APPENDIX II. 
Rough Statistics. 
As some statistical details may be interesting to the reader, 
I transcribe some of the results of the census taken recently 
by the Company's Agents in their settlements. 
Wellington. — The total White population of Wellington and 
its vicinity, on the 31st August 1843, was nearly 3,800. At 
Petre on the Wanganui there were 1 92 settlers ; at Manawatu, 
Otaki, and elsewhere on the coast, there were about 150 ; 
the number of shore-whalers at the stations dependent on 
Wellington, in the beginning of 1844, was 550. 
A striking feature in this population was, for a young 
colony, the inconsiderable disproportion between the num- 
bers of the sexes. At Wellington, the number of males was 
2,090, of females 1,707. The total excess of males over 
females was only 383 ; and in the population below 21 years 
of age it was only 55. The number of children born since 
the formation of the settlement was 431 ; of these, 224 
were females and 207 males. At Petre there were 36 mar- 
ried couples, 40 adult unmarried males, and 6 adult un- 
married females ; among the children, 40 were males and 
26 females. 
Of the 3,800 Wellington settlers about 200 may be re- 
garded as belonging to the middle or (as they may there be 
termed) upper classes ; including capitalists farming their 
own land, or land taken on lease, and employing labourers ; 
lawyers, medical practitioners and clergymen ; Government 
and Company's officers ; merchants, traders, auctioneers, pri- 
vate surveyors, and schoolmasters. 
There were 5 clergymen or priests in the settlement; 
1,241 Episcopalians, 368 Scotch Presbyterians, 168 Wes- 
leyans, 112 Independents, 96 Roman Catholics, 50 Baptists, 
26 Jews, and 96 unascertained. There were 4 regular 
schoolmasters ; 6 children attended a private school for the 
upper classes, 193 a mechanics' school, and 5 private schools 
for the poorer classes, 50 an infant-school, 100 the European 
