MARRIAGES PER 100,000 MARRIAGEABLE MEN LIVING IN EACH COLONY.
1. South Australia	7,178
2. Tasmania	6,356
3. New South Wales	6,256
4. Queensland	5,994
5. Victoria	5901 These proportions differ slightly from those given in the table following paragraph 310 ante, where the comparisons are made with the marriages which took place in the twelve months of which the Census was at the middle, instead of the calendar year 1881 which has here been adopted uniformly for all the colonies. The marriages also in the former table were exclusive of those of Chinese and Aborigines, which is not the case here.
6. New Zealand	5,041
7. Western Australia	3,650

These proportions differ slightly from those given in the table following paragraph 310 ante, where the comparisons are made with the marriages which took place in the twelve months of which the Census was at the middle, instead of the calendar year 1881 which has here been adopted uniformly for all the colonies. The marriages also in the former table were exclusive of those of Chinese and Aborigines, which is not the case here.