Growth of the Colonies

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 115, 14 March 1885, Page 3

Growth of the Colonies

The Quarterly Review refers in the following terms to the growth of the colonial empire : — "There are at present living in new lauds acirtss the seas uo less than ten millions of English colonists ; aud v is calculated that before the present century ends, they will increase to nearly twenty millions. To give an example of Australian progress : it is calculated that from 1851 to 1881, the population of the Australian colonies have increased more than sixfold ; and that the value of imports And exports is eleven or twelve times greater in, the last year of this period thai) it was in the first. " Fifty years ago, Australia was was known only as a penal settlement ; now, the population is nearly three millions. If we turn to Canada we shall find that, according to Mi Mulhall's 'Balance Sheet of the World,' our four millions of colonists there, carry on almost as large a trade as that of Great Britain at the beginning of this century. "The trade has multiplied within comparatively few years, and at a rate four times greater than the increase of population."

gave a temperance luncheon, which was attended by the aldermen and councillors, ) the two vicars, Earl Powis, and other I ' persons of influence ; and all passed off , pleasantlr. the guests being perfectly satisfied. The first petty sessions he attended after his last election he was ' engaged frem 10.30 a.m. till 7 p.m. with 1 drink. r i The M ayor of Bottle (William Poul som , ' Esq ) was chairman of the Liverpool i British Workman Public-house Company, > which had opened forty-four cocea rooms, , and was paying ten per cent, When , requested to take office as Mayor, he did not ask his constituents if they would . accept him on any specified terms, but his temperance festive entertainments had given universal satisfaction. He was ' proud to bear his testimony that it had be«*n much better for him to act t>n temperance lines, and, by tin? help of God, be intended to continue on them to the end. (To be Continued)