JULY 22.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1053

MARLBOROUGH SHEEP DISTRICT continued.

Notice to Mariners. No. 33 of 1880.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 13th July, 1880.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Portmaster, Brisbane, is published for
general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

ENTRANCE TO BURNETT RIVER.

THE North Spit having extended considerably to the
southward, and near the leading line of beacons,
masters of vessels are cautioned, on entering, when
abreast of the lighthouse, to open the beacons the
width of themselves to the southward, and keep them
in this position until past the Red Perch Buoy on
the end of spit.

H. W. WYBORN,
Acting Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 15th June, 1880.

Money Order and Savings Bank Offices opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 21st July, 1880.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
Money Order and Savings Bank Offices will be
opened at
CASTLEPOINT (Chief Office, Wellington),
LONGFORD (Chief Office, Westport),
SPRINGFIELD (Chief Office, Christchurch), and
WAITAHUNA (Chief Office, Dunedin),
from and after the 1st August proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Money Order and Savings Bank Offices closed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 21st July, 1880.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
the Money Order and Savings Bank Offices at

TE ARO (Chief Office, Wellington),
THE PORT (Chief Office, Nelson), and
LEITHFIELD (Chief Office, Christchurch),
will be closed from and after the 1st August proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Crown Lands Notices.

Certain Lands classified as Pastoral Lands.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th July, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that the Commissioners ap-
pointed in pursuance of section 75 of "The
Land Act, 1877," have reported to His Excellency
the Governor that the land described in the Schedule
hereto shall be classified as pastoral land, and the
Governor has determined that the same shall be dis-
posed of as pastoral land upon deferred payments, as
provided by sections 76 to 85 inclusive of "The
Land Act, 1877."

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

SCHEDULE;

ALL that area of land in the Provincial District of
Auckland, being Sections 83, 84, 97, 98, 99, 119, and
1 to 6, Block V., Patutahi Survey District; Sections
7 and 8, Block V.; Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, Block IX.;
Sections 1, 2, and 3, Block X.; Sections 1 and 2,
Block XIII., Taramarama Survey District.

Agricultural Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 15th July, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Go-
vernor has been pleased to pronounce the under-
mentioned agricultural lease cancelled, and that the
ground is now open for application as if no lease of
the said ground had ever been applied for.

John Hamilton; 51 acres 2 roods, Section 193,
Square 122, District of Ahaura, Nelson South-West
Gold Fields.

R. OLIVER.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 19th July, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor 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:—
John Aspinall; 10 acres, Section 11, Block VI.,
Skipper's Creek District, Otago Gold Fields.

R. OLIVER.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

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 a lease of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicant specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating
the grounds of objection, must be made in writ-
ing, and lodged with the Warden at Queenstown on
or before the 28th day of July, 1880.