CENSUS RETURNS.
Tlie tables relating to the population am houses of the colonv, a«’cording to tb< o-nsiiH of 3rd March, 1878 (in auticipatioi of the complete extracts), have been pro H-nfetl to Parliament in pursuance of th< t •■Hsus Aet, 1X77. The total (sipulatioi of the colony, exclusive of M mris. is silown at 414,41-’, of w lilt'll L'ayjtw wer males, and 1X3,414 females, and tb< diiiiilkt of half-castes 968 males and 97! females, ami of Chinese 4424 males and l females. The number of inhabited house; and lints is set down at 79,057, and o tents and other dweliings with canvas roofs at 2931. The niiiiiltcr of traveller: ami |H*rsons sleeping under drays or camp ingout is stated at 129 Europeans and I.* Chinese. The imputation in the G 3 conn ties of the colony (exclusive of thos< living in boroughs) is put down at 143,82! males, and 103,7X8 females ; the ntimbc of inhabited houses and huts being 48,203 ami uninhabited 3110. The total popula tion in the 59 boroughs of the colony i: 103,028, of which 83,899 are males an-. 79,121* females. The population and dwell ings in fhe several provincial districts (ex elusive of Maoris) is thus stated—Am k land, 44,800 males, 37.801 females, total 82.001 ; Taranaki, 5173 males, 4290 female*, total, 9403; Wellington, 27,87 i males, 23,192 females, total, 51,009 Hawke’s Bay, 8509 males. 0500 females total. 15,015 ; Marlborough. 4283 males 3274 females, total, 7557 ; Nelson, 14.38males, 10,743 females, total, 25,128 ; West land, males, 10,557, females, 0355, total 10.932; Canterbury, males, 50.424, fe males, 41.498, total, 91.922 : Otago, (.4,851 . 16,619 female*, t vbd, 114,469.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 7, 5 October 1878, Page 3
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