282

Deduct Decrease—
By Emigration (over Seas)—
| | M. | F. |
|---|---|---|
| In 1st Quarter | 1,455 | 420 | = 1,875 |
| In 2nd Quarter | 1,222 | 344 | = 1,566 |
By Deaths—
| | | |
| In 1st Quarter | 495 | 347 | = 842 |
| In 2nd Quarter | 457 | 306 | = 763 |
TOTAL GROSS DECREASES | | 3,629 | 1,417 | = 5,046 |

Net Increase in the Half-year ending ? 3,708 4,081 = 7,789
30th June, 1865

[A few of the Returns requisite to make the foregoing estimate
accurate were not received at the time of its compilation. But
they related to places most of which are (as respects statistical
numbers) comparatively unimportant; and the Returns from
those places for the corresponding Quarters of 1864 have been
taken into the calculation as applying to 1865 also. The
estimate may therefore be regarded as substantially correct.]

The above numbers added to the population of the
Colony as shown by the late Census, amount to—
Males, 110,288; Females, 69,659; Total, 179,947.
But these Totals are defective with regard to the
month of December, 1864—the Census having been
taken on the night of the first of that month, and the
Returns employed in the preparation of this estimate
being quarterly (not monthly).

An apportionment amongst the several Provinces
of the figures in the above Table would show the
following results with respect to increase or decrease
during the half-year ending June 30th :—

Auckland—Increase, M. 2,884; F. 2,661; Total,
5,545.
Taranaki—M. (Decrease) 14; F. (Increase) 15;
Total (Increase), 1.
Wellington—Increase, M. 223; F. 127; Total, 350.
Hawke's Bay—Increase, M. 24; F. 32; Total, 56.
Nelson—Increase, M. 349; F. 109; Total, 458.
Marlborough—Increase, M. 30; F. 20; Total, 50.
Canterbury—Increase, M. 759; F. 666; Total, 1425.
Otago—M. (Decrease) 464; F. (Increase) 407;
Total (Decrease), 57.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Southland—M. (Decrease) 83; F. (Increase) 43;
Total (Decrease), 40.

The attempt to estimate the Population of the
respective Provinces by the introduction into the
calculation of the Arrivals and Departures at the
several Ports—although it has been repeatedly made
in the annual volumes of Statistics—is confessedly
attended with uncertainty, for this reason (amongst
others), that there are no means of ascertaining the
amount of Overland Migration. As some aid, how-
ever, to such an estimate the following figures are
given, showing the excess of Arrivals over Departures,
or of Departures over Arrivals, at the Ports of the
several Provinces during the Half-year ending June
30th :—

Auckland, Excess of Arrivals, 742; Taranaki,
Excess of Departures, 88; Wellington, Excess of
Arrivals, 2,083; Hawke's Bay, Excess of Arrivals,
270; Nelson, Excess of Arrivals, 100; Marlborough,
Excess of Departures, 143; Canterbury, Excess of
Arrivals, 277; Otago, Excess of Departures, 2,064;
Southland, Excess of Departures, 691.

Subject to the qualifications above stated, as to
the uncertainty attending this mode of estimating
the Population of each Province, and as to the ab-
sence of all the information specially relating to the
month of December which would be necessary to
make the calculation (such as it is) complete, the
following figures are given as indicating, more or
less approximately, the Population of the several
Provinces on the 30th of June :—

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.