Auckland Provincial Government Gazette. 165

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By His Honour SIR GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland:

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers in me vested by the seventh section of "The Highways Act, 1874," I do hereby abolish the District constituted under the provisions of "The Highways Act, 1871," and described by the name of the RANGITOPUNI Highway District, by notification under the hand of Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Esquire, Superintendent, dated the 31st February, 1873, and published in the Provincial Government Gazette on 5th February, 1873.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 4th day of April, 1876.

G. GREY,
Superintendent.

(24a.)

Auckland, 3rd April, 1876.

To Hon. Colonial Treasurer,
Wellington.

The figures alluded to in previous correspondence have been received. They do not alter my own view that, left to ourselves to manage our own resources, we should be a wealthy people. He who manages the property of another and spends his revenues can show him to be in debt to any extent he pleases. This is evidenced by the Mercer Railway account from 29th January to 26th February, 1876, in which this Province is brought in £5,326 3s. 2d. in debt; whilst in regard to the management or control of this railway the Province is not allowed to interfere in any manner whatever. The Provinces which you state are taxed for our support can little know the ills they pay to bring on us in the management of the Native Department and the Native Land Purchase Department. The Provincial Treasurer has forwarded the following memorandum in reference to the figures transmitted by you:—

"The figures of Sir Julius Vogel do not seem to be relevant to the question at issue between the General and Provincial Governments, which is whether a financial arrangement made between the Colonial Treasurer and the Provincial Treasurer last session is to be carried out or not. The figures may have some relation to a question of greater importance—namely, the bearing of Colonial finance generally upon the Province of Auckland as compared with other large Provinces of New Zealand. This is, however, a question which it would be useless to discuss here; but its discussion will probably form no unimportant part of the business of next session.—READER WOOD.—April 3, 1876."

G. GREY.

(25c.)

Auckland, 3rd April, 1876.

To Hon. Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., M.G.A.,
Wellington.

I received, on the 28th ult., a telegram from you, which I replied to on the 31st ultimo. If a fair consideration is given to the contents of that telegram, it will be seen that I have done all that the most rigid construction of the rules of courtesy could have required from me. Late on the evening of Saturday, the 1st instant, another telegram, which, from its size, I believed had also come from you, reached me. I laid it aside until this morning (Monday); and now, having satisfied myself from enquiries made at the Telegraph Office, that it really did come from you, and feeling that courtesy makes no demands on me which I have not already most amply fulfilled, I have had the honour to return that telegram to you by post in an envelope in the state in which I received it, that is, unopened.

G. GREY.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By His Honour SIR GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland:

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers in me vested by the seventh section of "The Highways Act, 1874," I do hereby alter and amend the boundaries of the PUKEATUA Highway District, as hereunder set forth.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 4th day of April, 1876.

G. GREY,
Superintendent.

THE PUKEATUA HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

Amended Boundaries.

Bounded towards the north (commencing at the north-western angle of allotment No. 84, of the parish of Pukeatua) by the southern side of the road which forms the northern boundary of said allotment No. 84, and the northern boundaries of allotments Nos. 85, 86, 87, 88, and 89, the western and northern boundary of allotment No. 91, the northern boundary of allotments Nos. 92 and 93, and part of the northern boundary of allotment No. 94, all of the parish of Pukeatua aforesaid, and crossing said road to the south-western angle of allotment No. 249 of the parish aforesaid; thence following the northern side of said road, being the southern boundary of allotments Nos. 249, 254, 256, and 257, and by the northern side of said road continued to the north-eastern angle of allotment No. 263; thence by the northern and part of the eastern boundaries of allotment No. 261, all of the parish of Pukeatua aforesaid; the northern boundary of allotment No. 260 of said parish, to the road which forms the eastern boundary of allotment No. 260 aforesaid, and crossing said road and continuing southerly along its eastern side to its junction with the road which forms the northern boundary of allotment No. 206 of the parish of Pukeatua aforesaid, and thence in a straight line to the south-western angle of Dacre’s claim on the Okura river; towards the east by part of the western boundary of the Lake Highway District, from the south-western angle of Dacre’s claim aforesaid to the centre of the road leading to allotment No. 210 of