The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 77, 31 March 1880, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1880.

The results of the Census taken for the night of March 3rd, 1878, have just been published iv detail. The population of the City of Nelson waa 0604, of whom 3 < 89 were males aud 3415 females. There were 5 males and 10 females over SO years of age; 11 males and 17 females over 75; 28 males and 45 females over 70; 39 males and 32 females over 65; and 50 males and 52 females over 60. Comparing this with other places Nelson appears to be a peculiarly long lived locality. In Christclmrcli, for instanCa, where the population is 13,425, there wore only 7 persons over 80; 24 over 7-j; and 37 over 70; and iv Dunedin, where the population was 22,525, there were 15 persons over 80, being the same number as in Nelson. In tbis city there were 33 males and 37 fem.iles unable to read, and 39 males and 79 females who cannot write. The number of children attending tbe Government schools in Nelson was 1318, and 323 were receiving instruction iv private schools. There were 41 unmarried males and 55 females between the ages of 20 and 21, and only 1 male who had ventured his bark upon, the sea of mitriraony at the early age of 20. Between the ages of 21 and 25 there were 102 bachelors and 149 spinsters; between 25 and 30, 80 bachelors and 59 spinsters. The unmarried of all ages in our city numbered. 2i9s males and 2184 females, there were 922 married men, and 1050 married women, 67 widowers, and 178 widows. Of the total population of the Borough of Nelson 3533 were boru in New Zealand, 204 in the Australian Colonies, 2055 in England, 19 in Wales, 361 iv Scotland, 241 in Ireland, 31 in other British Possessions, 13 in France, 46 in Germany, 43 in other European countries, 6 in the United States, 15 in other countries, 11 at sea, and 26 unspecified. The numbers of the religious denominations in the city were as follows :— Episcopalians, 3185, Presbyterians, 734; Methodists, 669; Baptists, 413; Congregational Independents, 314; Lutherans, 51; Church of Christ, 19; Unitarians, 11 ; Quakers, 1 ; United Brethren, 97 ; Roman Catholics, 546 ; Greek Catholics, 1 ; Jews, 35 ; No Denomination, 87 ; No Religion, 48 ; Unspecified, 37 ; and object to state, 265. Fifty-four of the Chinese population of the Colony were returned as professing Christianity. They belonged to the undermentioned denominations :— Church of England, 36 ; Presbyterians, 3 ; Wesleyan s, 7 ; lloman Catholics, 8. The re9t were Pagans or Confucians. The numbers and styles of the various Denominations in the Colony are a little startling. No one who had not dived into the Census Returns is perhaps aware that there were 10 Ranters, and 283 Christadelphians in the Colony. Whilst the Andersonian, Dawnsonite, Glassite, and Trinitarian Sects had each a single representative. Of Exclusive Brethren there were but 11. But 17 " Shakers " appear in the list. The Church of the Future had only attracted 7 ' adherents, and there were 2 Peculiar People, 3 Resurrectionists. 52 Spiritualists, 31 Deists, 490 Freethinkers, 30 Atheists, 7 Materialists, 49 No Religion, 94 Secularists, and 55 "Doubting.'" There were about 133 different sects of one sort or auother represented in the Colony. The principal Denominations were divided as follows :—Episcopalians, 173 734 ; Presbyterians, 95,022 ; Roman Catholics, 58,408 ; Methodists, 32,299 ; Baptists, 9,159 ; Lutherans, 5,643 ; Congregational Independents, 5,555; Primitive Methodists, 3,676 ; and Jews, 1,424. There were 4,479 Pagans, of whom five were women. In a future notice we will refer to the occupations of the people.

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