1. Bore at Millie Station, near Charleville, D. McNeill owner. Depth, 1,732 ft.; water 8 in. over casing; flow 3/4-million gallons per diem. 2. At Claverton Downs, near Wyandra, Mrs. Whitney owner. Depth, 1,955 ft.; water 22 in. over casing; flow about 11/2 million gallons. 3. At Bendena Station, Burgess and Co. owners. Depth, 2,232 ft.; water 4 ft. 6 in. over casing; flow about 31/2 million gallons. 4. At Bonus Downs Station, Mitchell, Sir S. McCaughey owner. Depth, 3,424 ft. 6 in.; water rising to 60 ft. below surface; boring ceased in slate formation. 5. At Eurella Station, Donald Fletcher owner. Depth at end of September, 2,124 ft., still in progress; water rising to within 150 ft. of the surface. 6. At Clifton Station, C. H. T. Schmidt owner. Depth, 26th June, 225 ft.; in progress. 7. At Koreelah Station, Charleville. Depth at end of June, 400 ft.; in progress. 8. At Comongin Station, Bulloo, McLean, Barker, and Co. owners. Depth on 30th June, 600 ft.; in progress. 9. At Aberglassie Station, J. R. and H. C. Loughran owners. Starting. 10. At Cytherea Station, R. T. Winter owner. Starting. 11. At Airlie Downs, A. Leeds owner. Starting. APPENDIX J. CLIMATIC CONTRASTS. COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS. Vital statistics are set forth by the various Government Statists of Australia with extreme particularity. But it is not easy to make comparative analyses for the purpose of ascertaining the birth rates, marriage rates, or death rates in the different States of Australia. The birth rates per 1,000 of the population give no accurate bases for comparison. They supply only what the statists call the crude birth rate. The information necessary to ascertain true comparative birth rates involves knowledge of the number of women of the different child-bearing ages in the several States; the proportion of marriages at different ages in each; the number of married women, their ages, and also the number of spinsters. Married women in their teens are more fertile than in their twenties, in their twenties than in their thirties, in their thirties than in their forties. So that to ascertain the true birth rate the comparative number of married or marriageable women in the contrasted countries must be ascertained. For example, if there were 20,000 married women in Queensland between twenty and thirty; and 60,000 married women of the same age in New South Wales; and if the number of births among those 20,000 and 60,000 respectively were ascertained, the true birth rate among women of that age would be obtained. Similar remarks apply to the death rate. The comparison must be made between a given number of men or women of the same ages, and then the true comparative death rate per 1,000 of such persons will be ascertainable, but not otherwise.