The Wealth and Progress of New South Wales, 1897-8. By
T. A. Coghlan. (W. A. Gullick, Sydney, N.S.W.)—This is the eleventh issue of the official statistics of the Colony. So large a volume—it exceeds a thousand pages—necessarily requires some time in preparation. Consequently it seems to some a little out of date. The year of 1900 is moving on, and we are called back to the statistics of 1893. The main outline of facts, however, remains without change, and what alterations have to be made in figures indicate growth. The total trade of the year was 252,101,677, an increase of more than six millions on the total for 1897. The railways and tramways show a profit of about one million and a half. The cost of construction was a little more than thirty-two millions, or with rolling-stock and machinery, thirty- five millions. This gives about 4 per cent. return,
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