Our paternal government thoughtfully arranged for the Census to be taken on Sunday the 81st of March, thus depriving heads of households of this day of rest for that week at any rate. Hugo schedules covering an aren of several square feet, and bearing a considerable resemblance to n refrigerating engineers's temperature chart, the whole coloured in a bilious tint of salmon pink, were left at our doors on Saturday, 30th March, with instructions that they wera tobe filled up ready for the collector on Monday morning. A polite intimation was also conveyed to the effect that refusal to supply the requisite details or furniss! false returns would render the party anking them linble to the fine of a fiver. Could one have seen through the walls ofsuburban villas on the 81stof March, he would no doubt have found paterfamilias deeply pondering over various columns in the above mentioned sheet of bilious hue, A Statistical Department wag filled up a specimen
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