STATISTICS OF NEW ZEALAND, 1862.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1189, 28 January 1864, Page 3

STATISTICS OF NEW ZEALAND, 1862.

The following is an extract from the report of the Registrar General, furnished to the Colonial Secretary, so far as it relates to the population of this colony. POPULATION. Such an estimate of the population of the colony as it is possible to arrive at in the years in which a census is not taken, is given in the following table. It has been constructed in the way usually regarded as affording tolerably close approximate results, viz:—adding to the previously ascertained population the excess of immigration over emigration, and the excess of births over deaths during the year. According to this estimate, the population of New Zealand, on the 31st of December, 18G2, (exclusive of the military and their families), was 125,812, viz:—79,680 males, and 46,132 females; being an increase amounting to 23,791, viz 15,618 males, and 8,173 females. Centesimally this increase was 24-37 percent, on males; 21-53 per cent, on females; and 23-31 per cent, on the whole population. The Progress of the Population during the first and second Half Years is shown in the following Summary First Half Year. Males. Fmls. Total. Excess of Births over Deaths ... 549 628 1,177 Increase from excess of Immigration over Emigration 3,019 2,309 5,328 3,568 2,937 6,505 Deduct decrease in number of Males from excess of Emigration over Immigration 1,998 ... 1,998 Net increase for six months 1,570 2,937 4,507 Second Half Year. Excess of Births over Deaths ... 759 864 1,623 Increase from excess of Immigration over Emigration 13,289 4,372 17,661 Total increase, 1862 15,618 8,173 23,791 Population as enumerated in the Census of December 1861, add 3,000 gold miners, Ota go 64,062 37,959 102,021 Estimated total population on the 31st Dec., 1862 79,680 46,132 125,812 * The Dunedin Ketura for the June Quarter of 1862, shows an Emigration of 3,612 Males to the Australian Colonies, against an Immigration of 1,460 Males from those Colonies. The proportions in which the total increase in the population of the colony is distributed amongst the several provinces cannot be ascertained with accuracy, for reasons which are stated in a note to Table No. 1., being chiefly (1) the fact that the numbers of arrivals and departures between ports in the colony, officially reported by the Emigration Officers do not agree, (the former very considerably exceeding the latter); and, (2), the uncertainty as to the amount of overland migration from one province to another. But, as it is desirable to furnish some indication of the probable population of each province at the close of 1862,1 have made up an estimate based on a calculation of the migration between the ports in the respective provinces; which, however, assumes to be no more than an approximation to the actual numbers, and, indeed, in the aggregate necessarily exceeds the estimated total for the whole colony by the excess of arrivals over departures in the official returns. It is to be remarked, however, that Southland is to be excepted from this general statement, a census of that province taken by the Provincial Government in December, 1862, furnishing reliable numbers, of which, of course, I avail myself.* The numbers of the population in the Province of Southland, ascertained by a census taken by the Provincial Government in December, 1862, have been, as already stated, introduced in the general estimate of the population; but further information relating to the people, their habitations, their condition, and the cultivation and live stock owned by them, have been compiled from the census returns. The results exhibit the rapid progress of this young province; showing an increase in December, 1862, as compared with December, 1861, of 89-83 per cent, on the population; 6032 per cent, oil the land fenced; 7133 per cent, on the land under crop; 41-87 per cent, on horses; 25-47 per cent, on horned cattle; and 49-02 per cent, on sheep.

Table showing the Number and Condition of the Population, and the Numbers ancl Descriptions of the Houses in the Province of Southland, according to a Census taken by the Provincial Government in December, 1862:—

lhc returns show also as the Maori population of Southland in December 18G2, a total of 144; viz, 83 males and 61 females. These were divided as respects "condition" as follows: Married; 37 males, 31 females; unmarried, 44 males, 2Q iemales; widowers, 2; widows, 4. The numbers ot their houses or buildings were 21, of which 20 were of wood, and 1 of other materials. 1 subjoin a Table which shows the Population of the Provinces in December, 1862, as thus calculated, in comparison with the Population ascertained by the Census of New Zealand in December, 1861. 0 % r— A a C Nis h X eg CO etf 5.2 CL © 01 H O yl>W HOO 2 a'© e-2 co ao pA s 1 c 5 WIOGO H # rt £ • u goS g cp*po?oortcocs^icp 0Q %£ * '~' rt c«wt» '35 o o '*'$ : — .So j ii w stas' oo ® l ® o ■go 5 SS S -3 a fpopcp-^MCiwiQio o f< S 'S (M •># <n co io oi 6 <» Q M r-l rl *rl TO TP OJ O so 5 «, • » 50 Cil>Cl io"ia g >3 (M«^#«ooas«e9 as 5 C^rH 2 ,® TO f-T i-f «0* iH* o . trl rl Q O — - ■. — — — — H — M 3 . MOOJiOOcOCNiO Z, *- 8 a CD-*»©t©CO»OCO<©iQ ao Si g io h w eg co h ifl | S Ph fl r-T'tVof go as •«?«"afo a O OiOHiOOCOniOOO ,2 "3 ® ®«(09 hSO |*j rl" dl-jH 3-22 rt S N ® l ° « S » S 2 © oo ®J « *9 i>> a -s ® co oeo io „ tS fe 51 «''« -i"of o"io co .5 "3 >T « H H cs a o . a .§ s i 8 § 3-® 3.® 2 00 , ©-3~ OrH O rjl QOOH CO 3 rH p-a ©0 —: —— Em* O w '© T55 SD i>. r-i q; «>» r=s i-< r-4 • O rt OJ © o eo O c • w«* :© »o c: :© Si o — o»c*sct wo hqo JH j£"£ er ® fff S o „s 2 ; »jo 3 a - ;® § «oi « aoa S J § xd;c: ■» 13 3!> "31 Js § r s ic " f?" « V § ~ Ph w T?, -2 O CSSO^©CCC?3?OO P 8-9 'rt " VH W H H 10 H rn c s -Ssi.- -: 1! :'§ £ « « c 2 a °"2 t; «5 —*: i: tj a 5"3 3 S d 3 * Decrease. According to this calculation, the Population of the Northern and the Middle Islands respectively would be: Northern Island (including the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, and Hawke'a Bay), Males, 25,434; Females, 20,672; total, 46,106: Middle Island (including the Provinces of Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland) Males, 50,940: Females, 26,012; total, 89,952. TABLE No. 1. Table showing the increase and decrease of the population of European descent in New Zealand, from the Ist January to the 31st. December, 1862, and the (estimated) total numbers on the latter date.

The population of the respective provinces cannot be shown with any such approximation to accuracy as, (according to the usually adopted mode of calculation) may be claimed for the above estimate of the population of the colony. The migration between the several ports is manifestly an insufficient guide, the aggregate of arrivals returned by the Emigration Officers having been in 1862, as in previous years, considerably iu excess of the aggregate of departures. Besides, there are no means of ascertaining' the amount o£ overland migration from one province to another. The following figures are given, however, as affording some general idea of the proportions in which the population is distributed through the provinces. The numbers for Southland are reliable, a census of that province having been taken by the Provincial Government in December, 1862; but those for the other provinces have only been made up from a calculation of the migration between the several ports, and therefore, if added up, would show a total larger than the estimated total for the whole colony by the amount of the excess of arrivals over departures ih the official returns.

Province of Males. Females. Total. AUCKLAND ... 15,155 ... 12,489 27,644 TAKANAKI ... 1,226 ... 985 ... 2,211 WELLINGTON... 7,444 ... 6,199 ... 13,643 HAWKE'S BAY 1,609 999 ... 2,608 Kelson ... 0,146 ... 4,945 ... 11,091 MAKLBOKOUGir 1,537 ... 849 ... 2,386 Canterbury... 11,651 ... 8,781 ... 20,432 Otago ... 35,419 ... 10,169 ... 45,588 SOUTHLAND ... 2,157 ... 1,268 ... 3,455

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