Most interesting of all Australian colonies - Queensland (the population 472 179) as it is the

Most interesting of all Australian colonies - Queensland (the population 472 179) as it is the tropical country with a climate, so salutary, that white people can live in it both to be convenient and to be healthy. The heat instead of was exhausting, stimulates and surrounds. The most part of its soil has unsurpassed abundance. A unique lack - unequal distribution within a year of a downpour. But everywhere, where irrigational wells are shipped, the climate becomes very approaching for lifting of sheep, and also for growth of many kinds of fruit. Already there are 15 000 000 sheep and 5 000 000 horned livestock in a colony, and the wool is exported for the sum 15 000 000$ annually. Other agricultural export is frozen beef and mutton, and disappears also skin. A wool - the main export. The second export to importance is gold which reaches 10 000 000$ in a year. Tin also is exported, [174] and coal though worked a little,
It is a lot of. Developing export - sugar (2 500 000$ in a year), , a clap, tobacco, rice, and coffee. Difficulty, however, in development of these products is a labour question. White cannot work in plantations. Chineses prefer to work in mines. Natives will not work somewhere. No Negroes are accessible. As consequence Inhabitants of Polynesia should be imported. Brisbane (100 913) is the capital both the main city and port.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA