No. 1474, in red.—Six hundred and forty-six acres, more or less, situate in the Ashburton district, bounded on the north-westward by Reserve 850 (in red); on the south-westward by a line in continuation of the south-western boundary of that reserve; on the north-eastward by a line in continuation of the north-eastern boundary of the same; and on the south-eastward by the South Road and Railway Reserve; save and except the land purchased to date.—For road, railway, and telegraph purposes.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that the parcel of land described below, which was temporarily reserved from sale for Road, Railway, and Telegraph purposes, is, with the exception of those portions comprised in reserves numbered 1450, 1460, and 1467 (in red) respectively, now open for purchase, viz:—

No. 317, in red.—All that tract of land situate in the Rakaia and Ashburton districts, being a strip of land half-a-mile wide, extending from the Thirty-first mile peg to section No. 5800.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.
Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Jan. 7, 1873.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

HANMER AND ANOTHER v. HAYS.

WRIT OF FI. FA.

WHEREAS I the undersigned Sheriff of the Canterbury District of New Zealand have taken in execution and levied upon the real estate and lands hereinafter described of James Hays of Selwyn in the Province of Canterbury in the Canterbury District of the Colony of New Zealand Blacksmith the defendant in the said action of the suit of Philip Hanmer and Leonard Harper of Christchurch in the said Province Solicitors the plaintiffs in the said action under and by virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of the said Supreme Court in the said action in pursuance of the provisions of ‘The Execution of Judgments against Real Estates Act 1867’ for the sum of eighty-eight pounds eleven shillings with the interest upon the said sum at the rate of eight pounds for every one hundred pounds by the year from the eighth day of October 1872 besides Sheriff’s poundage Officers’ fees and other incidental expenses and costs: Now I do hereby give notice that it is my intention to cause all the estate and interest of the said James Hays (being the equity of redemption subject to the payment of the sum of ninety-five pounds and further advances and interest thereon) in all that piece or parcel of land containing...

two acres of land statute measure or thereabouts being part of the rural section number 12,157 on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province setting out the rural lands in the Malvern District of the said Province commencing at the junction of the western side of the road forming the eastern boundary of section 12,157 with the Hawkins’ Forks Road thence north-westerly following the latter road a distance of six chains fifty-two links thence in a northerly direction at a right angle a distance of three chains four links thence in an easterly direction a distance of three chains seventy-one links and thence returning in a southerly direction to the commencing point a distance of seven chains thirty-four links together with all houses and erections thereon to be sold by public auction at Christchurch on the twelfth day of April next at noon at my office Armagh Street in the City of Christchurch in the said Province of Canterbury unless the above-mentioned debt and costs be sooner paid.

And I do hereby also give notice that George Harper of Hereford Street in the City of Christchurch in the said Province is the solicitor of the said Philip Hanmer and Leonard Harper the execution creditors.

Given under the authority of me the undersigned Alexander Back Sheriff of the Canterbury District of New Zealand this tenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

ALEXANDER BACK, Sheriff.

CHRISTCHURCH:

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Lyttelton Times Office, Gloucester Street, by William Reeves, Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.