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come of the inhabitants have migrated to this Colony, but principally by the stimulus afforded to commerce and industrial accession of trade with California, a vast number of wooden houses and various other pursuits by the Europeans.
Comparative Abstract of Population in 1848 and 1849-
1848 1849 Increase Europeans 642 656 14 Portuguese 321 337 10 Indians and Malays 215 223 10 Chinese 20,338 28,297 7,959 Total 21,514 29,507 7,993In no less than 23 results, articles of Chinese manufacture having been constructed here and shipped to that territory direct from this Port, thus affording employment to a very considerable number of Carpenters and other artificers. From the Return at a page of the Blue Book, it will be seen that there are only 77 Chinese Houses unoccupied in Victoria, whereas the table for 1848 showed 123. In reality, however, the decrease of unoccupied Houses is still more considerable, for in addition to a few European residences, numerous Chinese Shops have been constructed during the year.
This affords satisfactory evidence of an addition to the stable and respectable classes of our Chinese population.
N. 4.
I beg to append separate Returns of the census for 1849, viz., a general Table, and two others, one detailing the distribution of the Chinese throughout Victoria and the Villages in the Island, and the other showing the Birth Population of the Colony.
Climate.
I am happy to state that the experience of the last year has fully borne out the views I expressed, when transmitting the Blue Book for 1848, respecting the general salubrity of this Climate and of its being in my opinion as well adapted to European...