AREA AND POPULATION.
723
Occupation
Number
Percentage
Agricultural, pastoral, and horticultural
23,135
1824
Commerce, trade, and manufactures
13,899
10-96
Domestic servants .....
5,617
4-43
Labourers (branch undefined)
3,306
260
Mining
1,908
1-50
Learned professions ....
1,320
1-05
General and local government
822
•65
Maintained at public cost
417
•33
Independent means
.229
•18
Miscellaneous pursuits .
170
■13
Residue, including females and children Total
76,007
59-93
126,830
100 I
The following was the origin of the population according to the census of April 8, 1861: —
Origin
Males
Females
Total
British Possessions : —
South Australia .
24,388
24,225
48,613
Victoria
353
334
687
New South Wales
253
254
507
Other British Possessions .
751
664
1,415
England and Wales
24,015
20,828
44,843
Scotland ....
3,971
3,678
7,649
Ireland ....
5,408
7,286
12,694
Foreign countries : —
France ....
78
45
123
Germany ....
4,879
3,984
8,863
China .....
39
1
40
Other foreign countries
562
163
725
Born at sea ....
281
281
562
Unspecified .... Total
70
39
109
65,048
61,782
126,830
The following statement gives the religious division of the in- habitants of the colony, according to a semi-official enumeration of the year 1861 : —
Church of England Roman Catholics . Wesleyan Methodists
German Lutherans Independents Church of Scotland Bible Christians .
Number
Percentage
43,587
36948
15,594
13-219
14,322
12141
11,235
9-524
6,268
5314
4,821
4086
4,216
3556
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