FIFTY YEARS AGO
AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION The rapid increase in the population bf the Australian States was one of the most striking testimonies _to the progress of the "new world t>o years ago. The following item appeared in the I\ew Zealand Hkkat-d of April 30, 1886: . . " They announce in the Victorian newspapers that the census returns which are now being prepared will show for their colony a population exceeding 1,000.000. This is pretty rapid growth in a country where the first small beginnings of settlement were at 60 recent a date as 1836, exactly half a century back, and which was only established as a colony in 1850. But, if the fact is astonishing to old world notions, it is also an astonishing if not equally auspicious fact that a whole . third of this population is congregated in the town which is at once the capital and Beaport. They may talk of the growth of British cities, but surely it .is no less a striking and curious cir(Cumst mce that Melbourne has now lover 300,000 inhabitants where 50 years £go the Kangaroo was speared by the Ravage."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22406, 30 April 1936, Page 8
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