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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 27

Goldfields Notice.

Gold-mining Leases 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 leases of Crown lands for gold-mining purposes to the applicants specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such leases.

Objections to the granting of such leases, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Reefton on or before the 12th day of May, 1886.

Copy of the applications made and plans annexed may be seen at the Warden's Office at Reefton.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Charles Edward Watkins. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Welcome Extended Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, Little Boatman's Creek, Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: Patrick Brennan. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Orinoko Gold-mining Company. 14 acres 1 rood 4 perches, Little Boatman's Creek (ground formerly held by the Comstock Company), Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: George Wise. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Just-in-Time Gold Mining Company. 7 acres 2 roods 19 perches, Boatman's (ground formerly held by the Cyclops Company), Nelson South-west Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

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

Native Land Court Notice.

Application for Rehearing of Claim dismissed.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.

IN the matter of a judgment of the Court given during a session opened at Kapanga, Coromandel, in the said district, on the 1st day of April, 1886, upon the hearing of a claim to succeed to the interest of Pehimana Waitai Taupo in a block of land situate in the said district, and known as "Tihioou;" and in the matter of the application of Hori Tawa for a rehearing upon such claim:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, and in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby dismiss such application.

Dated this 27th day of April, 1886.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Crown Lands Notices.

Auction Sale of Rural Lands, Gisborne.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 15th April, 1886.

THE following lands will be offered for sale, by public auction, at the Land Office, Gisborne, on Thursday, the 27th May next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.
Cook County.

Description of Land.—Good quality, a quantity of kahikatea on each section.

Terms of Sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to be paid at time of sale, and the balance within two months thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land shall thenceforward be null and void. Crown-grant fees to be paid on completion of purchase.

Maps of the above lands may be seen, and further par-
ticulars obtained, on application at this office, and at the Land Office, Gisborne.

Schedules containing descriptions, &c., of the above lands will be exhibited at railway stations and post offices.

Crown Lands to be Leased on the Perpetual-leasing System.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 22nd April, 1886.

IT is notified that the under-mentioned sections are open 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 Friday, the 28th May, 1886.

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, and at the Post Office, Herbertville, Wainui.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.
TAUTANE BLOCK.

Description: These sections comprise excellent scrub and bush-clad pastoral country. The formation is a limestone and calcareous marl or papa. The bush contains mixed timbers, generally of a light description on the hills.

Further particulars relating to each section will be found printed on the maps. 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 Block VIII., Weber Survey District.

The road has been opened for dray-traffic through the Tautane Block into Block VIII., a distance of seven miles from the Wainui settlement. The shipping-place for the district is Cape Turnagain, where the small coastal steamers call.

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 commencement of the lease.

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