Mar. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 423

Award by Land Claims Commissioner.

I, JAMES PILLANS MAITLAND, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide claims to land by persons claiming title thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, report that the claim of Peter French, of Reading, County of Berks, and of Burton-on-Trent, England, Clerk in Holy Orders, having been referred to me by His Excellency the Governor, I do hereby decide that the said Peter French is entitled to a Crown grant for Section No. 73, Irregular Block, East Taieri District, containing 52 acres and 2 roods; and also to a Crown grant for Section No. 76, Irregular Block, East Taieri District, containing 54 acres.

Dated at Dunedin, this 17th March, 1887.

Number of report, 501; number of claim, 543.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner.

Crown Lands Notices.

Lease of Pastoral Runs, Poverty Bay, under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1885.”—Land District of Auckland.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 16th March, 1887.

I HEREBY notify that the lands specified in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for lease, by public auction, as pastoral runs, subject to the provisions of clauses 169 to 193 inclusive of “The Land Act, 1885,” at the Land Office, Gisborne, on Monday, the 25th April next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

COOK COUNTY.

No. 42.

ARAKIHI NORTH RUN.—About 8,290 acres. Upset annual rental, £100. Description of Land: Same as Arakihi South Run.

No. 43.

ARAKIHI SOUTH RUN.—About 12,100 acres. Upset annual rental, £125. Description of Land: Open and scrubby, a little bush, good soil, very broken; unformed road through block.

No. 44.

WAIHORA RUN.—8,905 acres. Upset annual rental, £110. Description of Land: Bush and open, good soil, much broken; no present access, but could be provided.

Arakihi and Waihora Runs are situated about forty miles from Gisborne, by Ormond-Waimata-Waiapu Road.

No. 45.

WAINGAROMIA NO. 3 RUN.—586 acres. Upset annual rental, £20. Description of Land: Good land, close to Ormond-Waiapu Road, open and scrub.

No. 46.

MANGATOKERAU RUN.—5,456 acres. Upset annual rental, £62. Description of Land: Good land, scrub and fern, but mostly bush; access could be obtained from Tolago-Waiapu Road without much expenditure; distant about twenty miles from Uawa Township, Tolago Bay.

No. 47.

WHAREKOPAE RUN.—19,969 acres. Upset annual rental, £62. Description of Land: Mostly bush, but some good open and partly-grassed land in that part called Hihirooa; the west part is densely wooded with birch; access easily obtainable by Ormond-Motu-Opotiki Road.

No. 48.

HANGAROA-MATAWHAI RUN.—12,019 acres. Upset annual rental, £62. Description of Land: Mostly open, back part rough, some few flats along river; no access at present.

The above lands are situated about thirty-two miles from Gisborne, close to the Wairoa-Gisborne Main Road.

No. 49.

TAUWHARETOI NORTH RUN.—About 23,090 acres. Upset annual rental, £80. Description of Land: Mostly bush, and much broken in western part, some totara timber on river frontage; accessible by a partly-formed bridle-road from Patutahi.

No. 50.

TAUWHARETOI EAST RUN.—About 8,230 acres. Upset annual rental, £125. Description of Land: Mostly open, some fairly good flats along river, enough bush for fencing and building, some grass.

No. 51.

TAUWHARETOI SOUTH RUN.—About 19,069 acres. Upset annual rental, £62. Description of Land: More than half bush, the remainder fern and scrub, with a little grass.

No. 52.

TUAHU RUN.—9,252 acres. Upset annual rental, £30. Description of Land: Mostly bush, a good deal of it black birch, but a little open land along the Ruakitura; a bridle-road on opposite side of river passes near this block.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS.

Term of license, twenty-one years, subject to be determined, without compensation, at any time if the land thereon comprised, or any part thereof, is required for sale as agricultural or pastoral land. Twelve months’ notice of such determination to be given to the licensee.

Rent to be paid half-yearly in advance, the first payment, to be made on day of sale, being for the period from the 25th April, 1887, to the 31st August, 1887.

A pasturage license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the lands specified therein, but shall give no right to the soil, or timber, or minerals, and shall immediately determine over any land which may be proclaimed a hundred, or which may be licensed, leased, purchased, granted, or reserved under this or any other Act.

Such roads and rights-of-way as the Governor or the Land Board may deem necessary may at any time be taken through any run without compensation.

No licensee of any run purchased hereunder shall be allowed to transfer his interest therein without the consent of the Land Board.

Twelve months before the expiration of the term of license (if it shall be determined to again let the land for depasturing purposes) the run shall be put up to public auction subject to a valuation for improvements, such valuation in no case to exceed three times the amount of the average annual rental of the run. In the case where the run is not again offered for lease, the licensee will be allowed to remove buildings, fencing, enclosures, or other improvements made by him while lessee at any time within three months after the expiration of his license.

Runs may be divided with the sanction of the Land Board, and upon payment of £1 1s. for each subdivision.

If the licensee shall not pay the rent within fourteen days after it shall become due he shall be liable to a penalty of not more than £1 for every day that such rent shall be in arrear, and if such rent, together with the full amount of the penalty, be not paid within three months after such due date the license shall forthwith be declared forfeited.

The licensee of any run shall have the right, with the consent of the Land Board, to select and occupy as a homestead an area of not exceeding 150 acres, which shall be exempt from the right of determination during the currency of his license.

Maps showing the positions of the above runs may be seen and further particulars obtained on application at this office, and at the Land Office, Gisborne.

Sale of Town, Suburban, and Rural Lands (including Land in Hobson County, containing 5,000,000ft. of Kauri Timber.—Auckland Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 5th March, 1887.

I HEREBY notify that the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Thursday, the 14th April next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

D A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.