SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



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Xavier is in the south, and recalls the early days of the colony, when the 

 prophecies of its future importance were few in number. All the other 

 great religious bodies are also creditably represented. 



Nearly all the Government departments are in the vicinity of Victoria 

 Square, an ornamental reserve, through which King William Street, one of 

 the most handsome thoroughfares in Australia, has been carried. No traveller 

 should leave Adelaide without spending some hours in the Botanical Garden. 

 To omit that lovely resort would be an error indeed. 



An Adelaide Public School. 



South Australia contains a little over 300,000 inhabitants. Its chief 

 industries are agricultural, pastoral, and mining. Very early in its history it 

 became the granary of the colonies, and, although it can no longer claim 

 that distinction, it is still one of the few places in the world where the 

 visitor can travel over three hundred miles in the same direction between 

 fields of waving yellow corn. Despite the small returns from wheat-growing, 

 the area under cultivation is enlarged every year, and is now not less than 

 two million acres. More attention is being paid to scientific farming, thanks 

 to the influence of the recently established Agricultural College at Rose- 



