Aug. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 955

1s. per acre. Excellent land; about eight miles from Town
of Newcastle (Albertown).
Lower Wanaka District: Sections 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 26,
28, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 43, 45, 47, 51, and 53, Block XIV. ;
from 3 to 20 acres. Upset rental, 2s. per acre. Land of
mixed quality; adjoining Township of Pembroke.
Martin's Bay District: Sections 2, 3, 7 to 9, 12 to 15,
Block I. ; Sections 1, 4, 7, 9 to 13, 22, 23, 26, 28, 32 to 40, 43
to 52, 58 to 68, Block II. ; Sections 1 to 6, 14, and 24, Block
III. ; Sections 1 to 5, 8 to 14, Block IX. ; 50 acres each.
Upset rental, 1s. per acre. Good alluvial land, mostly bush ;
West Coast.
Mount Hyde District: Sections 1 to 6, 8 to 12, 16, 22, 24,
29, and 32, Block XII. ; from 7 to 17 acres. Upset rental,
2s. per acre. Good sections; about one mile from Hyde
Township.
Tuapeka West District: Sections 9, 10, 24 to 27, Block
XIV. ; 5 to 10 acres. Upset rental, 2s. per acre. Land of
fair quality; known as Darton Village Settlement.
Waitahuna West District: Sections 120 to 122, 125, and
126, Block I. ; 4 to 8 acres. Upset rental, 2s. per acre.
Excellent land; situate at Tuapeka Mouth.

TOWNSHIPS.

Arrowtown Extension: Section 8, Block XXXIII. ; Sec-
tion 1, Block XXXIV. ; Sections 1 and 2, Block XXXV. ;
5 to 12 acres. Upset rental, 3s. per acre. Good suburban
land; along the Arrow River.
Tapanui Township: Sections 5 to 8, Block XXIII. ; Sec-
tions 5 to 7, Block XXIV. ; Section 7, Block XXV. ; Sections
1, 4 to 8, Block XXVII. ; 2 to 8 acres. Upset rental, 4s. per
acre. Land of superior quality; outside township.

PARTICULARS.

Terms, thirty years; renewals, twenty-one years. Each
selector will only be allowed to take up one section. No
person who has an interest in any land in the colony shall
be eligible. Money advances, not exceeding £20, will be
made to assist selectors in the erection of houses; and, if
bush-land, a further sum of £2 10s. an acre, over an area not
exceeding 20 acres, will be allowed for clearing and grassing.
The registration-fee, 10s., must accompany each application.
When more applications than one are made on the same
day for the same land, the right to occupy the land applied
for shall—married men having the preference—be determined
by lot amongst the applicants.
Forms of application and conditions of occupation can be
had at the District Land Offices, and the Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Forfeited Deferred-payment Sections, Reserves 144,
191, 642, and 1644, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 15th July, 1886.

THE under-mentioned sections, having been forfeited for
breach of conditions, will be offered for sale by public
auction, the improvements for cash, and the lands on de-
ferred payments, in terms of section 122 of “The Land Act,
1885,” at the Courthouse, Waimate, on Tuesday, the 7th
September, 1886, at 11 o'clock a.m.:

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

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lease of Reserve, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 15th July, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the under-
mentioned reserve will be offered by public auction,
in accordance with section 23 of “The Public Reserves Act,
1881,” at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the
25th August, 1886, at 12 o'clock noon:—
Reserve 152, Wainui, 10 acres, at the upset annual rental
of 4s. per acre.
Term of lease, fourteen years. On the fall of the hammer,
one year one month's rent to be paid to the 1st October,
1887.
Plan may be seen and particulars obtained at the Land
Office, Christchurch.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 15th July, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that Section 34859, 24 acres and
6 perches, situated near Killinchy, having been for-
feited for non-compliance with the conditions under which
it was taken up, will, under section 13, “Immigrants Land
Act, 1873,” be offered by public auction, at the Land Office,
Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 25th August, 1886, at 12
o'clock noon, at the upset price of £2 per acre.
Plan may be seen at the Land Office, Christchurch.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands within the Okarito Riding, Provincial Dis-
trict of Westland, to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing
System.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 8th July, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections
are open for leasing 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
12 o'clock noon, on Wednesday, the 1st September, 1886.
The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land
Board on the same day. Maps, conditions, and tender-
forms at Land Office, Hokitika.

SCHEDULE.

Description: Sections Nos. 668 to 672 are situate on the
eastern bank of the Waikukupa River, Waiho Survey Dis-
trict, and include the flat land between the sea-coast and
the foot of the terraces. Sections Nos. 673 to 677 are
situate in the Mahitahi River Valley, Bruce Bay Survey
District, and comprise lands north of and adjoining the
farm of Mr. Frank McGlone, at Flagstaff Creek.

Abstract of Conditions relating to Perpetual Leases.

Any person of seventeen years of age and upwards may
become a lessee. The highest tenderer, if his tender shall
be equal to or shall exceed the upset price, shall be declared
the lessee; but, if the rent offered by two or more tenderers
is the same in amount, then it shall be decided by lot which
person shall be the lessee. If there be only one tenderer,
then the rent shall be the upset price notwithstanding his
tender may have been higher.
Improvement Conditions: One-twentieth of the land leased