821,160 including the overland escort to exports are to Great New South South and Van The quantity on hand in the colony is estimated at 1,060,763 The proportion produced in the first year of the gold 1851, was 245,146 the produce of 1852 was 4,545,780 or at English 18,183,120/. for the year's Our present number contains most valuable of the condition of the Australian so that it is unnecessary to summarize our intelligence further in this An act has passed the Legislative Council of New South Wales for the purpose of establishing a self-supporting system of The colonists will observe that with the voluntary emigration setting in towards it is useless to spend their funds in promoting emigration from as they can employ them to better The feature of the measure that one