THE "YOUNG HERCULES."
Speaking at a bauquet at Adelaide, Earl Rosebery said—" He had not come among them to see any deficiency of enterprise, but to see a young giant. At home they had old giants such as London, the German Empire, or Mr Gladstone himself—(cheers) —but here they had a young Hercules in Australia, It consisted of an area of 4,300,000 square miles with a population, including New Zealand, of 3,000,000, which had increased during the past 20 years from 1,300,000 or more than doubled the population. Bat that was not the remarkable fact. Here there were none of those miserable beggars who disgraced Englaud. Then this youug Hercules impressed him with its commerce, which was now greater than that of Great Britain at the time of the Queen's accession. Theirs now amounted to .£100,000,000, while that of Britain in 1837 was only £96,000,000 while she had a national debt of £700,000,000. This was an important fact which had impressed the stock exchange of the world.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2336, 22 February 1884, Page 3
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