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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1693, 27 April 1886, Page 3

Siiys': the Titnaru Herald;— A some* wha^'curions phenotnon m the way of population ia i -mentioned by a Home paper. 4 ---At- ihe census of 1851 the parish.-- of Aldington, near Brighton, was leturneri as possessing the population of 1 ? The parish was entirely agricultural. * It w s for centuries without a house There were, howeve^ the ruins of a church which were noticed' - travellers on the : South Const Railway. Gn a road being n acle from &Shoroham to Brighton, a toll-bar wa.s ended m the parish, anil maw was pliide'd m charge of it. '■Thus the "parish became inhabi ted, -and the census of 1851 gave theipoljiulation of one. In 1861 the census:; showed that the population hadddottWed— the jukeman had taken to himself' 'a wife. At the present tiuie^hg palish ' numbers 1,500 in^ habitants. This seems somewhat alarming at ihst sight. There is no rea^4on>! however, for supposing that the Entire responsibility res's at the dobr'-of ' tlie uniortunate pikcinan. Althon»h ; the fact is not exiire.ssly j stated, 'we infpr that the par sh has lost its •■jMirely agricultral character, and- that a number of outsiders— po-sibily busiuess men from B.ighton — have- "found nut, that it is a pleasant pl.-ice to live m. Tt*is mended to make Austpalin black' wattle growing, on the 'e.\U«u«Vf farms" for that j urpose near Mercer, Auckland , as gre.« t a success asposnible. The "hundreds of wattle that have^already; be,eu f })lanted there aie thiiving we!l,.arid'.will " prptiuce a large qiiaii tity lof bark 1 m " two or 'ibr. c > ears hericel' T)>ere being aliundance of land*availal)ie, thousands more wattle are shorty to be planted, so that the jhdustiv islilcely t(» become anjextensiv r e one. n ss pui'poses the bark of the 'black wattle is the best of all bark | , In Australia all the tapner|es uveit..