1770
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Terms of Payment. — With the application for
deferred-payment sections, one-twentieth of the upset
price; the balance in half-yearly instalments, extend-
ing over ten years. For the cash sections, one-fourth
at the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with
Crown-grant fee, within one month from day of sale.

The Harbour Board Block is covered with valuable
timber, including totara. Settlement on the block is
satisfactorily progressing, twenty-six sections having
been purchased. Approachable by good roads.
Distance from Palmerston, about fourteen miles.

The Tokomaru sections are undulating and hilly,
well watered, and accessible by roads formed and in
progress. The growth of timber is light, inter-
spered with fern; the soil good. Distance from
Wanganui, about thirteen miles.

Lithographed maps and schedules are in course of
preparation, and when ready for distribution notice
will be given by newspaper advertisements.

Jos. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands, Hawke's Bay Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 7th November, 1882.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands referred to
in the Schedules hereunder will be offered for
sale by public auction, at the Council Chamber,
Napier, on Wednesday, the 13th December next, at
11 o'clock in the forenoon.

Terms and conditions may be ascertained on appli-
cation at this office.

J. T. TYLEE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE OF SUBURBAN SECTIONS, AWATOTO, FOR
SALE FOR CASH.

The above sections are situated between two and
three miles from Napier, on the Main South Road,
each having a frontage to the railway-line.

SCHEDULE OF LANDS WHICH HAVE BEEN CLASSIFIED
UNDER "THE LAND ACT, 1882," FOR SALE FOR
CASH.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Description. — The lands in the Woodville and
Tahoraite Districts are agricultural and pastoral
forest, about five miles from Woodville, to which
access is given by roads cleared and formed. The
distance from Napier is about ninety miles, of which
seventy-one miles are by rail.

Description.—Norsewood District: Mixed forest,
some good agricultural land where level, the hilly
parts suited for pastoral purposes; distance from
Napier about seventy-two miles, of which sixty-five
miles are by rail.

Takapau District: Forest land, with some good
timber; soil generally light; situated between
Ormondville and Kopua. Section 3 has a frontage
to the railway-line.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

NORSEWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.
| III. | 21 | 138 2 0 | 69 5 0 |

MAUNGAHARURU SURVEY DISTRICT.—POHUI BUSH.
| IX. | 16 | 25 1 6 | 12 13 0 |

Description.—The section at Pohui Bush is pas-
toral land, partly bush, partly open, distant about one
mile from Napier-Taupo Road.

SCHEDULE OF LANDS FOR SALE ON DEFERRED PAY-
MENTS.

BUSH MILLS SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.
| | 17 | 150 0 0 | 150 0 0 |
| | 18 | 150 0 0 | 150 0 0 |

Description.—The Bush Mills Settlement is in the
Woodville District, about two and a half miles from
the township.

NORSEWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.
| III. | 16 | 74 1 0 | 111 7 6 |
| | 28 | 50 0 0 | 90 0 0* |
| VI. | 3 | 50 0 0 | 62 10 0 |
| | 5 | 50 0 0 | 125 0 † |

• £15, which must be paid in cash at sale, added for improvements.
  † £50, which must be paid in cash at sale, added for improvements.

SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENT, KUMEROA.
| III. | 11 | 9 3 26 | 55 5 8* |

• £30 10s., which must be paid in cash at sale, added for improvements.

Sale of Pastoral Leases of Crown Lands.—Prelimi-
nary Notice.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th September, 1882.

ONE million seven hundred and fifty thousand
acres of Crown lands will shortly be open for
pastoral lease in the Provincial District of Otago,
New Zealand.

This country is at present held under lease in
forty-six runs until the 1st March, 1884, and will
again be offered in runs suitable to the nature of the
country; but no lessee will be allowed to take up
more than will carry twenty thousand sheep or four
thousand head of cattle.

The leases will be for a term of years to be here-
after determined; but in no case will any lease be
for a period exceeding twenty-one years.

Compensation for improvement up to three years'
rental will be allowed at the end of the lease.