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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Crown Lands, Land District of Canterbury.

Land Office,
Christchurch, 21st August, 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.

JOHN MARSHMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

TOWNSHIP OF GERALDINE.

VILLAGE OF ARUNDEL, UPPER RANGITATA BRIDGE.

*And £1,175, value of buildings, &c., thereon.

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 Marlborough 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 henceforward be null and void.

Crown-grant fee to be paid on completion of purchase.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th 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:—

John Fahey; 2 acres, Section 5, Block V., Ahaura, Nelson South-West Gold Fields. No. 959.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Mines.