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The deaths from Zymotic Diseases were 80 in April, against 135 in March. The decrease chiefly occurred in the deaths
from Measles in Auckland, which were only 18 in April against 45 in March; and in the number of deaths from bowel com-
plaints, Dysentery, Diarrhœa, and Cholera having caused 23 deaths in April against 46 in March.
The deaths from Measles have been almost limited to Auckland (18) and Thames (4). Two deaths only from that cause
have occurred in the other boroughs—i.e., 1 in Wellington and 1 in Dunedin.
The deaths from Typhoid Fever were by 2 less numerous than in the previous month; but the proportion of deaths has
varied in the respective boroughs. While the deaths from that cause in Wellington were 2 in March and 6 in April, the deaths
in Christchurch fell from 11 in March to 5 in April.
Constitutional Diseases were less fatal in April than in March. The deaths from Phthisis were 8 in April to 13 in March.
The deaths from Local Diseases were 45 in April to 57 in March—the deaths from Diseases of the Nervous System having
been 11 in April against 21 in March; and the deaths from Diseases of the Digestive Organs having been 8 in April against 13
in March.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th, May 1875.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

PROVISIONAL METEOROLOGICAL REPORT FOR APRIL, 1875.

| | AUCKLAND. | WELLINGTON. | NELSON. | CHRIST-
CHURCH. | HOKITIKA. | DUNEDIN. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Temperature in Shade | 64.3 | 58.9 | 58.4 | 55.1 | 57.9 | 53.8 |
| Ditto for same month previous years | 61.9 | 57.1 | 57.1 | 53.8 | 54.4 | 51.9 |
| Highest Temperature in Shade | 79.7 on 9th | 71.0 on 29th | 73.0 on 5th | 71.7 on 6th | 67.9 on 9th | 72.0 on |
| Lowest Temperature in Shade | 50.7 on 10th | 42.0 on 10th | 36.0 on 27th | 36.7 on 25th | 40.3 on 26th | 37.0 on |
| Highest Temperature in Sun | 134.9 on 16th | 135.0 on 12th | 134.0 on 6th | 126.0 on 5th | 85.0 on 3rd | 122.0 on 2nd |
| Lowest Temperature on Grass | 42.5 on 12th | 35.0 on 10th | 31.0 on 28th | 24.2 on 25th | | 33.0 on 25th |
| Average Moisture of Air (Saturation=100) | 75 | 81 | 87 | 84 | 81 | 80 |
| Ditto for same month previous years | 78 | 75 | 76 | 79 | 87 | 74 |
| Rainfall in inches | 2.150 | 1.951 | 2.250 | 1.100 | 6.100 | 1.910 |
| Ditto for same month previous years | 3.479 | 4.115 | 4.251 | 2.583 | 8.170 | 2.280 |
| Number of Days on which Rain fell | 10 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 8 |
| Ditto for same month previous years | 14 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 14 |

NOTE.—This Table is prepared from unchecked averages, transmitted by telegraph in anticipation of the full Returns, and must not be entirely
relied on for compiling Meteorological Statistics.

May, 1875.

W. B. D. MANTELL.

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of
the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide Claims to Land by
persons claiming title thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, report that the Claims
of the under-mentioned persons having been duly referred to me for investigation, I do hereby decide
that the said persons are respectively entitled to Crown Grants of the land set against their names in
the annexed Schedule.

New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1875.

DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

at Wangaehu, in the Province of Wellington. The legal
estate to be antevested therein as from the 14th July,
1865. |
| 1586 | 1606 | Mary Palfrey | Entitled to a Crown Grant of Section No. 909 on the plan of
the City of Wellington. Also to a Grant of the Rural
Section No. 126 on the plan of the Hutt District. The
legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the
7th January, 1842. |

Claim under "The Lost Land Order Act, 1861."

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand, intituled "The Lost Land Order Act, 1861," to hear and decide claims for Crown Grants of lands
for which the original land orders have been lost or destroyed, report that the claim of Mary Palfrey, late
of Deal, in the County of Kent, but now of Addiscombe, in the County of Surrey, in England, having been
referred to me, I do hereby decide that the aforesaid claimant is entitled to Crown Grants of the land
selected in right of Land Order No. 910, issued by the New Zealand Company to William Palfrey, 1st
August, 1839.

Dated at Wellington, 11th May, 1875.

DAVID LEWIS,
Lost Land Order Commissioner.