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
