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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Ahaura on or before the 3rd day of September, 1885.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen at the Warden’s Office at Ahaura.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: John Craig and party. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: “Craig and Party’s Gold-Mining Lease.” 10 acres, at German Gully, Nelson Creek District, in the Nelson South-West Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of “The Mines Act, 1877,” and with the regulations made under that Act for the granting of leases for gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for gold-mining purposes to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Queenstown on or before the 9th day of August, 1885.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen at the Warden’s Office at Queenstown.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Robert Johnson. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: “Alpine Sluicing Company.” 6 acres, at Pleasant Creek, in the Wakatipu Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Nelson South-West Goldfields.—Gold-Mining Lease refused.

Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 21st July, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the gold-mining lease applied for by Abraham Jenkins and others for the German Gully Gold-Mining Company, namely, 10 acres, situate at Ahaura, has been refused, and the ground is now open to persons holding miners’ rights or business licenses as if a lease of the said ground had not been applied for.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Crown Lands Notices.

Lands of Special Value for Lease for Twenty-one Years.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 3rd July, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the rural lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for lease by public auction, at the Council Chamber, Napier, on Friday, the 7th August next, at 2 p.m.

Plans and conditions can be seen at this office.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

WOODVILLE SURVEY DISTRICT.

| IV. | 126 | A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| IX. | 31 | 41 0 0 | 6 3 0 | 9 4 6 | 12 6 0 |
| XIII. | 106 | 164 0 0 | 12 6 0 | 18 9 0 | 24 12 0 |
| | | 28 1 0 | 7 1 3 | 10 11 9 | 14 2 6 |

NORSEWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.

| VI. | 1 | 145 3 0 | 5 9 4 | 8 4 0 | 10 18 8 |
| 2 | 49 2 23 | 2 9 7 | 3 14 4 | 4 19 3 |
| 14 | 102 0 0 | 2 11 0 | 3 16 0 | 5 2 0 |

Rent to the 1st March next to be paid in advance, and thereafter to be paid half-yearly in advance.

Sale of Leaseholds, Town of Dobson.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 22nd June, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leaseholds of sections of land situated in the Town of Dobson, Grey Coal Reserve, and described in the Schedule hereto, will be offered for sale by public auction, at Greymouth, on Wednesday, the 12th August, 1885, at 2 o’clock p.m., subject to the rent and conditions hereunder set out.

Maps of the sections may be seen at the District Lands Office, Hokitika, and the Public Works Office, Greymouth.

The leaseholds of sections will be offered for sale at a uniform upset annual rental of £1 5s. per unimproved section. Improved sections with value for improvements as below added to such upset price.

Term of leasehold, fourteen years.

Conditions of Sale: The highest bidder to be the purchaser. The purchase-money to be paid at the fall of the hammer. If any dispute arises as to any bidding, the auctioneer may put the lot up again. In cases where the person entitled to valuation for improvement purchases, payment for rental only will be required. If any dispute occurs as to who is entitled to improvements, the question will be decided by the Land Board.

SCHEDULE.
IMPROVED SECTIONS.

UNIMPROVED SECTIONS.

Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133.

J. GILES,
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.

Native Land Court Notices.

Sitting of the Native Land Court for the Subdivision of Hereditaments.

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court to be held at Tauranga, on the 18th day of August