SCHEDULE.

WHANGAREI COUNTY.

MARERETU Block, 1,580 acres. Applications to be made to
George Cliff, Esq., Mareretu.
Opuawhanga Block, 620 acres. Applications to be made
to J. J. Wilson, Esq., J.P., Whangarei.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.

Punakitere Block, 800 acres. Applications to be made to
Robert Cochrane, Esq., Chairman, Hokianga County Council,
Herd's Point.

Forms of application can be obtained, and plans of the
lands inspected, at this office and at the residences of the
agents above named.

CONDITIONS.

1. No person who has once selected land on the homestead
   system, or selected or obtained land under the deferred-payment or perpetual-lease systems, or who is the owner of any
   freehold land, shall be eligible to select land under the homestead system.

2. The area allowed to be selected by each person of the
   age of eighteen years or upwards shall be, of first-class lands
   50 acres, or of second-class lands 75 acres; and for persons
   under eighteen years of age, of first-class lands 20 acres, or
   of second-class lands 30 acres; provided that the total quantity to be selected by any one family, or number of persons
   occupying the one household, shall not exceed 200 acres of
   first-class or 300 acres of second-class lands.

3. Selectors under this system shall pay the costs of surveys of the lands selected.

4. Within six months, and twelve months in the case of
   bush lands, after the selection has been approved by the
   Board; the selector shall commence to reside on his selection,
   and shall reside continuously thereon for five years from
   the date of approval as aforesaid.

5. Within eighteen months after such approval the selector
   shall erect on his selection a permanent dwelling-house of
   wood or other materials, which shall be specified in regulations to be issued in reference to homestead-system selections.

6. In each year there shall be brought under cultivation
   one-fifteenth of the area of such selection if open land, and
   one-twenty-fifth if bush land, so that at the end of the term
   of five years one-third of the selection if open land, or one-fifth if bush land, shall be under cultivation.

7. Non-performance of any of the foregoing stipulations
   shall render the selection void, and the right of the selector
   therein and to all improvements thereon shall be forfeited.

8. At the end of the said period of five years a grant or
   grants shall issue for the lands selected, provided the selector
   shall not have forfeited his right thereto in manner aforesaid.

Survey Regulations.

Under 30 acres, £6. From 30 to 50 acres inclusive, 3s. 6d.
per acre, but not less than £6. From 50 to 100 acres inclusive, 3s. per acre, but not less than £8 15s. From 100 to 200
acres inclusive, 2s. 6d. per acre, but not less than £15. From
200 to 300 acres inclusive, 2s. per acre, but not less than
£25.

Surveys shall be made by surveyors authorized by the Surveyor-General, and in accordance with instructions to Settlement Surveyors issued or which may be issued by him; and
these rates further imply that all boundary-lines are to be
cut and marked on the ground.

Tenders for License to occupy, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Land Office,
Christchurch, 21st January, 1886.

TENDERS for the license for the temporary pastoral
occupation of Reserve No. 1613, containing 2 acres,
Town of Ashburton, will be received at the Land Office,
Christchurch, until Monday, the 1st March, at 12 o'clock noon,
at the upset annual rental of £4.

The license will be issued subject to the conditions of
section 25 of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881."

Plan and particulars may be seen at the Land Office,
Christchurch. The highest or any tender not necessarily
accepted.

Tenders to be indorsed, "Temporary Occupation of Reserve 1613."

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Land on Terms of Deferred Payments.

Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 6th January, 1886.

THE under-mentioned allotments of rural land will be
open for selection, on terms of deferred payments, on
and after Wednesday, the 27th January, 1886.

Applications may be made at this office, or at the District
Land Offices, Patea and Hawera.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

NGAIRE SURVEY DISTRICT.-BLOCK XIV.

Section. Area. Upset Price per
Acre.

19 79 0 0 1 10 0
21 230 0 0 1 5 0
23 138 0 0 1 0 0
25 162 0 0 1 0 0
27 110 0 0 1 10 0
30 200 0 0 1 5 0
32 197 0 0 1 0 0
34 289 0 0 1 0 0

Sale of Town and Suburban Leaseholds, Rotorua, and
Town Leaseholds near the Celebrated Thermal Springs of
Whakarewarewa, Auckland District.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 27th January, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the town and suburban lands
described in the Schedule hereunder will, in pursuance
of "The Thermal-Springs District Act 1881 Amendment Act,
1883," be offered for lease by public auction, for the term of
ninety-nine years, at this office, on Wednesday, the 3rd
March next, at the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

TOWNSHIP OF ROTORUA.

Block. Section. Area. Upset
Annual
Rental.

X. 5 0 1 0 7 10 0
9 0 1 0 6 0 0
13 0 0 32 7 10 0
XI. 1 0 0 32 7 10 0
3 0 0 32 7 10 0
XV. 3, 4 0 2 0 10 0 0
7, 8 0 2 0 10 0 0
XVI. 4 0 1 0 6 0 0
5 0 1 0 6 0 0
XXI. 2 0 2 20 10 0 0
XXII. 1, 2 0 2 0 10 0 0
5, 6 0 2 0 10 0 0
XXVIII. 1 0 2 20 10 0 0
2 0 2 20 10 0 0
XXIX. 2 0 1 0 5 0 0
3 0 1 0 5 0 0
6 0 1 0 5 0 0
11 0 1 0 5 0 0
XXX. 3 0 1 0 7 10 0
8 0 1 0 6 0 0
9 0 1 0 6 0 0
XXXV. 1 0 1 0 5 0 0
5 0 1 0 5 0 0
7 0 1 0 5 0 0
12 0 1 0 5 0 0
13 0 1 0 5 0 0
14 0 1 0 5 0 0
XXXVI. 1 0 1 0 6 0 0
2 0 1 0 6 0 0
4 0 1 0 6 0 0
7 0 1 0 6 0 0
11 0 0 32 7 10 0
XXXIX. 4 0 1 0 5 0 0
7 0 1 0 5 0 0
8 0 1 0 5 0 0
12 0 1 0 5 0 0
13 0 1 0 5 0 0
14 0 1 0 5 0 0