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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

Australia. — Thoughts on entering the Australian Courts

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Australia.

Thoughts on entering the Australian Courts.

In these Courts, five "Daughter Nations" show us some of the results of a century's "nation making."

None of the children of the mother country have followed her so closely in the parliaments, churches, universities, schools, and national games.

None have developed to the same extent or in the same varied degree the natural resources of their new homes.

The importance of these colonies to the Mother Country

Is shown by the fact that while her trade with Canada was valued in 1884 at about 18 millions, her trade with the Australian colonies was valued at over 55½ millions. This is still more remarkable when we? remember that the population of Australia is only about half the population of Canada.

Five daughter nations. "Every one speaks of England as home, though neither they, nor their parents nor grandparents, ever saw the old country."