APPENDIX
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APPENDIX.
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TABLE I. shows some of the Elements of the Climate of New Zealand at seven Settlements,- to which are added, for the sake of comparison, similar Data for several other Places.
[Footnotes to Table]
Monthly Observations given. Statistics of New Zealand. 1858.
Observations, Royal Engineers. London, 1855.
Strzelecki's Physical History of New South Wales. 1845.
Royal Observatory, fourteen years' observation. 1842--1856.
Statistical Register, Victoria. 1854. Five years' observation. Strzelecki's Physical History of New South Wales.
Meteorological Observatory, one year. June, 1858.
Drs. Heinekin and Renton, six years' observation.
Metropolitan Encyclopedia.
Clark on Climate.
Poitevin.
Howard.
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TABLE II.--Showing the Strength, Sickness, and Mortality which occurred among the Troops serving in New Zealand during the six-Years ending March, 1858.
TABLE III.--Showing the Principal Diseases by which Sickness and Mortality among the Troops in New Zealand have been occasioned, during the six Years ending March, 1858.
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TABLE IV.--Showing the Relative Admissions Annually per 1000 into Hospital for different Diseases among Infantry Soldiers stationed in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
This Table is thus read: Out of every 1000 soldiers in the United Kingdom 73 were annually admitted into hospital with fevers, and out of every 1000 soldiers in New Zealand, only 4 were admitted with fevers.
TABLE V.--Showing the Comparative Relative Mortality Annually from Disease among 1000 Infantry Soldiers in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
This Table is thus read: Out of 1000 infantry soldiers in the United Kingdom 2-4 men die annually from fevers, while in New Zealand it is only 0.1, or 1 man in 10,000.
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TABLE VI.--Showing the Annual Mortality from all Diseases, and the Number of Admissions into Hospital and Deaths from Diseases of the Lungs, out of 1000 British Infantry Soldiers stactioned in the following Countries.
This Table is thus read: Out of every 1000 soldiers at Bermuda 30 died annually from disease, 134 were admitted into hospital on account of diseases of the lungs, of which 8.3 died.
[Footnotes to table]
Medical statistics of the army, laid before Parliament.
Furnished by Staff-surgeon Shanks, P.M.O., New South Wales. Seven years observation, ending March, 1850.
Principal medical officer, office, New Zealand.
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TABLE VII. -- Showing the Comparative Frequency of different Classes of Diseases among the Inhabitants of a large Town in England, 1 and among the Natives of New Zealand. 2
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TABLE VIII.--Showing the Trade between New South Wales and New Zealand, from 1826 to 1842.
Before the establishment of the British Government at New Zealand, the chief trade was with New South Wales.
The above returns are taken from statistical returns printed by the Legislative Council of New South Wales on the 5th June, 1844
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TABLE IX. -- Statistics of the Provinces of New Zealand in 1853, compiled from Official Documents published in the Colony.
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TABLE X.--Comparative Table, showing the Total Value of the Imports and Exports of New Zealand into and from the different Provinces, during the Years 1853-1854, 1855-1856, and 1857.
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TABLE XI.--Showing the Revenue and Expenditure of New Zealand as a British Colony. Compiled from Official Sources in the Colony.
[Footnotes to table]
Raised by debentures at different issues.
The troops were increased in 1857 to 1693 men, not including officers: free rations were given to the men, and 5s. a day to the officers on account of the expense of living.
This increase of territorial revenue was consequent on Governor Grey's land regulations.
The data is drawn from several official sources, and is only approximative.
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TABLE XII.--Showing the Gross Revenue of Customs collected at the Ports of New Zealand in the under-mentioned Years, compiled from Official Sources.
[Footnotes to table]
Includes the revenue at the Bay of Islands, Hokianga, Kaiwhia, Kaipara, Wangarei.
Includes the revenue at Wanganui and Napier.
Includes the revenue at Akaroa.
The shillings have been omitted, which causes the slight difference between the total and the items.
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TABLE XIII. -- Comparative Statement of the European Population in New Zealand during the following Years. Compiled from Official Sources published in the Colony.
[Footnotes to table]
After this date the population of the provinces is given; the Bay of Islands and Hokianga are included in Auckland, Akaroa in Canterbury, and Wanganui in Wellington.
The returns for 1856, 1857, and 1858 indicate the population on the 31st of December. The military and their families, amounting to 2,653 on the 31st of December 1856, are not included in any of these returns; nor is the European population of the Chatham Islands, which amounted in 1857 to 64 souls.
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TABLE XIV.--Statement showing the Value of the Exports and Imports from and into the Colony of New Zealand during the following Years, compiled from Official Sources.
TABLE XV.--Return showing the Number of Persons of European Origin belonging to the different Religious Denominations in the several Provinces of New Zealand, in 1851.
[Words from table
Protestants, Church of England, Presbyterians, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Independents, Baptists, Unitarians, Lutherans, Quakers, Protestant Dissenters, Roman Catholics, Jews, Refusing to state]
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TABLE XVI.--Showing the Number of the Male and Female Population in the Provinces of New Zealand during the Years 1851 and 1858, compiled from the Government Statistics published in the Colony.
TABLE XVII.--Showing the Number of Live Stock in the Possession of Europeans in New Zealand during the Years 1851 and 1858, compiled from the Statistics of the Colony.
[Words from the table
Horses, Mules and asses, Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Pigs]
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TABLE XVIII.--Showing the Number of Acres of Land in Cultivation by Europeans in New Zealand, during the Years 1851 and 1858, from Statistical Data published in the Colony.
[Words from the table
Wheat, Barley, Oats, Maize, Potatoes, Grass, Gardens or Orchards, Other Crops, Acres Fenced]
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TABLE XlX.-Showing the Number of Persons of European Origin in New Zealand able or not able to Read and Write during the Years ending 1851 3and 1857. 4
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TABLE XX.--Shouting the Total Number of Souls in the undermentioned Pas near the Bay of Islands in 1851, and their respective Conditions, together with the Number of Married Women who have no Children, and the Number Barren. Computed from a nominal Census of all the Inhabitants, made by Mr. Duncan, Government Native Interpreter, Bay of Islands.
| Name of Pa.
|
Total
Number
of Souls
|
Number of
Married Men.
|
Number of
Married Women.
|
Bach-
elors.
|
Spin-
sters.
|
Wido-
wers
|
Widows
|
Children
under 14
Years of Age.
Males
|
Children
under 14
Years of Age.
Females
|
Number of
Married Women
who have had
no Children,
or the
Children are dead.
|
Number of
Married Women
who never
had Children.
|
| Waikari
|
114
|
30
|
32
|
8
|
11
|
5
|
-
|
17
|
11
|
1
|
6
|
| Whangaruru
|
147
|
32
|
34
|
25
|
5
|
4
|
12
|
23
|
12
|
5
|
11
|
| Momi Whangota
|
70
|
16
|
17
|
3
|
-
|
3
|
6
|
12
|
13
|
1
|
8
|
| Tutu Kaka
|
36
|
9
|
9
|
9
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
-
|
7
|
| Total
|
367
|
87
|
92
|
45
|
18
|
14
|
19
|
55
|
37
|
7
|
32
|
Some men have more than one wife, which is the cause of the number of married women exceeding the number of married men.
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TABLE XXI.--Showing the Total Number of Souls in the undermentioned Pas, near the Bay of Islands in 1851, and their respective Conditions, together with the Number of Married Women who have no Children. Compiled from a nominal Return of all the Inhabitants made by Mr. Duncan, Government Interpreter, Bay of Islands.
| Name of Pa.
|
Total Number
of Souls.
|
Number
of
Married
Men.
|
Number
of
Married
Women. 5
|
Bach-
elors.
|
Spin-
sters.
|
Wid-
owers. 6
|
Widows. 7
|
Children
under 14
Years of Age
Males. 8
|
Children
under 14
Years of Age
Females.
|
Number of
Married Women
who have had
no Children, or
whose Children
are Dead.
|
| Paihia
|
41
|
10
|
10
|
6
|
-
|
4
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
5
|
| Whangai
|
42
|
8
|
9
|
9
|
2
|
3
|
3
|
8
|
0
|
4
|
| Kawa Kawa
|
149
|
33
|
37
|
15
|
9
|
7
|
8
|
22
|
18
|
17
|
| Waiomio
|
333
|
61
|
64
|
128
|
28
|
11
|
8
|
27
|
6
|
40
|
| Waikino
|
60
|
15
|
16
|
8
|
2
|
3
|
2
|
7
|
7
|
11
|
| Hauatupiri
|
44
|
11
|
12
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
3
|
6
|
3
|
5
|
| Hauatapiri
(Matarua)
|
55
|
10
|
10
|
9
|
4
|
2
|
6
|
8
|
6
|
5
|
| Tirohanga
|
80
|
19
|
22
|
5
|
5
|
4
|
4
|
14
|
7
|
10
|
| Rawhiti, &c.
|
186
|
40
|
42
|
20
|
18
|
10
|
14
|
26
|
16
|
21
|
| Paroa
|
36
|
8
|
8
|
8
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
6
|
| Total
|
1026
|
215
|
230
|
210
|
75
|
49
|
55
|
124
|
68
|
124
|
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TABLE XXII.--Showing the Numbers of the Aboriginal Native Population of the Colony of New Zealand in 1858. 9
[Notes from the table]
The age of the males and females is not returned in so many cases that I have considered it useless to insert them. In 79 persons the sexes are not given.
In 97 persons the ages are not given, which accounts for the difference between the totals.
Estimated.
TABLE XXIII.--Showing the State of the Population of certain Tribes in the Waikato District in the Years 1844 and 1858. Extracted from a Census made by F. D. Fenton, Esq., Resident Magistrate.
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Table XXIV. -- Showing the Native Population in the undermentioned Districts near Wellington, New Zealand, in the Year 1850. 10
|
|
Port Nicholson.
|
Waikanai
and Porirua.
|
Otaki,
Manawatu,
Rangitikei.
|
Wairarapa.
|
Total.
|
| Population:--
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Male adults
|
359
|
407
|
998
|
289
|
2,053
|
| Female adults
|
241
|
335
|
846
|
174
|
1,596
|
| Male children
|
67
|
83
|
364
|
52
|
566
|
| Female children
|
78
|
63
|
337[?]
|
48
|
496
|
| Total population
|
745
|
888
|
2515
|
563
|
4,711
|
| Religion:--
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Church of England
|
391
|
518
|
947
|
404
|
2,260
|
| Wesleyan
|
223
|
223
|
68
|
20
|
534
|
| Roman Catholic
|
1
|
|
147
|
13
|
161
|
| Total religion
|
615
|
741
|
1,162
|
437
|
2,955
|
| Moral condition:--
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Married,
European custom
|
24
|
25
|
42
|
30
|
121
|
| Married,
native custom
|
179
|
140
|
539
|
110
|
968
|
| Can read and write.
|
220
|
237
|
587
|
104
|
1,148
|
| Can read only
|
39
|
93
|
202
|
80
|
414
|
| Buildings:--
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Churches or chapels
|
11
|
9
|
15
|
4
|
39
|
| Weather-boarded houses
|
9
|
6
|
14
|
0
|
29
|
| Huts
|
204
|
206
|
507
|
85
|
1,002
|
| Stock:--
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Horses
|
85
|
72
|
143
|
49
|
349
|
| Cattle
|
66
|
76
|
115
|
5
|
262
|
| Sheep
|
20
|
2
|
20
|
|
42
|
| Crops:--
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Wheat ... acres
|
27
|
21
|
177
|
15
|
240
|
| Maize ...
|
22
|
52
|
129
|
32
|
235
|
| Potatoes ...
|
95
|
117
|
334
|
102
|
648
|
| Kumera ...
|
15
|
22
|
41
|
|
78
|
| Other garden produce
|
9
|
8
|
38
|
12
|
67
|
| Miscellaneous:--
|
|
|
|
|
|
| War canoes
|
41
|
53
|
36
|
|
130
|
| Hand mills
|
2
|
23
|
16
|
|
41
|
| Tame pigs
|
91
|
329
|
1,921
|
349
|
2,690
|
| Boats
|
3
|
4
|
|
|
7
|
| Goats
|
|
77
|
47
|
3
|
127
|
| Daily scholars
|
32
|
33
|
218
|
|
283
|
| Bee hives
|
|
2
|
19
|
|
21
|
| Half castes
|
3
|
17
|
44
|
|
64
|
| Water mills
|
|
1
|
2
|
|
3
|
| Flax, prepared ... tons
|
1
|
4
|
26
|
|
31
|
| Carts
|
8
|
|
|
|
8
|
| Vessels ... tons
|
35
|
24
|
|
|
59
|
| Rents received ... £
|
137
|
53
|
25
|
588
|
803
|
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TABLE XXV. -- Showing the Number of Canoes which arrived at Auckland and Onehunga, together with the Crews, Native Produce, &c., &c. during the Years 1852, 1853, 1854, and 1855, compiled from the Provincial Government Gazette.
|
|
1852.
|
1853.
|
1854.
|
1855.
|
| Number of canoes
|
2,016
|
2,149
|
1,866
|
1,958
|
| Crews:--
|
|
|
|
|
| Males
|
7,330
|
7,287
|
5,569
|
6,649
|
| Females.
|
2,949
|
2,854
|
2,385
|
3,718
|
| Total
|
10,279
|
10,141
|
7,954
|
10,367
|
| Quantity and species
of produce:--
|
|
|
|
|
| Kits of potatoes.
|
7,042
|
8,450
|
2,501
|
6,340
|
| " onions.
|
1,440
|
1,042
|
456
|
784
|
| " maize.
|
2,157
|
4,139
|
123
|
1,398
|
| " kumaras
|
675
|
369
|
86
|
132
|
| " cabbages
|
807
|
1,027
|
872
|
2,106
|
| " peaches
|
1,247
|
1,674
|
653
|
5,281
|
| " flax.
|
426
|
157
|
9
|
187
|
| Bundles of grass
|
5,797
|
5,279
|
4,027
|
9,217
|
| Tons of wood.
|
1,565
|
2,320
|
1,951
|
1,853
|
| " fish.
|
52
|
67
|
81
|
90
|
| Pigs
|
1,771
|
1,366
|
961
|
722
|
| Goats
|
45
|
16
|
3
|
22
|
| Ducks
|
194
|
97
|
26
|
37
|
| Fowls
|
1,392
|
585
|
634
|
750
|
| Tons of flour.
|
65
|
132
|
--
|
44
|
| Geese
|
2
|
8
|
--
|
--
|
| Turkeys
|
--
|
16
|
--
|
--
|
| Kits of pumpkins
|
7
|
154
|
170
|
319
|
| " melons
|
7
|
26
|
67
|
181
|
| " grapes
|
--
|
132
|
--
|
191
|
| " apples
|
--
|
17
|
--
|
--
|
| " quinces
|
--
|
3
|
--
|
--
|
| Bushels of wheat
|
1,674
|
2,456
|
3,715
|
1,372
|
| Bundles of straw
|
--
|
69
|
--
|
408
|
| Kits of raupo
|
--
|
17
|
--
|
--
|
| Tons of Kauri gum
|
--
|
249
|
376
|
49
|
| Kits of pipi
|
3
|
10
|
19
|
--
|
| " oysters
|
--
|
60
|
148
|
361
|
| Bushels of bran
|
71
|
--
|
--
|
--
|
| Amount valued at
|
£6,460
|
£12,879
|
£16,180
|
£12,377
|
