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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th December, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned
gold-mining lease cancelled, and that the ground is now
open for application as if no lease of the said ground had
ever been applied for:—
Try Again Company; Section No. 1.; Acreage, 16 acres;
Manorside, Otago District; No. 765c.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Mines.)

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 Havelock on or before the 21st day of
January, 1886.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: James Byrne. Style under which it is intended
to conduct the business: Royal Standard Gold-mining Com-
pany (Limited). 16 acres 1 rood 38 perches, at Dead Horse
Creek, Wakamarina, Wairau and Pelorus Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this thirtieth
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Mines.)

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 Westport on or before the 19th day of
January, 1886.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Zoffany Claude Horne. Style under which it is
intended to conduct the business: The Constitutional Gold-
mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, being Section No. 7,
Block X., Ngakawau, Nelson South-west Mining District.

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

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

Crown Lands Notices.

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 Tues-
day, 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 Out-
ram, which is eighteen miles from Dunedin by rail. Middle-
marsh, 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 after-
wards forfeited. The land is now offered again for the first
time.

Maniototo District: Situated close to Hamilton’s Town-
ship, 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 Dun-
edin 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 Com-
missioner of Crown Lands, prior to sale, the required statu-
tory 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,