JUNE 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 765

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 sec-
tion 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 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: 103 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 pay-
ments 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 accord-
ance 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, Manai'a, 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.

| Survey | Block. | Section. | Area. | Upset Rental |
| District. | | | | per Acre |
| | | | | per Annum. |
| | | | | £ s. d. |
| Waitara .. | VI. | 50 | 94 0 0 | 0 2 6 |
| " .. | " | 51 | 91 0 0 | 0 2 6 |
| " .. | " | 52 | 79 0 0 | 0 2 0 |
| " .. | XI. | 36 | 308 0 0 | 0 1 0 |
| " .. | Ngatirahiri | Part 9 | 285 0 0 | 0 1 0 |
| " .. | " | " 10 | 101 0 0 | 0 0 9 |
| " .. | " | " 10 | 440 0 0 | 0 0 9 |
| " .. | " | " 11 | 150 0 0 | 0 0 9 |
| " .. | " | " 11 | 617 0 0 | 0 0 9 |
| " .. | " | " 12 | 606 0 0 | 0 0 6 |
| " .. | " | " 13 | 394 0 0 | 0 0 6 |
| " .. | " | " 14 | 505 0 0 | 0 0 6 |