STATISTICAL.

Evening Star, Issue 3460, 25 March 1874, Page 2

STATISTICAL.

(From the Lyttelton Times.) The total estimated population of New Zealand—exclusive of Natives—on December 31, 1872, was 279,560, .the females being nearly in the proportion of 27.38 to 10J males. We learn also, that the increase by excess of registered births over registered deaths was 7,601, being 349 less than the corresponding increase in 1871. The increase by immigration over emigration was 4,973, against 4,786 in 1871; and the totalincreaae to the population was thus 12,574 against an increase of 12,736 in 1871. On a moderate estimate, bearing'in mind the grekt ihcrease fh immigration during 1873, the popblatipci of isew Zealand must bp qlose fta, if it is not over, 300,OOt). One of the Registrar General's death tables possesses some interest as it gives the proportion of children under five years of age who died in each Province to its population. The table is as follows

The vital statistics summary which deals with marriages. He gives the total number of marriages by ministers religion and registrars, and is careful to sub- , divide the former into their respective denominations. In giving information of this kind ' the Registrar-General is, travelling carefully ajong the old grooves, but it seems to us that he is also wasting a deal n|

his own valuable time and the money of the: public.. The statistics which deal with what .is,called.trade and interchange are > of more general interest, especially where compara tive statements are given about imports and exporta The following figures, for instance, showing the increase or decrease in impoits for each Province—lß72 versus 1871—are of considerable value £ pji df Auckland ... Increase 243,544 or 24 87 - •> 5,687 or 47.71 - 83,772 or 19.35 Hawke s Bay, „ 3*,017 or 57.56 iT ” 41 > 13 or 13.37 Marlborough „ 90 2 or 8.23 Canterbury... „ 105,350 or 18.61 Westland ... Decrease 16,691 or 4.54 Ctago ... Increase 663,017 or 4215 The solitary instance of decrease, that of Westland, is accounted for by the migration of miners to the other colonies, and it therefore represents a corresponding decrease in population. J> o similar tabic is given in the case of exports, bat we learn that, compwd vio t^ere was a tota l decrease of L 63,918 in value. The decrease in gold export is very striking, having been L 1,056,269 'tLa aUS* “loathe decrease was L 819.367. Some idea ot what the Colony Sained by the enhaunced value of wool may c formed from the bare figures. In 1871 the declared value was L1,60C,144 ; in 1872.’ it was L 2,637,919; thus showing an increase of L 931,775, or over 58 per cent. Although these figures have to a large extent been anticipated, by notices in the New Zealand Gazette,’ and by stray tables prepared for the. edification of members of the General Assembly, they are new.in the sense that they have been thoroughly re•viseA and are now published under the seal of official sanction in a complete form.

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