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attendance at the Institute, Masterton, between the hours of
9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 2nd June, to receive
applications.

SCHEDULE.

LAND ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.-RESIDENCE NOT COM-
PULSORY.

Terms of Payment: With the applications for deferred-
payment sections one-twentieth of the upset price must be
paid in cash, or by bank draft, or marked cheque; the
balance of the purchase-money in half-yearly instalments
extending over ten years.

The sections comprised in the above Schedules are situated
near Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga
District, about Dreyer's Rock, near Dreyerton, and some of
them front upon or adjacent to the main road connecting
Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed
through, or leading to, 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 railway is now being constructed to a point about
seventeen miles north of Masterton.

The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the
principal trees being tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, and kahi-
katea; 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, agricul-
tural purposes.

Maps, schedules, and application forms can be obtained
at the Land Office, Wellington; at the Post Offices, Feather-
ston, 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 Lease by Public Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Patea, 8th April, 1885.

T is hereby notified that Section 48, Block I., Geo Survey
District, Pihama Village Settlement, a reserve not
required for immediate use, containing 14 acres 2 roods, and
situate about six miles from Opunake, will be offered for
lease by public auction, for a term of seven years, at the
upset rental of 10s. an acre, at the Land Office, Hawera, on
Wednesday, the 13th May next, at 10.30 a.m.

No compensation will be allowed for improvements at the
end of the term.

For particulars of conditions, &c., apply to the under-
signed.

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Reserve at Christchurch.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 5th March, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned re-
serve will be submitted to public auction, as land of
special value, at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Wednes-
day, the 1st July, 1885, at 12 o'clock noon:-

Reserve 785, situate on north bank of south branch of
Rangitata River. Area: 108 acres 3 roods. Upset price per
acre: £2

Terms: One-fourth of purchase-money on the fall of the
hammer, balance within one calendar month thereafter,
when if balance is not paid the one-fourth referred to will be
forfeited, and the sale declared null and void. Crown-grant
fee to be paid on completion of purchase.

WALTER KITSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Run for Sale by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 16th March, 1885.

HEREBY give notice that the under-mentioned run
will be submitted to auction, at the Land Office, Christ-
church, on Wednesday, the 6th May, 1885, at 12 o'clock
noon.

The license for the said run shall be for a term of four
years nine months and twenty-five days, terminating the
1st March, 1890, subject to the provisions of "The Land
Act, 1877," and its amendments.

The purchaser will have to pay, on the fall of the hammer,
fifteen months and twenty-five days' rent, to the 1st Sep-
tember, 1886, in pursuance of clause B of subsection 3 of
section 16 of "The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879."

SCHEDULE.

Plan may be seen at the Land Office, Christchurch.

WALTER KITSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Leases of Rural Land with Perpetual Right of Renewal,
Auckland Land District.

2,389 ACRES IN RANGIURU BLOCK FOR LEASING.-LEASES
FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1885.

WRITTEN tenders (in sealed covers) are invited for the
under-mentioned sections, in accordance with the
provisions of "The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882."

Conditions to be observed by Tenderers: The price tendered
must be stated in writing as well as in figures, accompanied
by the statutory declaration required by the Act, together
with six months' rent at the rate tendered, and the sum of
£1 10s. to pay for the lease and registration, to be lodged
with the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland not later
than 4 o'clock on Wednesday, the 6th May, 1885, and to be
opened by the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland, on
Thursday, the 7th May, 1885, at 2 o'clock p.m., when the