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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

notified that it is intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for
gold-mining purposes to the applicants 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 Nelson on or before the 9th day of June, 1883.
Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen
at the Warden's Office at Nelson.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: Henry Whiting and Robert Watson. Style under
which it is intended to conduct the business: "The Comstock
Quartz-Mining Company." 16½ acres, east of the Bulmer Creek
Company, near Mount Owen, in the Nelson South-West Mining
District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this fourteenth day of
May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

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 regulations 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 Ross on or before the 31st day of May, 1883.
Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen
at the Warden's Office at Ross.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: John Joseph Crofts. Style under which it is
intended to conduct the business: "The Welcome Gold-Mining
Company." 8 acres, at Donelly's Creek, in the Westland
Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this tenth day of
May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

J. GILES,
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 regulations 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 applicants 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 Nelson on or before the 9th day of June, 1883.
Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen
at the Warden's Office at Nelson.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: James Ribet, James Clinton, and Charles Bul-
mer. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business:
"Golden Fleece Quartz-Mining Company." 16 acres 2 roods,
east of the Comstock Company, at the base of Mount Owen, at
a spur of the junction of Bulmer Creek and the Owen, in the
Nelson South-West Mining District.

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

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

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale by Auction.

Land Office, Christchurch,
19th May, 1883.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown
Lands will be offered for sale by public auction, at the
Courthouse, Waimate, on Tuesday, the 21st August next, at
12 o'clock noon: -

VILLAGE SETTLEMENT ON RESERVE No. 143,
WAIMATE.

Land to be sold as land of special value, FOR CASH.
Lots 1 and 4; upset price, £10 per acre.

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Land to be alienated as suburban land upon DEFERRED
PAYMENT.

Lots 2, 3, 5, 6; upset price, £12 10s. per acre.

Plans may be seen at the Post Office and Railway Station,
Waimate, and Railway Station, Studholme Junction; and also
at the Survey Offices, Christchurch and Timaru.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Tenders for Leases of Rural Lands, and Sale for Cash.

EDUCATION RESERVES IN WENDON, WENDON-
SIDE, AND WAIKAIA DISTRICTS.

5,000 ACRES UNDER DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

APPLICATIONS will be received at the Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, or at any Land Office in the Otago Land Dis-
trict, on Friday, the 1st June, 1883, for the Deferred-payment
Allotments hereunder: -

NOTE.—If more than one application is received for any of
the above deferred-payment sections, tenders for such section
or sections must be lodged on Tuesday, the 12th, to be opened
at the Land Board on Wednesday, the 13th June.

4,500 ACRES SET APART FOR LEASING, WITH
PERPETUAL RIGHT OF RENEWAL.

Leases for Thirty Years.

Written tenders (in sealed covers) are invited for the sections
in the districts as given in the Schedule, in accordance with
"The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882."

TENDERS.

The price tendered must be given in writing as well as in
figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with
six months' rent at the rate tendered, and 30s. fee for lease
and registration, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Crown
Lands, Dunedin, not later than 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday,
the 19th June, 1883.

The tenders will be opened at a meeting of the Land Board
on Wednesday, the 20th June, 1883, when the highest tenderer
(if the tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per
acre fixed by the Board) will be declared the lessee.

The tenderers must appear at the Land Board, either in
person or by an agent authorized in writing, on the day on
which the tenders are opened.

Forms of tender and declaration, with covers (or envelopes),
can be had upon application at the Crown Lands Office, Dun-
edin, or at any of the respective District Land Offices, viz.,
Invercargill, Lawrence, Clyde, Queenstown, Switzers (Waikaia),
and Naseby. The numbers of the section and block, with the
name of district, must be written on the covers. The letter
being on "Public Service only," and addressed to the Commis-
sioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped, being free of
postage; neither does the declaration require to be stamped.

Any person of the age of eighteen years and upwards may
become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person
tendering for two or more leases the deposit of a sum equal to
one half-year's rent of the tender largest in amount shall be
sufficient, together with the sum of 30s., to pay for the lease and