THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 956, 27 June 1890, Page 2

THE GAZETTE.

A duty is to be levied upon paint ground in turpentine. A despatch is published from the British Government containing the correspondence respecting a new Commercial convention with Egypt. The following patents have been applied for during the week : —J. E. Burns, of Melbourne, for improvements in the manufacture of lubricating oil mixtures ; J. Linger and M. W. Judel!, of London, for improvements in apparatus for pressing travelling fleeces of wool and such like materials ; R. Brown, of Haily Largo, Scotland, and G. H. Irvine, of Brisbane, for improvements in the wet method of extracting gold from finely-divided auriferous quartz ores or other auriferous material and in apparatus thereof ; 0. Campbell, of Bluespur, for an improved hydraulic elevator; J. F. Newman and T. W. Butcher, of Sydney, and R. B. Echlin and R. J. Cottell, of Brisbane, for an improved coin-freed machine for issuing and recording receipts, checks, &c., specially useful as a totalisator ; T. Kemp, of Carterton, for an improved box for packing butter. VITAS STATISTICS. From the Registrar-General’s vital statistics for May, 1890, it appears that during the month there were 63 births in Wellington, 78 in Auckland, 40 in Duuedin, and 30 in Christchnrch. The deaths were—Wellington, 41 ; Auckland, 34; Dunedin, 29; Christchurch, 19. The death-rate per 1000 was 1'32 in Wellington, I*2o in Dunedin, I*ll in Christchurch, and I ‘O2 in Auckland. The following remarks apply only to the four principal boroughs : —The births in May were 211, against 232 in April, a decrease of 21. The deaths amounted to 123, against 110 in April. There were 20 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards —4 males of 66 (2), 72 and 74, and 3 females of 67, 68 and 87, died at Auckland ; 4 males of 70(2), 74, and 75, and 3 females of 70 (2) and 82 at Wellington ; 5 males of 68, 70, 75, 77 and 81 at Christchurch ; and a female of 74 at Dunedin. The number of deaths from specific, febrile, or zymotic diseases decreased from 27 in April to 17 in May. Influenza, which caused 4 deaths in April, disappeared as a cause of death in May, but typhus fever caused 1 death in Auckland in the past month, There were 1L deaths from typhoid fever in April, of which 7 occurred in Wellington. In May typhoid fever caused 4 deaths in Auckland, 3 in Dunedin, and only 1 in Wellington. Diphtheria caused 2 deaths in May—l in Auckland and liu Wellington against 1 in Wellington in the previous month. The deaths from diarrhoeal diseases were oply 5 in number, against 10 in April; of those in April, 7 occurred in Wellington, but of those in May only 1 occurred there. Constitutional diseases caused 28 deaths in May against 20 in April. The deaths from. phthisis increased in number from, 11 to 14, and those from cancer from 6 to 7. Rheumatic fever caused 1 death in Wellington, and rheumatism 1 in Auckland. There was a large increase in the mortality from local diseases, the deaths having been 46 in April and 61 in May, There was a decrease of 5 in the number of deaths from diseases of the nervous system, but an increase of 7 in the number from diseases of the circulatory system, and of 9 from diseases of the respiratory system. Of the deaths from these last diseases, 11 occurred from bronchitis (viz., 5 in Auckland, 2 in Wellington, 3 in Christchurch, and 1 in Dunedin), against 5 in April, The deaths from pneumonia were 4 in number (of which 3 were in Dunedin), against 6 in April. Of the 3 violent deaths, 1 occurred from rupture of the kidneys, caused by a football accident. METEOROLOGICAL RETURNS. According to the official meteorological report for May, 1890, the mean temperature of the air for Wellington was slightly above the average, the figures being 52 3, average 52'0. The highest temperature in the shade in Wellington was 68 0 on the 2nd and 3rd, and the lowest, 28‘0, on the 2j r th. The highest temperatures in the shade were 69-6 in Canterbury on the 30th, 68’0 in Auckland on the 22nd, and £jß'o in Dunedin on the 7th. The rainfall for Wellington was below the ayerage, the figures being 3‘859 inches, average 4’789 inches. The returns of the other boroughs were : Auckland, 4’330 inches ; Christchurch, -.982 inches ; Dunedin, 2*104 inches. Rain fell on 18 days iri Wellington, 20 in Auckland, 14 in Dunedin, and 8 in Christchurch.