PROGRESS OF FIJI.
Late advices from Fiji show that this the latest of Great Britain’s colonies,has become self-supporting. The total expenditure for the year 1880 appears to have been £151,321, and the revenue for the same period £159,302, leaving the Treasurer with a cash balance in hand of £7980. In the expenditure public works figure for the modest sum of £l9Bl, police and armed constabulary £1358, education, £387, and gaols £705. The exports for year 1880 amounted to £229,528,being an increase of £59,488 on previous year ; imports, £185,740, being an increase of £43,528 on the previous year. Beside the huge dimensions to which the trade of IS T ew Zealand has reached, these figures appear very small. They are, however, but the beginning of an extended intercolonial trade, whose limits are in the distant future. It is to be hoped that the proposed steam communication between this Colony and Fiji will be established shortly.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2637, 2 September 1881, Page 2
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154PROGRESS OF FIJI. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2637, 2 September 1881, Page 2
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