236 Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

Auckland, 23rd May, 1876.

To Sir Donald McLean,
Chief Land Purchase Commissioner,
Waikato.

Would you be so good as to favor me with a reply to my telegram of the 20th instant?

G. Grey.

TOTARA HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

THE Assessment List of the above District has been finally settled, and the Rate Book may be seen at the residence of the Chairman. Rates to be paid to Mr. S. P. Brown, Collector.

T. M. Lake,
Chairman of District Board.

COROMANDEL HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Assessment List for the District, for the year 1875-1876, has been finally settled, and that the Rate Book may be inspected, and payment of Rates made, at the office of the Collector and Secretary, Mr. John Richard Randerson, Kapanga Road, Coromandel.

Charles Hovell,
Chairman of District Board.
5th June, 1876.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Office of the Board of Education,
Auckland, 7th June, 1876.

IT is hereby notified that the Board of Education under "The Education Act, 1872," have constituted the District hereinafter described to be an Educational District under the said Act, and have appointed the time and place of meeting for the election of a District School Committee for the said Educational District, as hereunder set forth.

By order of the Board,
Frederick J. Moss,
Secretary.

THE MERCER EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the north-east by the Great South road from the Maungatawhiri River to its junction with the Pukorokoro road; and by the last named road to a point on the same being the termination of a right line produced at right angles to the northern boundary of Allotment No. 59 of the Parish of Koheroa; thence by said right line to the northern boundary of Allotment No. 59 of the Parish of Koheroa aforesaid, thence by part of the northern boundary of Allotment No. 59 of the Parish last-named to its north-eastern angle, thence by a right line to the north-western angle of Allotment No. 91 of the Parish of Koheroa aforesaid, thence by the north-eastern boundary of Allotment No. 91 last-named and by said north-eastern boundary produced to the Maramarua River, towards the east by the Maramarua River aforesaid to its confluence with the Whangamarino River, and thence by the Whangamarino River aforesaid in a south-easterly direction to the eastern termination of a right line bearing due east from the summit of Meremere Hill, towards the south by the right line aforesaid bearing due west to the summit of the Meremere Hill aforesaid and by said right line produced to the eastern bank of the Waikato River; towards the south-west by the eastern bank of the Waikato River aforesaid to the mouth of the Maungatawhiri River, and towards the west by the Maungatawhiri River aforesaid to the Great South Road first mentioned, the place of commencement.

Meeting to elect a Committee will be held at the Court House Mercer on Saturday, the 24th of June, at 6.30 p.m.

Alexandra, 25th May, 1876.

His Honor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
Superintendent,
Auckland.

In reference to your Honor's telegrams of 20th and 23rd instant, respecting a letter which appeared in an Auckland newspaper from a Mr. H. Alley, to the effect that a Mr. Nicholls received one hundred and fifty pounds from a Native Land Commissioner to assist to put through the Hungahunga block, I have to acquaint your Honor that from information furnished to me by Mr. James Mackay it appears Mr. Nicholls received the hundred pounds, but for what particular purpose I am not aware, as the Government have nothing to do with the transaction.

Donald McLean.

Auckland, 26th May, 1876.

Sir Donald McLean,
Chief Land Purchase Commissioner,
Waikato.

I thank you for your telegram of yesterday. Would you be so good as to inform me, was it from Mr. James Mackay, or from any Land Purchase Agent, that Mr. Nicholls received the one hundred pounds?

G. Grey.

Auckland, 2nd June, 1876.

Sir,—

Referring to your Honor's telegram of the 26th ultimo, I have the honor to acquaint you that I have no further information beyond what I have already stated in my telegram in reply to yours of the 20th ultimo.

I have, &c.,
Donald McLean.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 2nd June, 1876.

Sir,—

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day's date, in reference to my telegrams respecting the Hungahunga block.

I do not quite understand the statement made in your telegram of the 25th ultimo, that you do not know for what purpose Mr. Nicholl received the sum of £100, as the Government had nothing to do with the transaction.

According to Mr. Mackay’s sworn testimony, he merely made the suggestion for this transaction, which was agreed to by the Government and carried out with their sanction.

As Superintendent of this Province, it is my duty to say that the interests of its inhabitants, and a due sense of their rights, make it, in my belief, incumbent on you as Native Minister and Chief Land Purchase Commissioner, to institute a searching enquiry into the matter I have brought before you in this correspondence, as well as into the allegations in connection with this subject, which are made in the leading articles of the Thames Advertiser newspaper of the 23rd and 24th ultimo.

I have, &c.,
G. Grey.

The Honorable the Native Minister, and Chief Land Purchase Commissioner, Auckland.