AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
Sydney, September 16. A report in connection with the census shows the private wealth of the colony to be £408.405,000, and pnblic wealth to be £172,805,000, exclusive of £6,i00,000, Municipal properties. The private wealth is equal to £363 per head of the population, and the public £154. Since 1881 the j census total increase has been equal to 100 per cent, and4s percent desposition per head. The increase is without precedent in any part of the world. The indebtedness of the colony is £46,000,000. The public debt is not greater than B*B per cent of the total wealth, and little more than 26 per cent of available assets, and at the disposal of the State.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9189, 17 September 1891, Page 2
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117AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9189, 17 September 1891, Page 2
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