POPULATION OF THE COLONY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 151, 26 June 1874, Page 2

POPULATION OF THE COLONY.

The following is a comparative statement of the census returns for tbe various provinces : — - Males Females Total/ Auckland... 1874 ... 37,117 30,228 67,245 1871 ... 35,502 26,b33 6*^;33) faranaki ... 1874 ... 3,051 2,432 5,483 1871 ... 2,572 1.908 4.480 Wellington 1874 ... 16,230 13,500 29,730 1871 ... 13,180 10.82L 24,001 Hawke's 8ay1874 ... 5,406 3,812 9,_18 1871 ... 3,596 2,463 6,059 Marlboroigh 1874 ... 3,664 2,479 6,)43 1871 ... 3,535 2,000 5,235 Nelson ... 1874 ... 13,555 9011 22,565 18?1 ... 14,257 8,244 2i,501 Westland ... 1874 ... 9,548 5,365 14,283 1871 ... 10,453 4,904 15,357 Canterbury 1874 ... 3-2.294 25.476 58.770 1871 ... 25,781 21,020 _6,8)l Otago 1874 ... 50,121 34,961 85,082 1871 ... 46,691 27,800 69,491 Total ... 1874 ... 170,896 128,264 299,160

Advertising is now reduced to a science. In one of the Home journals it was nnnouneed that a shoemaker in London was paying an indigent M.A. to travesty "Homer" for advertising purposes. A tobacconist in Charleston employs a poet; the following clipped from the local paper being a specimen of his abilities: — " The Bells. By Edgar Allen Poe? 0 dear me no, oh no! But by your friend John Bell, Whose duty it is to tell, in a sort of rustic rhyme, Tbat he sells to the swells Tobacco superfine: That they cry as they try Keeping time, time, time, In this expressive lingo : Oh by jingo ! Oh by jingo!! Such .stingo, Oh such stingo 1 ! ! Is Hunter's pure sublime ! ! ! !

The following incident ia related to have recently occurred by the Richland county (Wisconsin) Independent i — "An Indian trapper and banter has been operating in one of the "northern towns of that county, and near his camp lived a farmer. The Indian had a box filled with rattlesnakes, covered over with grass. Last August the Indian come to the farmer's house one day intoxicated, aud asked the farmer to give him a certain sheep that he was preparing for exhibition at the county fair, saying that he was hungry. This the farmer refused, but offered him a hen if he would shoot it. Tbe Indian declared that he would have the sheep, and fired at it, but missed it. The farmer then set his dog on the Indian, and drove him away, A few nights since the farmer was awakened from his sleep by something cold crawling over hitn, and, seizing the object, he hurled it across the room. He was horrified to hear the noise of rattles in every direction. Telling his wife to lie quiet for her life, he raised up and turned up the light, when he saw a huge rattlesnake coiled up at the foot of the bed^ready-fojr £ spring. Seizing his revolveifcbe ared, and shot off its \. ■' **