Statistical.

Otago Witness, Issue 1449, 30 August 1879, Page 21

Statistical.

The returns of the Dunedin Hospital show that during the past week 26 patients have been admitted, and that tha number of inmates is now larger than it has previously been during the winter. Tho return* for the week are as follow :— Remaining- from previous week, 130 ; admitted, 26 ; discharged, 7 J total, 149. Tho following is tho translation of »n article which appeared lately in the Fanfulla, Italian jour&al, reproduced in the Gazette di Venezia of June 5, under the title " Statistics, Nora" :—: — " According to my calculations, whioh may be depended on, in our Italy, ' the young nation,' as it i> oftlled, there have occurred during the first 90 days of this year 545 effected assassin* tions, and 406 attempted assassinations. These were the greater crimes duriDg this period. But there were also during the same period 1409 aerions oasea of wounding and 7015 light cases of the same, which makes 8424 cases of stabbing and wounding, and produces an average of 93 a day, without reckoning the first 951 cases. The infanticides amounted to 70 : not one a day. Robberies of the person amounted to 847, of which 15 ware accompanied by assassinatioa. There were 100 cases of larceny. \ There w«re 11,325 effected robberies, and 1052 attempted but not effected. That makes 12,377 in the short apace of 90 days, about 138 per diem. Our readers may add to this list 3,000,000 fr (L 120.000) loss to the general public caused|by tho manceuvrts of the vast army of thieves which infest our ' bel pane.' Now, as it may please our readers to know in which part of Italy they may stand a better or worse chance of being forwarded to the other world either by knife or ball or otherwise, we will give with round numbers the names of the provinces where assassination more or less prevails. We calculate, then, that there is one asaasaination to every 12,000 inhabitants in Sicily, to every 13,000 in the province of Home, to every 16,000 in the Neapolitan States, to every 25,000 in the island of Sardinia, to every 34,000 in Umbria and the Marches, to every 49,000 in the Emilia, to every 54,000 in Tuicany, to every 87,000 in Piedmont and Liguria, to every 109,000 in Lombardy, and to every 122,000 in the Veneto. So, dear readers, let us all go and settle in the Veneto." A contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald furnishes tables of revenue of New South Wales and Victoria, from which the following results are shown : — " Although four-fifths of our Cuitomg revenue are derived from 10 articles, and in regard to th« rest Sydney is almost, and with little leas to the revenue might be made altogether, a free port, yet the rate per head derived from Customs was higher in New South Wales than in Victoria for both years, and last year the difference was 5 J per cent, in our favour. In regard to the rate of taxation from all sources, Victoria, notwithstanding her protective duties, her stock and timber taxeß, and her taxes on land and other property, was receiving en the average of these two years under comparison, only LI 19a lid. per head of her population, against LI 17» 10£ d in New South Wales, a difference of Is 3£d ptr head, or only 3£d per cent, on the Victorian rate. Our friends abroad and the public at large ought to be made well acquainted with facts like thtie, and such facts ought to tell even in Victoria. After abolishing ad valorem, duties and a large number of other checks to industry and temptations to fraud ; after relieving the consumer to an extent un•qualltd by any other British community, with no tax whatever upon the producer now that the gold duty i> to be abolished, and with no, inland taxation whatever, except license fees, and the duty on Colonial spirits, our Customs are still so productive that we need only an annual increase upon the last two yeara' returns, equal to L 55,000, to equal the per capita rate of taxation attained by our opprassivelytax«d neighbours on the other side of the Murray."