July 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 939

Forfeited Deferred-payment Sections open for Application, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 4th July, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned forfeited deferred-payment sections which have been submitted to auction and not sold will be open for application, at the upset prices noted against each, on Friday, the 5th August, 1887, at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru :—

Reserve 144, Waimate: Lot 3, 1 acre, £10; Lot 20, 1 acre and 19 perches, £11 3s. 9d.; Lot 23, 2 acres, £15.

Reserve 389, Orari: Lot 8, 48 acres and 13 perches, £216 7s. 3d.; Lots 1, 3, 5, and 11, Block XVIII., each 1 acre, £6 each.

Reserve 1381, Rangitata: Lot 30, 40 acres, £150.

Reserve 1627, Arundel: Lot 6, Block XI., 1 acre and 28 perches, £11 15s.

Reserve 1754, Aylesbury: Lot 4, 3 acres, £15.

Reserve 1824, Springfield: Lot 48, 2 acres 1 rood 44 perches, £14.

Reserve 1840, Fairlie Creek: Lots 9 and 10, Block XII., each 1 acre, £8 each.

Reserve 2331, Oxford: Lot 4, 136 acres 2 roods 28 perches, £341 13s. 9d.

Arowhenua Village Settlement: Lots 633, 639, 681, 687, 689, 693, 703, 707, 708, 712, 766, 781, each ½ acre, £12 each section.

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

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Goldfields Notices.

Extension of Nelson Creek Water-race.—Deposit of Tailings, &c.

IN the exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Mining Act, 1886,” His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that application has been made to him to proclaim the watercourses known as Fox’s, Black-sand, Irishman’s, German Gully, Sullivan’s, and O’Callaghan’s, with all their tributaries and branches, in the Provincial District of Nelson, and also all creeks and watercourses situate within the area described in the Schedule hereto, to be watercourses into which tailings, mining débris, and waste waters of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding adjacent thereto shall be suffered to flow or be discharged.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land commencing at the most northern part of Lake Hochstetter at a spot about 186 chains bearing 70° north-east from north peg of Nelson Creek Dam. Starting from Lake Hochstetter at the spot indicated above, bearing north in a straight line 331°, 95 chains; thence 255°, 4814 links; thence 249°, 779 links; thence 278°, 1904 links; thence 271°, 296 links; thence 296°, 3031 links; thence 289°, 2359 links; thence 286°, 3025 links; thence 282°, 3587 links; thence 286°, 3195 links; thence 276°, 3237 links; thence 263°, 1018 links; thence 290°, 982 links; thence 266°, 1847 links; thence 279°, 2402 links; thence 246°, 233 links; thence 309°, 299 links; thence 249°, 183 links; thence 298°, 649 links; thence 289°, 346 links; thence 328°, 852 links: thence 287°, 1494 links; thence 257°, 687 links; thence 287°, 652 links; thence 262°, 837 links; thence 272°, 863 links; thence 252°, 1120 links; thence generally, 274°, 500 links; thence 280°, 785 links; thence 296°, 2097 links; thence 281°, 379 links; and thence 289°, 2017 links, to a branch of Sullivan’s Creek, which joins the Ahaura River below River View.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of May, 1887.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

Application to proclaim Lee Stream and its Tributaries a Watercourse for the Deposit of Tailings, &c.

NOTICE.—In pursuance of the powers vested in him by “The Mining Act, 1886,” His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that application has been made to him to proclaim the watercourse known as the Lee Stream, in the Provincial District of Otago, and its tributaries, to be watercourses into which tailings, mining débris, and wash-water of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding adjacent to such watercourses shall be suffered to flow or be discharged.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of May, 1887.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

Native Land Court Notice.

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

Native Land Court Office,
Whanganui, 7th July, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court to be held at New Plymouth, in the District of Whanganui, on the 4th day of August 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, situated in the districts named in the third column.

ELWIN B. DICKSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.