Show Weakness of r English Colonies The new commonwealth of Australia Australia Aus Aus- does not seem to be be- begetting getting on very well The population In the ten years ending with 1901 1001 was the Increase being The whole Island continent has less population than the city of Greater New York Long Iong a II dependent upon England It has not developed Internally Were Australian ports says the Sydney Bulletin shut by hostile warships to-morrow to the commonwealth would be without guns or cartridges for tor its troops without ships or the means of making them without fabrics for clothing without machinery for mine mineor or railway without even paper on which to print Its Journals Australia would have bave to beseech the grace of some master crawl to the hand of ol whatever power was for the time most strong or lapse into savagery |