, 1877-01-21

! Ile Governor OF New South Wales, S1
HERCULES RoDnsos, made speech recant1
at banquet upon the necessity Of feden.
ing the Australian colonies, which is at:1sa.
| ing great attention in England, and viii Ii
likely to attract attention the world ore,
from the surprising facts which it present,
relative to the growth Of Australia-a growth
which has only been paralleled in lin. Of On
own country. In treating Of the populatia
and its growth, the Governor said: "Gt.
population Of New South Wales is at present
but little more than Geo, 600, while th1! d
| the whole Con iuent Of Australia is ebg
100000. The population Of the Unta
States Of America ut the date Of their nd
pendence 100 years ago WAS but little abpa
2.000, 600, and now it is over 40,000, co..
As to the prospective growth # the coloms
the Governor says: =:
Supposing that oa1y the recent New South Tsla
increase Of I PEE cent annually Is maintained Tt
population of this Continent Ut that rate, at Il.
end OF the present century, twenty lire fe.n
hence,-w be over 5, GOO. OG0; twenty five yea1
later 1t will be =, 600. o0o; while in the year 1850
it will be 81, $50, 900, which the population
the Cnitcd Kingdom by the Inst censas. t2k-n d
1871. think th:t my estimate Of increase fos
Australia, which Ia based upon the recent est,1-
lished rate Of increase In New South Waies, Of
per cent annually, vii! be found to be bclox TIT
mark. Assuming that the recent rate Of increase
in the United Kingdom is not diminished, aul thf
for Australia is not augmented, the Population Of
Australia will, IN 1885, be over 50, 600, 00c, Hha
was the population Of the United States Of Aued'
ca at the last census In 1870.
The present growth and future prospects
Of Australia are not the only arguments
which show the imperative necessity Of fsd-
Grafton. Australia is divided at present into
six or seven districts, which have vary itas
in common, and have independent systems
of administration Of all their affairs- 1heJ
have no common system Of defense. Ihen
is no system OF free trade between them.
and 3 citizen cannot take good
from one to the other without paying duties
The result is continual increase OF snug
Cling. There is not even common system
Of postal service, railroads, or te1egzaphy.
There is such bad state Of feeling between
the different districts that they have heea
perverse enough even to hare their oss
railroad gauges differing from those of thsn
rivals. Out Of this grows jea1ousies, IN"
willingness to help each other, refusas 70
combine for the common good, and even
upon each other, all Of when
ENDS to hinder the common prosperity o.
he whole country. Tho commercial intsf'
ests of Australia are no less remarkable thsa
is growth Of population, as may be seen o1
he following extract from speech read "
he same banquet by the Governor Of W.
oria, who, speaking Of the States OF Aat
ralia when federated, said:
Even now the dominion Of Australia would aks
Ter place among the ten or twelve great nations@ o.
be world; for the dominion OF Austra1s d.
lreadv in the aggregate public revenue q
II. COO 600 year, md aggregate trade, tneiua'
ng imports and exports, Of 800, 600, 600 sterling.
Fhy, the single colony Of Tictoria, one Only q
he gronp Of Australian colonies, has now pun1s
,yenue Of four aud half millions yearly, Fnlea
as large as the public revenue Of the six coton&"
hich form the Dominion Of Canada.
Nearly Ill the English papers favor tae
,deration of this wonderful country, Thlea
, the short period of twenty-five years ns
ecome nation of 1000, 600 people. -"