Oct. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1421

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.
WALTER KITSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Runs for Sale by Auction, Christchurch Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 26th September, 1884.

LIST of runs to be submitted to auction at the Land
Office, Christchurch, on the 31st October, 1884, at
12 o’clock noon:—

The licenses for each run shall be for a term of five years
four months, terminating the 1st March, 1890, subject to the
provisions of “The Land Act, 1877,” and its amendments.
Purchasers will have to pay on the fall of the hammer ten
months’ rent, to the 1st September, 1885, in pursuance of
clause 6, subsection 3 of section 16, “The Land Act 1877
Amendment Act, 1879.”

WALTER KITSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Local Land Officer.

Sale by Auction of Crown Lands, Marlborough.

THE Land Board of the Marlborough Land District
hereby notifies that at noon, on Tuesday, the 7th
October, 1884, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, the under-
mentioned allotment of suburban land will be offered for
sale by public auction for cash, and licenses of the runs
under mentioned will also be offered by public auction, at the
upset prices and rents respectively hereinafter set forth:—

To be sold for Cash, Kaikoura Suburban.

Twenty-five per cent. must be paid at the auction; the
balance and the Crown-grant fee within one month, or the
money paid at auction will be forfeited.

Runs to be let under License for Pastoral Purposes
under “The Land Act, 1877,” and the Amendments
thereof, 1879 and 1882.

Upset annual rent, 1d. an acre. Term of license to be ten
years.
There must be paid in each case, at the auction, rent at
the rate of the highest price bid, from date of auction to the
1st March, 1885, and £3 for the license.
Dated at the Crown Lands Office, Blenheim, 1st September, 1884.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Auction of Leases of Reserves, Marlborough.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 20th August, 1884.

LEASES of the under-mentioned lands, being public
reserves, will be offered by public auction, under “The
Public Reserves Act, 1881,” on Tuesday, the 7th October,
1884, at noon, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, viz.:—

KAITUNA VALLEY: Section 3, 48 acres. Term of lease to
be five years. Upset annual rent, £10.

PICTON HARBOUR: Section 117, 470 acres; out of which is
reserved a strip of land 1 chain in width from high-water
mark. Term of lease to be seven years. Upset annual rent,
£20.

BLOCK A, WAIPAPA RUN: 1,500 acres. Term of lease
to be fourteen years. Upset annual rent, £75.

Bidding to be on the annual rent.

Rent in advance from date of auction to the 31st December,
1884, to be paid at the auction.

Conditions are open for inspection at this office.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale by Auction of Leases of Portions of Reserve.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 18th August, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the under-
mentioned portions of the Awatere Shearing Reserve
will be disposed of by public auction, at the Survey Office,
Blenheim, at noon, on Tuesday, the 7th October, 1884. Term
of leases to be ten years:—

AWATERE SHEARING RESERVE, HODDER SURVEY
DISTRICT.

• As one section.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands, Invercargill.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 15th September, 1884,

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be sold by auction,
at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon, on Monday,
the 27th October proximo:—