STATISTICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8811, 26 February 1892, Page 2

STATISTICS.

CUSTOMS REVENUE. The amount of the Custom# revenue w! . lected in the colony last month wan £134,810 to which Auckland contributed £29 (53"' Wellington,£26,4l6;Cbmtchurch,£2o Si* ' Dunedin, £34,986. The returns for the vious month showed a total of £13j 3 H f and those for January, 1891, » tout oi £115,044. For the ten months of th* fi ni ? cml year there is a surplus of £34.132 9. vT the Colonial Treasurer's estimate for th>J period being £1.279,106 13s 4d, whil* ,V amount collected reaches £1,313,299 '>« or Last mouth the beer duty paid in the colon' was £4885, as against £6950 for the nre-T/ ing month, and £4840 for thecorreetwndir ' month of the previous year. The eef'rr '** for the ten months was £50,000, but amount collected up to the present oil'* reaches £47,013, leaving a deficit of £2<#« The amounts colllected at the princin1 ports last month were Auckland, £I^. Wellington, £489 ; Chrutchurch ' £v>< ' Duuedin, £1129. ' 13 '

NEW ZEALAND'S TRADE. The imports during the quarter ended December 31 were £1,678,080, an incr*of about £120,000 on the same quarter "l*!* year. The exports were JEl.hOo 41A M decrease of £439,000. The totals 'for V! year were :— ' ' " 5

THE EXODUS LAST YEAR.

The return published in the Gazette shows that the number of arrival* in the colony during the year ended 31ft December last was 14,431, and the departures 17,629, leaving an excess of emigration over immigration of 3198. Of the arrivals, 2433 were from the United Kingdom, bo'iM from New South Wales, 3712 from Victoria, and 389 from Hawaii and the South Seas, while in the list of departures are included 1"05 to the United Kingdom, 9782 to "New South Wales, 3841 to Victoria, and 1159 to Tasmania. In most instances the balance was in favour of emigration. Taking the principal ports, 3265 persons left by way of Auckland, 5358 by Wellington, and 4004 by the Bluff, while 4600 of the new corner! landed at Auckland, 6041 at Wellington. 1511 at Lyttelton, and 4973 at the Bluff. The arrivals in the colony last month exceeded the departures by 736.

RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF NEW ZEALAND. The following return shows the number of persons (exclusive of Maoris) belonging to the different religious denominations in New Zealand according to the 1891 census: —Episcopalians : Church of England, Episcopalians not otherwise defined, '250,945. Protestants (undescribed) 2386. Presbyterians : Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland, Free Presbyterians, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland, and Presbyterian not otherwise defined, 141,477. Methodists : Wesleyan Methodists 53,001, Methodists undefined 2071 ; Primitive Methodist Free Churches, Free Methodist?, United Methodists, 1905 ; Bible Christian 1009, others 89. Baptists, 14,825; Con gregational Independents, 6685 ; Lutheran German Protestants, 5616; Unitarians, SOS ; Society of Friends, 315 ; other Protestants, Church of Christ (including Christian Church of Christ, Christian Disciples, Disciples of Christ, 5241; Brethren (including Christian Brethren, Exclusive Brethren, Open Brethren, Plymouth Brethren), 3537; Evangelists (including Evangelical Union, Evangelical Church, Evangelical Christians, Evangelical Brethren), 93 Nonccn formists, 77 ; Dissenters, 42; Salvation Army, 9383 jChristadelphians, 700; Swedenborgians (including new church, Ne <v Jerusalem Church), 1755; Christian Israelites, 55; other Protestants (variously returned), 1372. Catholics : Roman Catholics, 85,856; Catholics (undefined), 1480; Greek Church, 56; Catholic Apostolic, 150. Other sects : Jews, 1463 ; Mormons, Latter Day Saints, 206 ; Spiritualists,* 339 ; Buddhiet Pagan Confucians, 3928; others (variously returned), 154. No denominations : Freethinkers, 4475 ; Agnostics, 3--; Deists, Theists, 51 ; doubtful, 405: no denomination (variously returned), 2999 ; no religion, 1558 ; unspecified, 11,288 ; object to state, 15,342. Total, 626,658.

EDUCATION CENSUS. The number of population (exclusive of Maoris) attending public, private, and Sunday-schools, also those receiving private tuition atThome in 1891 were

At tho census in 1886 the number o hands employed in New Zealand in roe'- ' preserving, meat-freezing, and boiling no' works was 838; last year the total w 1568. In 1886, the produce in frozen sheep and lambs was 463,614 carcases, and iu frozen beef 1,321,6301b ; last year thofoUL under these heads had risen to 1,70<V carcases of sheep and lambs and 19,15J,4 . of frozen beef. . , , The gold exported from the colony for tni year ending the 3lst December las" . worth £221,000 more than tho P rev '°"' year. All the fields showed an itnp r ment, but the principal increase wafl Mr Otago and the West Coast. When - • Sedaon took office, he gave out that y leases in which the covenants as to wot « were not complied with would be canco i and ho has not yet had occasion to c# } this into effect. i; a h«d According to the census returns pub i in the Gazette, there are 142 P. in . ? establishments in the colony, employ h 2566 hands, and manufacturing the approximate annual value of i-io . 1 . • The land, buildings, and plant tiroes tun aw at a value of £341,663.

1891. ]* 90 Imports ... £6,50.'?. £f5.2tyi 5-7 Exports ... 9,566,397 9,^11 '-L The returns of exports show that V« falling off during the year was entirely i" the last quarter as compared with eorponding quarter of 1890. The items nriiici* pally responsible for this were : — Frozen meat ... ... £06,000 Wool ... ... ... £]o<j.r>oo Agricultural produce ... £51 qqq */ ax ••• t £15,000 Preserved meat £13,000 RAILWAY REVENUE AND rv PEXDITUKE. Tho following table, published in t j, f Gazette, shows the railway revenue and expenditure for the financial year to the terinitiation of the four-weekly period eadLn-* January 2, 1892:- ' n NORTH ISLAND. Revenue. Expenditure, p cr t £. a. d. £ p. d. reV ICawakawa .. 3,041 12 7 .. 2,170 3 •> j ; . : . Whanptrei .. 2,027 11 0 .. 1,'JSl H in c,--, Auckland .. 83,292 1!) 8 .. 66,100 210 »/, N'apier-T'n'ki 128,802 0 7 .. 81,355 li) 5 f jl', Wellington .. 68,202 8 11 .. 38,033 a 8 a i; Total £276,420 13 3 . .£178,711 10 11 MIDDLE ISLAND. IIuninul-Bl'ff 481,060 17 8 .. 310,039 10 0 c;, " Greynioutli .. 19,574 1 0 .. 11,454 s 7 fj -i West port .. 24,213 17 0 .. 1",012 1; 4 4. i; Nelson .. 8,001 4 0 .. 0,821 14 11 f ;., Picton .. 0,510 3 11 .. 6,422 £ 2 63~ij Total . .£510,200 3 11 . .£350,850 8 0 ejiil Grand T1 ..£815,086 17 2 ..£529,002 4 11 g,y The grand totals for corresponding period last year were : Revenue .. — .. £820,615 12 c Expenditure £032,500 5 e VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1691. The following is the Registrar-Genera!'! report on the vital statistics of th? four principal boroughs of New Zealand duritn the year 1891 :— " ! c _-| -5 I a 2=' ' = £•; 7 .2 .Sixg-cs' _.= „ c " „ . 51-irlS-I?! 4= <5 Boroughs. j x ;g -| g ; ~s ~ g = £ 5,2-^ 9*u a.!«-> SP-a'P*" £ " = - s = 3 a <i C r=- & 1-8- 5 Auckland .. 28,613 801 i 3j-0'.l I 390 13-53 Wellington.. 31,021 1005 | 32.40 | 45;)! H V) Christchurch 16,223 354 , 21*82 I l»r», U'l) Duilbdiu .. 22,376 537 j 24*00 303. 13*54 Tot'la 2757 I 28*07 1331' 13 55*" The numbers of the population given above refer only to those within the several borough boundaries.

Primary Colleges or Tuition Government Private Sunday- M Schools. Schools. Schools. I'™ 8 - Auckland .. 25,233 3,690 20,609 V 6 ' Taranaki .. 4,604 358 2.60" j'J Hawke's Bay .. 4,920 840 3,$24 «- Wellington .. 18,288 2,90S 14,774 Marlborough .. 2,384 373 1,690 - Nelson .. .. 0,451 1,068 5,Ms Westland .. 2,73ft 714 2,MS Jj" Canterbury .. 27,389 3,720 23,528 V'J Otago .. ... 32,214 3,378 81,510 MM Totals .. 124,063 17,047 101,675 8,178