938
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Violent Deaths. — These comprised 9 accidents and 1 suicide. An aged woman died from effects of a fracture, a carpentef
was crushed by timber on a railway, a child was fatally kicked by a horse, and another suffocated during the operation or
laryngotomy. A death was caused by delirium after wounds. A woman and her two children died from burns at Hokitika, and
a third child died from burns at Dunedin.

Comparison with August, 1876. — In August, 1876, there were 97 deaths, or 13 more than in August, 1877. The deaths
from Zymotic Diseases amounted to 25 in August, 1876, against 15 in August, 1877. Deaths from Developmental Diseases were
also more numerous in August, 1876, than during last month, the numbers being respectively 15 and 9.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wm. B. E. BROWN,
Wellington, 8th September, 1877.
Registrar-General.

PROVISIONAL METEOROLOGICAL RETURN FOR AUGUST, 1877.

| Metric | AUCKLAND. | WELLINGTON. | NELSON. | CHRIST-
CHURCH. | HOKITIKA. | DUNEDIN. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Temperature in Shade | 51.6 | 49.5 | 48.5 | 45.6 | 46.5 | 44.1 |
| Ditto for same month previous years | 52.7 | 48.4 | 47.5 | 44.1 | 45.8 | 43.6 |
| Maximum Temperature in Shade, and date | 64.4 on 20th | 64.0 on 24th | 65.0 on 25th | 65.2 on 23rd | 67.1 on 25th | 56.0 on 22nd |
| Minimum Temperature in Shade, and date | 38.0 on 9th and 3rd | 33.3 on 9th | 33.0 on 30th | 27.5 on 11th | 29.9 on 2nd | 32.0 on 8th |
| Maximum Temperature in Sun, and date | 120.1 on 29th | 112.0 on 11th, 21st, 29th, and 30th | 90.0 on 18th | 120.0 on 11th | 130.0 on 25th | 97.0 on 1st |
| Minimum Temperature on Grass, and date | 30.5 on 9th | 27.0 on 9th | 16.7 on 7th | 24.5 on 1st | 27.0 on 2nd |
| Mean Humidity (Saturation=100) | 82 | 84 | 80 | 79 | 84 | 77 |
| Ditto for same month previous years | 80 | 75 | 77 | 81 | 88 | 77 |
| Total Rainfall in inches | 3.055 | 5.104 | 3.570 | 1.780 | 10.320 | 2.610 |
| Ditto for same month previous years | 5.048 | 5.319 | 7.452 | 2.407 | 9.217 | 3.030 |
| Number of Days on which Rain fell | 20 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 7 |
| Ditto for same month previous years | 21 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 15 |

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.
September, 1877.
JAMES HECTOR, Inspector.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
WELLINGTON DISTRICT.

Between WILLIAM VINCENT RIDLEY, Plaintiff,
and JOSEPH HAGGERTY, Defendant.

Amount Recovered, £109 7s. 1d.

I HEREBY give notice, that by virtue of a writ
of fieri facias issued out of the above honorable
Court, and to me directed, I have caused my Bailiff
to enter upon all that piece or parcel of land, being
the Sections numbered 102 to 108 inclusive, on the
plan of the Township of Carterton, in the District
of Wairarapa, containing seventy acres (70a.), a
little more or less, together with the appurtenances
thereunto belonging, the property of the defendant,
having been taken in execution at the suit of the
execution creditor therein; and that it is my in-
tention to sell or cause to be sold the freehold of the
said piece of land by public auction, at the Court
House, Carterton, on Saturday, the 29th day of
September, 1877, at 12 o'clock noon, unless satis-
faction be sooner made of the judgment, and all
costs and expenses connected therewith.

And I further give notice that William Gascoyen
Beard, of Greytown, is solicitor for the said plaintiff. 331
Given under my hand at Featherston, this 21st
day of June, 1877.

299
HERBERT S. WARDELL,
Sheriff of Wairarapa.

I HEREBY give notice, that, under a writ of fieri
facias, duly issued out of the Supreme Court at
the suit of Nathan Salomon, Eugene Bibergil Beaver,
Alexander Beaver, Marcus Isaacs, and Marcus
Brosch, carrying on business in co-partnership under
the style or firm of Beaver Brothers, Salomon, and
Company, of the City of Dunedin, General Merchants,
I have taken in execution the leasehold interest of
George Symons Budge, of the City of Wellington, 463
Tobacconist, being the residue of a term of seven
years from the 6th March, 1876, of all that parcel
of land situate in the City of Wellington aforesaid,
being portions of Sections numbered respectively 1
and 2 on the plan of the land from Port Nicholson,
commencing at a point on the western boundary line
of the said sections distant about twenty-eight feet
and eight inches from the north-western corner or
angle of the said Section number 2, and running
thence in a southerly direction along the western
boundary line of the said sections, and having a
frontage on Willis Street eighteen feet and two
inches, and running back therefrom in an easterly
direction, parallel with the northern and southern
boundary lines of the said sections, sixty-eight feet,
and forming a rectangular block, with the shop and
the buildings thereon, and the appurtenances; and
that I intend to cause the same to be sold at the
auction rooms, on Panama Street, in the City of
Wellington, of Mr. R. J. Duncan, on the 15th day of
October, 1877, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The solicitor for the execution creditors is Mr H.
H. Travers, of Featherston Street, Wellington.
JAS. C. CRAWFORD,
Sheriff.

PUKETAPU ROAD BOARD.

7th July, 1877.

THE following Ratepayers were elected Wardens
for the current year: —
ARTHUR WALLIS,
THOMAS PARSONS,
JOHN HISLOP,
GEORGE HISLOP,
MASSEY HUTCHINSON, and
GAVIN PEACOCK.

THOMAS PARSONS,
Chairman.