The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 61
Increase of Population
Increase of Population.
From whatever standpoint taken, the advance [unclear: i] the commercial and social position of the Province has been unusually rapid, as before stated, resulting [unclear: sole] from the soil and climate, without the stimulating [unclear: aid.] gold, or other exciting cause; and the healthful [unclear: increa] of population will add strength to this assertion, The following will give the numbers for 10 years:—
1873 | 4,906 |
1878 | 9,812 |
1874 | 6,373 |
1879 | 10,245 |
1875 | 7,659 |
1880 | 10,767 |
1876 | 8,258 |
1881 | 15,277 |
1877 | 8,744 |
1882 | 15,920 |
For the present year (1885). basing: our calculation on the above figures, we shall not be far in error in computing the population as above 17000