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Evening Star, Issue 2963, 17 August 1872, Page 4

Statistical. —The following interesting summary of progress of the Colony is given in a despatch from Sir George Bowen to Lord Kimberley European population, 1861, 99,021; 1871, 256,393. The revenut has advanced in like proportion. In 1861 the total revenue, ordinary and territorial, was L 691,464 ; in 1870, L 1,384,639. Imports in 1861, L 2,493,811; 1870,14,639,015. Exports in 1861, L 1,370,247 ; in 1870, L 4,822,756. It is believed that the number of Natives do not exceed 37,500. It would be difficult to imagine a more suggestive commentary upon our expensive Native department which costs nearly a quarter of a million a year. The census of last year gave I the following results Wellington (city), 7,908; New Plymouth, 1,837; Napier, 2,179 ; Nelson, 5,534 ; Picton, 636 ; Blenheim, 741, It seems not a little curious to note the omission of the large centres of population. Canterbury, Otago, or Auckland, number three times the population of Wellington. The Value of German Immigrants. —A South Australian correspondent of the Lyttelton Times says A German citizen is Mayor of Adelaide, German M.P.s are listened to with respect in our House of Assembly, German merchants are to be seen on ’Change, German bakers, jewellers, and publicans are to be distinguished by their quaint-looking names in every busy street of the city; German farmers predominate in many of the country districts to s ch an extent that they support little German townships in ten or a dozen different localities. The census returns for 1871 give overßooo German settlers in South Australia, andthesooner you can say the same the better for New Zealand. I don't think those who rail at your Government for trying to introduce them know much about them, or how industrious in their business, contented with their gains, homely in their lives, jovial in their pleasures, they are. They have the good-will of their fellow-settlers here, as they thoroughly deserve to have, and I am fully persuaded that there are no other 8000 people in this colony who give so little trouble to the police, or to their creditors as do these yellow-haired broad-shouldered German people.

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