AUSTIiAI.AHA. 



7.) 



!si;r. The horses numbered 

 I, an inciva-c of 10,413; the horned 

 ;.s.-)(i, an increase of 5,783, 

 : tin- sheep numbered 6,510,005, an 

 : 1.1 M.iiTl, and the pigs numbered 

 .', an increase of 2,122. The imports in 

 valued at 2,505,559, an increase 

 ; the exports at 1,158,- 

 ; decrease of 93,590. The revenue of 

 in:; 1 ,-}:; 1 , t !u- expenditures 617,900. 

 H - ' ralia. The population of this 



colony, oil December 31, 1865, was 20,260, of 

 whom l:;.oo.j were males, and 7,255 were fe- 

 males, an increase in the year of 789. There 

 hail only been 1 (>7 immigrants. 



'lia. The population, on De- 

 cember :;i, 1865, consisted of 80,686 males, and 

 7.~>.!> l:i females, a total of 156,605, and an iu- 

 of '.i.i'ii-i over the preceding year; the 

 iiicrf.i-.i- was produced hy an excess of births 

 leaths of 4,498, and an immigration of 

 4,7i'>i'>. of whom 3,097 were dispatched by the 

 Kmiirration Commissioners. The extent of land 

 sold, to the 31st of December, 1865, was 3,023,- 

 The extent of laud enclosed was 

 .007 acres, of which 659,552 were under 

 cultivation. The revenue of the colony, in 1865, 

 t' 1,089,128, an increase of 313,291 over 

 that of 1S64; the expenditures, 790,504, an 

 f 163,815. The imports were valued 

 at 2.r>r>2,407, an increase of 429,484 over 

 tluiMj of 1864, exclusive of a reexportation to 

 the value of 375,689; the exports at 3,129,- 

 a decrease of 175,699. There are 56 

 miles of railway open, on which, in 1865, were 

 conveyed 402,550 passengers, and 261,183 tons 

 of merchandise; and there were 855 miles of 

 telegraph, along which were sent 112,344 mes- 



Tho ecclesiastical statistics of the colony, in 

 1861, wore as follows : 



Church of England 43,577 



Roman Catholics 15,594 



Wr.'u'yan Mt'tbodists 14,322 



tin-man Lutherans 11,235 



Independents , 6,268 



rininh of Scotland 4,821 



Bible Christians 4 ( 216 



iiun-h of Scotland 4,137 



Primitive Methodists 3,672 



l!a]'ti-N 3,454 



Christians. 1,658 



'' Pivsbyterians 1,572 



itluT Christian denominations 



Unitarians 



Hi-brL-ws 



Mm.iviaiis 



NVw Church 



Society of Friends. 

 Mohammedans and Paeans 

 '- ' 



571 

 493 



217 

 192 

 124 

 112 

 1,391 



Total 126,830 



'. In 1865 the population was 

 1 . and tin- report explains the slow advance 

 made, as the departures usually exceeded 

 the arrivals. At this date only four females 

 remained of the native population. Imports 

 and exports have both been decreasing for some 



The imports of 1865 were cutim; 

 762,375 in value, a decrease of 45,8'JO from 

 the previous year ; the exports, 850,965, a de- 

 < of 94,765. The laud under cultivation 

 in l-s<55 was 250,386 acres, a decrease of 1,778 

 acres from the previous year. There were 100 

 government schools, with 8,30:! pupils. 



New Zealand. By the census taken in De- 

 cember, 1864, the European population, exclu- 

 sive of the military, was found to be 172,158, 

 and in December, 1865, it was estimated at 

 190,607, of whom 117,376 were males, and 

 73,231 were females. The number of immi- 

 grants who had arrived during the year num- 

 bered 18,916, and there were 6,607 departures. 

 The land sales included 503,112 acres, producing 

 344,836, a decrease of 252,847 from the pre- 

 ceding year. The imports in 1865 were valued 

 at 5,594,977, a decrease of 1,405,678 from 

 the preceding year; the exports at 3,713,218, 

 an increase of 31 1,551. The total revenue for 

 1865 was 1,436,990. 



The yield of gold in the Australian colonies, 

 from 1856 to 1866, inclusive, was as follows: 



It will be noticed that the yield of 1866 was 

 only one-half that of 1856. 



One of the most important events that has 

 yet occurred in the history of the Australasian 

 colonies was the Intercolonial Conference, 

 which met at Melbourne on March 4, 1867, and 

 sat for about fourteen days. The members 

 present were : J. McCnlloch, premier of Victo- 

 ria (chairman), and G. Verdon, treasurer of 

 Victoria, represented the Central colony ; Henry 

 Parkes, premier, and J. Docker, postmaster- 

 general, represented New South Wales ; J. Hall, 

 postmaster-general, and Crosbie "Ward, for New 

 Zealand ; J. P. Borcaut, attorney-general, and 

 W. Duffield, treasurer, for South Australia ; A. 

 Macallister, premier, and St. George Gore, post- 

 master-general, for Queenstown ; T. D. Chap- 

 man, colonial treasurer, for Tasmania. West- 

 ern Australia was not represented. The primary 

 object of this meeting of so many of the leading 

 statesmen of the colonies was to discuss the 

 ocean postid routes between Australia and the 

 mother country, and to take united action in 

 carrying out what might be agreed upon as the 

 best course for all concerned. After much dis- 

 cussion, it was decided to maintain three lines, 

 one by way of King George's Sound, one by 

 way of Torres' Straits, and one by way of New 

 Zealand and Panama. (The latter two have, 

 indeed, been already opened successfully by the 



