METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at DUNEDIN, for the Month of MARCH, 1869.
Daily at 9.30 a.m. until the 15th, afterwards at 9 a.m.
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 29.937 inches
Highest pressure (on 16th) ...... 30.815 ,,
Lowest pressure (on 24th) ...... 29.130 ,,
Range for month ........ 1.185 ,,

Temperature in Shade.
Approx. mean temperature for month 55.2 Fah.
Mean maximum temperature...... 63.2 ,,
Mean minimum temperature...... 47.2 ,,
Mean daily range of temperature ... 16.0 ,,
Highest maximum temperature (on 18th) 78.0 ,,
Lowest minimum temperature (on 25th) 35.0 ,,
Extreme range for the month ... 43.0 ,,
Mean temp. of evaporation for month 50.3 ,,

Solar Radiation
Maximum (on 5th) ..... 133 ,,
Minimum (on 27th) ........ 76 ,,
Mean for month ........ 118 ,,

Terrestrial Radiation
Maximum (on 15th) ........ 43 ,,
Minimum (on 25th) ........ 22 ,,
Mean for month ........ 34 ,,

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation = 100) ... 70.5 ,,
Mean elast. force of vapour ... .290 inch
Mean temp. of dew point ... 44.2 Fah.

Total rainfall on 16 days ..... 2.876
Greatest rainfall in one day (on 10th) ... 0.528 ,,
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast, = 10) .... 6

Wind: Mean velocity per day for month 166 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 24th) ........ 740 ,,

Number of days on which the wind blew from each point:-
N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W. Calm.
1 5 3 1 1 5 6 2 7

REMARKS.
High winds occurred on 22nd and 23rd from N. W. and W., and on 24th from W. Thunder on 4th and 8th; snow fell on 24th; fog on 26th, and 30th.

NOTE.—The results of all the self-registering instruments were recorded on the dates above given, and therefore occurred during the preceding 24 hours.

HENRY SKEY.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, as Sheep Farmers, &c., has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated at Dunedin this sixth day of March, 1869.

MATHEW HOLMES,
T. L. BARNHILL,
M. R. BUCHANAN.

Witness to the signatures of Matthew Holmes, T. L. Barnhill, and M. R. Buchanan,
2s—12s.

JAS. CREIGHTON.

CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF DUNEDIN.—Statement of estimated Rents, Profits, and Receipts, with proposed outlay and Expenditure for the ensuing year:--

Dr. Estimated Income.
£ s. d.
Rents of Estate ............ 984 0 0
Cemetery dues ............ 250 0 0
Licenses ............ 300 0 0
Fines under Bye-laws, &c: ..... 500 0 0
Government Subsidy ......... 3000 0 0
Market dues. . ... ...... 200 0 0
Town Belt rents and licenses...... 300 0 0
Sundry outstanding debts ...... 200 0 0
Reserve rents ............ 200 0 0
Balance ........... 11726 0 0
£17660 0 0

Cr. Estimated Expenditure.
Interest ............ 2380 0 0
Sinking Fund (two years) ...... 480 0 0
Lighting .............. 4200 0 0
Day labor and horses... ... ... 2000 0 0
Advertising, stationery, and contingencies 1000 0 0
Salaries ............. 2100 0 0
Fire Brigade, account, (nett to Corporation) ............ 150 0 0
Cemetery extension and contingencies ... 350 0 0
Sundry liabilities to be paid off......2000 0 0
Necessary works and repairs...... 3000 0 0
£17660 0 0

J. M. MASSEY, Town Clerk.
City Council Chambers, Dunedin,
7th April, 1869.
15s

(From the New Zealand Gazette, April 1, 1869, No. 18.)

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Protection of Animals Act Amendment Act, 1868,” it is enacted that no native game shall be hunted, shot, taken, or killed in any part of the Colony, except during such months as the Governor shall from time to time by Proclamation appoint in reference to the respective descriptions of native game within the districts mentioned in any such Proclamation :

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power in me vested in that behalf by the above-recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that all the native game mentioned in the fifth Schedule to “The Protection of Animals Act, 1867,” as amended by the above-recited Act, except quail, may be hunted, shot, taken, or killed in the district hereinafter mentioned, during the months of April, May, June, July, and August in the present year, and that quail may be hunted, shot, taken, and killed during the months of April, May, June, and July in the present year, in The Province of Otago.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony this thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by MILLS, DICK & CO., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.