Nov. 25.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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1. Local Bills are those which, not being private | Creek, Inangahua, in the Nelson South-West Mining
   Bills, affect particular localities only.
2. No local Bill shall be read a second time unless
   notice shall have been given of the said Bill in the
   locality to which the Bill refers.
3. Such notice shall state explicitly the object
   which such Bill is intended to effect, and shall have
   been published once at least in each of three succes-
   sive weeks before the second reading, in a newspaper
   circulating in such locality.

October, 1880.
F. E. CAMPBELL,
Clerk of Parliaments.

Crown Lands Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 20th November, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government has been
pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-
mining lease cancelled, and that the ground is now
open for application as if no lease of the said ground
had ever been applied for :--

Edward Jorgersen and party; 3 acres, District of
Grey, Nelson South-West Gold Fields. No. 221.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Certificate of Protection.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 19th November, 1880.

IN accordance with section 3 of "The Mines Act
1877 Amendment Act, 1879," this certificate of
protection for twelve months from the 19th November,
1880, to the 19th November, 1881, is granted in
favour of Thomas Lee, on behalf of the United
Inglewood and North Star Quartz-Mining Company
(Limited), for their special claim lease (No. 917B)
of 33 acres and 35 perches, at Murray Creek, Inanga-
hua District, Nelson.

OLIVER WAKEFIELD,
Under-Secretary for Gold Fields.

Gold-Mining Leases to be granted.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
"The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regula-
tions made under that Act for the granting of leases
for gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it
is intended to grant leases of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicants specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such leases.

Objections to the granting of such leases, stating
the grounds of objection, must be made in writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Reefton on or before
the 7th day of December, 1880.
Copy of the applications made and plans annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Reefton.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: George Charles Bowman. Style under
which it is intended to conduct the business: "West
Coast Gold-Mining Company." 16 acres 2 roods,
about 100 yards below Oriental Creek, Inangahua,
in the Nelson South-West Mining District.

Applicant: Patrick Brennan. Style under which
it is intended to conduct the business: "Junction
Gold-Mining Company." 16 acres 2 roods, at Devil's
District.

Creek, Inangahua, in the Nelson South-West Mining
District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-
third day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Waimate Plains.

FURTHER SALE OF TOWN, SUBURBAN, VILLAGE
SETTLEMENT, AND RURAL LANDS AT HAWERA,
BETWEEN THE 13TH AND 20TH DECEMBER IN-
CLUSIVE.

Principal Land Office,
Carlyle, 15th November, 1880.

DETAILED Lists of Sections and Plans can be
seen at all Post Offices and Railway Stations,
and full information obtained from the several
Commissioners of Crown Lands throughout the
Colony.

C. A. WRAY.
Commissioner, West Coast Land District,
North Island.

Southland Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 20th October, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of clause 153
"Land Act, 1877," that the reserve being
withdrawn from the sections mentioned in the
Schedule hereto, the same will be submitted to public
auction at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon, on
Monday, the 1st February, 1881.

SCHEDULE.

*Subject to £40, valuation for improvements.
† Subject to £47, valuation for improvements.

W. H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

FOR SALE.

NEW ZEALAND CROWN LANDS GUIDE
(No. 2), containing information as to the
character and localities of Crown lands, the terms
and conditions on which they may be obtained,
together with a list of all lands open for selection,
accompanied by maps showing the land districts,
principal towns, and railway lines, the land for sale
under different systems, and also land already dis-
posed of.

GEO. DIDSBURY.
Government Stationery Store,
Wellington, October, 1880.