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UliU 4.U.4 i 4^ U-iiJ «Wo may further note a few novel facts in connection with our Australian colonies. It will surprise most of our readers that out of the entire population of Victoria (731,528) in the spring of 1871, no less than 329,597 were native horn, while the same colony is confronted with t a serious political and social problem in theshape of nearly 18,000 Chinese settlers.Though the submarine telegraphic communication is still imperfect, the South Australians with remarkable enterprise seriously propose to supplement the overland line with an actual railway across tke continent. One more fact. Victoria has twenty million acres of land fit for agricultural purposes, still unoccupied, and New Zealand eight millions. It may be said with almost as much truth of Victoria as of New Zealand, that “for the next century the colony will be capable of absorbing an almost unlimited number of new settlers with profit to the country and advantage to the immigrants.55f
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Nonconformist
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Sep 04, 1872
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