The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

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Rlrt.e Pesertcg.—An Act of Parliament (23rd and
24i1i Victoria, cap. 140) was ',eased in the late Session
" For Meditating the Acquisition by Ride Volunteer
Conia of Cr, 1111 l ds for Ride Practice." The Act, which
is not to pply to Ireland. detines " Rifle Volunteer
Corp." to mean any corps of which Her Majesty has
accepted the offer it service, in pursuance of the several
Acts in that behalf provided. Any rifle corps may now
purchase ground for practice, subject to the ascent of
the Secretary at W•r, which is to be obtsioed in the
following manner :—ln enter to obtain the assent of the
said Principal Secretary to the purchase of land under
tide Act, the corps shall make an apidhation to him in
such manner as he may direct, describing the land in-
klidel to be purchased, sued adding ouch particulars AS
to the circumstances of the corps, and as to the amount
of the purchase money, and as to other matters as Ile
may require. Prerionaly to giving hid assent. the laid
Principal Secretary shall scud an inapector to the land
for the puryiose of ascertaining the capabilitica of such
laud to he Lone-erre-I into a ride practice wound, with
due regent to the safety and convenience of the public.
Upon the rm.-A.lO of the report of the inspector, the said
Principal Secretary may give or withhold his assent,
either with or aShout mojilicution, and may annex to
such .ecent, if given, any conditions or regulations he
think. lit, and the decision of the said Principal Secre-
tary shah in all places he conclusive." All persons pos-
sessed cf land are enq.were.l to convey the same to be
used so rile grounds. In order to encourage ride prac.
lice the heads of the Royal !oaks may grant the right of
shooting therein, and the Cot iiiii iwdoners of Woods and
Furesta inay, with the consent of the Treasury, grant
land under their nisinagement for the same purpose, as
also may the officers of the Drachma of Lancaster and
Cornwall. Shinier powers are given to trustees and
others with regard to land held for ecclesiastical or paro-
chial purpose*. The Secretary for War, with • view
to the " service, safety, and convenience of the public,"
may make bye•laart for the regulation of ride shooting
on grounds required. Any land no acquired, and not
used for a year, in to he divined to have teased to be
1..14 for the purpose ititended, and a certificate from the
Secretary for %Vier is to be conclusive evidence of auch
fact so against all portico, sod in all courts of justice.
SfATInTICII ii New ZV..ILAND.—A colonial tine-book
shied " Registrar-Generes office, Auckland, July 2nd,
1860," suppl.ea an interesting atatiatical account of the
progress of the colony of New Zealand. The increase of
the population of European descent in New Zealand
during the year 143(115 estimated to have been no leas
than 123/kJ—viz., 7,4/4 isales and 4,752 females, an
augmentation the magnitude of which becomes evident
when it is abo.n centesintally, the increase upon ea ery
160 of the grime population having amounted to 2054, or
takin.; the comparative noisier, of the nears separately,
to 22.10 on the male and 18.50 on the female population
respectively. The increase was owing in•inly loth° an-
ulu..l tide of innuigration to New Zealand iii 1559. esipec-
i .14y tofAucklaml,Cauterbury,and Otap. In reference to
sorer .1 departineuts of the ataitiatical tahlea piloted in
this blue-hook, Mr. John B. Bennett, the Registrar.
Gen.-ral of the Colony, in his report to the lion. R. %V.
S afford, the Colonial Secretary, says :—" The quant.tv
of lane under cultivation and the numbers of live stock
in the colony can be estimated with any reliable degree
of correctness iinly in the years when the census is taken ;
the hasis of greater or lesser probability on which the
calculations in the preceding tables rest scarcely existing
where egi much Is necessarily contingent upon circum-
stances. It may be generally stated, however, that on
a comparison of the results of the censuses in 18151 and
1655 respectively, it was found that daring Berea years
the land under cram in the colony had increased from
49,140 to 140,965 acres, end the land fenced from 30,470
6015 186 acres; and the number of live stock, of all
kinds, from 29.1.115 to 1,727.927. If it is aseinmel that
the increase for the last year was according to the average
of the previous septennial period, then, in Deceuibtr,
1659, the quantity of land under crop would be
156,940 mm, and of land fenced 264,776 acres; and the

aggregate number, of live stock about 1.932,123. This
estimate, however. aikido no more than a very general
ides of what a census taken in Is 9 might have been
expected to show. The totel estate of iinports,, alech
Mot increased flout £597,827 in 18.13, to £1,141,273 tie
1554, atnounksi in 15.159 to £1,'i51,931.11, Ling an increaie
of £409,757 on the last yvar. The total value of exports,
which war £303,242 in 1653, and £468,(r1 in Iss, rule
' in 18.19 to £551,484, being an insinsase of £93.461 in
that year. Omitting the exports of articles imported
from other countries, and taking onlv the exports of
New Zealand produce soot manufacturers (which are
manifestly those from which the real development of
the resources of the colony is to be inferred), it is
gratifying to tind that there is an increase ii, ti.e last year
amounting to X 87.351 135., the totals beinq £521.308 in
1859, against £433,949 Se. in 1858. lb. shippito•
exhibits a eorrewponiling increase. In 1843 the ...o'er.,
entered inwards were 7,,sit' , with a tonnage of 65.504 • in
1858, vowels 30, tonnage 90,118; in 1859, vesaela 438,
tonnage 136,5e10. Outwards the vvoiels tiered in
1853, ta • tonnage, 62,801 ; in 1858, vessels, 322 ;
tonnage, .82,V3 ; in 1859, vessels, 328; tonnage.
1110,392. The total revenue of the colony, which had
risen from £149,829 Bs. 7el. in 1853, to £341,651 lfol. 2.1.
in 1858, amounted in 1859 to 1:459.648 14s. 351.. being
an increase in that year, as compared with 1858, of
£117,993 19s. Id. Of this increase the ordinary revenue
shows £29,12tl 2s. 7.1. above 1858, the int.roise in the
Customs duties (exclusive of the export duty on gold)
making £16,679 8-.. 51. of thee. amoutst ; while the
territorial resume of 1859 exceeded that of 1858 by the
1.1114 of 1:80,082 Itis.