May 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 701

Native Land Court Notices.

Notice under “The Public Works Act, 1882.”

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 14th May, 1887.

THE Court will, in exercise of the power given under section 26 of the said “Public Works Act, 1882,” proceed to inquire and ascertain who are the persons interested in, and entitled to be paid compensation for, all that road-line, of an average width of 100 links, intersecting the Puatahi Native Reserve, Hoteo Block, Tauhoa Survey District, Provincial District of Auckland, and containing approximately 13 acres 2 roods, more or less; commencing at a point on the south-eastern boundary of the Puatahi Native Reserve aforesaid distant 5150 links from the Hoteo River, and running thence in a north-westerly direction 2500 links; thence running in a north-easterly direction through the Puatahi Native Settlement, 11000 links, to the Hoteo Bridge: be all the above areas and linkages either more or less; being the land mentioned in a certain Order in Council of the 25th day of April, 1884, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 15th and subsequent days of May, 1884, and made under the authority of “The Public Works Act, 1882.”

The above inquiry will be made during the sitting of this Court to be opened at Helensville, Kaipara, on the 21st day of June, 1887.

Edwd. HAMMOND,
Registrar.

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

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court, to be held at Temuka, in the District of Canterbury, on the 30th day of May, 1887, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column of the Schedule hereunder for the subdivision of the hereditaments comprised in the Crown grants of the pieces of land the name of which appears in the second column, situate in the district named in the third column.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Crown Lands Notices.

Notice of Intention to cancel the Lease of a Perpetual-lease Section.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Land Board this day resolved to cancel the lease of the under-mentioned perpetual-lease section, unless the arrears of rent due are paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington, on or before the 23rd June next.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Sections 18 and 20, Block II., Mangaone District. Rent due, £17 8s. Selector’s name, Harry Church.

Sale of Crown Lands, Wellington Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1887.

IT is hereby notified that the sections of land as per Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale on the deferred-payment, perpetual-lease, and small grazing run systems, in terms of “The Land Act, 1885.”

Applications for the deferred-payment sections will be received on Thursday, the 2nd June, 1887, up to 4.30 p.m. In case of contested sections, applicants will be informed, in order that they may forward tenders, to be opened by the Land Board on Thursday, the 9th June, 1887. If personal attendance is not possible, agents should be appointed, in order that tenders may be received before that date.

The auction sale of the forfeited deferred-payment section and the small grazing runs will be held at this office, at 2.30 p.m., on Thursday, the 9th June, 1887. Tenders for perpetual leases will be received on Wednesday, the 8th June, 1887, up to 4.30 p.m. All applications, tenders, &c., must be sent to this office.

Forms of application, &c., may be obtained and plans seen at the principal post offices in the district where the lands are situated, and full information may be obtained at this office.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

SMALL RUNS.

| 1 | I. | Te Kawau | A. R. P. | s. d. | £ s. d. |
| 3 | VIII. | Wainuioru | 59 2 0 | 0 6 | |
| 6 | XII. | " | 546 0 0 | 0 6 | |
| Run No. 29 | | Waipakura | 618 0 0 | 0 6 | |
| | | | 967 0 0 | 0 6 | |

PERPETUAL LEASE.

| 124 | XIV. | Mangaone | 107 2 0 | 1 0 | |
| 9 | VI. | " | 191 0 32 | 1 0 | |
| 11 | " | " | 209 3 34 | 1 0 | |
| 13, 23, 24 | " | " | 368 2 30 | 1 0 | |

The sections in the Mangaone District comprise hilly bush country, with fairly good soil. The timber consists of tawa, rimu, and rata.

| 48 | XVIII. | Mangahao | 23 3 3 | 1 6 | |
| 88 | " | " | 23 3 4 | 1 6 | |
| 66 | " | " | 23 1 20 | 1 6 | |
| 67 | " | " | 23 1 20 | 1 6 | |

These sections are situated at the back of the Pahiatua Village Homestead Special Settlement, and fronting the Mangaramarama Road, and are covered with mixed bush and scrub. The soil varies from fair to good.

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

| 122 | XIV. | Mangaone | 134 2 17 | 25 0 | 168 5 2 |
| 8 | VI. | " | 190 1 26 | 22 6 | 214 4 4 |
| 10 | " | " | 219 0 2 | 22 6 | 246 7 9 |

The sections in the Mangaone District comprise hilly bush country, with fairly good soil. The timber consists of tawa, rimu, and rata.

DEFERRED PAYMENTS BY AUCTION.

| 28 | V. | Kopuaranga | 45 2 32 | 30 0 | 68 11 0 |

Weighted with improvements, £3.

Notice to Occupiers of Runs.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 14th April, 1887.

IN accordance with section 188 of “The Land Act, 1885,” I hereby give notice that the runs enumerated in the Schedule hereto will be declared forfeited if the amount of rent due, together with the penalty for non-payment, is not paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Hokitika, within three months of the date of first insertion of this notice.

SCHEDULE.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.