New Zealand Gazette – 1880 – No. 26

Page 363

✨ Vital Statistics, Meteorology, Land-Taking, Legal Notices

Mar. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 363

Towns.	Six Principal Zymotic Diseases.	Principal Lung Diseases.
	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.
	Feb.	Jan.
Auckland	...	...
Wellington	...	...
Christchurch	...	...
Dunedin	...	...
Totals	...	...

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 13th March, 1880.

Wm. R. E. Brown,
Registrar-General.

PROVISIONAL METEOROLOGICAL RETURN FOR FEBRUARY, 1880.

	AUCKLAND.	WELLINGTON.	NELSON.	CHRIST-CHURCH.	HOKITIKA.	DUNEDIN.
Mean Temperature in shade for month ... Average same month previous years	70·0 68·1	65·2 62·7	65·4 64·0	62·5 61·2	63·6 60·1	59·3 57·6
Maximum Temperature in shade, and date	85·4 on 6th	79·5 on 20th	84·0 on 10th	91·6 on 16th	73·0 on 27th	78·0 on 16th
Minimum Temperature in shade, and date	56·2 on 1st	50·3 on 18th	46·0 on 18th	37·0 on 18th	49·4 on 18th	43·0 on 1st
Maximum Temperature in sun, and date	147·4 on 15th	142·0 on 16th	143·0 on 14th	144·0 on 13th, 16th	147·0 on 4th	115·0 on 6th
Minimum Temperature on grass, and date	50·1 on 3rd	43·0 on 18th	36·0 on 8th	29·3 on 18th	43·0 on 1st, 2nd	38·0 on 1st
Mean Humidity (Saturation=100) Average same month previous years	67 74	78 71	73 73	77 75	82 85	76 71
Total Rainfall in inches Average same month previous years	·745 4·009	·130 4·037	·190 5·790	·150 2·103	5·340 8·127	·960 2·617
Number of Days of Rain Average same month previous years	13 11	2 9	2 5	3 7	10 11	11 12

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.

March, 1880.

J. Hector, Inspector.

Private Advertisements.

LAND-TAKING, ASHLEY ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE.—It is the intention of the Ashley Road Board to take, by powers of “The Public Works Act, 1876,” Part II., a portion of Section 9211, in the Ashley Road District, and containing 2 acres 1 rood 34·6 perches, for a public road. The land to be taken is delineated on plan, which may be seen at the Ashley Road Board Office.

All persons affected by above are hereby required to set forth in writing any well-grounded objection to the execution of above, and to send such written objection within forty days from this date to the Chairman of Ashley Road Board.

Samuel Barwell, Ashley,
Chairman, Ashley Road Board.

1st March, 1880.

114

EARP V. PARKES.

I HEREBY give notice that, under a writ of fieri facias, duly issued out of the Supreme Court at the suit of William Earp, of Porirua, Farmer, I have taken in execution the leasehold interest of Samuel Parkes, of the City of Wellington, Commission Agent, in all that piece or parcel of land situate in the said City of Wellington, and being the Section numbered 282 on the official map or plan of the said city, bounded on the North by Section 283, on the South by Section 281, on the East and West by Cambridge Terrace and Section 274 respectively, together with the appurtenances to the same belonging or appertaining; and also the interest of the said Samuel Parkes as a tenant in common in the fee-simple in all that piece or parcel of land situate in the Hutt District, containing ten acres and thirty-two perches, more or less; bounded towards the North, four hundred and thirty links; the East, two thousand three hundred and seventy-three links; and the South, four hundred and thirty links, by other part of the under-mentioned section; and towards the West, two thousand three hundred and seventy-three links, by other part of the said section, now used as a road; be the said several linkages a little more or less; which said piece of land is part of Section marked 5 delineated on the public map of the said Hutt District, deposited in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington; except Lots numbered 18, 19, and 20 thereof: And that I intend to cause the same to be sold at the auction-rooms, on Lambton Quay, in the City of Wellington, of Messrs. Laery and Campbell, on the eighteenth day of May, 1880, at two o’clock in the afternoon.

The Solicitor for the Execution Creditor is Mr. Frank Morton Ollivier, of Lambton Quay, in Wellington aforesaid.

Alex. S. Allan,
Sheriff.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1880, No 26

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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🏥 Vital Statistics for February 1880

Domain🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Dated13 March 1880
KeywordsDiseases, Mortality, Statistics, Towns, Lung Diseases
👩‍💼 Officials

Wm. R. E. Brown, Registrar-General

🏥 Provisional Meteorological Return for February 1880

Domain🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Dated1 March 1880
KeywordsTemperature, Humidity, Rainfall, Cities, Weather
👩‍💼 Officials

J. Hector, Inspector

🗺️ Notice of Intention to Take Land for Public Road

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated1 March 1880
KeywordsLand-Taking, Public Road, Ashley Road Board, Section 9211
👩‍💼 Officials

Samuel Barwell, Chairman, Ashley Road Board

⚖️ Legal Notice of Execution and Sale

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Dated1 January 1970
KeywordsExecution, Sale, Land, Supreme Court, William Earp, Samuel Parkes
👱🏽 Names

William Earp, Creditor in legal action
Samuel Parkes (Commission Agent), Debtor in legal action

👩‍💼 Officials

Alex. S. Allan, Sheriff
Frank Morton Ollivier, Solicitor

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