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REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONER OF NATIVE RESERVES.

TABLE A.—Showing approximately Native Population against Land in the Middle and Stewart's Islands.

* According to Mr. J. Greenwood, Greymouth 1870. t According to Resident Magistrate's Census, Invereargill, 1870. Remaining figures relating to Native Population are from Mr. A. Mackay's enumeration, 1868. Average area of Reserved Land to each Native in Middle and Stewart's Island, 53| acres. But at Wakapuaka there are 15,170 acres, and in D'Urville's Island 36,000 acres of land which the Natives have never sold, and which if considered along with the reserves, bring up the proportion to each Native in the Province of Nelson to 226J acres, and to each in the Middle and Stewart's Island to 101! acres. CnARLEs Heaphy. ERRATA. D. —No. 16. —Page 17, line 48, for 406 read 607. Page 17, lino 51, for decreasing read increasing. Page 17, line 52, for 24J read 16i. Page 33, line 39, for 3536 read 3526.

Peovince. Population. Aeea oe Reseeve. Land pee Head. S'elson Vlarlborough Canterbury iVestland 483 369 607 73* 400 342f A. 58,365 21,404 10,076 5,920 14,899 11,069 A. 120.83 58.59 16.59 81.17 37.25 32.37 Dtago Southland 2,274 121,733