Otago Provincial Gazette – 1857 – No. 54

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✨ Vital Statistics and Town Board Election



RETURN OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS,

FOR THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1856.

BIRTHS.

1856 1855
Males Females Total Males Females Total
85 68 153 60 70 130

About 10 per cent. may be added for Births occurring at a distance from the Registrar’s Office.

Births of the Maories are not included in the above Return.

MARRIAGES.

Licenses issued to Ministers of Marriages performed at Registrar’s Office Total
Free Church of Scotland Church of England Wesleyan Church
21 9 8

There are no Marriages of the Native population included in the above Return.

DEATHS.

Males Females Total Ages
2 and under 2 to 5 5 to 10 10 to 20 20 to 30 30 to 40 40 to 50 50 to 60
9 10 19 5 1 2 1 2 6 1 1

CAUSES OF DEATH.

  • Accident... 3
  • Cancer... 1
  • Childbirth... 2
  • Consumption... 3
  • Diarrhea... 1
  • Dropsy... 1
  • Inflammation of the Lungs... 1
  • Milk Rush... 1
  • Natural Decay... 1
  • Softening of the Brain... 1
  • Teething... 1
  • Thrush... 1
  • Ulcerated Sore Throat... 1
  • Water in the Head... 1

About 10 per cent. may be unregistered of Deaths occurring at a distance from the Registrar’s Office. The cases of Consumption were a female, aged 10½ years; a male, aged 37; and a female, aged 51; who arrived in this colony in the last stages of that disease.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Otago, 20th January, 1857.

DUNEDIN TOWN BOARD.

ELECTION OF ONE PERSON A MEMBER OF THE BOARD.

In pursuance of the “Dunedin Town Board Ordinance,” Sess. 11, No. 12, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby appoint the Electors entitled to vote for Members for the Town of Dunedin, in the Provincial Council of Otago, to assemble upon TUESDAY, the 14th day of July, 1857, at 12 o’clock noon, within the Hall of the Mechanics’ Institution, Princes-street, Dunedin, for the purpose of Electing one Person to be a member of the said Town Board, in room of Robert Williams, Esq., who has resigned his seat as a member of said Board.

And further, in pursuance of said Ordinance, I hereby appoint Alfred Chetham Strode, Esq., of Dunedin, R.M., to preside at said Meeting: and, in the event of a Poll being demanded, I hereby appoint the Polling to take place in the said Hall of the Mechanics’ Institution, on WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of the said month of July, 1857.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office, Dunedin,
30th June, 1857.



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🎓 Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths for the Province of Otago, 31st December, 1856

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
20 January 1857
Vital Statistics, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Otago, Demography
  • ROBERT CHAPMAN, Registrar

🏘️ Election of One Person as Member of the Dunedin Town Board

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
30 June 1857
Election, Town Board, Dunedin, Resignation, Mechanics' Institution
  • Robert Williams (Esquire), Resigned as member of Dunedin Town Board
  • Alfred Chetham Strode (Esquire, R.M.), Appointed to preside at election meeting

  • W. CARGILL, Superintendent