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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. III. shows the population of each Electoral
District returning Members to the General Assem-
bly. In this the Military Settlers are not included,
nor are the Persons returned as on board the Ship-
ping in the several Harbors. In order to make the
totals given in this table agree with the totals in
No. I., it would therefore be necessary (as explained
in a note to the table,) to add the numbers for these
classes.

Nos. IV. and V. are Comparative Tables of Popu-
lation. The former shows the numerical and cen-
tesimal increase in each Province in the three years
since the Census of 1861 was taken. The latter
extends the comparison to the previous Census (of
1858), showing at a single view the particulars for
1858, 1861, and 1864. In this, however (as in other
tables referring to 1858), it has been necessary to
include recently established Provinces with the Pro-
vinces of which they formed part up to that date,
consequently 'Marlborough' is included with 'Nel-
son,' and 'Southland' with 'Otago.' 'Stewart's
Island' has also been included in 'Southland,' to
which it now belongs.

Nos. VI. and VII. relate to Cultivation and Crops,
showing respectively, for each Province and for each
Electoral District, the Quantity of Land Fenced, and
the Number of Acres under each of the principal
Crops, in the possession of Europeans in December,
1864. In No. VIII. these particulars are compared
with the Statistics of Cultivation and Crops in 1858
and 1861.

Nos. IX., X., and XI. contain information, arranged
in the same way, with respect to the Live Stock
belonging to Europeans in the Colony.

It will be seen, on reference to the Population
Tables, that in December, 1864, the European popu-
lation of New Zealand, exclusive of the Military and
their families, amounted to 171,931 souls, being an
increase of 72,960, or 73.71 per cent. on the popula-
tion of 1861, which was an increase on that shown
by the previous Census (1858) of 39,643 persons, or
66.82 per cent. on the population. The Census of
1858 showed an increase, as compared with 1851, of
32,547, or 121.86 per cent., the whole population of
the Colony in 1851 having numbered only 26,707.

Of the population of 1864, the Northern Island
(comprising the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki,
Wellington, and Hawke's Bay,) contained 39,361
males, and 25,902 females-making a total of 65,263,
or 37.96 per cent.; and the Middle Island (compris-
ing Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago, and
Southland), 67,118 males, and 39,550 females-making
a total of 106,668; or 62.04 per cent.

The numbers of the Military and their families in
New Zealand at the date of the Census have, as
before, been courteously supplied by the Military
Authorities. They amounted to-Officers and men,
9,136; male children, 933; women, 1024; female
children, 880; total, 11,973. These numbers added
to the numbers ascertained by the Census, make a
general total of population amounting to 183,904
persons.

It would have been interesting at any time, but
especially so just now, to have had a Census of the
Aboriginal Native population taken simultaneously
with that of the European; but it is scarcely neces-
sary to say, that the attempt, which would have been
attended with difficulty under the most favorable
conditions, would, in existing circumstances, have
been nearly or wholly impracticable. After the
(European) Census of 1861, I prepared an estimate
of the Native population, based upon the Maori
Census of 1857-58, which showed the total number of
Maoris in the Colony as 55,336-viz., 31,329 males,
and 23,928 females (with 79 whose sex was not
stated). Of these, the Northern Island was esti-
mated to contain 53,056, leaving only 2280 for the
Middle Island. There cannot, I apprehend, be any
doubt that the numbers (at least in the Northern
Island, which has been the scene of war in addition
to the other influences believed to be working a
diminution, more or less rapid, in the Native popu-
lation), if they could now be made up correctly,
would be found to show a great decrease.

Returning to the European Census of 1864, it will
be seen that the Total Quantity of Land Fenced-
which in 1851 was 30,470 acres; in 1858, 235,561
acres; and in 1861, 409,473 acres-had increased in
1864 to 1,070,203 acres; and that the Total Quan-
tity under Crop-which in 1851 was 29,140 acres;
in 1858, 141,007 acres; and in 1861, 226,500 acres-
had increased in 1864 to 381,526 acres. Also, that
the aggregate Numbers of Live Stock of all kinds
(excepting Poultry)-which in 1851 were 299,115;
in 1858, 1,727,997; and in 1861, 3,036,972-had
increased in 1864 to 5,317,145. Taking Sheep sepa-
rately, the Total Number in the Colony-which in
1851 was 233,043; in 1858, 1,523,324; and in 1861,
2,760,183-had increased in 1864 to 4,945,473. The
proportions in which these figures apply to the
several Provinces will be found in the following
Tables, No. VIII. and No. XI. respectively.

I have in contemplation the speedy preparation
of additional Tables designed to present other results
of the late Census, which the Government will pro-
bably desire to have published before the details
relating to Religious Denominations, Places of Birth,
Occupations, &c., can be compiled with sufficient
care. But the Tables referred to can be prepared
only in part until all the enumerators shall have
forwarded to me their complete and final returns.

I have, &c.,
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

The Hon. F. A. Weld,
Colonial Secretary, Wellington.