A Blue-book which has been issued, relating to our "Colonial Possessions," collects some interesting particulars ascertained at the census of Queensland, taken on May-day, 1876. The Surveyor General, correcting a former estimate, computes the area of Queensland ut 669,520 square miles. In 1899, at the beginning of its existence as a separate colony, it had a population of only souls, but the census of 1876 showed 17: namely, 105,009 males and 6 Tt has been customary at a (Queensland census to add 24 per cent. for people over-Jooked in counting up so scattered a poptlation, and this would bring the number
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