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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5649, 24 December 1879, Page 4

Wγ hive to acknowledge the \"iot jri.ia " Yaar Book tor IS7S-9," from Mr. Hayttr, the Government Statist of Victoria. It covers nearly 400 pages, and contains a mis of valuable statistical information, not inly with respect to Victoria, but also in r/alioa to the other colonies of the Australssisn Group. Some of those matters we have already alluded to in reviewing the divisional parts of the work as they successively came to hand, and therefore it is unnecessary in this connection again to refer to them in detail. The " Yaar Pμ nk" deals with the following subjects, which sufficiently indicate its comprehemiwricss : — PopnlatioD, finance, vital stat sties, law, crime, &c., production, accumulation,, interchange, religious, moral, ami intellectual progress, tariffs o? the Australasian colonies, agricultural statistics. Among the facts brought out are that Melbourne contains one- third of the population of Victoria, and that the ti-ndmcy Jβ for population to gravitate more strongly to the capital ; tint Victoria is the smallest caiony of the Australasian Group, save Tasmania, but ju density of population stands tirst; and that, for the first time since ISG7, t' ie persona who k-ft Victoria for New Zealand exceeded in number those who arrival in Victoria from this colony. The tables appear to have been caiefully compiled, and arc creditable to the industry ami ability of the statist.