The Gazette.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2398, 3 February 1899, Page 4

The Gazette.

Per. Press Association.

WELLINGTON, February 2. . Att Order-ln*Council notifies that the payment of capitation allowance to • jraiwittoh Boards lor the quarter endlnaMTthe3lst day of March, 1899, shall bowSfording to the “ working ” average ettemfence of the quarter ending 31st daycii December, 1898, as the working averwe was defined by Order-ln-Conncll datedfthJoly, 1887. Tb %?Qd*ette contains regulations re•pOctfig the register of homing pigeons. Mt! A. E. Pearce is recognised as uotingrGonsul at Wellington for Norway and Sweden; . Promotions for volunteer officers are gazetted as follows :—Captains Robin and Bffiitb, Dupedin, and Chicken, be Majors. The estimated population ol the colony on .the 31st December last was 783,317 persona. including 39,854 Maoris: males 413.7K* females 369,620. Chinese are InOhUHd id the population given above. The Qtmber ol Chinese in New Zealand on 3D» December, 1898, was estimated to of whom 31 were females. Excluding Maoris, the population of the colonlrhad increased by 14,407, or at the rate iH 1.98 per cent, during the year. To ibj& increase the excess ol births over deatHcontributed 1711, and the excess ; Ofamvale over departures 2696. The birthrate lor the colony for 1898 was 55.7 C jier cent, per 1000 of the mean pofiMlSien, and the death rate 9.84, as ffgainW m m and 9.14 respectively in IWUrlTbe number of births registered In idMUMK) slightly exceeded those in 18W1W,737), bat with Increased popular tlontfcO rata per 1000 (or 1898 Is lower. The deaths in 1888 (7844) exceeded those registered In 1887 (8695) by 649, and : that increased the rate pet 1000. The .■number ol montages (including those ootitiiidsd between Maoris) solemnised in 1888 is estimated at 5020, giving a rate d! 4*82 per 1000 of the mean population, fgalnsl 4928 the actual namber and rate in 1897.