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Table No. 17. Indebtedness of Counties, Boroughs, Road, Town, River, Harbour, and Drainage Boards.

Table No. 18. Names of Freeholders of Areas of Ten Thousand Acres and over of Country Land.

Local Body. Loans, Foreign. Loans, Colonial.* Other Liabilities. Totals. Counties — At 31st March, 1889 1886 1883 £ £ 160,879 3,510 7,800 £ 116,961 185,389 124,953 I I £ 277,840 188,899 132,753 Boroughs— At 31st March, 1889 1886 1883 1,877,000 1,752,000 1,454,600 I 665,952 505,775 503,946 227,968 253,093 166,347 I i 2,770,920 2,510,868 2,124,893 Boad and Town Boards— At 31st March, 1889 1886 ' 1883 150,790 23,850 14,270 22,089 104,861 37,996 j 172,879 128,711 52,266 Biver Boards— At 31st March, 1889 1886 1883 21,000 21,000 39,283 30,430 50,530 I I 3,866 4,638 7,933 64,149 56,068 58,463 Harbour Boards — At 31st December, 1888 ... 1885 1882 ... 2,809,310 2,374,500 1,456,400 247,808 40,445 52,500 J 114,130 125,022 116,720 3,171,248 2,539,967 1,625,620 Christchurch Drinage Board— At 31st December, 1888 ... At 31st March, 1886 1883 200,000 200,000 200,000 11,853 \ 211,853 200,000 200,000 (1889 Totals ... -'1886 (1883 4,907,310 4,347,500 3,111,000 1,264,712 604,010 629,046 496,867 673,003 453,949 I 6,668,889 5,624,513 4,193,995 * The totals for 1889 under this heading includ tion Act, and the Government Loans to Local Bodl le loans from Gi es Act, amount! ivernment under the Boads and Bridges Construe lg to £290,785.

Name and Postal Address. I Area. Value. 10,000 to 20,000 acres. A'Deane, John Andrew, John Chapman, Masterton ... Atkinson, William (estate of the late), Bangiora Bayley Brothers, Hawera ... Bealey, Samuel, Hororata ... Beamish, N. E., Napier ... ... ... Begg, William A., and John, Hillend, Otago ... Bell, Sir P. D., and Alfred, Waihemo Benn and Co., John, Cambridge Blick, William (estate of the late), per J. J. Sinclair, Blenheim ... Boyd, Allan and John, North Taieri... ... .... Brown and Co., A., Green Island Buchanan, Hugh (estate of the late)... Buchanan, John, Patangata Buchanan, W. C, Gladstone Buckland, Alfred, Auckland Cameron, John, Masterton ... Campbell, Hugh, Poukawa, Hawke's Bay ... - Cawthron, Thomas, Nelson... Acres. ... ! 15,949 ... . 18,291 ... 13,904 ... 14,840 ... ; 11,693 ... : 18,890 ... ' 16,990 I .. , 18,408 ... I 11,033 ... 12,516 ... 17,449 ... 12,870 I .,. | 16,164 ... 12,102 ... 13,387 ! ... ' 11,808 ... : 12,520 ... 17,909 ... , 14,542 j & 31,898 27,909 14,699 7,713 44,497 37,780 43,566 49,834 22,040 7,907 30,200 25,528 56,600 41,086 62,310 17,021 16,360 64,464 5,000 i ' | Carried forward ... ! 281,265 606,412 606,412