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of them & think & may tay they can be taken as very fainlgammert. The gross amount

of inbaki hundeshows of a bout ofwer thousands over

• proveding year and that chiefly in the boat population

bitenty shows an increas

the

but this comparison is scarcely to be relied on) and therefore it may be sufficient to

ut to say. that there is hardly a vacant Houses to be found of any description in the town of Victoria and that rents have gone up at least 30 percent for there can bis no suror pribrion

be

than this of the present

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flourishing state of the Colony-

would however, wish to

pointout one, or two facts to be clicited from these listo the first of which that the average proportion of Chinese Bronsted, to mal s is far highe ✓ previously

than it has ever

been a result only to be produced from the Colony being at last ponsidered a home by the natives ands

not a mere plane of business . The other point, is one of painful, interest and forces

the conclusions on me that the Welling of femal

ling of femals infants as

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