OCT. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1513

SCHEDULE.

Continuous Native Reserve. The sections front to
cleared road-lines, running back into the bush. The
land is partly open and partly bush.
Opunake: Block XIII., from three to four miles
south-east of Opunake Town, by coach-road. The
land is level, mostly open, with background of bush.
Oeo: Block I., open level land, on the coach-road
south-east of Opunake.
Kaupokonui: Block XI. lies behind the Continuous
Reserve. It is eight to ten miles from the Eltham
railway-station, and the same distance from Manaia,
being connected to both places by a cleared road-line.
The land is level, all bush, and well watered, and very
suitable for settlement.
Kaupokonui: Block XII., inland of the Waimate
Plains, west of the Waingongoro Stream and Eltham
railway-station. From Eltham and other points
roads have been opened up to this land, which is on
the railway-line from Waitara and New Plymouth to
Hawera. With the exception of a few rata, the bush
consists mainly of soft woods and other light timber,
and can easily be cleared. The country is well
watered, and is admirably adapted for conversion
into grass lands.
Kaupokonui: Blocks XIII. and XIV. lie behind,
and also form part of, the Continuous Native Reserve
to the east of the Oeo River. The land is level, all
bush, and well watered.
Ngaire: Block V. lies to the westward of the
Waingongoro River, and is connected with the rail-
way-line by cleared road-lines. The bush is mainly
light timber, soft woods, and a few rata ; and the land
is well watered.
Ngaire: Block IX. is similar to Block XII., Kau-
pokonui.

Terms of Sale: One fourth of the purchase-money
to be paid on application, and the balance to the
Receiver of Land Revenue at Patea or Hawera
within one calendar month from date of application,
otherwise the deposit will be forfeited, and the con-
tract for the sale of the land thenceforth will be null
and void. Crown-grant fees to be paid on completion
of the purchase. In the event of two or more appli-
cations for the same land being made on the same day,
the upset price at which such land shall be put up at
auction shall be the price stated above.
Coloured lithographic plans of the above sections
are on view at the Land Offices throughout the
colony.

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands for the West
Coast Land District (North Island).

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.
In order to give new pastoral lessees time to make

Description of the above Lands.
Waimate: Block I., parts of the land known as the