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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1555

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
arrangements, the licenses will, in terms of the Land
Acts, be sold by public auction, at the Land Office,

Dunedin, in the latter end of February, 1883, twelve
months before possession is to be given. One year's
rent will be payable in advance on the license at the
time of sale.

The country has been occupied for upwards of
twenty years. It is well grassed, well watered, sound,
and healthy.

Distance from port by good roads and railways
part of the way, from thirty to one hundred and
fifty miles.

Maps and further particulars will be obtainable
shortly at the Land Offices of New Zealand, and at
places in the Australian Colonies, to be named in
future advertisements.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
"The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regu-
lations 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 Collingwood on or
before the 10th day of November, 1882.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Collingwood.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: John Shaw. Style under which it is
intended to conduct the business: "Welcome
Stranger." 16 acres, west side of Maori Gully,
West Wanganui, in the Collingwood Mining Dis-
trict.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this
eighteenth day of October, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
"The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regu-
lations 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
objections 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 Dunedin on or before
the 1st day of December, 1882.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Dunedin.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: John Harrison. Style under which it is
intended to conduct the business: "The Don Quartz-
Mining Company." 16 acres, in the Hindon Mining
District.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this seven-
teenth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-two.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)