Dec. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1517

Notice under "Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883."

I, JOHN EDWIN MACDONALD, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, do hereby, in compliance with the duty imposed upon me by "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883," give notice that on the 23rd day of December, 1885, the title to the land mentioned in the Schedule herein became, within the meaning of the said Act, ascertained; and, further, that dealings with the said land will cease to be prohibited by the provisions of the said Act on the 1st day of February, 1886.

SCHEDULE.

Name by which land is known: Otaki, Section 87. Native Land Court District wherein situate: Otaki. Area: 1 rood.
Dated this 24th day of December, 1885.
J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Crown Lands Notices.

Lease of Subdivisions of Railway Reserve for Sale by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 2nd December, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned subdivisions of the Railway Reserve, immediately adjoining the Town of Opunake, will be offered for lease at public auction, for a term of seven years, at the upset annual rental of 6s. per acre, at the Resident Magistrate's Courthouse, Opunake, on Thursday, the 7th January, 1886, at 12 o'clock noon.

No compensation will be allowed for improvements at the end of the term, and the right will be reserved to resume the whole or any portion of the land during the currency of the lease if required for a railway.

For particulars and conditions apply at the Land Offices at New Plymouth, Patea, and Hawera.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Sale of Rural Land for Cash, Waimate Plains.

Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 8th December, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned allotments of land in Block VII., Waimate Survey District, will be submitted to auction, for cash, at the Land Office, Hawera, at noon on Thursday, the 21st January, 1886.

These sections front the main South Road, about one mile from the Town of Manai.

BLOCK VII., WAIMATE SURVEY DISTRICT.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing Runs, Otago District.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 16th December, 1885.

SALE of 65,250 acres in Small Grazing Runs, under Part VII., "Land Act, 1885."

Terms: Twenty-one years' lease, with right of renewal as provided by the Act. Upset rental, 6d. per acre.

By auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 26th January, 1886, at noon.

Description.

Tiger Hill District: Situated on the eastern boundary of the Manuherikia River, and south-east of Township of Black's (Ophir). Good grazing country lying between the settled Blocks V. and IX., Tiger Hill, X. and XI., Poolburn, and I. and II., Tiger Hill District.

Swinburn and Waihemo Districts: Situated at Pigroot (Post Office, Coal Creek), east of the Shag River, and about twenty-five miles from Palmerston, from which town nine miles of railway are formed. Some of the land in these blocks is fair pastoral country. These blocks also contain a little ploughable land.

Strath-Taieri District: About twenty-six miles from Outram, which is eighteen miles from Dunedin by rail. Middle-march, the township, has a post office. All good grazing country. Section No. 3, Block XI., contains about 300 acres of fine agricultural land, and Section No. 3, Block XIII., about 450 acres. These sections were previously held under pastoral deferred-payment licenses, which were afterwards forfeited. The land is now offered again for the first time.

Maniototo District: Situated close to Hamilton's Township, and is about fifty-two miles from Palmerston in a north-west direction. Good and warm grazing land.

Silverpeak District: About twenty-two miles from Dunedin and nine miles from Waitati Railway Station. Average grazing country.

The leases will be for an absolute term of twenty-one years, renewable for a further term of twenty-one years, in terms of section 209 of "The Land Act, 1885."

Improvements equal in value to one year's rent must be effected in each year for the first two years; and before the end of the sixth year an additional amount, equal to two years' rent, must also be expended.

Valuations for permanent improvements, as prescribed in sections 210 and 214 of "The Land Act, 1885," will be paid at the expiry of the leases to the outgoing tenants.

No person can take up more than one run. No person who owns freehold land, or land under lease or license from the Crown which in all would exceed 6,000 acres, or who is incapable of making the declaration prescribed by section 200 of "The Land Act, 1885," can become a lessee.

NOTE.—Intending purchasers must deposit with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, prior to sale, the required statutory declaration, and on fall of hammer pay the first half-year's rent from 1st March to 1st September, 1886, together with fee for lease, £1 1s.

Full particulars given on application to the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, where lithograph maps may also be obtained.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.