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4. Should two or more persons apply for the allotment on the same day, the land will be put up to public competition by tender, limited to the applicants.

5. Each applicant will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section 113 of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall, at the time of application, deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Canterbury Land District one-twentieth of the price of the allotment. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due the 1st July, 1886.

The purchaser of the land described in the Schedule, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1885,” relating to lands on deferred payments, will be entitled to a Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

Reserve to be sold by Auction, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 21st January, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land will be submitted to public auction at the Courthouse, Waimate, on Saturday, the 1st May, 1886, at 12 o’clock noon :—

RESERVE 134, NORTH BANK, RIVER WAITANGI.

Terms: One-fourth of purchase-money on fall of the hammer, balance within two calendar months 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.

Plans and particulars may be seen at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Reserves 315, 381, and 1289, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 19th January, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-mentioned blocks of land will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 21st April, 1886, at 12 o’clock noon.

Plan may be seen and particulars obtained at the Land Office, Christchurch.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land Transfer Act Notices.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat forbidding the same be lodged at this office within one calendar month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Applicant: THE NEW PLYMOUTH SASH AND DOOR FACTORY AND TIMBER COMPANY (LIMITED). Area: 1 rood 1 perch. Description: Section 848, Town of New Plymouth. Occupied by Applicant Company.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 19th day of March, 1886, at the Lands Registry Office, New Plymouth.

W. STUART,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat forbidding the same be lodged at this office within one calendar month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Applicant: WILLIAM ROWS TREMAIN, of New Plymouth, Labourer. Area: 1 rood 32 perches. Description: Allotments U and V of Section A, Town Belt, New Plymouth. Occupied by Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 22nd day of March, 1886, at the Lands Registry Office, New Plymouth.

W. STUART,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

5815. HUMPHREY BARDEN.—1 rood 3 perches, part Rural Section 320, Borough of Kaiapoi. Occupied by Applicant.

5816. JAMES ALSTON.—1 rood 20 perches, part Christchurch Town Reserve No. 137. Occupied by Applicant.

5817. CHARLES BROWN.—1 rood 16 perches, part Rural Section 72, Borough of Sydenham. Occupied by Applicant.

5818. SUSAN HUGHES.—13 perches, part Christchurch Town Reserve No. 110. Occupied by Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 20th day of March, 1886, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

J. M. BATHAM,
District Land Registrar.

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WHEREAS a declaration has been lodged with me made by JAMES WRIGHT, of South Dunedin, Labourer, the registered Proprietor of Allotment 6, in Block VI., on Plan No. 291, of subdivision of part of the Township of Forbury, of the loss of the certificate of title for the said land, dated 10th June, 1884, Register-book Vol. lxxii., folio 11, I hereby give notice that I intend to issue a provisional certificate of title for the said land to the said JAMES WRIGHT, unless caveat be lodged here forbidding the same within fourteen days from the date of the publication hereof.

Dated this 15th day of March, 1886, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within three calendar months after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

863. EDWARD MURPHY, Applicant.—274 acres 3 roods, more or less, as shown on deposited plan No. 217, comprising the following blocks of land situated in the Poverty Bay District, namely, Auahituroa, Otaramokai No. 8, Otaramokai No. 9, Pukarakanui, Te Reanga, Te Ahaaha No. 1, Te Ahaaha No. 2, Kaiariki No. 1, Kaiariki No. 2, Kaiariki No. 3, Te Kaha No. 3, and Poutai. In occupation of the Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 22nd day of March, 1886, at the Lands Registry Office, Napier.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

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Mining Notices.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CONSTRUCT A WATER-RACE.

To the Mining Registrar at Lawrence, Tuapeka Mining District.

THE Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Lawrence hereby give notice that they intend to alter and extend a Water-race (No. 1550; date, 21/5/70) to divert and use water for domestic and irrigation purposes, commencing at a point 60 chains from the head of Race (No. 1550; date, 21/5/70), and carrying the water at a higher level in a southerly course to the Reservoir on Section No. 6, Block LIV., Town of Lawrence. The length of such race is six miles, or thereabouts, and the intended course is southerly. The mean depth of such race is 1 foot, and the mean breadth is 1 foot 6 inches, and it is proposed to divert five Government heads of water.

Applicants: The Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Lawrence.

Date and Number of Miner’s Right: 21/5/85. No. 51,478.

Dated at Tuapeka this 10th day of March, 1886.