THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN FIGURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 20 February 1909, Page 4

THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN FIGURES.

Some idea of (lie immense size ol th.e British Empire and of the teeming millions who inhabit’it is obtained from the latest volume of statistical abstracts, published at Home. The total area of the British colonies, possessions, and ptoleclorales in 11,211,000 square miles, supporting a population of 343,748,000 subjects. Of this British India comprises 1,0147,821 square miles, with 231,855,533 inhabitants; the feudatory native Slates, which are not included, possessing 675,267 squares miles and 62,461,549 people. The subjoined extracts from the financial tables indicate the richness of the Empire, and relate to 1907: —British India, expenditure revenue ,£71,177.5°° 5 Commonwealth ol Australia, ,£36,260,448 and ,£38,658,834 ; New Zealand, ,£8,320,580 and ,£9, 1 54,-95 >' Natal, ,£3,681,914 and £,3,47 r . 932; Gape ot Oocd Hoi e, ,£8,3 49,316 and ,£7,701.192 ; Transvaal, £4,648,071 and ,£4,-150,867 ; West Alrica, .£2,722,756 and ,£2,758,267; Canada, ,£10,594,777 and >£l3,971,473 ; West Indies, £,'2,422,712 and £,2,664,076. The total imports, including bullion and specie into the various British dominioi s amounted in 1907 to £,37 8 . 1 55.0° 0 > of which £ji76,957.°°0 "as sent from the United Kingdom. £,64,549,000 from British possessions', and >£136,649,000 from largest foreign c mi.tries. '1 he customer- of the United King dom was India, which took im; 011worth £,77,773,928. Australia was next with >£31,956,447 followed by Canada with >£19,700,000 : British South Africa, with >£16,237,363 ; and New Zealand, with £,10,278,019. The total value efthe exports from the British possessions was £,399,273,000, of which >£175,667,000 went to lie United Kingdom, ,£59,047,000 to British possessions, and ,£161,599,000 to loreign countries. British South Africa, with >£45.375,259. sent the largest amount home, followed by Australia, >£33.975.579 : British India, >£32,724,414; and British North America, ,£27,950,817, The British B',mpire is the greatest gold producer in the world. The Transvaal comes first of its various Stales with a produce of ,£27,410,coo in 1907, Australia is second with >£13,511,000, Southern Rhodesia third' with >£2,178,000, and India and New Zealand nearly equal in the fourth place, each with slightly over two millions’ woith of output. The total output of the Empire was almost exactly >£50,000, 000 woith of gold in 1907.

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YOU AND YOURSELF.

When you are 111, do you know what makes you ill ?

“ Know thyself,” is a useful proverb But how many people do know themselves P Do yon ? When you are ill, do you know what is making you ill? Gould you given reason ? Could you guess the cause ? If you have an abscess, there is no doubt about your condition. There is the sore place to be seen. Similarly, men or women with a cold on the chest ami a severe cough, have definite symptoms and can describe precisely what is wrong with them, when (he doctor calls.

Uni mrst people are not ill in these plain, obvious, matter-of-fact ways—many limes in their lives. They may be constantly ill, in vague, uneasy ways. Beyond realising one o two vague causes of distress, apparently of little moment, they seem well and feel they ought to be well. Only—they never are well. One gets up in the morning tired. Another feels dull and heavy. Another flushes in the face and lias palpitation on mounting the sta : rs. Still another feels depressed at the end of the day and cannot sleep at night, though tired out.

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