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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5356, 28 May 1878, Page 2

The census returns have been so far completed as to enable the Registrar-General to furnish the following information. The figures are of course subject to revision, but are not likely to be materially altered:—

POPULATION EXCLUSIVE OF MAO3IIS. Males - 280,898 Females .. ... .. ~ 183,273 Total .. .. ... ... 411,171 Chatham Islands Males .♦ .. •• V. 100 Females .. .. .. * , 72 Total .. .. .. .. 414,343 Included in the above are 4302 Chinese, of whom a very small number, probably not half a dozen, are females. The census taken in March, 1874, gave the following results : Males .. .. .. .• •• 170,981 Females ~r ~ ... .. .. 128,533 Total, exclusive of Maoris .. 299,514 4814 Chinese males and 2 females are included in the above. For February 1873, the figures were : Males .. ... 150,350 Females 100,037 Total, exclusive of Maoris .. .. 256,393

The increase has, in round numbers, been from 250.000 in 1871 to 300,000 in 1874 and to 415.000 in 1878, the increase in the last four years being over 25 per cent, The above figures show the extraordinary rapidity with which the population has been added to; but the increase in Wellington, where the population doubled in four years, is far larger than the rate for the whole of New Zealand, and probably itrls not approached by any other of the chief cities in the colony.