INTER-PROVINCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4026, 7 October 1874, Page 3

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

[PEP. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAM COMI'A.vv.] REEFTOX (Westlaml), Tuesday. The HeriM this morning publishes a private letter from the South African Diamond Fields, deprecating any rush to the Transvaal Goldfields. . C'HR IS'J'CHURCH, Tuesday. The statistics from the Registrar-General, shewing comparative healthiest municipalities in tin- colony, which places C'hristehureh in an unfavourable position there, excited much attention. At a meeting of the City Council last night it was decided to inform the Registrar ! jeneral that the hospital is not ill the city, and that it receives patients from all part-, of the province, consequently all deaths there should not be included in C'hristehureh returns. A report from Dr. I'oweil on the statistics was read. This states that the high per-centage of deaths ruling during the past three months was casual, and not in any degree attributable to the sanitary condition of the city. The deaths were principally amongst young children, and flue to the very changeable nature of the weather. It pointed out the fallacious nature of the jjer-centage returns at registered small communities, extending over a short period of time, as such returns arc largely influenced by casual circumstances. ami stated that the death rate, !873, I in proportion to births, was "JO per cent, less than in I SGI t<> ISiiO. 1 Jn the charges against the captain of the j r.hip C'atheart, for shooting three seamen on I the voyage out, the Grand Jury threw out 1 the hills.