BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

Evening Star, Issue 3627, 7 October 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

„ Auckland, October 6. At the Supreme Court, Charles Blase, for knocking a man down and robbing him, in Symonds street, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. A gentleman here is corresponding with Sydney, with a view to getting a New South Wales encket team to come over.

Eeefton, October 6, Tbe Herald ’ publishes this morning a private letter from the South African diamond fields deprecating any rush.

< < Christchurch, October 6. The statistics from the Registrar-General showing the comparative healthiness of the Municipalities of the Colony, which place Christchurch in an unfavorable position, have excited much attention. At a meeting of tbe City Council last night, it was decided to inform the Registrar-General that the Hospital is not in the City, that it receives patients from all parts of the Province ; and that consequently all deaths there should not be included in the Christchurch returns. A report from Dr Powell on the Christchurch statistics was read. This states that high percentage of death for the past three months was casual” and not m any degree attributable to the sanitary condition of the City. The deaths were principally among young children, and due to the very changeable nature of the weather. It pointed out the fallacious nature of the per centage returns as registered in small communities, extending over a very short period of time, as such returns were largely influenced by casual circumstances, and stated that tho death rate of 4873 in proportion to deaths was A) per cent, less than in 1864 and 1869.