DEC. 14.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1871

DEFERRED-PAYMENT LAND, RAKAIA VILLAGE
SETTLEMENT.
Purchase-money payable in Five Years by Half-yearly
Instalments.

Plans may be seen at the Survey Offices, Christ-
church and Timaru, and sale-lists may be obtained at
the Land Office, Christchurch, on application per-
sonally or by letter.

Sale of the Waitara Block, Upper Mohaka.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 27th November, 1882.

THE lands mentioned hereunder, having been clas-
sified under "The Land Act 1877 Amendment
Act, 1882," will be offered for sale, for cash, by
public auction, at the Council Chamber, Napier, on
Wednesday, the 28th February next, at 11 o'clock
in the forenoon.

A lithograph plan of the block has been prepared,
and may be had on application at the Survey Office.
One-fourth of the purchase-money must be paid at
the sale, and the balance within one calendar month
thereafter.
J. T. TYLEE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Description. — Pohui District : Open fern-hills
intersected by narrow valleys, the soil is light. Sec-
tion 2 has a small frontage to the Taupo Road, and
is bounded on one side by the Mohaka River. Sec-
tions 3 and 4 have frontage to the Taupo Road.
Maungaharuru District: Fern hills and spurs on
the western slopes of the Maungaharuru Range, the
soil is light, about one half of Section 2 is undulating
country covered with natural grasses. Section 3 is
good pastoral land. Section 4 has frontage to Taupo
Road. A few clumps of bush are scattered about
on Section 1.
Waitara District: Open fern country, hilly.
A bridle-road on the permanent grades has been
formed a distance of twelve miles through the block,
starting from the Taupo Road about thirty-five miles
from Napier.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

N 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 Havelock on or before
the 8th day of January, 1883.
Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Havelock.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: William Evans Dive. Style under which
it is intended to conduct the business: "Pelorus
Gold-Mining Company." 16 acres 2 roods, at Dead
Horse, in the Wairau and Pelorus Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-Mining Leases to be granted.

N conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
"The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regulations
made under that Act for the granting of leases for
gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is
intended to grant leases of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicants specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such leases.

Objections to the granting of such leases, stating
the grounds of objection, must be made in writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Reefton on or before
the 16th day of January, 1883.
Copy of the applications made and plans annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Reefton.