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SCHEDULE--continued.

BLOCK IV., MAKURI SURVEY DISTRICT-continued.

BLOCK VIII., MAKURI SURVEY DISTRICT.
| 1 | 175 2 0 | 184 5 6 |
| 2 | 280 0 0 | 294 0 0 |
| 3 | 223 3 0 | 234 19 0 |
| 4 | 273 0 0 | 286 13 0 |

BLOCK XV., KAIRANGA SURVEY DISTRICT (FITZHERBERT).
| 256 | 207 2 0 | 285 6 0 |
| 258 | 268 0 0 | 281 8 0 |
| 260 | 207 0 0 | 217 7 0 |
| 287 | 127 3 0 | 159 14 0 |

BLOCK XVI., KAIRANGA SURVEY DISTRICT (FITZHERBERT).
| 268 | 265 0 0 | 278 5 0 |
| 270 | 272 0 0 | 285 12 0 |
| 290 | 217 0 22 | 325 14 0 |
| 291 | 213 0 0 | 223 13 0 |
| 292 | 247 1 0 | 259 12 0 |
| 293 | 257 1 0 | 270 2 0 |
| 298 | 238 2 0 | 250 8 6 |
| 299 | 235 1 0 | 247 0 0 |

BLOCK III., ARAWARU SURVEY DISTRICT.
| 261 | 189 2 14 | 199 1 6 |
| 262 | 226 3 8 | 238 3 0 |
| 263 | 94 2 8 | 99 5 6 |
| 263A | 125 2 8 | 131 16 6 |
| 264 | 163 3 16 | 172 1 0 |
| 265 | 89 2 32 | 94 3 6 |
| 275 | 232 1 16 | 243 19 6 |
| 276 | 292 2 9 | 307 3 6 |
| 277 | 244 0 0 | 256 4 0 |
| 282 | 60 0 16 | 63 2 0 |
| 284 | 158 1 32 | 166 7 6 |

BLOCK IV., ARAWARU SURVEY DISTRICT.
| 271 | 245 0 0 | 257 5 0 |
| 272 | 217 0 0 | 227 17 0 |

BLOCK IX., KAIRANGA SURVEY DISTRICT (PALMERSTON).
| 1553 | 82 3 13 | 248 10 0 |
| 1554 | 82 3 20 | 165 15 0 |
| 1555 | 125 1 16 | 250 14 0 |
| 1581 | 99 2 19 | 199 5 0 |
| 1605 | 99 0 17 | 198 4 0 |
| 1607 | 97 0 4 | 242 11 0 |
| 1610 | 99 0 34 | 248 0 0 |
| 1611 | 67 1 18 | 168 8 0 |

BLOCK X., KAIRANGA SURVEY DISTRICT (PALMERSTON).
| 1566 | 151 3 34 | 379 18 0 |
| 1567 | 151 3 2 | 379 8 0 |
| 1569 | 151 3 9 | 303 12 0 |
| 1570 | 189 3 1 | 379 10 0 |

BLOCK XIII., KAIRANGA SURVEY DISTRICT (PALMERSTON).
| 1595 | 170 1 0 | 212 16 0 |
| 1596 | 196 0 8 | 245 1 0 |

NOTE.—The above sections contain rich deep soil,
are level and undulating, covered with mixed timber,
mostly tawa, and are approached by main and district
roads. Maps, application forms, schedules of
contents, and upset price of each section can be
obtained at the Wellington Land Office, and at the
Palmerston, Woodville, and Masterton Post Offices.

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.

Civil Service Literary Prize, 1881.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 8th March, 1881.

A PRIZE of the value of £10 will be given for the
best essay on

THE CONSTITUTIONAL INFLUENCE OF THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS IN ENGLAND ON QUESTIONS OF
PEACE AND WAR.

Conditions.

1. Competition to be open to all persons under the
   age of 25 years at this date who have passed either
   the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination, and
   who are in the Service at the time of competition.

2. The prize to be in books or money, at the option
   of the prize-taker.

3. Essays to be legibly written, and on one side of
   the paper only.

4. Essays to be delivered to the Secretary of the
   Civil Service Examination Board, Wellington, by the
   31st December, 1881.

5. No competitor to allow his name to appear on
   his essay, but to adopt a motto or cypher, which is
   also to be written on a sealed envelope containing
   the author's name, and attached to the essay.

6. The prize will not be awarded unless there is an
   essay which, in the judgment of the examiners, is of
   sufficient merit to entitle the author to receive it.

7. Competitors are advised to keep copies of their
   essays, as those sent to the Board will not be re-
   turned.

G. S. COOPER,
Chairman.

CORR v. SCANLON.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND. —
NELSON DISTRICT.

I, WILLIAM HORTON REVELL, Sheriff of the Dis-
trict of Westland North, hereby give notice
that, under a writ of fieri facias, issued to me out of
the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Nelson District,
at the suit of JOHN CORR, of Westport, in the Pro-
vincial District of Nelson, in the Colony of New
Zealand, Merchant, I have this day taken in execu-
tion the unexpired term of twenty-one years, from the
first day of July, 1877, held by MICHAEL SCANLON,
of Westport, aforesaid, Hotelkeeper, in and over all
that parcel of land situate at the Colliery Reserve,
Westport, aforesaid, being Section numbered 65,
Palmerston Street (Middle), on the plan of the
said reserve, containing by admeasurement sixteen
perches, more or less, bounded as follows: On the
Northward by Section 66, 132 feet; on the East-
ward by Palmerston Street (Middle), 33 feet; on
the Southward by Section 64, 132 feet; and on the
Westward by Railway Reserve, 33 feet: And I
intend to cause the said parcel of land, and the estate
and interest of the said Michael Scanlon therein, to
be sold by auction, by Mr. John Munro, at his
auction-rooms in the Town of Westport aforesaid, on
the fifteenth day of April, 1881, at two o'clock in the
afternoon, unless the debt be sooner paid.

The Solicitor for the Execution Creditor is Mr.
James Bickerton Fisher, of Nelson Street, in the
said Town of Westport.

Dated this fourth day of March, 1881.

W. H. REVELL,
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Sheriff of the District of Westland North.