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AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY. 



ceived by the colonial authorities. The Gov- 

 ernment placed the steamer Neva at the dis- 

 position of D'Albertis, and a subscription was 

 opened to secure the necessary expenses. 



The annual report of the sub-Protector ot 

 Aborigines in South Australia for 1875 con- 

 tains some interesting statements showing how 

 rapidly the native Australians are disappear- 

 ing even in that colony, where more is done 

 for their protection than in any other. As an 

 example may be cited the Narringerie tribe, 

 which in 1842 numbered 3,200 persons, against 

 511 in 1875. This diminution cannot be ac- 



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counted for by wars with other tribes, or with 

 the whites, for the Narringerie have been 

 affected more by civilization than any other 

 tribe, and live at peace with the whites. It 

 seems that the natives die out all the quicker 

 the more they assume the mode of living of 

 the European settlers. It has been deter- 

 mined that the largest ratio of deaths and 

 the smallest of births are to be found among 

 those blacks who have definitely settled. In 

 the entire native population of South Austra- 

 lia, as far as could be determined, 140 deaths 

 and 52 births were counted in 1875, making an 

 excess of deaths of 88. The measles and the 

 small-pox, which they have received from the 

 whites, constitute a great danger to them. 

 But their greatest scourge is consumption, to 

 which more than one-half of their deaths 

 must be attributed. On the other hand, fevers 

 are entirely unknown to them; although, in 

 contact with the whites, they are often ex- 

 posed to scarlet fever, no such case has ever 

 been reported among them. Over the whole 

 territory of the colony numerous depots have 

 been established, which furnish the sick na- 

 tives medicine and other assistance. The med- 

 icine, however, helps them but little, for they 

 either refuse to take it, or after its use they do 

 not observe the necessary care. 



AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY, an 

 empire in Central Europe. Emperor, Francis 

 Joseph I., born August 18, 1830 ; succeeded 

 his undo, the Emperor Ferdinand I., on De- 

 cember 2, 1848. Heir-apparent to the throne, 

 Archduke Rudolphus, born August 21, 1858. 



The ministry for the common affairs of the 

 empire consisted, toward the close of the year 

 1876, of Count Andrassy, Minister of Foreign 



Affairs and of the Imperial House (appointed 

 1871) ; Baron Leopold Friedrich von Hofmann, 

 Minister of the Finances of the Empire (ap- 

 pointed 1876) ; and Count Arthur Bylandt- 

 Rheidt, Minister of War (appointed 1876). 



The ministry of cis-Leithan Austria was in 

 1876 composed of Prince Adolf von Auersperg, 

 President (appointed November, 1871) ; J. Las- 

 ser Baron von Bollheims, Interior (November, 

 1871) ; C. von Stremayr, Public Works and In- 

 struction (November, 1871); Glaser, Justice 

 (November, 1871) ; J. Ritter von Chlumeccky, 

 Commerce and Political Economy (appointed 

 in November, 1871, Minister of Agriculture; 

 transferred to the Ministry of Commerce in 

 May, 1875) ; Baron von Pretis-Cagnois, Fi- 

 nances (January, 1872) ; Colonel Horst, De- 

 fense of the Country (appointed pro tern. No- 

 vember, 1871, definitely March, 1871); Count 

 Mannsfeld, Agriculture (May, 1875) ; J. Unger 

 (November, 1871) and Florian Ziemialkowski 

 (April, 1873), ministers without portfolio. 



Area of the monarchy, 240,348 square miles ; 

 population, according to the census of 1860, 

 35,901,435. The area of cis-Leithan Austria 

 (the land represented in the Reichsrath) is 

 115,908 square miles ; population, at the end of 

 1874, officially estimated at 21,169,341. The 

 estimate is based upon the census of Decem- 

 ber 31, 1869, by adding the average percentage 

 of increase. It was distributed among the dif- 

 ferent crown-lands as follows: 



COUNTRIES. Inhabitants In 1874. 



Austria below the Enns 2,087,980 



Austria above the Enns 741,918 



Salzburg 163,886 



Styrla 1,164.512 



Carinthia 888.045 



Carniola , 468,065 



Trieste 182,274 



Gorltz and Gradisca 212.849 



Istria 266,808 



Tyrol 787.494 



Vorarlberg 103,341 



Bohemia 5,287,244 



Moravia 2,056,081 



Silesia 544,459 



Galicia 6,827,798 



Bukowina 587,815 



Dalmatia 460,827 



Total 21,169,841 



The civil population of Vienna, according to 

 the enumeration of April 17, 1875, was 1,001,' 

 999 persona. 



Dr. A. Ficker estimates the distribution of 

 the different nationalities for 1876 as follows: 



