AUG. 11.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1051

Tenders.

THE Postmaster-General and Commissioner of
Telegraphs is prepared to receive tenders, up
to 12 o'clock on the 1st September, 1881, at the
General Post Office, Wellington, addressed to the
Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department, for the
supply and delivery of 10,000,000 telegraph forms.
Specifications and samples can be seen at any Tele-
graph Office in the colony.

By order.

C. LEMON,
Superintendent, Posts and Telegraphs.
Head Office, Wellington, 20th July, 1881.

Sale of Land at New Plymouth.

Principal Land Office,
Patea, 3rd August, 1881.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned rural
lands, situate in Block XII., Cape Survey Dis-
trict, and Blocks I. and V., Opunake Survey District,
and described in the Schedule hereunder, will be
offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office,
New Plymouth, on Thursday, the 8th September next,
at the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Notices.

Changing Purpose of a Portion of Reserve No. 1784
(in red), Canterbury.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 5th August, 1881.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor intends, under the provisions of
section 148 of "The Land Act, 1877," to change the
specific purpose of the land described in the second
column of the Schedule hereto for which the land
was heretofore set apart as a reserve, as specified
in the first column of the said Schedule, to the
specific purposes specified in the third column of
the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

SCHEDULE.

Sec-
tion.
Area.
Upset Price Sec- Area.
per Acre. tion.
CAPE, BLOCK XII.
A. R. P. £ s. d. A. R. P. £ s. d.
2 12 2 0 3 10 0 26 III 0 0 2 0 0
3 12 0 0 3 10 0 27 112 0 0 2 0 0
5 13 0 0 3 10 0 29 155 0 0 2 5 0
6 10 0 0 3 10 0 30 122 0 0 2 10 0
7 5 0 0 3 10 0 33 108 0 0 2 10 0
8 5 0 0 3 10 0 37 160 0 0 2 0 0
9 5 0 0 3 10 0 38 95 0 0 2 5 0
10 5 0 0 3 10 0 40 128 0 0 2 10 0
12 17 2 0 3 0 0 41 184 0 0 2 10 0
13 25 0 0 3 0 0 43 115 0 0 2 10 0
14 15 0 0 3 0 0 44 114 0 0 2 10 0
15 23 0 0 3 0 0 46 310 0 0 2 0 0
16 20 0 0 3 0 0 47 207 0 0 2 5 0
18 20 0 0 3 0 0 49 150 0 0 2 10 0
20 20 0 0 3 0 0 50 155 0 0 2 10 0
22 24 3 30 3 0 0 52 79 0 0 3 0 0

OPUNAKE, BLOCK I.
42 50 0 0 3 10 0 86 84 3 18 2 15 0
43 50 0 0 3 10 0 89 244 0 0 2 0 0
74 290 0 0 2 0 0 91 95 0 0 2 5 0
76 150 0 0 2 10 0 92 168 0 0 2 5 0
80 142 0 0 3 0 0 93 99 0 0 2 10 0
82 150 0 0 2 5 0 94 100 0 0 2 10 0

OPUNAKE, BLOCK V.
2 128 0 0 I 10 0 7 148 0 0 2 5 0
3 99 3 I 2 0 0 8 138 0 0 2 10 0
4 164 2 16 2 0 0

Description and Purpose
of Reserve.

Section No. 1784 (in
red), 42 acres, in the
Ashburton District, Pro-
vincial District of Can-
terbury. For Provincial
Government purposes.

Area of which the Purpose is
intended to be Changed.

All that parcel of land in
the Hinds Survey District,
Provincial District of Canter-
bury, containing 1 acre, more
or less. Bounded-North-
westward by the Southern
Railway Reserve, 500 links;
North-eastward by Section
No. 19393, 200 links; and
South-eastward and South-
westward by lines parallel to
the north-western and north-
eastern boundaries respect-
ively and numbered 2505
(in red) on the official map
in the Survey Office, Christ-
church.

Intended
Purpose.

For an extension of railway-station pre-
mises.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Description of the Land. This land is situate on
the sea-coast, south of Cape Egmont, twenty-five to
thirty miles south of New Plymouth, and six to
ten miles north of Opunake. A good metalled road,
being part of the main coast-line from Hawera to
New Plymouth, forms the eastern boundary of the
block. There is regular coach communication along
this line. The land is level and open, well watered,
and fertile.

Terms of Sale: One-fourth of the purchase-money
to be paid at the sale, and the balance to a Receiver
of Land Revenue at Patea or New Plymouth,
within one calendar month from date of sale, other-
wise the deposit will be forfeited, and the con-
tract for the sale of the land thenceforth be null and
void. Crown-grant fee to be paid on completion of
the purchase.

Crown Lands thrown open for Selection.—Cash
Payments.

Sale of Town and Rural Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1881.

Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 14th July, 1881.

IT is hereby notified that the rural and pastoral
sections of Crown land situate in the Paikakariki,
Akatarawa, Belmont, Whareama, and Waipoua Sur-
vey Districts, offered at auction on the 13th instant,
but not sold, will, by direction of the Land Board, be
open to purchase on application at this office on
Thursday, the 25th August next.

One-fourth of the upset price to be paid with the
application, the balance within one month.

JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
allotments of land in the Town of Raleigh, and
in the Moa, Huiroa, and Cape Districts, will be
offered for sale by public auction at noon, on Satur-
day, the 20th day of August proximo, at the Crown
Lands Office, New Plymouth.