JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 731

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Crown Lands by Auction, Marlborough.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 1st June, 1885.

THE Marlborough Land Board notifies that, at noon on Tuesday, the 7th July, 1885, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, the under-mentioned sections will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at the upset prices stated:—

KAIKOURA SUBURBAN.

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

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Forfeited Deferred-payment Sections in Marlborough.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 1st June, 1885.

UNDER section 71 of “The Land Act, 1877,” and section 16 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1884,” the under-mentioned forfeited deferred-payment sections, with improvements thereon, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Blenheim, at noon on Tuesday, the 7th July, 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. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Reserve at Christchurch.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned reserve will be submitted to public auction, as land of special value, at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, 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.

Sale of Crown Lands, Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 30th April, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for application upon deferred payments at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru, on Wednesday, the 5th August, 1885:—

RESERVE 736, PIG-HUNTING CREEK.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

West Coast Settlement Reserves.

SALE OF LEASES FOR A TERM OF THIRTY YEARS.
Compensation for Improvements up to £5 per Acre will be allowed at End of Term of Lease.

West Coast Settlement Reserves Office,
New Plymouth, 30th April, 1885.

WRITTEN tenders (in sealed covers) are invited for the under-mentioned sections, in accordance with the provisions of “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1881,” and the regulations issued thereunder.

The tenders, accompanied by the statutory declaration and deposit of six months’ rent at the rate tendered, in accordance with the regulations, will be received at my office up to noon of Monday, the 15th June, 1885, when the highest tenderer for each lease (if the tenders shall equal or exceed the upset fixed annual rental per acre) will be declared the lessee.

Plans and schedules of the sections, and copies of the regulations under which leases will be sold and issued, also forms of tender and declaration respectively, can be obtained at the District Land Offices, New Plymouth, Patea, and Hawera, or at any of the other Land Offices in the colony; also at the office of the Collector of Customs, Wanganui, and at the Post Offices, Manaia, Opunake, Thames, Wanganui, Reefton, Westport, Greymouth, Ashburton, and Oamaru, on and after the 11th proximo.

These sections are part of the block commonly known as the Waihi Block, and are all first-class, open, level lands, situate in the County of Clifton and Provincial District of Taranaki, and are only from one and a half to five miles from the Port of Waitara. Some of the sections are on the Main North Road, and none are more than a mile from it or the inland main road. Not more than 200 acres of this land will be leased to one person.

Attention is specially called to the fact of these being the last of the open lands of any extent likely to be in the market in this district.