STATISTICS OF THE COLONY.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 739, 19 November 1870, Page 2

STATISTICS OF THE COLONY.

We have received the Statisticil Tables for 1869, with the usual intro-

ductory report. The volume is apparently carefully compiled, and contains a vast amount of information. Its usefulness cannot be set forth or found all at once, but we may gvrt»

few passages from the introductory report. Population - . The total (estimated) population of the Colony, on the 31st December, 1869, exclusive of the military and their families (who, to the number of 1,020, Btill. remained in New Zealand at that date), and of the aboriginal natives, was 237,249; viz.: 140,112 males, and 97,137 females. The increase in 1869 was centesimally 407 per cent, on males, 508 per cent, on females, and 406 per cent, on the whole population. Taking the divisions of the Colony separately, the excess of immigration over emigration in 1869 were:—ln . the Province of Auckland, 1,155; in the Province of Taranaki, 9; in the Province of Wellington, 134; in the Province of Hawke's Bay, 19 ; in the Province of Nelson, 244; in the Province •of Canterbury, 574; in the County of Westland, 264; and in the Province of Otago, 1,290. On the other hand, in the Province of Southland, the emigration was 48 in excess of the immigration. The total number of marriages in New Zealand in 1869 was 1,931, being 154 less than in 1868. Of these, 1,766 were by ministers of religion, and 165 by registrars. The respective numbers solemnised by ministers of the several religious bodies were as follows: United Church of England and Ireland, 508 ; Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland, Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland, and Presbyterian Congregations, 629; Eoman Catholic Church, 311; Wesleyan Methodists, 190; Congregational "independents, 49 ; Baptists, 38 ; Primitive Methodists, 23 ; Lutheran Church, 4; Hebrew Congregations, 3 : United Methodists Free Churches, 8; and Christian Brethren, 7.