THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 932, 10 January 1890, Page 15

THE GAZETTE.

A reduction has been made in the fees for the inspection of boilers and machinery; The Controller and Auditor-General has been appointed to audit the books of acoount of the Official Assignees, vice the Assistant Controller and Auditor. The Governor has accepted the resignation of Samuel Marsden Baker of all the appointments held by him in the Civil Service. The Earl of Hopetoun announces that he has assumed the Government of Victoria. The maximum rate for the carriage of butter in 4-ton lots consigned bj* way of the Manavvatu Company’s fine to Wellington, from stations on the Wanganui section, will be 48s per ton. Thomas Collier, of Masterton, has applied for a patent for scouring wool by a coldwater process ; and Samuel Carrol, of Wellington, for improvements in electric arc lamps for Rupert Schefbauer, of Dresden, Germany. From the Registrar-General’s vital statistics for November, 1889, it appears that during the month there were 91 births in Wellington, 83 in Auckland, 43 in Dunedin, and 21 in Christchurch. The deaths were—Wellington, 42 ; Dunedin, 23 ; Auckland, 22 ; Christchurch, 7. The death-rate per 1000 was 1’44 in Wellington, 0 98 in Dunedin, o'6l in Auckland, and 0'43 in Christchurch. The following remarks apply only to the four principal boroughs : —The births in November were 241, ag.ainst 264 in October,a decrease of 23. The deaths amounted to 94, against 96 in October. There were 8 deaths of persons of 65 years and upward ; 1 male of 74 died at Auckland ; 1 male of 65, and 1 female of 70, at Wellington ; 1 female of 81 at Christchurch ; 3 males of 66, 72, and 74, and 1 female of 67, at Dunedin. The number of deaths in the four boroughs from specific, febrile or zymotic diseases was the same (6) in November as iu October j but of these deaths in the past month, 5 occurred in Wellington, of which 1 was from scarlet fever, 2 from scarlatina, and 2 from diarrheeal diseases. Constitutional diseases caused 22 deaths in November against 21 in October. Cancer caused the same number (5) in each month. Phthisis was more fatal in the latter month, having caused 13 deaths, against 11 in October. The deaths from local diseases numbered 48 in November, 1 more than in the previous month. Diseases of the nervops system and of the circulatory system were much more fatal, the former having caused 15 deaths in the last, against 9 in the earlier month—the latter having caused 14 deaths in November, against 10 in October ; but there were only 7 deaths from diseases of the circulatory system (heart disease, &c.) in November, against 12 in October. Diseases of the digestive system caused 10 deaths in October and b in November. There were 7 accidental deaths registered in the month. Of these, 3 were from drowning and 1 was caused by sunstroke. According to the official meteorological report for November, 1889, the mean temperature of the air for Wellington was slightly above the average, the figures being 56'9 ; average, 56*5. The highest temperature in the shade in Wellington was 72-5 on the 23rd, and the lowest 40’0 on the 30th. The highest temperatures in the shade were—Bl'2 on the 22nd in Canterbury, 76‘0 on the 16th in Auckland, 76*0 on the 22nd in Dunedin. The rainfall for Wellington was very much below the average, the' figures being Q'Sfgfiin ; averages, 4T66iu, and far less tfiai). tfie othep boroughs, the returns being—-Dunedin, 4\B4Qm ; Christchurch, 8 days in Wellington, 14 in Dunedin, 8 ip. Christchurch, and 7 in Auckland.