South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources . ^ Young, mainly owing to theVictorian gold discoveries, were immense. The population in-creased from 38,666 to 92,545 ; the revenue, from £82,911 to£595,o56; the land alienated during the former year amountedto 29,200 acres, and in 1854 to 213,925 acres; land undercultivation increased from 48,911 acres to 129,692 acres; cattle,from 55,083 to 74,220; sheep, from 838,394 to 1,768,724;imports, from £384,326 to £2,147,107 ; exports, from £504,068to £1,322,822. The staple produce exported, increased from£465,878 to £694,422. Two y
South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources . ^ Young, mainly owing to theVictorian gold discoveries, were immense. The population in-creased from 38,666 to 92,545 ; the revenue, from £82,911 to£595,o56; the land alienated during the former year amountedto 29,200 acres, and in 1854 to 213,925 acres; land undercultivation increased from 48,911 acres to 129,692 acres; cattle,from 55,083 to 74,220; sheep, from 838,394 to 1,768,724;imports, from £384,326 to £2,147,107 ; exports, from £504,068to £1,322,822. The staple produce exported, increased from£465,878 to £694,422. Two years later, the export of stapleproduce had doubled. The balance of exports in 1854 was com-posed mainly of Riverine wool. The export of mineral produce,through tlic closing of the mines, when the male populationflocked to the Victorian diggings, sunk from £320,624 in 1848to £94,831 in 1854. Three years later, it had risen to £458, ITS HISTORY AND llESOURCES. 29 CHAPTER V. 1855 TO 1862. Sir Eichard MacDonnoU—Xesy Constitution—Disputes between the two Houses—Eeal Property Act—Mineral discoveries on Yorkes Peninsula—The Wallarooand Moonta mines—Exploration and Explorers—Gregory, Babbage, Warburton,and Stuart crosses the continent—Burke and Wills—Their sad fate—McKinlaj-—Howitt recovers remains of Burke and Wills—Xorthern Territorj- annexed toSouth Australia—First raihvay—Progress. Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell arrived in the colony on the 8thJune, 1855, and retained the Governorship for the unusuallylong period of nearly seven years. It fell to his lot to take partin the inauguration of Responsible Government. The people werestrongly opposed to the principle of nominee legislators, and lostno opportunity of making known their feelings on this question;but nevertheless the mixed Council in 1853 framed a Constitution,of which one feature was that the Upper House should be com-posed of mem
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