Aug. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 931

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Matthew Byrne. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: The Progress Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Owen River, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

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

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Crown Lands Notices.

Crown Lands to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing System under the Village Special Settlement Conditions.

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Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 27th July, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that applications will be received at the Crown Lands Office, Napier, on Monday, the 30th August next, for the sections enumerated in the Schedule hereunder. In event of more than one application being received for any section, the right to occupy the same will be decided by lot amongst the applicants at 4 p.m. on the day of the receipt of the applications.

Plans, terms, and further particulars can be obtained at this office.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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SCHEDULE.

PUKETITIRI VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.
Pohui Survey District.

Description: Undulating forest country, situate on the main road through the Puketitiri Bush. Accessible by roads which have been partly formed about two and a half miles through the bush; have been cleared of timber 1 chain in width. The Hawke’s Bay County Council has formed a line of road giving access to these lands from the Patea Road, a distance of about seven miles from Tunanui. There is another dray-road via Puketapu and Rissington. The distance from Napier is about forty miles by road. The bush contains rimu, matai, and white-pine.

Pastoral Leases.

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Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 29th July, 1886.

THE following pastoral runs will be offered for lease by public auction, at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon on Friday, the 3rd September next, for a term of ten years:—

Possession of Runs Nos. 329, 149, and 352B will be given on day of sale, of 394 on the 1st March next, and of 150B on the 11th April next. Leases to be sold in terms of “The Land Act, 1885.”

JOHN SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Sale of Crown Lands, Wellington Land District.

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Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 19th July, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the sections of land as per Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale on deferred payments, perpetual leases, the village and small-farm system, the small-run system, and for cash, in terms of “The Land Act, 1885.”

Applications for the deferred-payment sections will be received on Monday, the 23rd August, 1886, up to 4.30 p.m. In cases of contested sections, applicants will be informed, in order that they may forward tenders. If personal attendance is not possible, agents should be appointed, in order that tenders may be received before the 1st September.

Applications for village and small-farm lots will also be received on the 23rd August. Contested applications for small farms will be decided by lot, and those for each village section by auction, amongst the applicants, on Wednesday, the 25th August, at 2.30 p.m.

Tenders for perpetual leases will be received on Wednesday, the 1st September, up to 4.30 p.m.

The cash and the small-run sections will also be offered at auction, on Thursday, the 2nd September, at 2.30 p.m.

All applications, tenders, &c., must be sent to this office, where the auction will also take place.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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SCHEDULE.

These sections are situate on the Abbott's Creek Road, about two and a half miles from Featherston, and comprise hilly and inferior lands.

| 82 | XIV. | Mikimiki .. | 282 0 0 | 20/ | 282 0 0 |
| 378 | " | " .. | 248 0 0 | 25/ | 310 0 0 |

PERPETUAL LEASE.

| 529, 530 | VIII. | Waiohine.. | 250 2 3 | 1/ |
| 542 | " | " .. | 98 3 35 | 1/ |
| 390 | XIV. | Mikimiki ..| 280 0 0 | 1/ |
| 383, 384 | " | " .. | 488 0 0 | 1/ |