THE CENSUS OF NEW ZEALAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 56, 24 July 1862, Page 3

THE CENSUS OF NEW ZEALAND.

By the returns of the census, taken in December last, published in a late Government Gazette, we are enabled to place before our readers the position of this province as it stands in relation to figures ; and also to give the general results so far as the whole colony is represented by statistics. We are informed, . however, by the Kegistrar-General (Dr. Ben- * nett) that the present tables comprise only “those branches of the Census Statistics on which there is the most general desire that the results should be officially made known, without the delay which must necessarily attend a sufficiently careful compilation of other portions (such as those relating to education, religious denominations, occupations, places of birth, &c.)” The Registrar then says:— “ Table I. shows the Population of the Colony according to the division into provinces, distinguishing the Sexes and the Ages as given in the Census Schedules; together with the Numbers and Descriptions of the Houses, and (in Notes) the Condition (Conjugal) of the People, the Population of the Chief Cities or Towns of the Provinces, and the Numbers of Half-Castes in each Province. Table 11. ’ contains similar information respecting the Houses and the Numbers of the People in each of the Electoral Districts, but in this Table a different classification of Ages has been adopted,—viz., under twentyone years, and twenty-one and upwards.” The results of these tables shew us that New Zealand at the end of 18G1 contained a European population of 106,209 souls (inclusive of military, 7,294); of whom 67,281 were males, and 38,928 were females. They were distributed in the various provinces us follows: —Auckland, 24,420 ; Taranaki, 2,044; Wellington, 12,556 ; Hawke’s Bay, 2,611 (1,667 males, 944 females); Nelson, 9,952; Marlborough, 2,299 ; Canterbury, 16,040; Otago, 27,163 ; Southland, 1,820. In addition to the enumerated population of Otago there are believed to have been about 3,000 gold miners, who were in tents in different gullies, and on the roads. The conjugal condition of the people represent the married males as numbering 15,766 ; females, 12,811 ; unmarried males, 41,364, females, 23,096; widowers, 677; widows, 996 ; not described, males, 2,901, females, 4. Of these Hawke’s Bay contains married males, 406, females, 358 ; unmarried males, 1,232, females, 568; widowers, 29; widows 18. The second table gives us the number of houses or buildings, and the population under aud over twenty-one in the several electoral ♦' districts :—The totals shew the number of buildings to be, —wood, 15,112; brick and stofie, 476 ; other materials, 6,796; total, 22,384. Of these the district of Napier contains, wood, 279 ; brick and stone, 1 ; other materials, 49 ; with a population of —males, 885; females, 592; total, 1,477. The Clive district possesses:—wooden buildings, 214; brick and stone, 1; other materials, 35 ; total, 250 ; with a population of males, —782 ; females, 352 ; total, 1,134. The town of Napier is represented as containing a population of 924—533 males, and 391 females. “ Tables HI. and V. respectfully show the Live Stock in the possession of Europeans in each of the Provinces, and in each of the Electoral Districts. An enumeration of <fi Poultry,” rov/ for ths first time introduced, has been added after the mode adopted in the Censuses of the Australian Colonies.” “ Tables IV. and VI. relate to Cultivation ' and Crops, showing respectively for each Province and each Electoral District the Quantity of Land Fenced and the Number of Acres under each of the Principal Crops.” The total numbers of live stock in the possession of Europeans is as follows:—Horses, 28,285 ; mules and asses, 153 ; horned

cattle, 193,134; sheep, 2,760,163 ; goats, 12,170 ; pigs, 43,016 ; poultry, 235,532 ; Of these Hawke’s Bay possesses—horses, 1,782 ; mules and asses, 9. only! horned cattle, 8,320 ; sheep, 312,459 ; goats, 974 ; pigs, 1,693 ; poultry, 9,823. The number of acres fenced, in the possession of Europeans, was 4Q9,467 ; in wheat, 29,528 ; in barley, 3,457; in oats, 15,872 ; in maize, 769 ; in potatoes, 7,251; in sown grass, 157,989 ; in garden or orchard, 5,861; in other crops, 5,749; total under crop, 226,478 acres. In the Napier district, the number of acres fenced was 5,813 ; in wheat 430 ; in barley, 6 ; in oats, 145 ; in maize, 10 ; in potatoes, 121; in sown grass, 766 ; in garden or orchard, 104; in other crops, 52 ; total under crop, 1,637. In the district of Clive, there were acres fenced, 25,967 ; in wheat, 119 ; in barley, 30; in oats, 209; in maize, 5 ; in potatoes, 69 ; in sown grass, 2,965 ; in garden or orchard, 134; in other crops, 673 ; total under crop, 4,207. We may have occasion to refer our readers to these tables at some future period, containing, as they do, comparative returns of statistics in former years.