ANOTHER OFFICIAL SQUABBLE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3026, 16 January 1879, Page 2

ANOTHER OFFICIAL SQUABBLE.

The following is a copy of the " Notes on the Hintz c:ihe" which were read by tho Commissioner of Crown L'ind* to the members ot the Land Boiird who were prcseut on Monday last :—

1. A notico sent from this office to Hintz that his third instalment of purchase monus ou a section held by him ou terms of deferred payments is duo.

2. A list of instalments duo on — day of — (including that of Hintz), sent to Rucuivei of Laud Ruveuue. List in form dratted bj the Receiver, and adopted by (ho friard, and iuclules uumos of Hcons"C«i, amounts payable, aud d;iy on which payable.

3. Monday, loth January, 1879. — Hintz came to pay his third instalment according to notice. Hois referred to Receiver of L>ind Revenue.

4. tliutz comes back to Crown Land Office, •tnd saj s that Receiver will not tikw his mon<*\ .

5. Mr. Watkins goes down with Hintz. who cannot speak Euglish, to M!e it hecau arrange matters for him. .

6. Mr. Wutkins and Hintz coin«» back. The Receiver will uot take the money because Hintz has not brought with him the notice he recei.ed from the Chief Commissioner thai ttio instalment was dvi». It in explained in .Mr. li. that he bus all the informnt ou required before him, and that his n- fusil entails a perfectly unnecessary jouaiey to Inglewool and back on Hiutz. Receiver still refuses to take the money.

7. "T0 save ilintz the* expense »md loss of time of n journey to luglewool and back, the Commissioner of Crown Laud-, gives him a duplicate of the notice sent him, and Ilinw 'furnished with this goes again to the Receiver of Land Revenue with his money.

8. Hintz comes back attain— Receive.- still refuses to take the money, requiring thnt the amount of the instalment payable should be inscribed ou the notion to Qintz, though the man has with him his original licensu to occupy, which hears* this tiniount on its face, and the Receiver's voucher above referred to, which contains the information required. 1). The amount ia inscribed on Hhilz's notice am! ho o^aiu returns to the Receiver to teudor the money. Tho CommU-gioucr of Cro-vn L-4ud* accompanies him and points out to the Receiver that ho hits in his po.-s/nsioti every item of information required. The Receiver objects that it is not sufficient for him without th« additional dataito furnished, and the Commissioner leturns to the office, leaving Hintz with the Recvivei, and h;>pinir that at length everything id satisfactorily soltlrd.

10. Hinfz comes back to Commissioner's nfiice, us Receiver hns again refu-ed toreceivo the money. He brings this with him, us also the notice to himself, on which the Receiver has written an endorsement to the effect that he requires the Act under which the hind was sold to he inscribed' ,a the face of this notice.

11. Commissioner inscribes Act on the lace of the notice; Hintz takes it and the money to the Receiver, wlio, it is presumed, rec -ived it at length, as Hintz did uot appear in the Grown Lands Office.

Oq the above it is to be remarked —

1. T'liit Hintz had with him for the iuspection of the Receiver his original licouse to occupy, on which U insciibod the Aot under which the land was sold, together with all the information required.

■ 2. That the Itecoiver Ims by him a voucher on which all tho particulars in each cast* m-o given, except tho "Act," which can scarcely be considered necessary, as the in&talmenr due is tho third, twa having alrt-adj- been paid, and parsed through the Receiver's hooks.

3. The notice that is tho qausi' of all this circumlocution isapurol) personal notification to Hiniz. aud has nothing whatever to do with the Receiver, being mi-rely a reminder that the money is due on >i -eriain day, im-l must be paid within nno month of th.'it da}.

4." The voucher sent to lha Receiver i< one drafted by himst-lf, a lopted by tho Lioavd on his recomuu'iidtitioii, uuUuo-vle- iged by the Receiver, iv writing, t"i h<> quite suliici'-nt for all purposes, and finally, iv making it out. the routine regulations of the Board have been complied with in every pa'tioular.

Thp cotton spinners of Northern France have resolved not to work b> gaslight, in ordo- to li'sstMi the accumulation of stock.

The New York water supply system hns cost sinci^ 1842 to complete and maintain it fiS.OOO,OOO. Total revenue £7 250,0D0.

Kir G irnet Wolneley look £G 000,000 sterling to Cyprus to pay for the const. uctioa oi: harbors ami other Government work,