Dec. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1661

The majority of the sections comprised in the above Schedules are situated at Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer’s Rock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer’s Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawera, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty-five miles, and forty-miles. The Mangahao sections are within fourteen miles of the Town of Woodville.

The Main Trunk Railway from Wellington to Napier is now being constructed to a point about seventeen miles north of Masterton. Sites for railway stations have been selected at several points.

The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, kahikatea, with totara in places; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy; the general character of the soil is good, and in some places is of first-class quality, the formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, &c.

The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken ground within the area; it is well-watered, and, as the climate is also very favourable, the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes.

The Kaiwhata Sections 1 to 5 consist of high hilly land, of fair and inferior quality, covered with light bush, mixed scrub, and manuka, with occasional small open patches.

Section 1, Block IV., consists of good hilly land, partly cleared and grassed, the balance being covered by light bush.

The means of access are by a partly-formed bridle-track from Gladstone, and from the coast by the Kaiwhata Valley.

Maps, schedules, and application forms can be obtained at the Land Office, Wellington, and maps and schedules at the Post Offices, Featherston, Greytown, Masterton, Woodville, Palmerston North, Foxton, and Wanganui, and at the various Crown Land Offices throughout the colony.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands on Deferred Payments at Oxford, Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 3rd November, 1884.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be offered to the public as follows:—

DEFERRED-PAYMENT LANDS.

On Wednesday, the 17th December next, applications will be received at the Land Office, Christchurch, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., for the under-mentioned lands, open for application on deferred payments.

SCHEDULE.
SECTIONS IN RESERVE NO. 2331.

Applicants for any of the above lands may also send their applications and deposits, with statutory declaration as required by “The Land Act, 1877,” through the post to the Lands Office, Christchurch, to arrive on or before Wednesday, the 17th December, 1884. Should two or more persons apply for the same section, it will be put up to auction (between the applicants only), at the Crown Lands Office, Christchurch, on Thursday, the 18th December, at 10.30 a.m.

WALTER KITSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Land withdrawn from Sale open for Application.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 20th November, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that Section 8, Block III., Centre Hill District, having been withdrawn from sale on deferred payments, will be open for application, as ordinary rural land, at £1 per acre, at the Land Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, the 21st February, 1885.

J. SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1884.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor 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:—

William and Mungo Williamson; 4 acres, Section 9, Block VI., Kyeburn District. No. 756c.

ROBERT STOUT,
(for the Minister of Mines.)

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 Westport on or before the 23rd day of December, 1884.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Frederick Ray. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: “Wellesley Gold-Mining Company.” 16 acres 1 rood 37 perches, south of and adjoining the Mokihinui Gold-Mining Company, Buller, in the Nelson South-West Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

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

Land Transfer Act Notices.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1870,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 11th January, 1885.

1468. JOHN OKELL.—Lot 18 of subdivision of Section 5, Hutt District, Petone. In occupation of George Carter.

1469. JOHN MARTIN.—Lots 220, 221, 222, 263, 264, and 554 to 557 of subdivision of part of Lot 1, Wharekaka Block (Martinborough). Unoccupied.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 3rd day of December, 1884, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

GEO. B. DAVY,
District Land Registrar.

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