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Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Lawrence on or before the 13th day of May, 1886.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: John Empen and Patrick Stackpoole. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: The Golden Vein Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres, at Hedgehope District, in the Tuapeka Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

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

Crown Lands Notices.

Canterbury Land District.—Section No. 35711, 68 acres, 1 mile from Cave Railway Station.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 6th April, 1886.

THE above section not having been sold by public auction on the 24th March, 1886, will be open for application, under section 92 of “The Land Act, 1885,” on Monday, the 10th May, 1886, at £2 per acre.

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

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reduction in Price of Crown Lands.—Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 10th April, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that on and after Thursday, the 13th May, the following sections will be open for application at the following reduced prices:—

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve 389, Sections 6, 7, 11, and 13, Provincial District of Canterbury, to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing System, under Section 142 of “The Land Act, 1885.”

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 10th April, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the above sections are open for a 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 11 a.m. on the 20th May, 1886. The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on the same day.

Plans, conditions, and tender-forms can be obtained at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

No person can be a lessee who owns or occupies, inclusive of the lease tendered for, more than 640 acres of land in t

colony. Any person can tender for two or more leases, but no person can hold more than one lease unless the leases adjoin each other.

Each tender must be accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with six months’ rent at the rate tendered, and the sum of £1 10s. for registration.

Land in Hawke’s District for Sale on Deferred Payments

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 30th March, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunder have been set apart for sale on deferred payments, and that Wednesday, the 28th April next has been fixed as the day on which such lands shall be open for application at this office.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

In the event of more than one application being received for any one section, the right to occupy the same will be decided by auction between the applicants only.

Plans and further particulars can be obtained at the Crown Lands Office, Napier.

Notice under Section 188, “Land Act, 1885.”

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 8th April, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given to the Licensee, William Rose, that the rent of Run 149 being in arrear, the license is liable to forfeiture, and, should the rent together with the penalty not be paid within a period of three months from present date, forfeiture will be declared accordingly.

JOHN SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Taking Road through Pastoral Leasehold Lands held by W. S. Taylor and W. A. Low, Marlborough Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 11th March, 1886.

THE following resolution passed by the Marlborough Land Board on the 1st March, 1886, taking a road through the pastoral leasehold lands held respectively by William Simpson Taylor and William Anderson Low, is published for general information:—

“Resolved, That in pursuance of section 87 of ‘The Marlborough Waste Lands Act, 1867,’ and of every other power enabling the Marlborough Land Board in that behalf, the said Land Board doth hereby take the following mentioned lands, being portions of the runs held under pastoral leases by William Simpson Taylor and William Anderson Low respectively, for a public road, viz.:—

“All that parcel of land in the Barefell’s Survey District, Provincial District of Marlborough, containing 120 acres or thereabouts, being a strip of land, 3 chains in width, forming part of the Barefell’s Run, held under lease by William Simpson Taylor; commencing at a public road on the left bank of the Awatere River, at the south-western corner of Section 17 on the said run, in the District of Awatere, and following on and along the left bank of the Awatere River to the summit of Barefell’s Pass.

“Also all that piece or parcel of land in the Barefell’s Survey District, Provincial District of Marlborough, containing 130 acres or thereabouts, being a strip of land, 3 chains in width, forming part of the Barefell’s Run, held under lease by William Anderson Low, commencing at the summit of Barefell’s Pass, and following on and along the left bank of the Guide River, and terminating at the north-eastern boundary of Section 1, North Clarence Run, in the District of Clarence.”

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,