THE COLONIAL EMPIRE.
The Quarterly Review refers m the following terms to the growth of the colouial empire : — " r j.Mi«Jro are at present living m new, lands across the seas no less than ten millions of English colonists ; and it i* calculated that, before the present century ends, they will increase to nearly twenty millions. To give an example of Australian progress : it is calculated thrft, ft'oin 1851 to 1881, the population of tho Australian colonies have increased more than sixfold ; ami that the value of imports and exports is eleven or twelve times greater an the last year of this period than ifc was m the first. Fifty years ago, Australia ■was known only as a penal settlement ; now, the population is nearly three millions. If we turn to Canada we shall find tliat, 'according to Mr Mulhall's 'Balance Sheet of the World,' our four millions of colonists there, curry. 6n almost as liirge a'trade as that of Great Britain at the beginning of this century.. The trade bis .multiplied within comparatively low years, aiid.at'a rate: ion r times greater than the increase of population."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 97, 27 March 1885, Page 2
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186THE COLONIAL EMPIRE. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 97, 27 March 1885, Page 2
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