Nov. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1357

Mineral Lease forfeited.

Warden's Office,
Queenstown, 10th November, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that the land described in the under-
mentioned mineral lease is now open to applicants for
a lease or license or other interest which may lawfully be

granted in the said ground, as if no lease of the said ground
had been granted:—
Lease No. 13; George Watson and W. R. Buchan; Section
11, Block VII., Middle Wakatipu District; 80 acres.
JAMES S. HICKSON,
Warden.

Crown Lands and Educational Reserves to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing System.

Crown Lands Office, Napier, 19th November, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with the right of
renewal for further terms of twenty-one years, and that written tenders, in sealed covers, will be received up to 2 p.m.
on Tuesday, the 22nd December, 1885.
The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on the same day. Maps, conditions, and tender-forms
can be obtained at the Crown Lands Office, Napier; the Post Office, Herbertville, Wainui; the Mail office, Waipawa; and
the Examiner office, Woodville.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.
TAUTANE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Description: The land now offered for lease is excellent pastoral country. The carrying capacity of the land when
cleared and grassed, judging from the results obtained by the settlers on the adjoining bush lands, is from three to four
cross-bred sheep to an acre. Particulars relating to soil and timber are printed on the map. The formation is a limestone
and marl (papa). The bush is mixed, generally of a light description. The main line of road, now in course of formation
from the sea-coast at Wainui, connecting with the Napier-Wellington Railway at Tahoraiti, runs through the centre of
Block V. The road has been formed for dray-traffic through Block V. The shipping-place for the district, at which the
small coastal steamers call, is at Cape Turnagain, distant about seven and a half miles. The road to the shipping-place
is not metalled, but is a passable dray-road during eight months in the year.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS RELATING TO PERPETUAL LEASES.

The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on the day above named, when the highest tenderer, if
the tender shall equal the upset annual rental, will be declared the purchaser.

If there be only one tenderer for any allotment, he shall be entitled to the land at the upset rental, notwithstanding
that his tender may have been for a higher rental. Any person tendering for more than one section must appear at the
Land Board, either in person or by agent authorized in writing, on the day on which tenders are opened.

The number of the section and block, with the name of the district, must be written on the envelope enclosing the
tender. The letter, being on Public Service, and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped.

Any person of seventeen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person,
tendering for two or more leases, the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year's rent of the tender largest in amount shall be
sufficient, together with the sum of £1 10s. to pay for the lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked
cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Napier: Provided that in the case of a person
tendering for two or more leases, such as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case
where the lands comprised in the several leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a half-year's rent at the
rate tendered for each such lease, and also the sum of £1 10s. in respect of each such lease, the fee for preparation and
registration of same.

Any lessee of the Crown lands who has fulfilled all the conditions of improvements within six years can acquire the
freehold of his lease on payment of the capital value, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the commence-
ment of the lease.

But the lessees of any portion of the educational reserve lands cannot acquire the fee-simple of the land.

Limits of Area for each Lessee: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of
becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns, any freehold land, or land held under lease or license under
the Crown, whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or
jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 640 acres
anywhere in the colony,