123 



Vas 50 ou the 22ud, ivnJ the iniuinium39 on the 17th, the former being oxxc 

 degree, aud the latter eight degrees, above the corresponding observations in 

 1804. 



Ellin was registered on 12 days of the month 1 eing —-90 below the average 

 of the previous ten years. The total amount precipitated was 2-03 inches, 

 which is— 73 of an inch less than the 20 years' average for November, but is 

 almost identical with the amount gauged in November 1864. During the 

 present month, however, the rain was more equally distributed. On the 12th 

 14th, and iOth, the surface channels ran briskly. On the last 1.3 days there 

 were only two days of sprinkling showers. Snoio was persistent on Mount 

 Wellington during the whole month, and the additions on three days were 

 very copious, but soon disappeared. None fell in the city, but there was hail 

 with the rain on the 23rd. Thunder was heard on the 11th and 12th, accom- 

 panied by lightning on the last named day. 



Spontaneous-evaporation amounted to 5'46 inches, the highest quantity ever 

 recorded except in January 1802, when it recorded .5 "82 inches. In November 

 1804 spontaneous-evaporation was but little more than rainfall. 



Humidity mean, 66, is —5 below the 20 years'average. It ranged from 45 

 to 93. 



Elastic-force of Vapour, had a mean of 332, being + 5 above the average, 

 with a range from 225 to 534. 



Cloud mean, 5-59, is— 50 below the 20 years average, and— 96 less than 

 November 1864 had. 



Ozone mean was 8 "46, being + I'Ol above the average of the previous 

 eight years, but only + '05 more than in November 1864. Saturation (10) 

 was twice recorded, and four times it fell to 7, the minimum. The tendency 

 to catarrhal and inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs, alluded 

 to in the October report as induced by the great prevalence of ozone, was 

 maintained this month from the same source. Yet only one death in the 

 mortuary tables appears to have any connection therewith — a man of 45 from 

 pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs.) 



Electricity, as registered by the electrometer, gave very different results, this 

 month to what was recorded for November 1864. There were 30 positive indica- 

 tions, with a range from 2 to 8 of tension ; while last year had only 15, but with 

 an extreme tension of 9. Negative was registered 29 times, with a range from 

 1-5 to 9-5 of tension. In 1864 there were 42 indications of negative with a 

 maximum tension of 8 "5. Nil was only recorded once, on the 12th. 



The 37 Deaths for November, 1865, is —6 less than last year had, and —3 

 less than the average of eight years ; 1863 and 1859, however, had both fewer 

 deaths than the present month, though the other s x had all more. No one of 

 the years, moreover, was so propitious to all under 20 years, inclusive of in- 

 fants, the year of minimum mortality, 1859, even having one-third more 

 deaths under that age. 



The deaths " under 1 year of age" were much below the eight years' average. 

 Three out of the four were under three weeks old. At " 1 to 5," there was 

 not a single death— as was noted also in October— which is without parallel, 

 not even any single month in a year during the whole period being without 



