TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(PER PRESS AGENOY.) Christchuroh, Friday. The vital statistics for the month ending 3 1st January show 1 04 deaths for the Chriatchurch district — the most ever known. The average monthly number for many years past has been about 49. February, 1876, reached 90. With that exception, 74 is the highest number registered in any month, and that season was notoriously sickly, and the population of the district is about the sanv, the boundaries having been altered. Five thousand acres have been re-, served as an endowment fertile mod' <^S ical school in connection with the j College ; " At a meeting of the Drainage Board this morning, in consequence of tho absence of tho chairman at Wellington severul important matters were postponed. At a meeting of the Board of Healthy to-day it was stated that sixteen cases | 0 f typhoid fever had been reported curing the fortnight. At the same

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meeting a letter was read from an" immigrant by the Hydaspes, offering . to give any information that might t„be required to the Board on tho sub- . jeot of the sickness on board that ■ vessel. He stati d that he had kept a diary during the passage, and des* cribed himself as a " handy and useful man." His letter was ref rred to the Medical Officer of Health. It was stated by the chairman that rep* resentations had been made to the Government on the subject of the insufficient manner of passing emigrants when they leave England. The Acclimatisation Socie'y held its annual meeting to-night. The old councillors were re-elected, and Sir Cracroft Wilson was re-elected chairman A petition was received frnm a number of trout fishers, ask» ing the society to put a s:op to the use of ground bait, but the petition was referred to a committee. The secretary stated that a , quarter of a million whitefish ova would arrive in Auckland in February from America, for the Canterbury society.