VALUE OF PROPERTY IN New ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1878, 19 July 1884, Page 4

VALUE OF PROPERTY IN New ZEALAND.

The i, Property > Tax Commissioner has issu^l? in the form, of a broad-sheet a quantity Xof ! ihfoftrtatirtn of a valuabll nature on the possessions of the colony First on the list is a return showing the value of all .real property in New Zealand (exclusive of native land situated bey6nft r five 'miles of any road suitable for horse traffic), and of all personal property. It is as follows :—: — Real estate, exclusive of Native lands situated Jive miles beyond a road suitable lor horse traffic 101,000,000 Personal property 61,000,000 A 105,000.000 .(- - £ Crown lands .... . 8,500,000 Native ' lands within five miles of a ro.id suitable for horse traffic 5,750,000 Education, Church, Municipal, ' and other reserves 11,750,000 Taxable real estate ...45,000,000 Non-taxable real estate, owned bv persons not liable, being of less viluathan £500 each Personal propertyTaxable 40,000,000 Non-taxablo 11,000,000 Allowed for exemptions 13,000,000 , £64,000,000 (Exclusive of Railways, Telegraphs, and other Public Works.) A return Of personal property, prepared from owners' statements, as at Oct. 1, 1882, shows :— Horses.cattle, sheep, and other live stock ... ... 8,642,117 Wool, grain, and other produce ... 795,058 Merchandise, including goods on consignment and stock-in-trade_ ... 9,710,794 Furniture and household goods, including musical instiuments, plate, jewellery, works of art, books, carriages, stores ... 4,062,738 Cash in hand of persons making statements, cash at a bank or deposited with a Building or other Society, shares in Building Society 6,731,251 Moacy owing to persons making statements, secured on mortgage 19,423,585 Debts owing to persons making statements 10,259,921 All other property belonging to persons making statements, except exempt property 1,462,968 Total £59,988,432 The following is a statement of mortgages :— £ Mortgages (foreign capital) 15,018,904 Mortgages (Colonial capital) ... 14.937,557 £30,010,461 The indebtedness of the people in New Zealand, taken from owners' statement of property, exclusive of mortgages, is :—: — Debts deducted by ta\ payers .. 13,040,000 Debts deducted by non-taxable persons, Estimated 1,500,000 Total £14,540,000 Then we have a classified statements of amounts paid by taxpayers :—: — 8608 pay under £1 5s 4926 „ £1 5 0 and under £2 10 0 5774 „ 210 0 „ 0 5 0 2840 „050 „ 12 10 0 2673 „ 12 10 0 „ 02 10 0 543 „ 62 10 0 and over.

Besides these there are 80 Companies owning estates to the valueof £3,936,150. Of three two hold aieas o\er 150,000 acres, two over 100,000, one over 75,000, and there ovei 50,000. The total number of freeholders in the Colony is 71,240, of ■whom 30,764 own fi\e acres and over of country land, that is outside Boioucjhs and Town Districts, and exclusive of land classed as township ltvnds.

A Boy's First Bet.— Alphabet. The mate of a ship, at the critical moment of a storm, shouted out, ' Let go the topsail halyards!' ' I ain't a-touching 'em, sir, ' was the reply of a newly-shipped 'sailor. The output of coal in the United Kingdom is stated to have readied last year the high total of 103,750,000 tons, or an increase of nioie than 4^ per cent ou the previous year's total. Accoiding to Professor Jevon's estimate, the quantity mined in ISB3 should have been 178,000,000 tons, so that the actual output was 14,400,000 tons less.— 4 English Mechanic,' Paul Frederick, eldest brother of the Grand Duke of Mccklenburg-Schwerin, having been converted to the Catholic faith, has renounced his hereditary rights in favour of his younger brothers' families and their offspung. If the brothers, families became extinct, the throne is to revert to the family of Paul Frederick, providing the successor becomes a Protestant. The Lancet utters the following warning against the use of chloral and other narcotics :—": — " Again we have to record •with deep regret a sad proof that those •who give or take chloral or bromide of potassium for sleeplessness are guilty of a deplorable error, and do a grevious wrong. The narcotics which poison sheep alscr deprave the higher nervous centres, enfeeble th» controlling power of the will, and leave the mind a prey to the depressing influence of a concious loss of self-respect and self-confidence. The cultured mind feels the ignominy of this intellectual and moial depreciation ■with great acuteness, and in the end succumbs to the sense of powerlessness to recover self-control and do right. Tho depravation wrought is purely physical. The baneful influence of the lethal drug is, so to say, organic. The essential elements of the nerve tissue are blighted by the stupefying poison, as by alcohol in habitual drunkenness. In short, the recouise to chloral and bromide is precisely the same thing as a recourse to alcohol. The man or woman who is aent to ' sleep ' — the mocking resemblance of physiological rest — by a dose of either of there narcotisers is simply intoxicated. No wonder habitual drunkenness of this class first impairs and then destroys the vitality of the mind organ, and places the subject of a miserable artifice *t the mercy of his emotional nature, and makes him the creature of his passions. When will the public awake to the recognition of facts with regard to the use of these pernicious stup'efaoieuta ?" * ''Life in the ßusn— Then axd Now.— It itf.generally supposed that in the bush we have to pfit«[3 with many discomforts and privations in/he*A*pe ot food. Fonuerly it was so, but now Hanks' to T. B. Km., who has himself dwelt jfi^hetfiush, if fooddo^s consist chiefly of tijjoediweats hii' Colon .iaL'.Saucb give? to them a most delectable. flayaury making- them as well of the plainest food most, er:joyjib]e, ,and instead as hard biscuit* and indigestibje damper his Immovrp Co/oijrAi. Powder makes the Very.best bread, scones, cakei,* &nd pastry, far superior -more wholesome ' than yeast or leaven^Sold by all storekeeper* who -can ob-

Persons. Area. Number. Value. i acres and under 10 Jndcr ... 20 Jndcr . . 30 Jndcr ... 40 Jnder . . 50 Jndcr ... CO Jndcr ... 70 Jndcr ... 80 Jndcr ... 90 Jnder ... 100 Jnder . . 200 Jndcr ... 320 Jnder ... 500 Jnder ... CIO Jnder 1000 Jndcr ... 2000 Jndcr ... 3000 Jnder ... 4000 Jndcr ... 5000 Jnder ... COOO Jnder ... 7000 Jnder ... SOOO Jnder ... 9000 Jnder ... 10,000 Jnder . 20 000 Jndcr .. 30,000 Jndcr . . 40,000 Jnder ... 50,000 Jndcr ... 75,000 Jndor ... 100,000 1411 1024 1854 1075 1901 2187 1277 970 1-274 777 G745 3887 19.")3 737 920 812 243 112 73 65 47 37 26 21 138 46 23 8 9 0 £ 20(),538 570,137 550.810 445,492 535.359 799,878 450,750 507,116 502,925 412.574 4,791,026 4,312,202 3,503,704 1.777,271 3,344,337 4,322,052 2,331 213 1,')83,515 1,135,500 1,202,475 944,148 886,206 782,846 555,236 5,171,761 2 0 j2,992 2,033,085 032,825 1,000,423 1,140,797 Totals 30.C54 ' I 49,414,662

Freeholders ok laxd outside Boroughs, Town Districts and Townships, classified by area, showing total value of each class, 1882.