AUGUST 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1155

PIHAMA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.
Small-Farm Lots on Deferred Payments.

OPUNAKE.
On Deferred Payments.

Conditions of Sale of Village-settlement Lands.

1. The village-settlement cash and deferred-payment lands shall be open application at the prices stated opposite each allotment, at the Land Offices at Patea and Hawera, on Wednesday, the 6th September aforesaid, subject to the provisions of Part III. of "The Land Act, 1877," relating to rural land, in cases where the allotments exceed an area of twenty acres, and to the provisions of the said Part III. relating to suburban land, in cases where the area is twenty acres or under.

2. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments.

3. If there should be more than one application for any allotment offered for cash, the right to purchase the same shall be determined by auction amongst the applicants only, and, if there should be more than one application for any allotment offered for deferred payments, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

4. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section sixty-two of "The Land Act, 1877," and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the West Coast Land District one-tenth of the price if the area of the allotment is twenty acres or under, and one-twentieth of the price if the area is greater than twenty acres. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months ending the 31st December, 1882.

5. The purchaser of any lands sold for cash, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands sold on deferred payments, upon the payment of the deposit mentioned in clause five, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by "The Land Act, 1877," and "The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879," relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

Sale of Crown Lands. -Land District of Canterbury.

Land Office,
Christchurch, 30th June, 1882.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown lands will be sold by auction at Messrs. J. Mundell and Co.'s Sale-rooms, Geraldine, on Tuesday, the 3rd October next, at 12 o'clock :-

UPPER RANGITATA BRIDGE.
Block VI., 3 acres and 27 perches. Upset price, £60, and £1,175 value of hotel and buildings thereon.

Block VII., containing twelve allotments of 1 rood each. Upset price, £5 per allotment.

Lots 1, 2, and 3, of Block VIII., 1 acre each. Upset price, £10 per allotment.

TOWN OF GERALDINE.
Reserves Nos. 754, 797, 1594, 1622, 1623, and part of Nos. 752 and 753, in allotments varying from 27 perches to 2 roods. Upset price, £48 an acre.

Plans may be seen at the Survey Offices, Christchurch and Timaru, and at the office of Messrs. J. Mundell and Co., Geraldine.

JOHN MARSHMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Pastoral Leases in the Land District of Otago.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 5th July, 1882. .

TO be sold by public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 31st August, 1882, at 12 o'clock noon, the Leases of the under-mentioned Pastoral Lands, viz. :-

Run No. 205A; term, 7 years. Upset rental, 6d. per acre. Area, 3,940 acres.
Run No. 205B; term, 7 years. Upset rental, 6d. per acre. Area, 3,960 acres.
Run No. 205c; term, 7 years. Upset rental, 6d. per acre. Area, 4,250 acres.
Run No. 257; term, 2 years. Upset rental, 2d. per acre. Area, 10,500 acres.
Run No. 177; term, 2 years. Upset rental, 2d. per acre. Area, 15,310 acres.
Run No. 255; term, 6 years. Upset rental, 3d. per acre. Area, 1,210 acres.

Terms and Conditions of Sale.—The leases of the above runs will be sold subject to the general provisions as to runs specified in the Land Acts of 1877 and 1879. The first year's rent, with the license fee, £10, to be paid on fall of hammer either by cheque marked by banker or in cash, and thereafter by half-yearly payments in advance on the 1st March and the 1st September in each year. Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1883. Valuations for improvements, if any, which shall in no case exceed three times the amount of the average annual rent paid under the existing lease, are to be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Dunedin, one month before getting possession, in pursuance of sections 115 to 117 of "The Land Act, 1877."

NOTE.—Plans and further particulars can be obtained on application at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

And at the same time and place the Otago School Commissioners will submit the under-mentioned leases, viz.:-

Run No. 254B; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 4d. per acre. Area, 16,690 acres.
Run No. 193; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 4d. per acre. Area, 14,800 acres.
Run No. 202; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 4d. per acre. Area, 25,960 acres.
Run No. 175B; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 4d. per acre. Area, 14,500 acres.
Run No. 194; term, 5 years. Upset rental, 4d. per acre. Area, 21,600 acres.