Excerpt from Australia in 1897: The Country and Its Resources, Population, Public Works, and Finances, With Remarks on the Manufacture of Wool in the Colonies, Emigration, Federation, the Funding of Australian Public Debts, &amp;C<br><br>A few corrections and additions [within brackets] have been made to this issue, to include latest available statistics.<br><br>My thanks are due to several private correspondents and to the critics of the anglo-australian newspapers, for their kindly notice of the little brochure upon its first appearance. Some have discovered in the letters more than the writer himself had seen.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.