. Municipal and official handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand. A C ?KLAM) Miyji llAL HAS D BOOK. the colonists some concern, and Hone Hekes Rebellionin the North (ls4:3-46) and the threatened invasion ofAuckland by discontented natives, in 185], nuist haveoccasioned no little anxiety to the settlers. The mostserious ti-ouble with the natives occuricd tluiing theMaori Wars of the sixties, when the City wassurrounded by hostile natives, and fears were enter-tained for its safety. Block houses were erected atvarious points of vantage, and the entire male popula-tion was conscripted. Fort
. Municipal and official handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand. A C ?KLAM) Miyji llAL HAS D BOOK. the colonists some concern, and Hone Hekes Rebellionin the North (ls4:3-46) and the threatened invasion ofAuckland by discontented natives, in 185], nuist haveoccasioned no little anxiety to the settlers. The mostserious ti-ouble with the natives occuricd tluiing theMaori Wars of the sixties, when the City wassurrounded by hostile natives, and fears were enter-tained for its safety. Block houses were erected atvarious points of vantage, and the entire male popula-tion was conscripted. Fortunately the tide of warswept past the City without doing any damage to lifeor property and without seriously arresting the workof the pioneers, who during the first two or threedecades laid the foundation of the prosperity whwhthe City has since exiierienced. GROWTH OF POPULATION. In l>i41 the population was estimated to be 1,500persons, but by 185b it had reached 6,283, and in 1864the inhabitants numbered 12,423. This was rapidpi-ogress for so young a city, and
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