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TERRESTRIAL RADIATION.

Maximum (on 28th) ......... 50."
Minimum (on 6th) ......... 30."
Mean for month ......... 36."

Mean degree of humidity (saturation = 100) ......... 66.9"
Mean elastic force of vapour ...... .210 inches
Mean temperature of the dew point .. 35.8° Fah.
Total rainfall on 16 days ... ... 4.410 inches
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast = 10) ............ 5.

WIND.

Mean velocity per day for month ... 201 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on the 19th) ......... 575 "

REMARKS.

Snow fell on 6th.
Hail fell on 9th.
Gale on 19th.
1.34 inches of rain fell on 5th.

HENRY SKEY.

REGULATION FOR THE WEST TAIERI HUNDRED FOR THE YEAR 1865.

Dated this eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 13th October, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint Constable GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW PURDIE, No. 350, to be Inspector of Slaughter-houses, and of Cattle intended for slaughter, within the Tuapeka District, vice Constable Isaac Chapman, No. 424, resigned.

FREDERICK WALKER,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 14th October, 1865.

IT is hereby notified that a writ issued for the election of two persons to serve as Members of the Provincial Council for the Dunedin District, has been returned with a certificate to the effect that JAMES GORDON STUART GRANT, Esquire, and BRYAN CECIL HAGGITT, Esquire, have been duly elected.

FREDERICK WALKER,
Provincial Secretary.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at Dunedin, for the month of September, 1865.

Lat. 45° 52’ 11” S.; Long. 170° 31’ 7” E.; altitude above sea, 550 feet.

BAROMETER, REDUCED TO 32 FAH. AND SEA LEVEL.

Mean atmospheric pressure for month ... 29.766 inches
Highest pressure (on 9th) ...... 30.210 "
Lowest pressure (on 13th) ...... 29.111 "
Range for month ......... 1.099 "

TEMPERATURE IN SHADE.

Approximate mean temperature for month ... 47.2° Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 54.6 "
Mean minimum temperature ..... 39.8 "
Mean daily range of temperature ... 14.7 "
Highest maximum temperature ... 67.0 "
Lowest minimum temperature ... 32.5 "
Extreme range for the month ... 34.5 "

SOLAR RADIATION.

Maximum (on 28th) ......... 94."
Minimum (on 15th) ......... 50."
Mean for month ......... 70."

REGULATION FOR THE WEST TAIERI HUNDRED FOR THE YEAR 1865.

THE Wardens of the West Taieri Hundred having failed to comply with the 64th Clause of the Waste Land Regulations, the Waste Land Board, in exercise of the powers vested in it by the 66th Clause of the said Regulations, have made the following Regulation and apportionment of the cattle to be depastured on the said Hundred for the year 1865:-

License Holders.

Robert Charters ............... 90 Great Cattle.
John Sherman .................. 70 "
Wm. Duff ...................... 190 "
Peter Peterson ................ 22 "
W. J. Cumine .................. 480 Small Cattle.
James Henderson ............... 4 Great Cattle.
Wm. M’Diamid .................. 25 "
John Chaplin .................. 34 "
D. and A. M’Pherson ........... 45 "
Wm. Shaw ...................... 25 "
Donald Campbell ............... 12 "
Robert Robertson .............. 30 "
Archibald Carrick ............. 60 "
J. H. Wilson .................. 10 "
John Aitken ................... 10 "
John Bell ..................... 4 "
John M’Kay .................... 35 "
John Thompson ................. 30 "
Robert B. Twelftree ........... 5 "
James Grey .................... 4 "
Wm. Nicol ..................... 50 "
Donald Grant .................. 60 "
Francis M’Diamid .............. 90 "
Robt. Barley .................. 10 "
Peter Grant ................... 80 "
James Reid .................... 20 "
Rains and Blatch .............. 15 "
Donald Cameron ............... 20 "
J. Weldon Goodbody ........... 51 "
David Grey .................... 4 "
James M’Kay ................... 21 "
M. and J. Heenan .............. 64 "
Wm. Heenan .................... 62 "
John Fleuring ................. 20 "
Jas. M’Lachlan ............... 25 "
Thomas Sim .................... 16 "
E. Heenan ..................... 16 "
R. A. Kempshell ............... 30 "
Duncan Taylor ................. 38 "
Thos. Dowling ................. 25 "
Thos. Matheson ............... 12 "
Geo. Thompson ................. 30 "
Jas. Sutherland ............... 36 "

W. H. CUTTEN,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 17th October, 1865.