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New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 974, 15 August 1855, Page 2 (Supplement)

Did I swallow down thr hook That was baited by the base, How could 1 daro to look Mv yonws ones in the face. Reproach me ni. lit and day With my sin, boys, sin ! No, no; I'll bold iny vote As a treasure and a trust; Mv dishonor none shall quote When I'm mingled with the dust. And inv children, when I'm gone, Shall be strengthened by the thought That their father was not one To be bought, boys, bought. „ , Hon Durham-street, 7th August, 1H5.5. IJrabtttriai CSfobermttcnf (Eritjdfc. ** PROCLAMATION. By His Honour WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Auckland. TJK7HEREAS by an Act of the Local ' V Legislature of the Province of Auckland, passed in the second Session thereof, intituled "An Act to amend an Ordinance for regulating the Slaughter of Cattle in certain places," it was amongst other things enacted that it should be lawful for the Superintendent, within any district to be proclaimed under the Ordinance .amended by the said Act, when, and as lie should see fit, from time to time, by Proclamation, to appoint that one or more Slaughtor-houseor Slaughter-housesshoukl be a Publio Slauhhter house or should be Public Haughter-bouses. and any such Proclamation from time to time, to alter or revoke, provided that there should be no Public Slaughter-house within the limits of the City of Auckland. Now, therefore I, the Superintendent of the said Province, in exercise of the power so vested in me in that behalf by the said Act, do hereby proclaim, direct, and appoint, that the licensed Slaughterhouse of Mr. John Hall, situate in the village of Otahuhu, in the Hundred of Otahuhu in the Province aforesaid, shall be and is hereby declared to be a Public Slaughter-house for the purposes of the said Act, and that no Cattle within the meaning of the said Ordinance shall be slaughtered from and after the fourteenth day of the mmith of August, instant, for the purpose of sale, barter, shipping or exportation at any place within the said Hundred, save and except at the said Public Slaughterhouse and in such licensed Slaughterhouses as may be situate in that part of the said Hundred which lies on the Kast of and is bounded on the West by the Public Road leading from the Otara Creek Bridge to the Great South Road. Given under my hand at Auckland, in the Province aforesaid, this 13th day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. Wm. Brown, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland. WASTE LAND BOARD. Superintendent's Office, Auckland, loth August, 1855. rpiHR subjoined correspondence, respeetJ- ing the amount of land sold by the Board, is published for general information. Wm. Brown, Superintendent. Superintendent's Office, Auckland, Bth August, 1855. Sir, —1 have the honor to request you will be good enough to furnish me with whatever information you may possess eoncerning the operations of the Waste Land Board, with especial reference to the amount of land that has been sold by the Hoard, and the quantity of good and available land still on hand, and that you vrill further oblige me by enumerating the chief obstacles (if any) whichryou have found to operate against the carrying out of the V\ aste Land Regulations in bringing the land into the market. I have, &c, Wm. Brown, Superintendent. The Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Hoard, Waste Land Board Office, Auckland, 9th Aug , 1850. Sir, — T have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated Bth inst., No. 11, requesting certain information, and to report as follows: The quantity of land handed over to the Waste Land Board which could be immediately dealt with was 201,160 acres; out of this, 60,700 acres has been set apart as special occupation land in the several districts; the remainder was proclaimed as general country land, and of this but 8500 acres have been sold. The land thrown open for sale consists, with the exception of a block called Wainui, of the unselected portion of the blocks which had been already for sale under Sir George Grey's Regulations. Judging by thc small quantity sold, and the almost total discontinuance of applications, I should suppose but little now remains of even average quality. The only other land of which the Board received notice, is the Waiuku*block, and a tract estimated at 10,000 acres at Wangarie. The General Government intimated that the plan of the Waiuku would be ready at the cud of last month, and the Hoard only await its receipt to take the necessary steps to I.ring it as speedily as possible into the market. It is supposed to contain 45,000 acres, and of this Mr. Commissioner May reports that he estimates that fully one-third will turn out to be swamp and bad ground ; the rest is of a highly fertile description, and, from its position in regard to water carriage, and the advantages to be derived from the proposed tramway, there can be little doubt all that is available will be rapidly sold. Of the land at Wangarie, I am unable to afford any information. A surveyor has been deputed by the Genet al Government to survey the boundaries. I would also state that the Crown owns numerous small portions of land in different parts of the Province, some of these being exchange land claims, but none have been handed over to the Waste Land Board, though applied for. With reference to the 69,760 acres set apart as special occupation land, 1 have the honor to state 1,920 acres in the Kanaka district, having been surveyed, has been proclaimed and selected.