Oct. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1415

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: John Crabb. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Colonial Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Murray Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: James Cornwall. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Tasman Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Murray Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

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

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

Gold-mining Lease 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 a lease of Crown lands for gold-mining purposes to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Reefton on or before the 24th day of November, 1886.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: James Sawyer Fitch. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: The Dalcoath Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Murray Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

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

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

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

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Lyell on or before the 17th day of January, 1887.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: Samuel Roach and Stephen Oxnam. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Reefton Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Owen River, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

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

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

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 24th day of November, 1886.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: George Joice. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Lucky Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches, Section 28, Block XI., Reefton, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: John McQuillan. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Republic Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods 10 perches, Section 63, Block XIV., Reefton, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: Henry Francis. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Excelsior Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Murray Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: Daniel McKenney. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Climax Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Murray Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: William Hindmarsh. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Saturn Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Devil’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: James Thorburn. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Mars Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Devil’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: William Beilby. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Salisbury Quartz-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Devil’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: Andrew Thomas Sterling. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: New Nevada Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Auld’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: Richard Crabb. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Well Lucy Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 1 rood, at Auld’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: Edward Paine. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Break of Day Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Little Boatman’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicant: Charles Edwin Watkins. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Occidental Syndicate Gold-mining Company. 15 acres 3 roods 30 perches, at Little Boatman’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

Applicants: Andrew Thomas Sterling and John Knight. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: Fraternal Gold-mining Company. 16 acres 2 roods, at Auld’s Creek, in the Nelson South-west Mining District.

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

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

Gold-mining Lease Certificate declared forfeited.

IN conformity with the regulations for the granting and issue of gold-mining leases, it is hereby notified that the under-mentioned certificate of application has been declared forfeited for non-execution of lease; and that the ground is now open to persons holding miners’ rights or business licenses, or to applicants for a lease, as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—

774c. W. J. E. Watson and others, Section 57, Block I., St. Bathan’s District, containing 5 acres, in the Mount Ida Mining District.

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

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

Native Land Court Notices.

Sitting of the Native Land Court for the Subdivision of Hereditaments.

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 22nd October, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court to be held at Gisborne, in the District of Poverty Bay, on the 15th day of November next, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column for the subdivision of the hereditaments comprised in the Crown grants of the pieces of land the names of which appear in the second column, situate in the district named in the third column.

W. GREY,
Registrar.