List of Holders of Depasturing Licences, and Number of Cattle apportioned them for the hundred of Howick.

Wardens for the Hundred of Howick.

SUPREME COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a Sitting of the Supreme Court, for the despatch of Criminal Business, will be held at the Court House, Auckland, on Tuesday, the first day of June next, at Ten o’clock in the forenoon; and that a Sitting for the despatch of Civil Business will be held at the Court House on Thursday, the seventh day of June next, at Ten o’clock in the forenoon, at which times and place all persons under recognizance to appear as Prosecutors, Defendants, or Witnesses, are required to give their attendance.

Thos. Outhwaite,

Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,

Auckland, 26th April, 1849.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has given directions that the following valuable remarks, drawn up at his request, should be published for general information.

By His Excellency’s command,

Andrew Sinclair,

Colonial Secretary.

Remarks on the Influence of the Climate of Auckland in the Production of Disease.

In a small community, all the deaths which occur are generally well known, and, from this cause, erroneous opinion is frequently formed regarding the salubrity of the place. For the sake of truth, I have made the following observations, which are drawn from the Military Population, a source not only of great accuracy, but highly advantageous for such enquiries, from its circumstance, that an easy means of comparison is afforded, with men similarly situated in other countries.

I may observe, that the slightest ailment obliges a soldier to report himself sick, as he must either be fit for every active duty, or in Hospital.

Table, showing the Annual Number of Admissions into Hospital from different Classes of Disease, out of a thousand Soldiers stationed in Great Britain,* and the Ratio of Admissions which occurred from the same Diseases among the Troops quartered in Auckland during the year 1848.†

It appears from this Table that out of every thousand Soldiers in Great Britain, 921 are annually admitted into Hospital; whereas, in Auckland, during the year 1848, the proportion of admissions was only 674. The comparative prevalence of each class of disease is worthy of attention. I will only remark that the number of admissions from affections of the lungs in Auckland last year, is one-third less than the average in Great Britain. This circumstance, coupled with the fact that during the year ending March, 1848, the Military population stationed in New Zealand lost only about five men per thousand from pectoral diseases, while the troops in Great Britain lose about eight per thousand from the same class, would lead us to infer that consumptive complaints are less prevalent in New Zealand than in England. The only diseases which appear to be more frequent among the Military in Auckland, than in Great Britain, are—Rheumatic affections, Diseases of the Brain and Eyes.

During the year ending April, 1849, the average strength of the Garrison of Auckland was 615 men, and the number of deaths during this period was seven, which gives a proportion of deaths in Auckland, during the year, of eleven men per thousand, whereas, in Great Britain, the average annual mortality among the troops is fifteen per thousand.

A. S. Thomson, M.D.,

Surgeon of the 58th Regiment of Foot,

Auckland, May 1st, 1849.

• The rate of admissions in Great Britain is taken from the Army Medical Statistics, after many years observation.

† Calculated from the admissions into the Military Hospital during the year 1848. The Garrison of Auckland amounted, on average, during this period, to about 610 men.