MAR. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 345

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections
are opened for lease for a term of thirty years, with
the right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years,
and that applications will be received on Wednesday, the
30th March, for the said leases, at the Land Offices, Christ-
church and Timaru, and also by Mr. March, on Tuesday, the
29th March, at the Courthouse, Temuka. The applications
received by Mr. March will bear the same date as those
received at the Land Office, Christchurch:—

VILLAGE HOMESTEAD SPECIAL SETTLEMENT, AROWHENUA.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections
are opened for lease for a term of thirty years, with
the right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years,
and that applications will be received on Friday, the 1st
April, 1887, for the said leases, at the Land Offices, Christ-
church and Timaru, and also by Mr. March, on Wednesday,
the 30th March, at the Town Board Office, Geraldine. The
applications received by Mr. March will bear the same date
as those received at the Land Offices, Christchurch and
Timaru:—

TOWN OF GERALDINE.

The only charge for the leases will be a fee of 10s. No
selector shall take up more than one allotment. Plans may
be seen at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru,
where also copies of the Village Homestead Special-settle-
ment Regulations may be obtained.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land open for Application on Deferred Payments, Provincial
District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 19th February, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned sec-
tions, to be sold on deferred payments, and situate in
the Arowhenua Village Settlement, will be open for applica-
tion on Monday, the 21st March, 1887, at the Land Offices,
Christchurch and Timaru:—

Nos. 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 746, 747, 748,
749, 750, 751, 752, 753, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827, 828, 829,
and 830, containing an area of 1 rood each.

Price, £10 per quarter acre.

Plans may be seen and further particulars obtained at the
Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Land in the Opaku Survey District.

Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 24th February, 1887.

THE following allotments of rural bush land will be open
for selection, on terms of deferred payment, on Wed-
nesday, the 16th March next.

The block is situated four and a half miles from the Ball
Road Railway-station, between Manutahi and Patea. It
abuts on the settled districts, and is, in consequence, acces-
sible by the district roads. The roads inside the block are
now being cleared.

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

OpaKu SURVEY DISTRICT.

The following SMALL GRAZING RUNS in the same
locality, and west of the Patea River, will be offered for lease
by auction, under Part VII. of "The Land Act, 1885," at
the Land Office, Patea, at noon on Saturday, the 26th March
next:—

Also the following small grazing runs between the Patea
and Whenuakura Rivers, which are now being made acces-
sible by the formation of a horse-track:—

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land taken for Roads.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 7th March, 1887.

THE following resolutions, passed by the Marlborough
Land Board on the 7th March, 1887, taking roads
through the pastoral leasehold lands held by Alexander
Wighton Ingles and Henry Anthony Ingles, is published for
general information:—

Resolved, That, in pursuance of section 87 of "The Marl-
borough Waste Lands Act, 1867," and of every other power
enabling the Marlborough Land Board in that behalf, the
said Land Board doth hereby take the following mentioned
lands, being portions of the Kincaid Run, held under pastoral
lease by Alexander Wighton Ingles and Henry Anthony
Ingles, for public roads, viz.:—

All that strip of land, 100 links in width, in the Survey
District of Mount Fyffe, Provincial District of Marlborough,
containing by admeasurement 8 acres and 21 perches, more
or less, being part of the Kincaid Run; commencing at the
south-eastern corner of Section 63, in the said district, and
bounded Westerly by that section, 3611·5 links; thence by
lines, 3279·2, 271·7, and 977·7 links respectively, to the
Hapuka River; thence Northerly by that river; thence