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Sunday-school, and 56 a Bchool attached to the Mechanics* 
Institute. 
The dwelling-houses of the settlers were estimated to have 
cost 76^99/. ; and the detached warehouses, forges, mills, 
public buildings, &c., 23,335Z. There were 20 vessels, of 
small tonnage, belonging to "Wellington ; and of these 19 had 
been built in Wellington or Cook's Strait, and 5 more were 
on the stocks. Since the formation of the settlements, 632 
vessels, with a tonnage of 74,795, had entered Port Nichol- 
son. 
The procrastination in the Court of the Commissioners of 
Land Claims had prevented the colonists from settling to 
agriculture ; they had only cleared about 822 acres of land, 
of which 380 were arable, 130 pasture (exclusive of the 
natural cattle and sheep runs), and 70 garden-ground. The 
settlers possessed 129 horses, 1,394 grazing cattle, 4,823 
sheep, 5,060 head of poultry, pigs innumerable, and some 
other domestic animals. About 36 miles of road had been 
constructed. Since that time the lines of road have been 
much extended, and several bridges built. The number of 
acres surveyed at different parts of the settlement from 
Wanffanui to the Upper Hutt was 193,000. 
Nelson. — In the last week of October 1843, the "White 
population of Nelson was 2,942: of these 1,805 resided in 
town, and 1,137 were rural settlers. There were 1,588 males 
and 1,354 females. The excess of males over females was, 
in the town 91, in the country 143 — in all 234. The excess 
of males in the population below 21 years of age was only 
49. The number of the better class (lawyers, medical prac- 
titioners, clergymen, merchants, &c.) was 105, exclusive of 
83 farmers, large and small, of whom perhaps one-half might 
belong to this class. There were 132 storekeepers and 
tradesmen, 272 artisans, and 323 farm-labourers. 
There were 4 clergymen or priests in the settlement, 
1,315 members of the Church of England, 182 Roman 
Catholics, 1,200 Christians of other denominations, 3 Jews, 
35 unascertained. There were 321 children at day-schools: 
the number receiving instruction at Sunday-schools and at 
^Ebome was believed to be considerable. 
The dwelling-houses of the town settlers were estimated to 
