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Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2919, 31 January 1884, Page 8

A Wet Month.—A-ccordingibiheTTen. Archdeacon Harper's rain gauged tiah rainfall for December amounted to 3.14 iiptes, an unugnal quantity for one of the''summer months. ■ . :. ;■* Edtjcation Statistics. —The eturmiary of attendance returns of the South •Canterbury Education District for the quarter cpded 31st December last shows that at that date ■were 89 schools open, of whioH liujS^hißr.-JLO were "aided"'sbliool*, "^tn iih'"ftve"iag9 attendance of less than 26.. 47 ffiale^ttiid|-48 female teachers Trero .emploVedi and v 12 sewing mistresses. The total number" of pupils on the rolls at the end of tW'tftiMjctcr was 8920—2011 males and 1909 ffeni4ieß. The total strict average attendance vua 2956, and the 'total -woriing average 8046.;. ' Tisi&ec HospiTli.— ■The follpKing a return of the patients m the Tunaini' Hospital for the month of, December 1883 ;--Pat^its under treatment at date of'Jait itetnrn—males 16, females 5, total 21; admitted during month —males 7, females 4, total 11 • totals'ireated^ males 23,' fomalej^9, total J|2. Dischai^gca during nionth-^urca," niales ST females 4; relieved, 1 malo. Totals dbchaifoH, iivales 7, females 4, total 11. Bemoining under treat-ment^-ruaes 16, females 6, total 21. , Outpaitfnts treated during (ho month—rmales 14, femqks'l3, total 27. The Hospital authori* ties-beg to tender their best thankir to those lucliea and gentlemen who contributed «o liborally during this festive time to the enjoyment of those m the institution, vxui to Messrs Siahbaum, Zioslor and Haggett for 'a good supply, of interesting reading mattw j also to the Kov. Father Devoy, for a cheqtui of £0 8s as a Christmas-box. , .:;■-'. c-, A G-alb at WKtIiNGTOX.—On Ihiosday a nor'-west gale of great violonco ■was expericuccd at Wollington from 2 B(.m. till 3 p.m. The noise; wade by the wind m the city was such, says the Thtut, ihiA ii' uraa almost impossible to hear one'a thnx voice! Every squall that burst over the lirubor lifted the water up m sheets, and the opjKwite side of tho bay was bidden by. tho | immense quantity of spray carried up intti the air. Several vo*sels got', adrift • or. drugged their anchors, »ud a number ofri boats Ytcro srmki Chimneys and chimney>pbt« and fiencoe 'woro blown down m all directions. ■ Shixtt of iron were' flying about tho streets it a Terji dangerous manner, and-a horse and caart were: blown bodily :over. The townspeople' ia-vtf found a use for these strong wind*, fend make them their, scavengers, waste paper, pasteboard 'boxes and similar light rubbiah art thrown into the streote, and the-irfcid wirries them off to sotuo limbo or other. 'VhoTiutes Suggests that this "practice" ihoold be stoppgd, as tho flying- pasteboard ' fnghtons horses. It would seem a, pity to' diptivoo the inhabitants of the uao of ono of their grwtes* "natural roßources." ■; ' '■>• ■ ••'■■ i '■■'-' '■•■■' ■■ ■'' ■ . . ..' „ ' ■■•; : i --: ■■ •!