residence for the Governor, a lunatic and a convalescent asylum, three churches, schools, several inns, hotels, and public houses, equal to its wants as a seaport, a Freemasons' hall with club attached, and barracks for the Pensioner Force. Both Perth and Fremantle are fully supplied with stores and shops.
There are four newspapers published in Perth. The West Australian Times twice a week, and the Inquirer once, the Catholic Record and St. George's Journal monthly; at Fremantle, the Herald weekly; there are, besides, the Temperance Advocate, and the Christian Herald. A Government Gazette is published weekly. Telegrams from all parts of the Colony, public, commercial, and meteorological, are posted at the chief office daily.
In all the towns, both small and large, in addition to churches and schools, there will be found inns, as also in many places by the roadside, especially on the Sound road; mechanics' institutes, and various societies; there are agricultural societies and turf clubs, with exhibitions and races, in all the principal districts, also cricket clubs in most; at Perth, Fremantle, and Geraldton there are yacht clubs; total abstinence and temperance societies exist in all parts.
Assisted Immigration has been made during the last two years; £1,690 was expended in 1875, £999 in 1876, and £7,000 was voted for 1877. In 1875, 262 males and 156 females arrived from England, and 26 males and 3 females from the other colonies. In 1876, 515 males and 212 females arrived in the Colony. The vote for 1878 will increase the number, but not in proportion to the wants of the Colony. The conditions regulating immigration will be found in Appendix G.
