146 Vofjage of the Novara. 



export, is at present about £2,000,000, the value of imports 

 having risen from £597,827 in 1853 to £1,551,030 in 1859, 

 while the exj^orts, which in the former year were only 

 £331,282, had risen in 1859 to £551,484. The last-mentioned 

 year employed 836 ships, of which 438, representing 136,580 

 tons and 7594 of crew, were engaged in the import, and 398 

 of 120,392 tons and 6483 of crew, were employed in the ex- 

 port trade. The net revenue of the Government for the 

 same period was £459,648. 



The majority of the colonists are emigrants from Great 

 Britain, only a small fraction coming from the continent.* 

 A large Irish population lives in the neighbourhood of Auck- 

 land, while the Scotch cling together about Taranaki and 

 the southern parts of the island. The European population 

 was 52,155 in 1857, and 73,343 in 1859, the proportion of 

 sexes in the latter year being 42,452 males, and 30,891 

 females. 



While most of the natm^alists of the Novara staff went on 

 the invitation of Government to examine the coal-beds lately 

 discovered in Drury district, others made frequent excur- 



* At the period of the Novai-a's visit to Auckland the proportion of the various na- 



60,000 



60,000 



