Jan. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 33

SCHEDULE.

4,865 ACRES OF THE RUAKITURI BLOCK FOR LEASE FOR DEPASTURING PURPOSES FOR A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS, IN TERMS OF “THE LAND ACT, 1877,” AND “THE LAND ACT 1877 AMENDMENT ACT, 1882.”

First year’s rent to be paid in advance; after first year to be paid half-yearly in advance, on the 1st day of March and the 1st day of September in each year. A pasturage license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the lands specified therein, but shall give no right to the soil or timber or minerals, and shall immediately determine over any land which may be proclaimed a hundred, or which may be licensed, leased, purchased, granted, or reserved under this or any other Act. Such roads and rights-of-way as the Governor or the Board may deem necessary may at any time be taken through any run without compensation.

No original holder, transferee, or other person occupying any pastoral lands, either by himself or jointly with any other person under license or lease from the Crown, capable, at the time of the issue of such license, of carrying in the whole twenty thousand sheep or more, or four thousand head of cattle or more, shall be entitled to become the purchaser or transferee of any additional pastoral license or lease.

The Ruakituri Block is situated in the County of Wairoa, about twelve miles from the Township of Clyde. It extends some twenty miles to the westward from the Gisborne-Wairoa Road, and lies between the Ruakituri and Mangaruhe Rivers. The main road from Wairoa to Gisborne passes quite close to the eastern side of the block. Thirty-three miles of bridle-roads on the permanent grades, and seven miles of stock-driving roads, have been opened out to give access to these lands. The watershed road runs through the centre of the block, a distance of twenty-eight miles: it starts from the hotel at Te Marumaru, and joins the main road from Wairoa to Waikaremoana, near the Armed Constabulary Station at Ohuka. The second road commences from the Gisborne-Wairoa Road, at a Native settlement named Te Reinga, and follows up the valley of the Ruakituri River, a distance of nine miles. A ferry in charge of a Native has been established at Te Reinga, above the falls. A branch bridle-road connects the Ruakituri Valley Road with Watershed Road.

Description of Lands.—The whole block, with the exception of a few flats on the Ruakituri River, is pastoral country. The vegetation consists of fern on the spurs and in the valleys and of scrub and bush in the steep gullies. The soil varies: in places it is light and mixed with a slight coating of pumice, in other parts where the pumice drift has been washed down the steep hill-sides it is a calcareous clay. The subsoil is marl; on the higher hills there is an overlap of sandstone and a little limestone near Te Tuhi. These lands will take grass by surface-sowing; the average cost for fencing, seed-sowing, &c., is from 20s. to 30s. an acre. In its present state the ground is better adapted for grazing cattle than sheep; but, when once taken in hand, fenced, and partially grassed, will make good sheep-walks. Where practicable a level site for a homestead has been thrown into each section. The boundary-lines between the roads and the rivers have been run down the spurs on lines suitable for fencing.

Opoiti Survey District: Block I., Section No. 1, about half mixed forest, remainder fern and high scrub, very broken country, small flat in level of Ruakituri River, soil good, well watered, accessible by bridle-road. Section No. 2, between 200 and 300 acres mixed forest, remainder fern, country broken, soil good, well watered, accessible by road. Section No. 3, about 400 acres covered with mixed forest with some totara, the remainder fern, rich flat of about 60 acres along road, soil very good, well watered, partially grassed, accessible by road. Section No. 4, bush in gullies, undulating fern country, soil good, well watered, accessible by road. Section No. 5, rich agricultural land, partially grassed, very marly, all flat, accessible by road. Section No. 6, all flat, covered with fern and patches of grass, good land, accessible by road. Block V., Section No. 1, chiefly open fern-covered spurs, the remainder forest country, good grazing land, accessible by bridle-road from Marumaru. Block VI., Section No. 1, about 500 acres of forest and high scrub, broken country, about 50 acres of level land on banks of Ruakituri River, soil good, well watered, accessible by road. Section No. 2, about 400 acres forest and high scrub, broken country, about 40 acres of level land on banks of Wairoa River, soil good, well watered, accessible by road and river.

Tuahu Survey District: Block XVI., Section No. 1, forest in gullies, one-fourth part mixed fern and scrub, the remainder mixed forest, broken country, soil good, well watered, accessible by road. Section No. 2, one-fourth part covered with heavy forest, remainder fern and scrub, broken country, soil very good, well watered, accessible by road. Block XVIII., Section No. 1, about 1,000 acres mixed forest and high scrub, broken country, soil good, well watered, accessible by road. Block XIX., Section No. 1, about 900 acres of heavy forest, broken country, soil light on some of the ridges, well watered, small flat of about 20 acres on Ruakituri River, accessible by road. Section No. 2, about 300 acres mixed forest, broken country, soil good, about 100 acres of flat land on banks of Ruakituri River, well watered, accessible by road.

Taramarama Survey District: Block III., Section No. 1, good undulating country, rather broken towards western boundary, small flats on banks of Mangaurutu River, soil good, forest in the gullies of a mixed description, well watered, accessible by road. Section No. 2, soil rather light on the ridges, covered with fern and scrub with bush in gullies, rather broken, small flats on bank of river, accessible by old track road, traversed but not made. Section No. 3, soil generally rather light, very broken country, bush with a small quantity of totara in gullies, well watered, accessible only by old track along ridge. Block IV., Section No. 1, very broken country, covered with fern and high scrub with forest in the gullies, well watered, soil good, accessible by bridle-track. Section No. 2, very broken country, covered with fern with small quantity of bush in gullies, soil light, well watered, accessible only by old track. Block VIII.A, Section No. 2, very broken country, covered with fern with bush in the gullies, accessible only by old track along the top of range. Block XII.A, Section No. 1, about 1,000 acres of heavy mixed forest, very broken country, soil light in places containing pumice, well watered, accessible by road. Block XIII.A, Section No. 1, open fern country with forest in gullies, the middle part of the section undulating, the remainder broken, soil rather light, accessible by a cut bridle-track. Section No. 2, open fern country with forest in gullies, broken country, soil on the ridges rather light but good in the gullies, well watered, accessible by cut bridle-track.

Terms and Conditions of Sale of Reserve No. 198, Village Settlement situate at Junction of Rivers Hurunui and Waitohi.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for application at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Friday, the 1st day of February, 1884:—

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. The lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto shall be disposed of as small-farm allotments for cash and upon deferred payments.

2. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase, and the lands enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto shall be sold on deferred payments.

3. The lands which are disposed of by sale upon deferred payments shall be subject to the provisions relating to rural lands of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1877,” and to the provisions of section nine of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879.”

4. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments.

5. The prices stated in the Schedules hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.

6. If there should be more than one application for any allotment in Schedule I. offered for cash, the right to purchase the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants only; and, if there should be more than one application for any allotment in Schedule II. offered for deferred payments, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

7. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in Schedule II. will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section sixty-two of “The Land Act, 1877,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Canterbury Land District one-twentieth of the price of the allotment. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

8. The purchaser of any lands described in Schedule I., upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands described in Schedule II., upon the like payment, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1877,” “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” and “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882,” relating to land on deferred pay-