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Return showing Estimated Population, &c. — continued.

By Authority: Gbobgk DiDSßtrnr, Government Printer, Wellington.—lBSl.

Electoral District. Population, April, 1881. Electoral District. Population, April, 1881. Provincial District of Westland, — Grey Valley Hokitika .. Totara 9, 780 7,899 2,351 Provincial District of Otaijo, — Waitaki Waikouaiti Port Chalmers City of Dunedin Roslyn Caversham. Taieri Bruce Clutha Tuapeka Waikaia Mount Ida... Dunstan ... Wakatipu ... Invercargill Mataura Eiverton ... Wallace 13,327 5,323 4,955 24,377 11,609 10,491 6, 238 5,897 4, 561 5, 842 5,991 3, 363 3, 881 3, 996 4, 592 9,836 5,817 3,471 Total of Provincial District (but including part Grey Valley in Nelson, 5,359 persons) [ 20,033 Provincial District of Canterbury, — Ashley Kaiapoi Town of Lyttelton City of Christchurch .. Avon Heath cote .. Sehvyn Akaroa Coleridge Timaru Geraldine .. Gladstone ... 7,043 G, 896 4,127 30,719 5, 588 11,631 6,196 4, 338 12, 768 9,726 4,439 7,553 Total of Provincial District (but excluding part Gladstone in Otago. 33 persons) ( 133,575 Total of Provincial District (but excluding part Cheviot in Canterbury, 729 persons, and including part Gladstone iu 0 tago, 33 persons) I 111,024 Total, 69 districts .. Chatham Islands On shipboard in colony 4S6,854 196 3,034 Total estimated for the colony 490,084