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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Cadet in Survey Department appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM ANDREW

to be a Cadet in the Survey Department of New
Zealand. The appointment to date from the 10th
instant.

ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands.

Discontinuance of Tararu Wharf Light, Thames.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 26 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th May, 1879.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 20 of
1870, published in the New Zeland Gazette for
1870, page 610, it is hereby notified that the Thames
Harbour Board have given notice that the light on
the outer end of Tararu Wharf, Thames, will not be
shown after the 31st instant.

J. BALLANCE.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Gold Fields Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining lease in the Nelson
South-West Gold Fields cancelled, and that the
ground is now open for application as if no lease of
the said ground had ever been applied for:—

James Walker, Charles Jenkins, and William
Franklin; 5 acres 3 roods 17 perches, District of
Charleston. No. 241.

ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands.

Sale of a further Portion of the Reclaimed Land in
the City of Wellington.

THE Commissioner of Crown Lands for Welling-
ton will sell, by public auction, on Tuesday, the
17th of June, 1879, at the Athenæum Hall, Lambton
Quay, Wellington, the under-mentioned allotments of
freehold land, in Blocks numbered X., XI., XII., and
XIII., on the plan of the reclaimed land, in the
City of Wellington.

Lithographed plans, as well as conditions of sale,
are now ready for distribution at the various Land
Offices throughout the colony.

The plans contain the fullest particulars, giving
the number of sections, with their area in poles and
tenths; also the frontage in feet and tenths.

Each section will be pegged and numbered before
the day of sale.

Block X. contains 15 sections.
” XI. 8 ”
” XII. 5 ”
” XIII. 14 ”
Total ... 42

These several blocks of land have frontages to
Waterloo Quay on the East; Lambton Quay on the
West; Allen Street on the North; and to the
Government Buildings on the South.

Terms of payment: 15 per cent. cash deposit;
the balance by bills at six, nine, and twelve months,
without interest.

Immediate possession will be given after the sale.
Title direct from the Crown.

By order.

H. J. H. ELIOTT,
Under Secretary for Crown Lands.

Public Notification.

SALE OF RURAL LANDS.

PATUTAHI BLOCK (POVERTY BAY DISTRICT).

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 5th May, 1879.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers vested in
the Waste Lands Board by "The Land Act,
1877," and "The Crown Lands Sale Act, 1877," it is
hereby notified that the rural lands mentioned in the
Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public
auction, at the Masonic Hall, Gisborne, on Tuesday,
the 10th day of June, 1879, at the hour of 12 o'clock
noon.

D. A. TOLE,
Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands Board.

SCHEDULE.

TURANGANUI SURVEY DISTRICT.
Block I., First Class Rural Lands.
1 | 49 3 20 | 499 0 0
2 | 38 0 26 | 381 10 0
3 | 37 2 29 | 376 10 0

PATUTAHI SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second and Third Class Rural Lands.
77 | 257 0 0 | 771 0 0
78 | 200 0 0 | 600 0 0
79 | 300 0 0 | 900 0 0
80 | 198 2 16 | 595 0 0
82 | 302 0 0 | 604 0 0
87 | 397 0 0 | 992 10 0
88 | 400 0 0 | 1,000 0 0
90 | 300 0 0 | 750 0 0
91 | 438 2 0 | 438 10 0
92 | 316 0 0 | 632 0 0
93 | 393 0 0 | 393 0 0
113 | 400 0 0 | 400 0 0
117 | 400 0 0 | 500 0 0

Description of Land. - Sections 1, 2, 3: Land of
good quality; a quantity of kahikatea on each sec-
tion. Section 77: Back portion broken; fern and
tutu; frontage to creek flat; partially grassed; Wai-
kakariki Stream forms a good cattle fence; soil very
good. Section 78: Back portion broken; fern and
tutu; frontage flat, with a quantity of grass; kahi-
katea bush, suitable for fencing; good swamp, dry in
summer; stream forms a good fence; soil very good.
Section 79: Front portion between road and Te
Aroha Totaraia Stream flat; small portion grassed;
portion of bush around swamp flat and partially
grassed, remaining portion rather broken; soil good.
Section 80: Front portion flat; stream forming fence;
partially grassed; back portion rather broken; fern
and tutu; soil very good. Section 82: Front portion
flat, partially wet in winter; bush, kahikatea, and
matai, suitable for fencing; stream forms a good fence;
back portion broken, but well fitted for pastoral pur-
poses; soil very good. Section 87: Frontage flat,
slightly grassed, low fern; the greater portion is,
however, of a broken nature, fern and tutu; soil
good. Section 88: Similar to 87, with a quantity of