Government Gazette—January 17.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 4, Issue 187, 20 January 1849, Page 3

Government Gazette — January 17.

Sixty-eight pounds of Condemned Tobacco to be sold at the Custom-house, on the 29th inst. Special Meeting of Justices to be held at the Resident Magistrates' Court, on Ist February nest, for forming Jury List for the ensuing year.

No offer having been made for any of the Land put up for sale at Howick, on the 14th inst , the lots may now be purchased privately during the ensuing three month 1 ;. At the Land Sale held at Auckland, on 21st December last, two Allotments arc repmted as sold to Alexander McKay, amounting to £71 Os. 2d. A return of Lands sold by private contract during three months, to 31st December last, — after having- been first publicly exposed and no offer — Bhows thirteen Allotments sold, amounting to £392 10s. 2d. The Immigrants during quarter ending 31st December List, are 230 — and the Emigrants who have left us, number 110. A return of Revenue and Expenditure for quarter ending 31st December, shows of —

The Expenditure on the Roads, which was last quarter £l 725 Is. 5d., has ir. creased this quarter into the enormous sum of i,'3256 Is. 4d. We would ask — where has this sum been expended ? All our roads about Town are as bad us ever. The summer is fast passing, and there seems no prospect of the streets or roads, which are used every minute of the day, being repaired. If they were impassable Lst winter when they had some metal on them, what will they be this winter, now that the former metal has all disappeared, In one 6treet (Eden Crescent) the level is now being altered for the fourth or fifth time, and metal covered over mauy inches with mud. It is really disgraceful to see the labor of so many men thrown away in altering the mud upon this street time after time. First, a large quantity of mud was thrown upon the metal to raise the level of the street — then it was discovered to be too much — and, forsooth, must be lowered again. If we mistake not, there has never been a single scientific measurement taken of the street, or a level applied to it. We suppose, Mr. Reader Wood merely goes occasionally and cocks ' his eye at the street, and having raised it one day, thinks it is all right if he lower next day by tha same rule. In the published Return, we see no mention of the very large sum (between 2 and .£3000) expended in Sydney, on the Government brig.

Jrdnidry Revenue xG021 17 9 jand ,, 707 2 10 'arliamentary Grant GG25 0 0 ium received fioin New Munster 8 9 G 13.3G2 10 1 'he Expenditure is i?12,S9S 13 2