HISTORICAL REVIEW OF VICTORIA. 



365 



million pounds sterling. The gold raised reaches an average of eight hundred thousand 

 ounces, of the value of four million pounds ; and the total contributions of Victoria to 

 the world's stock of this precious metal exceeds fifty-six million ounces, valued at two 

 hundred and twenty-four million pounds. The combined import and export trade of the 

 colony represents a yearly 

 average of over thirty-one 

 million pounds sterling ; 

 the bulk of the exports 

 being articles of Victorian 

 produce or manufacture. 



There are upwards 

 of twenty-two hundred 

 miles of railway open for 

 traffic, and more than ten 

 thousand miles of tele- 

 graph in operation. 

 Nearly sixteen hundred 

 post-offices are scattered 

 over the face of the 

 country, and there are 

 upwards of six hundred 

 telegraph stations. 



The spiritual wants 

 of the people are minis- 

 tered to by eleven hun- 

 dred priests and clergy- 

 men of various denomi- 

 nations, and there are as 

 many as four thousand 

 three hundred buildings 

 used for Divine service, 

 providing accommodation 



for eight hundred thousand worshippers. The registered clergy, by returns to the ist of 

 January, 1888, numbering one thousand one hundred and one, were classified as follows: 

 Church of England, one hundred and ninety-seven ; Free Church of England, one ; 

 Roman Catholics, one hundred and twenty-three ; Presbyterians, two hundred and seven ; 

 Free Presbyterians, six ; Wesleyans, one hundred and thirty-seven ; Primitive Methodists, 

 thirty-six ; United Methodist Free Church, twenty-seven ; Congregationalists, fifty-seven ; 

 Baptists, forty-five ; Bible Christians, thirty-nine ; Evangelical Lutherans, fourteen ; Welsh 

 Calvinists, nine ; Church of Christ, twenty-one ; Moravians, three ; Protestants unattached, 

 one ; Unitarian, one ; Union, eight ; Swedenborgian, one ; Society of Friends, two ; 

 Catholic Apostolic, sixteen ; Christian Israelites, one ; Jews, eight ; Salvation Army, one 

 hundred and thirty-seven ; Australian Church, one ; and Seventh Day Adventists, three. 

 The higher education of the inhabitants of the colony is conducted by the Univer- 



SIR HENRY BROUGHAM LOCH. 



