prosperity of the
the Oolony. The opportunity for selling this ground with advantage may pass, and it may hereafter take a long time, before such a faverable opportunity offers,
again.
At the close of 1854
alove of 1854 the
Rent Roll showed £11, 2.50 un 12
as the annual Rent due
Lease - Lands; since that time.
-
tivo Public sales added £775.1.9.
to the immal Dent,
more
With the
it now use to £12,0257.100
exceptions of the Encipts for Auctioneer License at the the t Salt and Stone Sicenses £437%10:0 and Boarding House Keepers, B.7.18.0. all other items show a
considerable increase.-
The decreuse under tructioneer
292
Licenses is not real; it is caused
by the lenationcers paying
1 paying in 18158/54 the whole year, having
•
at
once for
1854/55 availed themselves, of the opportunity given them by pay in quarterly
Ordinance to
half-yearly instalments. The decrease, for salt- and Stove Sicenses
in
1547/48 £1691. 13. 14. 10.
i
of £ 437,10) in however Ital, 1845/346 they brought $957% 17. Z
1848/49 they fell to £4,55€ 16.6. and have since gradually cave down to
376, th48 per Annnun. Sex
already
my letter above alluded to Shaver
temarked on this subjecte The last decrence of £7. 10)- is. caused by one person weasing Keep & Bouring House for sailors; it in huwever gratifying
is
that
DOVANc o
of
to lewark
the holders of Boarding.