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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1899, 16 February 1870, Page 1

LONG DRIVE GOLD MINING COMPANY (REGISTERED). ■'PHE TRANSFER BOOKS will be I CLOSED, THIS DAT, February lGtli, at 4 p.m., and remain closed until twelve o'clock, noon, on FRIDAY, February 18th, when a DIVIDEND of THREE POUNDS per Share will be payable at the Company's Office, Shortland-st.reet. CHAKLES TOTHILL, . Legal Manager. Auckland, February 16,-1870. TO DIRECTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS OF GOLD MINING COMPANIES. A S it is most important t-lio ACCOUNTS and BOOKS of all public Companies should undergo a rigid EXAMINATION, and be audited every half year, the 'undersigned offers his services, guaranteeing a faithful report. J. TONSON GARLICK, Public Accountant. Queen-street, Aucklpnd. CITY OF AUCKLAND ASSESSMENT. GENERAL AND SEWERAGE RATES. City Board of Commissioners' Office, Auckland, 14th February, 1870. V OTICE is hereby given that the Commu- ' sioners under the City Board Act, 18G 3 , the City Board Act 1863 Amendment Act, and the City Board Act Amendment Act, 1865, have THIS DAY made a GENERAL RATE of EIGHTPENCE per Pound, and a SEWERAGE RATE of ONE PENNY per Pound on the net annual value of the property assessable under the Baid Acts, for the period from Ist December, 1868, to 31st May, 1870, which is now due and payable, and all parties who may consider themselves aggrieved on the ground of irregularity, unfairness, or incorrectness in the valuation, or in the amount assessed thereon, are hereby required, within 14 days from the date hereof, to give notice to the Clerk of the Board of sucli their objections, and to state explicitly the grounds thereof. By order of the Board. I. W. HARROP, Secretary. DEDWOOD HIGHWAY RATE. APPEALS against the Rate for current year will De heard THIS DAY (Wednesday), 16th instant, at 2 p.m., by the Board of Trustees, at their Office, High-street. The Board will strictly enforce the collection of the Rate, and persons on the Assessment Roll not appealing This Day must abide by the Assessment as it stands. W. J. DAMON, a Secretary. • High-street, February 16, 1870. THE KAUKAPAKAPA HIGHWAY * DISTRICT. ROLL for 1869-70, : ?Bf£ONE FARTHING per ACRE, is now POSTED in the in accordance with tlie provisions of the Highways *Act. All objections will be heard at" Mr. on MONDAY, the 28th February, at 11 a-m. A. BONAR, ~ ~~ Chairman. February 16, 1870/ ~ ' : IN THE PRESS—TO BE PUBLISHED EARLY IN MARCH, IN CROWN QUARTO, A CENTENARY EDITION OF CAPT. COOK'S DESCRIPTION OF NEW ZEALAND, 100 YEAKS AGO; ;With Notes Anecdotes, Reminiscences, &c., on the History, Topography, Natural History, ,and>Etlmf>l"gy, toiillustrate Cook's Narrative. Maps atld;Yiewe showing the pi:ogress;o£ the 'Discovery- of New> Zealand' and-the changes; ' that/ bavc/itakenplace in the country.... ~ IEDITKD BY MAJOR CHAS. HEAPHY, i i-i.-.j -r. ■: V.C. i •- ■>' V.- ....... ■ JAMES COOK, tlio celebrated navigator,. " was. tlie first -European ; who sot foot .on : 'New Zetilund; lie landed' on the: cist: isidd- of |Turanganiri : Rivcr, in Poverty Bay; Bth Octo'bcr, 1769 r thence ; he sailed' ilong tlio East 'Coast, across the: Bay of . Plenty, round Capo 'Colville, up the Gulf and River Thames; then 'north, round North. Cape, along the West i Coast, through Cook Strait, to Queen Charlotte's Sound. He then sailed through the, ; Strait, along tho East Coast of the Middle Island, round the South Cape, and returned 'along the "West Coast' to Queen Charlotte's Sound again. Captain Cook left New Zealand on 31st March, 1770, having spent six months ■on the coast •; but although he re-visite'd'tbe TEBKA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA four times, it was only during the first visit that he sailed all round and described the country—its inhabitants and productions. It is now one hundred years since Captain Cook landed and took possession of these Islands, yet not one of the many elaborate and voluminous accounts of the country and its inhabitants that have been published can be compared to that which he wrote ; in fact the best subsequent works are but supplementary to his simple yet compendious and accurate description. - The forthcoming publication has been compiled from the earliest edition of "Cook's Voyngos,"—the narrative being transcribed verbatim—explained and amplified by notes and appendixes, bringing to bear the observations and; experiences of the principal writers and travellers of more recent times. Such an account of the changes in the country, physically and politically, that have taken place during the past century cannot fail to be most interesting to the lovers of sciencc and history, and it is hoped may also assist'in recording the customs of a race that is. fast. diminishing, and which has already lost many of its peculiar characteristics. The several placcs of which Cook gave illustrations will be shown by photographs or d awings. Tlie work, which is into- del to form a Jirst-elass gift book, will be edited, illustrated, "printed,' and bound in Auckland... Price, to Subscribers before publication, 10s. 6d. 'Noii'subscribers, 15s. GEO.. T.. CHAPMAN, - PUBLISHER, Auckland, New Zealand. . NOTICE. C'ERTAIN unprincipled PERSONS having ' procured. Chicory.'JJins bearing the brand' of J. A. & T. LAINE, (Guernsey, which they have filled with Ground Peas, and offered for sale, the undersigned, as Agent for J. A. &T i ! Laine, begs to OAU HON Grocers and others: ■ against purchasing their brand . without due' i assurance that it is-in original packages. ; ' H. B. MORTON. ' Auckland, Jan. 8,1870.^