Statisticd of Population of New Zealand. 97 



tiie mails are transported in coaches across tlie isthmus to 

 Auckland. Onehunga is a flourishing settlement, with inter- 

 esting volcanic formations. The road thither lies through a 

 fertile rolling country, which is, for the most part, reclaimed 

 and under cultivation, or else depastured by large herds of 

 handsome, powerful oxen. The three land-marks of the land- 

 scape are : — Three King's Hill, Mount Eden, and One Tree 

 Hill. All these, of moderate elevation, were formerly crowned 

 with 2^aJis or native fortified villages, and were once inhabited 

 by a large population, as is evidenced to this day by the 

 quantities of human bones found in the lava below, and by 

 several singular terrace-like artificial earth-works. The cot- 

 tages of the settlers are handsome and clean, but of singularly 

 small dimensions, very much the result we suppose of the 

 dearness of building material and the high price of labour 

 near Auckland. 



According to the census of 1857 the entire population of 

 New Zealand amounted to 108,204,* the white European 

 population numbering 52,155, of whom 16,315 persons in- 

 habited Auckland (9038 men, and 7277 women). 



The aborigines (Maori in the native tongue) are officially 

 returned at 56,049, of whom by far the larger number, above 

 38,000, inhabit the province of Auckland. Of all the savage 

 races with whom England has come in contact in the com'se of 



* We are indebted to C. W. Stafford, Esq., Under Secretary of State to the Colonial 

 Government, for copies of the latest statistical documents, from which we learn inter 

 alia that at the end of 1859 the population amounted to 129,392, the aborigines num- 

 bering 56,049, and the foreigners 73,343. 



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