NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1419, 1 February 1879, Page 30

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Wellington, January 24th. The Gazette to-day appoints the Ashburton, High School Governors to meet on the 29th, at noon, iv the Town Hall. A proclamation under the Land Tax Act includes all adjacent islands in respective land tax districts. ' /Norinauby Wharf, Oamaru, is declared a legal landhg-place. , James Hector, Joe Dransfield, William ; Hutchison, Chas. LemoD, Wm. Hart Levin, Daniel M'lntyre, Fred. Augustus Krull, John Smyth M'Dougall, and — . Thompson are appointed C6tumisßioßers to make arrangements to secure representation of New Zealand at the Sydney .Exhibition^ 1879. Dr EL>ctor is chairmati. ! The result of the' late poll at Invercargill re 'loan in gazetted. Letters of naturalisation have been isaued to Bourk Jacob Yon Dyke, gardener, NorthEa*t Valley. ' A. Aldred is gazetted Captain of the Arrow Cadet Corps. The resignation of Sub-Lieu-tenant Black, Tuaku [?] Rifles, is accepted: 'Poken<iPb->t Office is to be a Money Order ' I and Savings Bank- Office after Ist January. REVENUE. ! The ! Customs returns for the year and last quarter are' published. The total Customs revenue for December quarter was L 316,881, as against L 302,792 in corresponding quarter of the pieyioua year. Total for 1878, L 1,344,944, as against L 1.213,479 in 1877. , ; The chief itejnsof revenuepf the several ports,, during the quarter, were : — Spirits—Auckland/E.13,948; Wellington, £3075 ; Lyttelton, L 163.016'} Duhedin, L21;655. Tobacco— Auckland; L 6215'; Wellington, L 4303;' Lyttelton, L 461 0; Dunedin, L 8863. Tea—Auckland, Llsß^; Wellington^' L 155 8; Lyttelton, L 183 3: Duiudin, L 469. Sugar aud molasses— Auckland, L 5327 ; Wellington L 425 3; Lyfctelton, L 5170: Dunedin, L 7519. Ad, valorem dritiei — Auckland, L 13.885 ,; Wellington, , L1T.595 1 ; Lyttelton, L 13.71 7; Dunedin, L32;i15. , . ; In December there: was a considerable increase in the number of deaths as compared with November, the deaths haviiiK ribeu in number from 89 in November to 332 in December. The deatbß in these boroxxalm (with i-xcuption of- Invercaigill) amounted to 106. Of the six deaths from typhoid fever, two occurred' in Auckland, three in ' Christchurch, and one in Dunedin. - .