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mining purposes to the applicants 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 writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Collingwood on or
before the 7th day of March; 1881.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Collingwood.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: Robert C. Parker and party. Style
under which it is intended to conduct the business:
"Pleasant Creek Gold-Mining Company." 16 acres,
south of Panama Company's Lease, north of Pros-
pecting Claim, and each side of Gridiron Creek,
Mount Arthur, in the Golden Bay Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this
eighteenth day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one.

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

Gold-Mining Lease 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 a lease of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicants specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid ob-
jections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating
the grounds of objection, must be made in writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Lyell on or before
the 15th day of March, 1881.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Lyell.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: Henry W. Mason and party. Style
under which it is intended to conduct the business:
"The Royal Standard Gold-Mining Company." 16
acres 2 roods, Welshman's Creek, about 400 yards
above Mackintosh's Claim, on the north side of
Buller River, and about four and a half miles below
the Lyell Township, in the Nelson South-West
Mining District.

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

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

Crown Lands Notices.

Discharge of Reserves.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 29th December, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given in terms of the 153rd
clause of "The Land Act, 1877," that the
reserve on the following lands is discharged, and the
same will be open for sale at the Land Office, Inver-
cargill, on Monday, the 4th April next:—

Titipua Bush Reserve, Mabel Hundred, 681 acres
1 rood 16 perches.
Pasturage Reserve, Block IV., Campbelltown
Hundred, 1,450 acres.

Gravel Reserve, Section 43, Block IX., Oteramika
Hundred, 40 acres and 17 perches.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Rural Lands under "The Waikato Crown
Lands Sale Act, 1878."

LAND DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 11th February, 1881.

I HEREBY notify that the Rural Lands mentioned
in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for
sale by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday,
the 16th day of March next, at the hour of 11
o'clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.
RAGLAN COUNTY.
Parish of Pirongia.

Description of Lands.—These lands are situated on
the left bank of the Waipa, and most of them are
easily accessible by roads formed already or easily
formed. Their general character is undulating, open
fern or bush lands, the soil being very fair, in some
cases rich.

NOTE.—Plans may be seen, and further particulars
of the land, on application at this office.

Terms of sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to
be paid at time of sale, and the balance within one
month thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-
money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and
the contract for the sale of the land shall hence-
forward be null and void.

Crown-grant fee to be paid on completion of pur-
chase.