BACHELORS IN VICTORIA.
A discussion on marriage has recently been raging in the correspondence columns of the Melbourne papers. The “Telegraph” admits that there are fewer marriages in Victoria in proportion to the population than in European conntries, and adds that the explanation lies to a great extent in the scarcity of ladies in Victoria, Taking unmarried persons of the ago of twenty years and upwards, and the last census returns gave 96,585 bachelors and 25,202 spinsters. We may assume that one-half of the 25,000 young ladies are engaged, and if so, the prospects of the remaining 12,500 m ist he regarded as excellent. They have at least 84,000 bachelors to woo them. It is notorious that in large districts like Talbot and the Wimmera, whole herds of bachelors are running wild, with no more chance of meeting a wife than they have of finding bnnyip. Three typical districts may be quoted. London, 12,454 bachelors, 320 spinsters; Wimmera. 1,134 bachelors, 70 spinsters; Talbot, 5,929 brchfiors, 256 spinsters. Young men proceeding to these districts may well ejaculate, after I)anti—“ All hope abandon ye who enter he e.”
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Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 36, 14 August 1875, Page 3
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