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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41

Nationality

Nationality.

17. According to an estimate brought on to the year 1879, about 95 per cent, of the colonists are British subjects by birth, and only 5 per cent, are foreigners. The native Victorians number about 490,000, or 55 per cent, of the population; the natives of other Australian colonies number 42,000; the English, 165,000; the Irish, 97,000; the Scotch, 54,000; the Chinese, 12,000 or 15,000; and the natives of other countries, about 36,000.