TEMPERATURE IN SHADE.

Approximate mean temperature for month ... 47.4° Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 53.5° "
Mean minimum temperature ... 41.8° "
Mean daily range of temperature ... 10.2° "
Highest maximum temperature (on 17th) 63.2° "
Lowest minimum temperature (on 23rd) 30.0° "
Extreme range for the month ... 33.2° "

SOLAR RADIATION.

Maximum (on 17th) ... 75.
Minimum (on 24th) ... 44.
Mean for month ... 58.

TERRESTRIAL RADIATION.

Maximum (on 4th) ... 47.
Minimum (on 23rd) ... 28.
Mean for month ... 39.

Mean degree of humidity (saturation = 100) ... 78.8
Mean elastic force of vapour ... .240 inches
Mean temperature of the dew point ... 39.2° Fah.
Total rainfall on 24 days ... 10.135 inches
Mean temperature of evaporation ... 42.6° Fah.
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast = 10) ... 6.5

WIND.

Mean velocity per day for month ... 248 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours 585

REMARKS.

Gales—or strong winds, rather—occurred on 15th, 20th, and 21st.
Greatest rainfall on 1st, for 24 hours previously = 4.060 inches.
Fog prevailed on 3rd, 4th, and 12th = 3 days.
Thunder, but no lightning, on 20th.
Lightning, but no thunder, on 16th.
Snow on 20th and 23rd.
Aurora Australis on 15th.

JUNE.

BAROMETER, REDUCED TO 32° FAH. AND SEA LEVEL.

Mean atmospheric pressure for month ... 29.763 inches
Highest pressure (on 18th) ... 30.845 "
Lowest pressure (on 30th) ... 28.969 "
Range for month ... 1.876 "

TEMPERATURE IN SHADE.

Approximate mean temperature for month ... 46.9° Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 54.1° "
Mean minimum temperature ... 39.7° "
Mean daily range of temperature ... 14.4° "
Highest maximum temperature (25th) 62.5° "
Lowest minimum temperature (12th) 32.3° "
Extreme range for the month ... 30.2° "

SOLAR RADIATION.

Maximum (on 1st and 11th) ... 70.0
Minimum (on 12th) ... 48.0
Mean for month ... 59.0

TERRESTRIAL RADIATION.

Maximum (on 15th and 25th) ... 44.0
Minimum (on 12th, 13th, 21st, 29th) ... 31.0
Mean for month ... 37.0

Mean degree of humidity (saturation = 100) ... 73.1
Mean elastic force of vapour ... .210 inches
Mean temperature of the dew point ... 35.8° Fah.
Total rainfall on 18 days ... 3.241 inches
Mean temperature of evaporation ... 40.8° Fah.
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast = 10) ... 5.1

WIND.

Mean velocity per day for month ... 239 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (17th) ... 676

REMARKS.

Gales occurred on —.
Greatest rainfall on 22nd, for 24 hours previously = 1.050 inches.
Fog on one day = the 1st.
Lightning, but no thunder, on 25th.
Hail on the 11th.

For the observations for the months of July and August see pages 177 and 199 of the Gazette.

RICH. B. GORE.

NOTICE.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between Andrew Louttit and Robert Louttit, trading under the firm and style of A. Louttit and Co., Queenstown, Province of Otago, New Zealand, Storekeepers, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

All debts due to the firm will be received by the aforesaid Andrew Louttit, and by whom all debts will be paid.

AND. LOUTTIT.
ROBERT LOUTTIT.

Witness to signatures of Andrew and Robert Louttit:
H. Manders, Mining Agent, Queenstown.

Queenstown, 8th September, 1865.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between us, the undersigned, trading as T. ROBINSON & Co., Agricultural Implement Manufacturers and Importers, at Melbourne, in the colony of Victoria, and at Dunedin, in New Zealand, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

All debts now owing to, or by, the firm will be received or paid by the undersigned James Hutchings.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of August, 1865.

(Signed) JAMES HUTCHINGS.
GEORGE W. DIXSON.

Witnessed by Frederick Peake.

James Hutchings, in tendering his best thanks for the large amount of patronage his establishment has received so many years, begs to inform his agricultural friends and the public generally, that the business, in all its branches, will be continued by himself under the style of T. Robinson & Co. His connection and superintendence of the business from its formation will, he trusts, be a sufficient guarantee of its future integrity; and, in soliciting a continuance of support, assures his friends that every article will be manufactured by the most experienced workmen.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, Samuel Hislop Dobbie and David Baxter, as General Merchants in Dunedin, under the style and firm of “Dobbie Baxter and Co.,” has been this day dissolved, as and from the thirtieth day of September last.

The business will in future be carried on by the said David Baxter, who will receive all assets and discharge all the liabilities of the late firm.

Dated this second day of October, 1865.

S. H. DOBBIE,
DAVID BAXTER.

Witness—D’ARCY HAGOUTT, Jun., Solicitor, Dunedin.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862,” and in the matter of the Petition of JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, of Dunedin in the Province of Otago, Merchant, carrying on business in copartnership with John Currie, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Merchant, at Dunedin aforesaid, and Melbourne aforesaid, as Merchants, under the style and firm of “Currie and Smith.”

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman has appointed Monday, the thirteenth day of November next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for hearing the matters of the above-mentioned Petition.

Dated this third day of October, 1865.

B. C. HAGGITT,
Solicitor for the said Petitioner.