Page:Statesman's Year-Book 1871.djvu/760

 724

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Number

Percentage

Free Church of Scotland

4,137

3-508

Primitive Methodists

3,672

3-129

Baptists ....

3,424

2-902

Christians ....

1,658

1-405

United Presbyterians

1,572

1-333

Other Christian Denominations

573

0-486

Unitarians ....

493

0-417

Hebrews ....

360.

0-305

Moravians ....

217

0-183

New Church ....

192

0-163

Society of Friends

124

0-106

Mohammedans and Pagans ..

112

0-095

Not specified

1,390

1179

Total

126,830

There is a large and growing amount of pauperism in the colony. During the year 1866, there were 1,144 persons receiving relief from charitable institutions, to the maintenance of which, irrespective of cost of building, the state contributed 32,026/., which was double the amount expended in 1863. According to an official report of the governor, there were, in 1866, no less than 1,007 destitute children ' receiving support from the state,' and it is added that ' during the course of a single year the number has increased two- fold.'

At the census of 1861, the total aboriginal population of South Australia was 5,046, the males largely exceeding the females in number. There were only 850 children, so that here, as elsewhere, the original race is fast becoming extinct.

Trade and Industry.

The total value of South Australian imports and exports, inclu- sive of bullion and specie, from and to various countries, in each of the five years 1865 to 1869 was as follows : —

Tears

Imports

Exports

£

£

1865

2,927,596

3,129,846

1866

2,835,142

2,858,737

1867

2,506,394

3,164,622

1868

2,238,510

2,819,300

1869

2,323,309

2,154,587