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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎60v] (125/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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610 THE NINETEENTH April
T able III.— Progress in Australasia
the decade 1879-89.
Absolute
,
1889
Per centage increase
since 1879 (10 years)
Particulars
United
Kingdom
(000's
omitted)
Australasia
(000's
omitted)
United
Kingdom
Australasia
Area, square miles
Population
Public Revenue
Public Debt
Private Wealth
External Trade
Shipping Tonnage . . .
Railways, miles open
„ Capital invested
„ „ since 1879 ....
„ net receipts
Land in cultivation, acres
Wool Exports .......
Gold and Tin Exports .
Sheep
121
37,809
£77,363
£684,431-'
£8,720,000
£685,521
68,519
19,812
£864,696
£147,693
£35,133
32,684
25,257
3,161
3,787
£28,564
£173,844t
£1,152,000
£131,435
15,994
12,902
£101,935
£56,983
£3,141
9,070
£26,244
£10,527
101,268
10-30
6-98
-10-67
12-05
29-98
11-96
20-59
18-17
2-21
—10*30
43-88
79-32
123-17
48-25
95-72
132-05
126*75
126-30
42-36
40-58
96-50
51-10
Relative
Population per square mile. . * g .
Public Revenue per head . • . . .
Public Debt
Capital invested in Railways per head #
„ „ including Public Debt
Railway Net Receipts per cent, to capital in-)
vested J
Private Wealth per head . . . . .
Ratio of Public Debt (General and \
Local, exclusive of Capital invested ( .
in Railways) in relation to Private ( ^ cen ^
Wealth ..... J
„ per head ....
312-00
£2 0 11
£18 9 Sf
£22 17 5
£41 16 10
£4-06
£231
10-71t
£24 14 8t
1-20
£7 10 10
£45 18 2*
£26 18 4
£45 18 2
£3*08
£304
0-04t
£17 18 Sf


* Does not include Capita] invested in the Railways of the Country,
f Includes Capital invested in the Railways of the Country.
A study of tlie figures given in the foregoing tables broadly re
veals that the finances of the general government in Australasian
colonies are directly concerned with nearly all those functions which,
taken together, are discharged by t distinct organisations in the
United Kingdom, viz.:

Cost, 1889
Per cent, to
total
Per head
General Government . .
Local Government . , ,
Private Railway Companies ,
£
86,083,314
67,451,735
80,005,241
36-86
28-88
34-26
s,
45 6
35 8
42 4
Total ....
233,540,290
100-00
123 6
The corresponding functions in the seven colonies of Australasia for
the same year, in a greater degree, are entirely discharged by general
and local government in the following proportions :

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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