STATISTICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10221, 15 December 1893, Page 5

STATISTICS.

RAILWAY RETURNS. [Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Dec. 14. The following are the railway returns for tbe four weeks ending D*o. 11 !Noeth Island.

The total births in the above boroughs amounted to 361, against 391 in October, a decrease of 30. The deaths in November were 193, a increase of £7 on the number in October. Of the total deaths, males contributed 101 and females 92.. Fifty deaths were of children under five years of age, being 25-91 per cent of the whole number ; 33 of these were under one year of age. The statistics show that the mortality for November at the four cities was not so low as in October, the number of deaths having risen from 6 to 15, aud thef proportion par cent of deaths from all causes from 6 - 45 to 14A2. Measles are still observed at Auckland and Christchurch, but there was only one case at each town lust month. Scarlatina caused a death at Auckland, influenza one at Dunedin, and diphtheria one at Wellington. There were sl-o at the four towns 3 deaths from whooping cough, 2 from typhoid fever and 3 from diarrhoea. IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION. The immigration and emigration returns for November show tho arrivals to have been 243 S and the departures 6SO. Arrivals. Departures.

United Kingdom ... 530 94 New South Wales 1158 405 Victoria 597 135 Tasmania ... ... SO Sz Other places ... 73 14

Section, II •=e .T.& o S* £, J** g S 3 S g 8 ■a Expenditure, Pourweekly. ° a ■» S a fi o g o P5 I £ 6 d. £ s. d. Kawakawa . -i 8 177 i 2 165 12 2 92-62 Whangarei 8 229 2 0 167 2 2 75-89 Kailiu ... . •! 17 149 € 3 114 X 10 93-61 Auckland j 235 9,008 15 8 5,830 11 i 71-89 Napier-Tar’n’ld' 382 14,944 19 4 9,428 10 8 67-48 Wellington . .1 92 : 5,791 12 9 3,723 2 4 69-98 : Total . 721 30,301 C 2 19,429 0 3 67-67 j Middle Islaxd. Hurunui-Bluli ;11011 44,912 3 5 ”1 ,049 8 2 63-48 i Greyiuouth ... 1,537 2 699 1 5 55*55 Westport Kelson 27 2,211 : i 1,547 16 5 67-37 23 fcteo i(5 S 829 9 8 105-94 1 Picton ... 2l! 408 10 10 571 17 8 1X4-54 Total ... 1180 49,755 K 10 34,697 13 4 62-53 Grand Total... 13011 80,056 14 C 54,126 13 7 65-91 VITAL STATISTICS. Thej followia are the vital statistics for November •o n n So G O o Boroughs c3 *5 !§. wS Births. Deaths. •43 53 0 8 gS o’® Si 2 CM O £ ° * Auckland 31,268 65 30 0-98 Wellington ... 83.786 76 34 1-01 Christchurch 16,704 28 13 078 Dunedin 23,302 33 27 1-16 Thames »•» 5,193 7 4 0-77 New Plymouth 3,312 8 3 0-90 Napier 8,806 17 21 2-27 Wanganui •5,081 14 S 1-57 Palmerston N. 5.793 10 104 Blenheim |f| 3,262 6 3 5 0-92 Nelson 6,677 14 12 1-80 Graymouth. 3,741 mi mi Hokitika 2,169 9 6 2-77 Lyttelton 3,968 14 1 0-25 Sydenham 10,310 23 7 068 Timaru ... 3,374 8 ■mi Oamaru 5,500 9 i 0-18 Caversham ... 4,837 10 ii 2*25 Invercargill 5,320 8 7 1*32 Totals ... 361 193 __

Totals _ ... 213S . 630 Fourteen Chinese arrived and 12 departed. EilNFALL. The rainfall at; tba chief centres for November was:—Au.ihlahd 7‘17 inebee, W«'lim?toa 1*28, Lincoln (Canterbury) 1-35. Dunedia 7 - 62. Bala fell es Auckland on seventeen de.ys, at Wellington on thirteen days, at Lincoln oa eleven cays and at Dunedin on SDcon da;.s.