VICTORIAN CENSUS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 225, 28 June 1872, Page 3

VICTORIAN CENSUS.

Summary tables and tabular results of the | Victorian Census of 1871, were presented to Parliament on Tuesday. It appears that of dwellings, exclusive of stores, tents, &c., there were occupied ; 6,997 unoccupied, and 866 in course of erection on the 2nd April, 1871. Of inhabited stores, offices, and public buildings there were 362 ; tends and dwellings with canvas roofs, 4,656 ; brick or stone, 33,461 ; wood, iron, lath and plaster, 101,635; slabs, bark, mud, &c., 16,499 ; canvas, linen, calico, &c., 4,656 ; and dwellings of materials not specified,2,23o. The dwellers in brick, stone, wood, iron, or lath and plaster buildings, exclusive of Chinese and aborigines, numbered 656 716; in slab, bant, or mud huts, 36,366 ; in tents and dwellings with canvas roofs, 7,512 ; and habitations of unstated materials, 6,816 ; while there were 1,879 travellers and persons sleeping under drays and camping out; 2,232 persons in ships and hulks ; and an estimated migratory population of 742, making a total of 712,263 persons. Chinese to the number of 17,935 were accomodated as follows : 6 644 in houses of brick, stone, wood, iron, or lath and plaster; 9,621 in slab, bark, or mud huts ; 1,148 ; u tents and dwellings with canvas roofs ; 459 in habitations of unstated materials; 43 travellers, &c. ; and 20 in ships and hulks Aborigines to the number of 1,330 aie placed in two classes —591 in habitations of unstated materials, and 739 as travellers, &c. The number of females to 100 males 82‘40 ; the number of persons to the square mile (exclusive of persons in ships), B'2_GB ; the number of persons to the inhabited dwellings (exclusive of persons in ships), 4-84 ; and the number of inhabited dwellings to the square mile, 1,708. Between 1851 and 1871, males increased by 354,849, or 768 per cent. ; females by 299,334, or about 861 per cent.; and the total population by 654,183, or nearly 846 per cent. The estimated area of Victoria is 88,198 square miles, and, by omitting the decimal point, the figures may be read thus : —On 2nd April, 1871, there were 8,240 females to every 10,000 males in Victoria ; the average number of persons to 100 square miles was 8,268 ; the average number of persons to the 100 inhabited dwellings was 484, and the average number of inhabited dwelling to 1,000 square miles was 1,708. There were 33,558 occupiers of land of more than one acre in extent ; of this quantity 6,380,338 acres were freehold, 28,694,312 rented from the Crown, and I, rented from private individuals ; making in all 36,928,104 acres, giving the average number of acres to each occupier as 957-73. The number of occupiers of cultivated land was 38,558 ; the number of persons cultivating, 28.092 ; and the number of acres cultivated, 804,508. The average number of acres cultivated was 20.86 by each occupier, and 28 64 by each cultivator. There were 73,231 proprietors of live stock, which numbered 11, made up as follows : —209,025 horses, 212,193 milch cows, 564,534 other cattle, 10,447,976 sheep, 180,109 pigs, 122,164 goats (including 77 Augora goats and 3 cashmere goats,) 56 asses, 164 mules, 262 deer, and 59 alpachas. Poultry numbered 1,931,645, owned by 81,347 peisons. The items are 83 ; 025 geese, 137,355 ducks, 1,636,782 fowls, 69,756 turkeys, 970 peafowl, 3,s42guinea i fowls, 199 pheasants, and 16 ostriches.

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE. On Sunday morning early the mutilated body of a soldier was found on the North Kent line at Woolwich, between the Dockyard and Arsenal stations, tho limbs being literally torn from the trunk and the fragments scattered about the lane for a considerable distance. The body was identified as that of Thomas Ilintnan, a private in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was seen alive and in possession of about 30s, a large sum for a soldier, on Saturday night; and yesterday afternoon bis father and mother, persons of apparent respectability presented themselves before Mr Maude, tiie magistrate sitting at Woolwich police court, to declare their conviction that their son had been robbed and murdered, stating that .there were footmarks and other indications by the side of the cutting where the body was found, showing that there must have been a severe struggle, and that he had been violently' thrown over. The telegraph wires, five in number, had all been broken by his falling upon them, and they bad reason to think that, if tho magistrate would institute an inquiry, lie would find ample evidence that a foul deed had been done. Mr Maude said a full investigation would bo made by the Coroner, and that in tho meantime the unhappy parents had better put what information they had into tho possession of the police. Tho deceased was 25 years of age, and there are grounds for believing he had been drinking on Saturday night. When lie was last seen alive he was supposed to bo avoiding a picket on the look out for absent soldiers. —English Paper.