THE GAZETTE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2205, 4 June 1896, Page 36

THE GAZETTE.

' The Customs Duties Reciprocal Act of last; session has received tho Royal assent. The Woodville Gaol is abolished. The shops in Hamilton are to clo?e on Satur* day nights at 9 o'clock from June 6. The Public Trustee gives notice of claiming an uncccapicd section in Moraington formerly belonging to Mr David Mailer. The total births in the four chief towns in the month of April wero 377, against 350 in 1 March — an increase of 27. The deaths in April were 172, an increase of seven on the number iv March. The rainfall in April was :— Auckland, 72 inchei ; Wellington, 1215 ; Cnristcburch, 5 056; Dunedin, 4 186— in each case much about the average. Tbe railway returns for the four weeks endinpr April 25 show the revenue to have besn £99.044 10« 3d and the expenditure £53,297 18s 7d. The arrivals in the colony in April were 1136 and the departures were 1680. ■ ' A few days ago a cgnstable arrested & man for being dcifnk. An hour afterwards the officer himself vras " run in "on a similar charge. If, he was suffering from an indiscreet use of intoxicating beverages when he made the arrest the officer's powers of discernment remained tinimpaired, for the civilian pleaded guilty to the charge on the following morning. Possibly the ailment is contagioui, Another member 01 th* force when locking tip the "drunk" Decamp himself attacked with the complaint, which developed symptoms of s marked character #a hour later. Here, then, U a new field of. ise? vefrtig*tioa jot i ofcntiflo men,