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dissent from all or any of such Appointments, Regulations, Acts, and Proceedings, such Resolution shall be forthwith transmitted by the Speaker to the Governor for his consideration.

MONTERREY, GORDON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, has been pleased to delegate under "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861" to the Superintendents respectively of the Provinces of

Auckland | Nelson
Taranaki | Canterbury
Wellington | Otago, and
Hawke’s Bay | Southland
the several powers vested in the Governor by the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations contained in the Order in Council of even date herewith.

J. C. RICHMOND.

CENSUS OF NEW ZEALAND, 1864.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th September, 1865.

THE following Table, showing approximately the Increase and Decrease of the Population of European Descent in New Zealand, from the 1st January to the 30th June, 1865, is published for general information.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Gross Increase in the Half-year ending 30th June, 1865.

By Immigration (over Seas):

M. | F.
In 1st Quarter ... 3,516 | 2,533 = 6,049
In 2nd Quarter ... 2,124 | 1,332 = 3,456
By Births:
In 1st Quarter ... 834 | 799 = 1,633
In 2nd Quarter ... 863 | 834 = 1,697

Total Gross Increase ... 7,337 | 5,498 = 12,835

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 Decrease ... 3,629 | 1,417 = 5,046

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

[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, 1,425.
Otago — M. (Decrease) 464; F. (Increase) 407; Total (Decrease) 57.
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 volume 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, however, 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.