10 DECEMBER 1853, Page 16

trittro to Of ititor.

NEW ZEALAND CENSUS.

Income-tax gfifes Dublin, December 8. ' Sni—In your last number you refer to and enlarge upon the results of "the New Zealand census of 1852." In justice to the younger settlements of that colony, I think it right to inform you that the census returns from which you quote were taken in November 1851. The settlement of Canter- bury was then only ten months old, and in a condition of rapid growth : a return taken at that time, therefore, does not afford materials for even an approximate estimate of its present statistics.

[The error is important. We have no present means of supplying the correct figures for 1852.—En.]