Nov. 3.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1431

On deferred payments, under section 71 of "The
Land Act, 1877:"-

No. of
Section. Block. Area. Upset Price. Value of
Improvements.

GOULTER BAY, PELORUS SOUND.
Orieri Survey District.
1 I. 20 0 0 40 0 0 ...

FOUR-FATHOM BAY, PELORUS SOUND.
167 ... 29 0 0 58 0 0 ...

Applications will also be received on 15th Novem-
ber, 1881, at the Crown Lands Office, Blenheim, for
the under-mentioned allotments to be sold on deferred
payments :-

NORTH BANK OF WAIRAU, ONAMALUTU VALLEY.
Part 2 | ... | 17 0 0 | 20 0 0 | ... |
of 140

A deposit of 5 per cent. must be paid at the
auction or on application, as the case may be, for the
deferred-payment land, and the remainder in half-
yearly instalments of the same amount on every 1st
January and 1st July, commencing 1st July, 1882.

At the same time and place licenses of the runs
described below will be offered at public auction on
the terms mentioned, and subject to the Land Acts,
1877 and 1879.

The person who shall pay the highest sum by way
of annual rent in case of each of these runs shall be
entitled to receive a license to occupy the same for
pastoral purposes, provided he shall pay at the auction
rent at the rate of the highest price bid from the
date of auction to 1st September, 1882. Subsequent
rent to be paid half-yearly, in advance, on every 1st
March and 1st September during the currency of the
license.

THE RUNS REFERRED TO.

The Arapawa Run, situate on Arapawa Island,
Queen Charlotte Sound, and formerly held under
license by H. H. English. Estimated area, 6,000
acres. Term of license, 10 years. Upset annual
rent, 1d. per acre.

The Snowflake Run, situate at Kaikoura, adjoining
the Swyncombe and Kincaid Runs. Estimated area,
4,000 acres. Term of license, 7 years. Upset annual
rent, 1d. an acre.

Wheteau Run, north bank of Wairau, adjoining
Craig Grossie and Okaramio Runs. Estimated area,
7,600 acres. Term of license, 10 years. Upset
annual rent, 1d. an acre.

Dated at the Crown Lands Office, Blenheim, this
3rd day of October, 1881.

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands, Invercargill.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 13th October, 1881.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be sold by
auction at the Land Office, Invercargill, at
noon, on Wednesday, the 16th November proximo.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Also on deferred payment :-

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease.—Notice of Withdrawal of Application.

Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 1st November, 1881.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned
application for a gold-mining lease has been
withdrawn, and that the ground is now open for
application as if a lease of the same had never been
applied for, viz. :-

The application of John McNeill and Edward
Carroll, Dublin City Quartz-Mining Company; 16
acres 2 roods, situate at Lyell Creek.

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 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 writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Reefton on or before
the 1st day of December, 1881.

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