Aug. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1053

Goldfields Notices.

Agricultural Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th July, 1887.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned agricultural lease cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—
No. 1618c. Francis Tubman; Section 10, Block XIII., 319 acres 1 rood 11 perches, Benger, Otago Mining District.
P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Agricultural Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th July, 1887.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned agricultural lease cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—
No. 1616c. Edward Tubman; Section 2, Block XIII., 310 acres 2 roods 28 perches, Benger, Otago Mining District.
P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th July, 1887.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-mining lease cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—
No. 865c. John Aspinall; Section 75, Block XI., 1 acre, Skipper’s Creek, Otago Mining District.
P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Gold-mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 26th July, 1887.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-mining leases cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no leases of the said ground had ever been applied for:—
No. 1. William Price; Block II., 16 acres 2 roods, Davie Survey District.
No. 7. Moa Creek Gold-mining Company; 16 acres 2 roods, Mathias Survey District.
No. 13. William Henry Spackman; 16 acres 2 roods, Mathias Survey District.
No. 4. Duncan Campbell Macdonald; 16 acres 2 roods, Mathias Survey District.
All in the Canterbury District.
W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

Crown Lands Notices.

Crown Lands for Sale, Wellington Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of “The Land Act, 1885,” that the lands enumerated hereunder will be submitted to public auction, for cash, at this office, on Wednesday, the 7th September, 1887, at the upset price per acre stated in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

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

Notice of Intention to cancel the License of a Deferred-payment Selector in the Wellington Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Land Board has resolved to cancel the license to occupy the under-mentioned section unless the arrears of payments are paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington, on or before the 13th September next.

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

SCHEDULE.

Pastoral Lands for Lease, Westland Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 21st July, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the under-mentioned runs, which have been submitted to auction and not sold, will be open for sale on application at the upset annual rentals, on and after the 1st September, 1887.

SCHEDULE.

Plans and further particulars on application at Land Office, Hokitika.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Leaseholds, Grey Coal Reserve.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 25th July, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leaseholds of the sections of land situated in the Grey Coal Reserve, No. 274, and described in the Schedules A, B, and C, given below, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Railway Goods-station, Brunnerton, on Tuesday, the 30th August, at 2 p.m., subject to the rents and conditions hereunder set out.

Maps of the sections may be seen at the District Land Office, Hokitika; the Public Works Office, Greymouth; and the Railway-station, Brunnerton.

Term of leaseholds enumerated on Schedules A, B, and C, fourteen years. Right of re-entry reserved to Government, for coal-mining purposes only, at any time during the currency of the lease, or at the termination thereof, by paying compensation for improvements not exceeding £200.

At the same time and place the leasehold for coal-mining purposes of Section No. 734 (see Schedule D), within Grey Coal Reserve, east of and adjoining the Wallsend Coal Company’s lease, will be offered for sale at public auction, subject to rents and conditions as under:—

Term of leasehold, twenty-one years. First three years’ rent, £20 per annum; next four years’ rent, £100 per annum; next seven years’ rent, £200 per annum; next seven years’ rent, 250 per annum. Royalty, 6d. per ton on all coal raised; rent to merge in royalty.

Output for the first two years, nil; for the next five years, not less than 4,000 tons per annum; for the next seven years, not less than 8,000 tons per annum; and for the remainder of term, not less than 10,000 tons per annum,