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Table showing Increase or Decrease in the several Counties throughout the Colony.

Number of Sheep. County. Inobeask. Decbease. 1883. I 1884. Mongonui Bay of Islands Hokianga Bodney Whangarei Hobson .. Manukau Waitemata Eden Thames Coromandel Waikato Baglan .. Waipa Piako West Taupo East Taupo Whakatane Tauranga Cook Wairoa Hawke's Bay Waipawa Taranaki Hawera Patea Wanganui Bangitikei Oroua Manawatu Hutt West Wairarapa .. East Wairarapa .. Waimea Collingwood Buller Grey Inangahua Sounds .. Marlborough Kaikoura Amuri Cheviot Ashley Selwyn Akaroa Ashburton Geraldine Mackenzie Waimate Westland Waitaki Maniototo Vincent Lake Waihemo Waikouaiti Peninsula Taieri Bruce Clutha .. Tuapeka Southland Wallace 14,000 15,835 1,672 22,422 21,881 4,884 33,230 11,574 5,472 2,172 1,063 20,379 3,911 20,867 20,495 1,590 4,883 16,976 1,829 280,452 232,164 1,166,499 903,718 19,702 59,341 90,840 156,793 202,154 52,055 152,371 109,352 388,520 437,715 98,299 16,365 1,000 4,196 3,665 43,556 567,760 154,502 488,255 82,000 626,151 635,442 193,440 729,920 578,633 417,845 598,692 1,634 621,095 345,620 442,513 196,456 135,049 74,674 4,323 236,124 119,179 232,965 277,327 604,937 297,901 12,377 16,070 2,010 24,547 24,306 4,310 32,623 15,929 3,253 3,189 1,361 29,172 2,968 17,918 20,141 1,306 950 18,621 4,347 307,973 225,101 1,211,425 996,078 16,410 54,837 100,403 159,967 216,915 78,342 165,092 118,363 408,363 476,844 101,981 17,520 661 4,662 3,133 48,252 578,742 153,689 513,081 90,000 677,450 670,188 213,125 742,663 617,398 422,906 646,193 1,880 656,398 361,930 449,561 161,033 136,673 84,805 4,837 251,710 142,761 252,069 305,991 595,888 299,769 1,623 235 338 2,125 2,425 574 607 4,355 2,219 1,017 298 8,793 943 2,949 354 284 3,933 1,645 2,518 27,521 '7,003 44,926 92,360 '3,292 4,504 9,563 3,174 14,761 26,287 12,721 9,011 19,843 39,129 3,682 1,155 339 466 4,696 10,982 532 24,826 8,000 51,299 34,746 19,685 12,743 38,765 5,061 47,501 246 35,303 16,310 7,048 813 35,423 1,624 10,131 514 15,586 23,582 19,104 28,664 9,049 "i,868 13,306,329 13,978,520 746,632 74,441 74,441 672,191 Total increase,