1156
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 70

Run No. 301B; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 2d.
per acre. Area, 58,660 acres.
Run No. 301c; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 2d.
per acre. Area, 20,700 acres.
Run No. 166A; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 3d.
per acre. Area, 5,960 acres.
Run No. 166D; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 3d.
per acre. Area, 8,970 acres.
Run No. 166c; term, 14 years. Upset rental, 3d.
per acre. Area, 7,600 acres.

Terms and Conditions of Sale.-The first half-year's
rent 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 first days of Sep-
tember and March in each year. Possession will be
given on the 1st March, 1883. Valuations for im-
provements, if any, which shall in no case exceed
three times the amount of the average annual rent
paid under the existing leases, are to be paid to the
Secretary to the School Commissioners, at his office,
Colonial Bank Buildings, Dunedin, one month before
getting possession.

The new lessee shall be entitled to valuation for
improvements up to a limit of three years' rental.

And also at the same time and place the High
School Board of Governors will submit the under-
mentioned leases, viz. :-
Run No. 205; term, 7 years. Upset rental, not
yet fixed. Area, 15,960 acres.
Run No. 213A; term, 10 years. Upset rental, not
yet fixed. Area, 16,048 acres.

Terms and Conditions of Sale.-The first half-year's
rent 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 first days of Sep-
tember and March in each year. Possession will be
given on the 1st March, 1883. Valuations for im-
provements, if any, which shall in no case exceed
thrice the amount of the average annual rent paid
under the existing leases, are to be paid to the Secre-
tary to the School Commissioners, at his office, Colo-
nial Bank Buildings, Dunedin, one month before
getting possession.

The new lessee shall be entitled to valuation for
improvements up to a limit of two years' rental.

Lease of Reserve in Marlborough to be offered by
Auction.

A LEASE, under section 23 of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1881," of the under-mentioned
block of land, for the term commencing the 1st
October, 1882, and ending the 1st January, 1888,
will be offered by public auction, at the Survey
Office, Blenheim, at noon, on Tuesday, the 19th
September, 1882, at the upset annual rent of 1d. an
acre.

The bidding to be upon the annual rent. Six
months' rent to be paid at the auction, and on every
2nd January and 1st July during the term of the
lease, excepting the 1st July, 1887.

THE BLOCK OF LAND REFERRED TO.
All that parcel of land situate at Wairau Valley,
in the Provincial District of Marlborough, estimated
to contain 18,000 acres. Bounded-North by the
boundary-line of the Provincial Districts of Marl-
borough and Nelson; West by Stony Creek; South
by the Manuka Island Reserve (Block D); East by
Ward's Pass Stream and a line therefrom to the
northern boundary: as shown on a plan of the same
in this office.

Dated at the Crown Lands Office, Blenheim, the
9th day of August, 1882.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Rural Lands. -Land District of Auckland.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 11th August, 1882.

I HEREBY notify that the rural lands mentioned
in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for
sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Gisborne,
on Wednesday, the 13th day of September next, at
the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.
COOK COUNTY.

MANGAORONGO Block, being Section No. 1, Block IV.,
Mangatu Survey District, and Section No. 1, Block I.,
Waingaromia Survey District, containing 942 acres.
Upset price, 7s. 6d. per acre.
Description of Land. -Pastoral land, third class,
covered with fern and scrub, a small quantity of
timber.

WAIROA COUNTY.

Waiau Survey District, Section No. 5, Block IV.,
containing 2,670 acres. Upset price, 5s. per acre.
Description of Land. -Nearly all open fern land,
broken, part covered with mixed forest.

Taramarama Survey District, Section No. 1, Block
II., containing 140 acres 2 roods. Upset price, 5s.
per acre.
Description of Land -Broken, principally open
land, small quantity of timber in gullies.

NOTE. -Plans of the above lands may be seen on
application at this office, at the Land Office, Gisborne,
and at the office of the County Council, Wairoa.

Terms of Sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to
be paid at time of sale, and the balance within one
month thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-
money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and
the contract for the sale of the land shall hencefor-
ward be null and void.

Crown-grant fee to be paid on completion of pur-
chase.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1882.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government has been
pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-
mining lease cancelled, and that the ground is now
open for application as if no lease of the said ground
had ever been applied for: -

Charles Patterson and Thomas Jones; 16 acres
1 rood 31 perches, Section 6, Block V., District of
Mawheranui, Nelson South-West Gold Fields. No.
925.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Mines.