56 TlMKHRI. 
shows a decrease on the figures of 1881, when 7,762 were 
returned. This race is of little or no social value and 
their early extinction must be looked upon as inevitable 
in spite of the sentimental regret of Missionaries. At the 
same time it is unnecessary to hasten the process in any 
way, for in this matter, nature, as ever, is much more gentle 
than man. 
Other races not noticed above form a small proportion 
of our population numbering only 347. At page eight of 
the report Mr. DALTON states that Her Majesty's sub- 
jects in the colony number 262,328, and that 16,241 of 
the population belong to Foreign States. These are 
12,166 from Portugal and Madeira; 3,714 from China; 
50 from Germany ; 55 from France ; 8 from Italy ; 29 
from the United States ; 48 from Holland ; 28 from 
Sweden; 21 from Denmark; 36 from Venezuela; 1 
from Austria ; 3 from Belgium ; 4 from Spain ; 4 from 
Turkey ; 3 from Switzerland ; 1 1 from Russia ; 2 from 
Syria ; 8 from Arabia and 1 from Greece. 
The sexes of our population are given by Mr. DALTON 
as 151,759 males and 126,569 femalesor 54*5 percent males 
and 45*4 per cent females. This is 100 females to 119*9 
males and not 112 males as given in the report. Reversed 
the figures are 83 females to 100 males. The dispropor- 
tion of the sexes shown by these figures is nothing 
new or extraordinary, it is of necessity attached to 
all comparatively new countries and to countries so 
dependent on immigrants as we are. So further one is 
not surprised to find the disproportion of sex most marked 
in the East Indian Race. The principle governing the 
proportion of the sexes in a country such as this would 
seem to be the permanancy or not of the home. This 
