SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1871, 7 October 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency,) «■ Cheistchpbch, Tuesday, 5 p.m. Statistics "Live been issued by the Register-General showing the comparative healthiness of the municipalities of the colony, which place Christchurch in an unfavourable position, and have excited much attention. At a meeting of the City Council last night, it was decided to inform the Eegiskar-Geueral that the Hospital is not in tbe city, and that it receives patients from all parts of the province, consequently all the deaths there should not be included in the Christchurch returns. A report from Dr. Powell on the statistics was read, stating that the high percentage of the death rate for the past three months was casual, and not iu any degree attributable to the sanitary condition of the city. The deaths were principally amongst young children, and due to the very changeable nature of the weather. Ho pointed out the fallacious nature of a percentage of returns from small communities extending over so short a period of time, as such returns were largely influenced by casual circumstances, and stated that the death rate in 1873, in proportion to the deaths, was 20 per cent, less than in 1864 and 1869.

Reefton, Tuesday, 7.15 p.m. A large public meeting has been held to urge the Provincial Government to maintain tho Greynionth road properly and purchase Dalton's suspenuonirndge. Great indignation was expressed at the Government neglect of tho district. Eesolutions to that effect wero passed. So many waggons have been capsized in ruts that they contemplate withdrawing from the road.—The Eerald publishes this morning a private letter from the South African diamond fields, deprecatiug any rush to the Transvaal goldEods.