THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 793

hundred and nine, and to bear interest at the rate of
six pounds (£6) per centum per annum, to be secured
by means of debentures and coupons according to the
form prescribed by "The District Railways Act 1877
Amendment Act, 1878," or to the effect thereof, upon
the whole of the said Company's railway, including
all present and future lands, all permanent works
and buildings, rolling-stock, machinery, and plant of
every kind of the said Company, and all the rights,
powers, and privileges of the said Company under or
by virtue of the said Act, or "The District Railways
Act, 1877," and all other the present and future
assets of the said Company, and including also to the
extent of sixty-nine thousand pounds (£69,000) the
uncalled-up capital of the said Company, as provided
by section nineteen of "The District Railways Act,
1877 Amendment Act, 1878:" And whereas by the
sixty-first section of "The District Railways Act,
1877," the said Company is prohibited from volun-
tarily selling, leasing, assigning, or parting with the
said railway without the consent in writing of the
Governor first had and obtained:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, hereby consent to the charge and disposition
proposed to be effected by the said Company as
aforesaid, for the purpose of securing the moneys
proposed to be raised and borrowed as aforesaid, and
the interest thereof, and to the issue of such deben-
tures and coupons as aforesaid accordingly.

Dated this twelfth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

J. T. FISHER,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

Name of Assessment Court. Name of County. Name of Borough,
&c.

LAND-TAX DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND—continued.

• Godkin's Hotel, Drury ... Manukau.
• Resident Magistrate's Coromandel.
  Court, Coromandel
• Warden's Court, Thames ... Thames ... Thames.
• Courthouse, Raglan ... Raglan.
• Waikato Council Chambers ... Waikato.
• Ohaupo Sale-room ... Waipa.
• Courthouse, Hamilton ... Piako. ... Hamilton.
• Waitoa Schoolhouse ... Tauranga.
• Courthouse, Tauranga ... Whakatane.
• Courthouse, Opotiki ... { East Taupo.
• Courthouse, Taupo ... { West Taupo.

LAND-TAX DISTRICT OF HAWKE'S BAY.

• Courthouse, Gisborne ... Cook ... Gisborne.
• Courthouse, Napier ... Hawke's Bay ... Napier.
• Courthouse, Waipawa ... Waipawa.
• Courthouse, Clyde ... Wairoa.

LAND-TAX DISTRICT OF WELLINGTON.

• Resident Magistrate's Hutt ... Wellington.
  Court, Wellington
• Courthouse, Masterton ... Wairarapa East.
• Courthouse, Carterton ... Wairarapa West. ... Masterton.
• Courthouse, Masterton ... ... Greytown.
• Courthouse, Greytown ... ...
• Courthouse, Palmerston Manawatu ... Palmerston N.
  North
• Courthouse, Marton ... Rangitikei.
• Courthouse, Wanganui ... Wanganui. ... Wanganui.
• Courthouse, New Plymouth ... Taranaki ... New Plymouth.
• Courthouse, Patea ... Patea.

LAND-TAX DISTRICT OF NELSON.

• Courthouses, Picton and Sounds ... Picton.
  Havelock
• Courthouse, Blenheim ... Marlborough ... Blenheim.
• Courthouse, Kaikoura ... Kaikoura.
• Courthouse, Nelson ... Waimea ... Nelson.
• Courthouses, Collingwood Collingwood.
  and Takaka
• Courthouse, Westport ... Buller and Ina- Westport.
  ngahua
• Courthouse, Waiau ... Amuri and Che-
  viot.
• Courthouse, Greymouth ... Grey ... Greymouth.
• Courthouse, Hokitika ... Westland ... Hokitika.
• Courthouse, Ross ... ... Ross.

Appointing Assessment Courts to be Courts for the
purposes of "The Land-Tax Act, 1878."

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in me by the thirty-third
section of "The Land-Tax Act, 1878," I, Sir Hercules
George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several
Assessment Courts named in the first column of the
Schedule hereto to be Courts for the purposes of the
said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twelfth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

J. BALLANCE.

Name of Assessment Court. Name of County. Name of Borough,
&c.

LAND-TAX DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY.

• Courthouse, Christchurch ... ...
• Courthouse, Akaroa, and Akaroa ... Akaroa.
  Wascoe's Hotel, Little
  River
• Resident Magistrate's Selwyn ... Lyttelton and
  Court, Lyttelton
  Port Victoria
• Kirwee ... ... ... District.
  Districts of
  Courtenay,
  Rakaia, Lake
  Coleridge,
  Malvern, East
  Malvern,
  South Mal-
  vern, Upper
  Waimakariri.
  Christchurch
  and districts
  of Spreydon,
  Riccarton,
  Halswell,
  Avon, Heath-
  cote.
  Sydenham and
  districts of.
  Lincoln.

LAND-TAX DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

• Resident Magistrate's Mongonui.
  Court, Mongonui

• Resident Magistrate's Hokianga.
  Court, Herd's Point

• Resident Magistrate's Bay of Islands.
  Court, Russell

• Resident Magistrate's Whangarei.
  Court, Whangarei

• Paparoa and Wairoa ... Hobson.

• Public Hall, Port Albert ... Rodney.

• Deacon's Riverhead Hotel ... Waitemata.

• Resident Magistrate's Eden.
  Court, Auckland

• Resident Magistrate's ... Onehunga.
  Court, Onehunga

• Resident Magistrate's ... Auckland. ... Auckland.
  Court, Auckland

• Resident Magistrate's ... Parnell.
  Court, Auckland

• Road Board Office, Syden-
  ham

• Road Board Office Lincoln

• Road Board Office, Springs
  Springs.

• Road Board Office, Temple-
  ton
  Templeton.

• Resident Magistrate's Ashley.
  Court, Rangiora

• Resident Magistrate's ... Kaiapoi, Rangi-
  Court, Kaiapoi ora,

• Courthouse, Ashburton ... Ashburton ... Ashburton.