BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.

No. 4.-TOTAL NUMBER of BIRTHS, DEATHS, and MARRIAGES and PROPORTIONATE STATES, and in NEW ZEALAND, in each of

(a) Exclusive of the Northern Territory of South Australia, for which no returns are available.

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.

NUMBER per THOUSAND of ESTIMATED MEAN POPULATION in each of the AUSTRALIAN the Years 1871, 1881, 1891, and 1898 to 1903.

(a) Exclusive of the Northern Territory of South Australia, for which no returns are available.

12,519

1,422,688 (c)1,318,769 (c)1,392,455 (c)1,069,678 (c)1,011,017 (c)1,169,781 (c)1,457,338 4,394,294 4,055,419 4,398,673 4,878,561 5,227,235

11,450

11,958

12,358

Basutoland (c)

Orange River Colony

St. Helena

Transvaal

Lagos

Gold Coast

5,282,000 6,680,423 44,627

45,654

Sierra Leone

68,336

96,109

26,172

(a) For the 12 months ended 31st March of the year following that stated above. land sales. (c) For years ended 30th June. of Customs duties paid over to other Governments. later years. (g) Year ended 30th September.

(b) Inclusive of premiums on (e) Exclusive of the share (f) Inclusive of dividends from Savings Bank investments in 1893 and (h) Excluding receipts on account of the Immigration Fund.

(d) For six months ended 30th June 1901.

(c) 9,287,000 (c) 9,482,096 (c) 9,753,775 (c)10,201,440 (c) 11,232,717 (c)12,486,575 (e)12,870,098 6,619,909 6,875,459 7,372,938

7,436,061

8,050,626 8,032,245 7,962,344 (c) 2,502,368 (c) 2,777,427 (c) 2,837,795

67,116 2,604,943

65,731 2,633,081

72,471 3,010,005

25,890,998 26,318,719 27,657,632 29,192,626 (0) 30,441,193 (0)32,424,473 (0)32,938,678

'(e) 2,213,074 |(e)1,964,315 (c)2,081,349 (e) 1,886,710

(c) 2,970,742 (c) 3,439,820 (c) 4,334,175

Hong Kong. (b)(t)

Australia:

New South Wales.
Victoria. (c)

South Australia, except
Northern Territory.

Northern Territory.(c)
Western Australia.

Tasmania.

Queensland. (c)

Total Commonwealth.

New Zealand.

British New Guinea. (c)

Falkland Islands.
Natal. (e)

(a) 6,143,675 (a) 6,464,198 |(a)7,201,002

Fiji.

6,188,882 6,236,210
46,848
69,770

Cape of Good Hope. (c) (e)
Basutoland. (c)

271,999

956,535

Orange River Colony. (c)
Transvaal. (c)

St. Helena.

| Lagos.

Gold Coast.

Sierra Leone.

Gambia.

North America :

Dominion of Canada.(c)(t)
Newfoundland. (t)

Total North America.

(m) Exclusive of Parliamentary grants of 45,000l. in 1898, 100,000 in 1899, 252,3007. in 1900, 222,7007. in 1901, 19,7487, in 1902, and 23,000/. in 1903, in aid of expenses of the operations in the Northern Territories, etc. (n) Including, for St. Lucia from 1896 and St. Vincent from 1898, amounts received from municipal authorities and the Immigration Fund for the payment of interest and redemption of principal of loans guaranteed by the Colony. (0) Inclusive of the Revenue collected by the Commonwealth Government. (p) Exclusive of a Parliamentary grant of 10,000l. for telegraph construction. (7) The increased revenue was mainly due to the inclusion of railway receipts, the railway being transferred to the Government during the year. (r) Exclusive of Parliamentary and other grants for hurricane relief, etc. (t) For rates of conversion into £ sterling, see Table No. 2 p. 5.

(a) 72,442 (a) 71,377
8,693

8,679 1,076,173

EXPENDITURE.

No. 6.-GROSS AMOUNT of PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

(Excluding the Expenditure from Loans on

Natal (k)

1,132,045

Cape of Good Hope (d) (k)

3,414,552

1,328,468 (d) 1.379,950 (d) 1,267,063 (d) 1,085,959 (d) 1,068,492 (d) 1,134,302 (d) 1,269,66) 3,843,169 4,075,292 4,219,312 4,575,023 4,833,368 5,043,564 5,527,945

Basutoland (d)

(c) Including Expenditure from Loans on Public Works.

(a) For rates of conversion into £ sterling, see Table No. 2, p. 5. (b) For the 12 months ended 31st March of the year following that stated above. (d) For years ended 30th June. (e) The cost of administration in excess of the revenue was borne by the States of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria to 1898, after which date the excess was met from the "Accumulated Revenue Fund." From 1st July, 1901, the expenditure has been guaranteed by the Commonwealth Government. The figures in the above Table are exclusive of sums spent on the maintenance of Government steamer. (f) For six months ended 30th June, 1901.

to account in 1893.

(g) For 13 months. (h) Inclusive of 11,438. expended on Public Works between the years 1888 and 1886 and brought (i) Including repayment of Loans in 1893 and prior years. (j) Exclusive of expenditure on the South amounting to 318,0057. in 1899-1900, 186,715. in 1900-1, 50,9241. in 1901-2 and 26,819. in 1902-3. share of Customs Duties paid over to other Governments,

Africa Contingents (k) Exclusive of the