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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

market and other conditions so unfavourable
and so exceptional.
Wherever, after laying down the description of
permanent way referred to, the traffic so increases
as to necessitate the use of more powerful and
heavier engines and vehicles, a heavier kind of
permanent way can be substituted, and that
taken up can be relaid in extension of the
main line, and used as a feeder thereto, or for
branch lines.

In many localities, where stone suitable for
metalling ordinary roads, and timber for
bridges, are difficult to procure, and where
labour and haulage is expensive, the improved
Railroad will be cheaper in first cost, and in
after cost of upkeep, than a macadamized road.

It may further be remarked, that mineral
and other regions, such, for instance, as that
through which the Dun Mountain Railway
passes, presenting such difficulties of country
as to put the construction of ordinary Roads
for any useful purpose out of the question, may
be traversed, easily and inexpensively, by lines
of Railroad made on the improved system
described; and so districts abounding in mineral
and other wealth may be opened up, which
otherwise, are practically inaccessible.

Moreover, the Railroad can be used in con-
veying material for forming, bridging, and
metalling the macadamised road, wherever it
may be desirable to construct such alongside
the Railroad; the road being used for the
purely local purposes required by an agricul-
tural community, and the Railroad used for the
through traffic between the various settlements
upon its route.

American experience proves that many ad-
vantages are gained by having an ordinary
road alongside a Railroad; while the incon-
veniences sometimes supposed to result from
having locomotive engines running alongside
ordinary roads traversed by horses and vehi-
cles, are found to be more imaginary than real.
One of the chief advantages, however, of
the improved Railroad is, that it can be worked
either by engine or horse power at pleasure, or
by both.

A. C. FITZGIBBON, C.E.,
Engineer and Manager to the Dun Mountain
Copper Mining Company, Nelson, New
Zealand.
October, 1861.

NATIVES.

Appointment of Native Assessor.

Office of Minister for Native Affairs,
Auckland, June 9, 1862.

HIS Excellency the the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

KITAHI TE TANIWHA, Thames,

to be a Native Assessor under the Resident
Magistrate's Court Ordinance, Sess. VII,
No. 16.

W. Fox.

Officiating Minister under "Marriage Act."

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 30th May, 1862.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of
Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and entitled
"The Marriage Act, 1854," the following
Name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER, within
the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information:-

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend AUGUSTIN MARY JOSEPH
SAUZEAU.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages in New Zea-
land, do hereby certify that the foregoing
NAME of an OFFICIATING MINISTER, within
the meaning of "The Marriage Act, 1854,"
has been sent in to me, in addition to the
Names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th of January, No.
8, of the 3rd of February, No. 12, of the 28th
of February, No. 13 of the 7th of March,
and No. 15 of the 22nd of March in the
present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland,
this thirtieth day of May, 1862.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.