AUSTRALASIA. 



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 was awarded to LonTRayleigh for his 

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M v si A, one of the divisions of the 



' ..-.!. -..-, ;., 



and the island colonies of Great Britain in the 

 Pndflc, with intervening islands. With the ex- 

 of the Dutch part of New Guinea, the 

 ' ales of Bismarck Archipelago 

 flnjftimm TtfyK the French 



cot*,? of New Caledonia, and the New Hebrides 

 and mailer croups stall under native rule, all 



are British colonies or 

 The fire colonies of Australia 

 UM colonir* aland and Tasmania 



Sharing each its re present A- 

 id waponrible miniMr\. 



and making all its 

 .y the Mritish Pnr- 

 iiMMal subject to a'certain resenred reto power 

 of U* Imperial Gorernment and the appellate 

 jvMdktioo of UM British House of Lords in 

 mptrial eoocern. The Crown is rep- 

 a Gorernor in each colony, who, as 

 * bead of the colonial government, 

 M* on UM adrioe of ministers chosen from t he 

 paxlT or combination tha* majoritv 



of OM LsMtadf* Assembly. Fiji is a Crown 



oniony in which the natives are governed parti v 

 bvtjjeir own chiefo according to their tradi- 



latlon.-The area of the 

 colonies, computed from 

 and their esUmaled 



tftnoftDse.il. 



are as follow: 



popula- 



1,17*144 



ISlTIt 





I 



WJOOO. in 



in 1891. in New 

 8,188 half castes; 

 : in QneenslaiML 

 m in the 



settled districts only; in Western Australia 

 there were 5,670 employed by whites. There 

 were 18.000 Chinese in New South Wales in 

 1891,9,877 in Vi.-tnria. U.s; bfa Australia. 



;u Queensland, iama. The 



M are rapidly diminishing since tt 

 tax on Chinese Immigrants was rai 

 Ionics rxccpt; 

 Australia and the north. : 



ilia, The arrival- n .: h Wales in 



1898 were <>nh :M. whilr -V>s left the country. 

 The wages paid to gold miners in Western Au>- 

 tralii have attracted Chinese Immigrants, and 

 still more natives of India and Afghani-tan. 

 The law does not permit people of colored races 

 to tun, e p.ld on their own account. The ( 'him-si- 

 in Queensland are mainly employed in the gold 

 mines. Those in tin- older colonies engage 

 largely in market gardening. The number of 

 Polynesian contract labor* > n-land in 



1601 was 9,428. Th< ..m immigration 



into that colony in 1893 was i.-Ji-j. and the emi- 

 gration 1,348; the Chinese immigrati* 

 548, and the emigration 5:;i. In New Zealand 

 \.\\\ Chinamen were resident in isjii. Tin- 

 Maori population was 22,861 males and I:M::J 

 females. The movement of population for tin- 

 several colonies in 1898 was as follows : 



COLONIES. 



Western Australia . 



TMOUUltft. . . 



nj 



7,74 



ISA 



848 

 4,115 



1 .::; i 



2,112 



IVI16 



18,187 



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4..VJU 



94A 



2,071 



,77 



."i." ll 

 UM 



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11. 4." > 



Mia 

 MM 



10,412 



* KXCM of emigrants. 



Finances. The budgets of the several colo- 

 nies for 1893, and the state of their debts for t h. 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, in New South 

 Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and Smith Ant- 

 tralia; March 31, 1893, in Western Australia 

 and Tasmania; and Dec. 31, IK 

 land and Fiji, are shown in the following table : 



Antr.ll. 



:,; 



8.4.09 



UMt.TM 



:r,TTi 



A40.801 







 M^OIJMO 



Tin- debts were incurred for railroad s 



tion works, and similar public- irnproveiiient. 



dT settled colonies derive a lar- 

 of th'ir rovonuo from railroads, tramways, tele- 

 graph. and another large share from th 

 of ntiblir lands. These lands are sold only in 

 agricultural homesteads. 



Of the revenue of New South Wnl 

 4T9 came from taxation, viz.. L-j.rj7.Ml.", cus- 

 toms, 265.554 excise, 811.:{7 stamp dutios. 

 and 129.643 licenses; 2.206.272 wa- the- 

 amr.unt of the land revenue, 4,418,434 the 

 revenue from the railroads and other servir . 

 and 247.551 from miscellaneous sources. Of 



