1724

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 132]

3. Within eighteen months after such approval the selector shall erect on his selection a permanent dwelling-house of wood or other materials, which shall be specified in regulations to be issued in reference to homestead-system selections.

4. In each year there shall be brought under cultivation one-fifteenth of the area of such selection if open land, and one twenty-fifth if bush land, so that at the end of the term of five years one-third of the selection of open land, or one-fifth of bush land, shall be under cultivation.

5. Non-performance of any of the foregoing stipulations shall render the selection void, and the right of the selector therein and to all improvements thereon shall be forfeited.

6. At the end of the said period of five years a grant or grants shall issue for the land selected; provided the selector shall not have forfeited his right thereto in manner aforesaid.

Survey Regulations.

£ s. d. £ s. d.
Under 30 acres .. .. 6 0 0
From 30 to 50 acres inclusive 0 3 6 {per acre,} but not {less than} 6 0 0
" 50 to 100 " " 0 3 0 " 8 15 0
" 100 to 200 " " 0 2 6 " 15 0 0
" 200 to 300 " " 0 2 0 " 25 0 0

Surveys shall be made by surveyors authorized by the Surveyor-General, and in accordance with instructions to Settlement Surveyors issued or which may be issued by him; and these rates further imply that all boundary-lines are to be cut and marked on the ground.

Postponement of Sale of Section No. 35567, in the County of Waimate.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 4th December, 1884.

I HEREBY give notice that the sale of the above section, containing 15 acres 3 roods of land, adjoining Sections Nos, 19175 and 20542 and Elephant Hill Creek, is postponed to the 24th March, 1885, on which day it will be submitted to public auction, at the Courthouse, Waimate, at 12 o’clock noon.

WALTER KITSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land for Sale on Deferred Payment and for Cash, Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 4th December, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned lands will be sold, as follows:—

DEFERRED-PAYMENT LAND,

Situate on the North Bank of the River Waitaki. Will be open for application, at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru, on Monday, the 2nd March, 1885:—

LAND TO BE OFFERED FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR CASH,

At the Courthouse, Waimate, on Tuesday, the 24th March, 1885, at 12 o’clock noon:—

Rural Section 35567, situate at Elephant Hill Creek, County of Waimate, 15 acres 3 roods. Upset price, £2 per acre.

Plans may be seen at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru, and, after the 1st January next, at the Principal Railway Stations and Post Offices in this provincial district.

WALTER KITSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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.

Runs liable to Forfeiture.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 29th October, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of section 137 of “The Land Act, 1877,” to the under-mentioned occupiers of runs, that the same are liable to forfeiture, and if the rent, together with the full amount of penalty, be not paid within three months from date the runs will be declared forfeited:—
Run No. 420, William McIntosh.
Run No. 443, John Lyttle.
Run No. 455, John Clayton.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Forfeited Deferred-payment Sections.

Crown Lands Office,
Patea, 26th November, 1884.

THE under-mentioned deferred-payment sections, having been forfeited for breach of conditions, will be offered for sale by public auction, the improvements for cash, and the land on deferred-payments, in terms of section 71 of “The Land Act, 1877,” at the Land Office, New Plymouth, on Saturday, the 10th January, 1885, at 10.30 a.m.:—

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Forfeited Deferred-payment Section, Marlborough.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 1st December, 1884.

UNDER section 71 of “The Land Act, 1877,” and section 16 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1884,” the under-mentioned forfeited deferred-payment section, with improvements thereon, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, at noon on Tuesday, the 6th January, 1885, the improvements for cash, and the land on deferred payments:—

PELORUS SOUND, WET INLET.

A deposit of 5 per cent. on the price of the land, and the full amount for improvements, must be paid at the auction.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.