This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...acres. In the ether portions of the colony, where pastoral pursuits are exclusively followed, there is only one European inhabitant to 437 square miles. From the table given above it is seen that the apparent increase in the population has not been more than 14-5 per cent. It shows almost the lowest rate recorded since ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...acres. In the ether portions of the colony, where pastoral pursuits are exclusively followed, there is only one European inhabitant to 437 square miles. From the table given above it is seen that the apparent increase in the population has not been more than 14-5 per cent. It shows almost the lowest rate recorded since a census of the people in this province was first made. In new countries it is a matter of experience that the population is always of an unsettled character. Mineral discoveries, -ever since the goldfields were found in 1851, have invariably been followed by considerable migrations from place to place in and to the colonies in which they are located, and they have added to or taken from the aggregate population in varying numbers, according to the special circumstances of each new development of colonial resources. Alterations in the land laws in South Australia, as well as in other colonies, have had considerable influence on the movements of the people. The mining towns of Kapunda, the Burra, Wallaroo, Kadina, and Moonta owe their origin to mineral discoveries. The proclamation of agricultural areasin the North drew away large numbers of farmers from other parts of the colony where they had previously been settled, and more recently the discovery of the Broken Hill silver deposits in New South Wales, close to the South Australian border, has attracted a very large number of South Australians to the new fields of commerce and of labor. It is estimated that South Australia has lost quite 12,000 colonists in this direction. This loss naturally told against South Australia when the people were numbered, but, as almost the whole of the trade with Broken Hill and Silverton is carried on by and belongs to South Australia, the low increase of the p..
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