AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. 



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The population of Victoria was estimated, on 

 March 31, 1872, at 755,676 ; that of South Aus- 

 tralia, in December, 1871, at 189,018 ; that of 

 Western Astralia, in December, 1871, at 25,353 ; 

 that of Tasmania, in December, 1870, at 100,- 

 765. The revenue, expenditures, and public 

 debt of the colonies were, in 1871, as fol- 

 lows: 



COLONIES. 



New South Wales. 



Victoria 



South Australia... 



Qneenstown 



Western Australia 



Tasmania 



New Zealand 



Total 



3.vi-,.lii.-| 

 7-:,. l^l 



IB.IM 



.'.Hi.injo 



1.KI7.IKHI 



4.602,979 



S,7S4,66 



TW.889 



m,om 



113.046 

 235,000 



i.a-p.M) 



Public D.bL 



iii.ij;.:in 

 11,921.800 

 1,944.700 

 4,106,878 

 none. 

 1.3CK400 

 7,360,616 



87,870,944 



The following table exhibits the imports and 

 exports : 



Railroads and telegraphs continue to make 

 rapid progress in the Australian colonies. The 

 latest dates published concerning them were : 



Denomination*. The number of 

 churches and chapels in New South Wales 

 was, in 1 872, 924 ; that of ministers of religion, 

 501. The average attendage at public wor- 

 ship was 176,596, in 1871. According to the 

 enumerations of 1861 and 1871, the religious 

 divisions of the inhabitants was as follows: 



The Church of England had 277 places of 

 worship; the Free Church of England, 1 ; the 

 Itoninn Catholics, 190; the Presbyterians, 17; 

 the Wesleyan Methodists, 223 ; the Primitive 

 Mi'tlimli.-itH, 39; the Congregationalists, 19; 

 the United Methodists, 4; the Baptists, 16; 

 the Unitarians, 1 ; the German Lutherans, 2 ; 



the Christians, 3 ; the Jews, 2 ; the Christian 

 Israelites, 3. There were 1,232 churches and 

 chapels, and, with the exception of a small 

 vote of 50,000 made by the colonial govern- 

 ment, and available by all denominations, they 

 are entirely self-sustaining. Besides these, 325 

 school-houses, and 577 other buildings, making 

 a grand total of 2,134 buildings of all descrip- 

 tions, are used for public worship. The places 

 used for worship by the several denominations 

 were as follows : Church of England, 200 

 churches, 99 school-houses, and 117 dwellings 

 or public buildings ; Free Church of England, 

 5 churches, 3 school-houses,! dwelling; Pres- 

 byterians, 256 churches, 92 school-houses, and 

 141 dwellings ; Free Presbyterians, 5 churches. 

 3 school-houses, 1 dwelling-house ; Wesleynnsj 

 315 chapels, 30 school-houses, 70 dwellings; 

 Primitive Methodists, 79 chapels, 5 school- 

 houses, 15 dwellings; United Methodist Free 

 Church, 26 chapels, 9 school-houses, and. 4 

 dwellings; Methodist New Connection, 3 

 chapels ; Bible Christians, 46 chapels, and 29 

 dwellings; Congregationalists, C3 chapels, 12 

 school-houses, and 12 dwellings ; Baptists, 43 

 chapels, 35 dwellings ; Evangelical Lutherans, 

 19 chapels, 3 school-houses, 17 dwellings; Uni- 

 tarian Christians, 1 chapel; Welsh Calvinistic 

 Connection, 7 chapels, 1 school-house, and 1 

 temporary place of worship; Christians, or 

 Disciples of Christ, 13 chapels, 17 dwellings ; 

 United Brethren, or Moravians, 2 chapels, 1 

 school-house ; Catholic Apostolic Church, 1 

 chapel, 2 temporary places of worship ; Roman 

 Catholic Church, 137 chapels, 58 school-houses, 

 115 occasional places of worship; Christian 

 Israelites, 4 chapels, 1 school-house; Jews, 4 

 synagogues, 1 school-house, and 5 occasional 

 buildings. The census returns of 1871 thus 

 classify the people according to their creeds : 

 257,835 Episcopalians (including 5,997 Protes- 

 tants not otherwise defined) ; 112,983 Presby- 

 terians; 94,220 Wesleyan Methodists; 18,191 

 Independents, or Congregationalists; 16,311 

 Baptists; 10,559 Lutherans, or German Prot- 

 estants ; 3,540 Christians (Church of Christ) ; 

 93 Moravians and United Brethren ; 1,432 

 Calvinists and Calvinistic Methodists ; 383 

 members of the Society of Friends ; 1,016 Uni- 

 tarians; 1,028 other Protestants ; 170,620 Ro- 

 man Catholics (including 352 Catholics not 

 otherwise defined); 278 Catholic Apostolic 

 Church ; 332 Greek Church ; 285 Israelites and 

 Christian Israelites ; 79 Mormons ; 357 Jews ; 

 18,392 of other sects, including 17,650 pagans; 

 2,737 of no denomination ; 2,150 of no religion; 

 5,560 unspecified ; 9,965 who object to state 

 their religion. 



In South Australia, the aggregate number of 

 churches and chapels is upward of 568, with 

 seats for nearly 110,007 persons, exclusive of a 

 large number of buildings and rooms occasion- 

 ally used for devotional purposes. The mem- 

 bership of the different denominations, accord- 

 ing to the census of 1871, with the places of 

 worship, was as follows : 



