The New York herald., 1863-06-06

ehouiaole seSurS. Inc Iuture WeiIore ana cOn-
duct of the nation-to say nothing OF the COM
fort of the ladies and the success of the season-
depend, therefore, upon thorough reform in
the management of the watering place hotels.
If any accident shall happen, and the Reign Of
Terror be thereby precipitated, we shall hold
these landlords solely and strictly responsible
and then may Heaven have mercy upon them;
for We shall have none.
News from the Other Side OF the world
New Zealand and Its Prospects.
With the valuable volume which it describes
we have received the following. letter.
TO THE EDITOR or TIE HERALD.
COLONIAL SKcRKrAky's OrrIcE,
AUCKLAND, Jan. 81, 1868.
DEAR SrR- directed 10 forward TO you, with Mr..
Eometts compliments. volume containing the siatis
OF Now Zealand for 1891 and including the rcsslts Of
Tho triennal Of the colony which taken tho
10th OF December In that year. have the honor be,
sir, your most obedient servant:
W. OSBORNE, Under Secretary.
From the same source we have received simi-
lar favors for number of years past, as we
have also from other colonies of Great Britain,
and we take this opportunity to express to the
various secretaries our thanks for their remem-
brance and attention. ss rrr
New Zealand, hitherto known to the great
mass of men by the romantic stories Of South
Sea travellers, or not known at all, must hence
forth be counted as a progressive place. Ex-
elusive of the military, its population Of Eu-
ropean descent was in 1861 about one hun
dred thousand-which was an increase for ten
years Of seventy-five thousand, Its population
in 1851 having been but one-quarter what it
was in 1861. Forty thousand of this Increase be-
longs to the last three of the ten years. With
in these same three years two Of the New Zea-
land provinces-Taranaki and Otago-exhibit
in little the vicisstudes dependent upon the
various events of human history. In Otago rich
gold fields have been found and the population
of that single province is now greater than was
the whole population of New Zealand in 1861.
1t has increased 81 per cent. Taranaki, on the
other hand, has been ravaged by war; and there
is decrease in the three years OF twenty-five
per cent. Sixty-one per cent of the present
population is male; SO that New Zealand would
be very good country for that portion of our
female population that is in search of "woman's
sphere" Sixty-one men to every thirty nine
women. Think of that, oh Anna Dickinson,
and all ye other petticoated come-outers.
Better than that even for those lonely and
disconsolats damses who have dreamed of
Some bright little isle Of their own,
In q blue summer ocean far of and alone.
Here is the island On it there are twenty-five
thousand unmarried white men, and to catch
them and tame them only four thousand un-
married women. Such a disproportion is sim
ply cruel. There are nine hundred and ninety
seven widows.
New Zealaad accommodates its hundred
thousand people in twenty-five thousand houses
and three thousand tents Twenty-Five per
cent OF the population votes. Somc electors
vote in several districts, and In some dis
tricts the number Of votes is greater than
the number Of males of o legal age. In
every hundred Of the population eleven per.
sons are miners, seven follow agricultural
pursuits, five are mechanics, three are engaged
in "trade," and five are laborers, while the
spiritual welfare of the same hundred is looked
after by less than half q clergyman, their quar-
rels settled by less than half lawyer, their
cramps and agues cured by less than half
physician, and they are taught to read and
write by just little less than whole school.
master. There are 22,270 horses, l93,15O
horned cattle, 2,760,ls3 sheep, and the land
under cultivation amounts to 226,500 acres.
No returns are made OF the Maories or native
population, though they are estimated at fifty
five thousand -Hfty-three thousand of the num-
Der being allotted to the northern island, which
has O European population Of forty-one thou
sand so that the natives have the prepon-
derance in one island and scarcely exist
in the others. Officers and men OF the
military establishment number 1886. The
aggregate tonnage entered at the several
ports, exclusive Of coasters was, In 1861, 1877
9sc. Aggregate cleared outwards, in the same
period, POS $50 The total value Of imports in
1861 amounted to E2 3,Sll, while that Of ex-
ports In the same year was e1, 1,370,247. The
principal articles Of export were gold, grain,
gum, oil, potatoes, timber and wool. There
we're 1874, ,324 ounces of gold exported in 1861.
Though we do not in this colony so far see q
great or remarkable development Of wealth,
there IL certainly great progress, and we see
another chapter in the tendency Of the human
race to extend its dominion to new worlds-a
tendency thst will eventually build up the
whole group Of the South Sea Islands into one
immense empire, TO rival IL not to surpass the
empires Of the Old World. Perhaps that cult.
yated New Zealander whom Shelly and Macau-
lay both propbetically saw on the ruins of Lon
don bridge may not after all be such o mere
creature Of the fancy.