SHEEP AND CATTLE ASSESSMENT.
"We are indebted to the Provincial Grovernment for the following returns :—
RUNS IN THE PROVINCE. Under lease : rent being an assessment of 3s. Gil. per head on great and 7d. per head on small flattie, payable annually on Ist October 187 Under license : rent, an assessment of 6d. per head on great and Id. per head on small cattle, with a license fee averaging £2(3 105. on each run, payable on 10th January of each year 11 Total number of runs . . 198 STOCK RETURNED.
On the Ist 'October current, the sum of £58,891 8s 9d was paid as rent on leases, exclusive of those within University E.. serve and Stewart and Traquair Hundreds. Two of the lessees still to pay assessment and license fee was also paid under three of the licenses on the same day.
Under the heading of " Dignity and Impudence." the " Wanganui Chronicle" gives the following : — Everybody here who enjoys the pleasure of being acquainted with Mr St. John Branigan, " the great demilitariser," is aware how much he stands upon his own dignity. A good story about this reaches us from Wellington, in a private letter. Branigan, it seems, often gets telegrams, and the telegraph boys not having the fear of big men before their eyes, delivered the despatches in the ordinary manner. The "demilitariser," however, insisted that the boys should present the message with one hand, while " saluting" with the other, and said as much to one of them. To this, however, the youngster demurred. " Look here," said he ; "I ain't paid for saluting ; I won't do it without a rise in ray wages. There's your message, sign the paper, and fork over the tin." The great demilitariser fell back in his chair disgusted, and complied. He has been hoard to expi'ess a mournful conviction that "that boy will come to be hanged."
Great Under leases 19,871 Under leases within Uuiversity Reserve ... 62 Under leases of mns comprised in Stewart and Traq v a i r Hundreds ... 0 Under licenses (partly estimated returns, not yet received 2,400 Small 1,904,889 58,230 8,500 39,350 Amount of Kent. £ s. d. 58,949 3 9 1,710 13 8 247 18 4 294 19 2 22,333 2,011,019 61,202 14 11
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 140, 13 October 1870, Page 7
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372SHEEP AND CATTLE ASSESSMENT. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 140, 13 October 1870, Page 7
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