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steeped in phosphorus. The only other risk Dr. Julian Dunajewski, Finance (1880); Florian 



the sheep-grazer has to encounter is the occa- Ziemialkowski (April, 1873). 

 sional occurrence of inundations. Of the' The area of the entire monarchy is 622,837 



" squatters " who raise sheep on the public square kilometres ; population, according to 



land some possess flocks numbering 200,000 or the census of 1880, 37,741,413. The area of 



300,000, one as many as 500,000, and a con- Cisleithan Austria, or Austria proper, is 300,- 



siderable number owning from 50,000 to 100,- 249 square miles; the population, according to 



000 sheep. the census of 1880, was 22,130,684. The popu- 



In the autumn an outbreak of the Maori lation of the different crown-lands, according 



population was threatened. The cause of the to the census of 1869 and that of 1880, was as 



trouble was the survey of territory occupied follows : 



by natives, preliminary to opening it to white _ 



settlement. It 'was a district in the province COUNTRIES. i860. i8o. 



of Taranaki which was declared confiscated by 



, ,, ff, ., , T^ Austria below the Enns 1,990,708 2.329,021 



the Government after the Waikato war. In Austria above the Enns 786,557 760>79 



the confiscated territory, Te Whiti, a chief who Salzburg 163,566 



has been converted to Christianity and passes cSfathii;.' .'".'.'! ^al^ew ^sltJTO 



for a prophet among the natives, fixed his Capioia. ...I!..'!.'.'"...!!..'"" 466J334 4Si,'i76 



residence and gathered the discontented na- rie .! te -r/v y. onJ'i^I 



j u- rrir. j Goritz and Gradisca 206.244 210,241 



tives around nun. 1 he same man championed istria 266,734 295,854 



the cause of natives who were expelled from Ty 1 '...'..'.'."'.'.'. 782J58 805'326 



their lands two years before, and nearly J^^;;;;;;;; 6 f 6 ^ 7 7 ;** 



brought about a collision between them and Moravia 2,017,274 2,151,619 



the Government. The danger of an outbreak g^- 5 J|jj$ 5 j*jj. 



was still more imminent this time, but was Bukowin'a'.".'." !!'.!" '.!!!'.!!!'.." '513.404 '669^99 



averted by the prompt capture and arrest of Daimatia 458,611 474,489 



the instigator. Tota , 20,396,680 22,180,684 



The British possessions in the Pacific have 



been increased by the annexation of the Island The popu i a tion of the principal cities and 



of Rotmnah which has been placed under the to according to the census of December 



direction of the Governor of the Feejee Islands. 31 1880 was as fo]lows . 

 The new dependency has an area of about 



twenty-four square miles, and contained in s^| ( ***^::::::::::::":::: SJeoI 



1871 2,680 inhabitants. A massacre was per- Lemberg.'.'.!!. '.!.". '.'.':. '.'.'.'.I!.".!'.'.'.'..'...! losjooo 



petrated by the Christian natives of Tapitawa, 



one of the Equator Islands, under the leader- Cracow..' ............'........'.'.'.".'......'.'..' 60.679 



ship of a convert named Kabu. The victims Pjisen 8S,i32 



were the inhabitants of the southern portion Czernovitz I'.'.'.'.'. '. '.'. ai'wo 



of the island, who had renounced Christianity, Eeichenberg ".'!."!!!!!.'.".'!.'!.'."!.'!.'!.'!!!! 27^00 

 and refused to submit to the rule of Kabu. Laybach 24940 



AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY, an s a "S:::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::: &[$ 



empire in Central Europe. Emperor, Francis Neustadt (Wiener) 2i,87 



Joseph I, born August 18, 1830 ; succeeded his ohnatz" !! !*.!!"."..""II" !!! '.'. '.'.'.'.'.'.'. 20,'i24 

 uncle, the Emperor Ferdinand I, December 2, Goritz ...!'.!.!.."..!!.!!!.!.!.!".!!..!.! i9]433 

 1848. Heir-apparent to the throne, Archduke &* ] 



T> j 1 i i.* ^ n-i in*n j Innspruck 19.183 



Rudolphus, born August 21, 1858; married on Prossnitz 19,018 



May 10, 1881, to Stephanie Clotilde, second Staler.. 16,919 



daughter of the King of Belgium, born May SS? 16508 



21, 1864. Marburg 17,628 



The Ministry for the Common Affairs of the wSdorf '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. ! ' '. '. '. '. \w& 

 Empire consisted, toward the close of the year 



1881, of Count Kalnoky, Minister of Foreign In accordance with the political constitution 



Affairs and of the Imperial House (appointed of the Austrian Empire, there are three dis- 



1881) ; Joseph von Szlavy, Minister of the tinct budgets : the first, that of the delega- 



Finances of the Empire (appointed April 8, tions for the whole empire; the second, that 



1880); and Count Arthur Bylandt - Rheidt, of the Reichsrath for Austria proper ; and the 



Minister of War (appointed 1876). third, that of the Hungarian Diet, for the king- 



The Ministry of Cisleithan Austria, at the dom of Hungary. By an agreement, or so- 

 close of 1880, was composed of Count Eduard called "compromise," entered into in Feb- 

 Taaffe, President (appointed August 14, 1879) ; ruary, 1868, between the Governments and 

 Baron Pino, Justice (1881); Baron Sigmund Legislatures of Austria and Hungary, the 

 Conrad von Eybesfeldt, Public Worship and former has to pay seventy and the latter thirty 

 Instruction (1880) ; Count Zeno von Welsers- per cent toward the common expenditures of 

 heimb, Defense of the Country (1880); Count the empire, not including the interest on the 

 Julius von Falkenhayn (August 14, 1879), Ag- national debt. The common budget of the 

 riculture; Dr. Alois Prazak, Commerce (1881) ; empire for 1880 was as follows: 



