SEPT. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1181

Gold-mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 31st August, 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. 877c. Section 21, Block XI., Skipper's Creek, Otago
Mining District; 4 acres 1 rood 2 perches.

No. 881c. Section 30, Block XI., Skipper's Creek, Otago
Mining District; 1 acre 3 roods 13 perches.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Gold-mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 7th September, 1887.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned
gold-mining leases cancelled:—

No. 1335. Section 5, Block VI., Waitahu, 13 acres 1 rood
12 perches; Happy Valley Gold-mining Company.

No. 1334. Section 8, Block VI., Waitahu, 16 acres 2 roods
4 perches; Happy Valley Gold-mining Company.

No. 1347. Section 6, Block X., Waitahu, 10 acres 2 roods
16 perches; Big River Extended Gold-mining Company.

No. 1361. Section 18, Block X., Waitahu, 10 acres 2 roods
17 perches; Big River Extended Gold-mining Company.

No. 1348. Section 29, Block X., Waitahu, 16 acres 2 roods
7 perches; Big River Extended Gold-mining Company.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Gold-mining Lease Application refused.

IT is hereby notified that the application of Arnold Sturm,
under "The Mines Act, 1877," for a gold-mining lease
of Section 12, Block XIV., Tuapeka East, has been refused,
and that the said section is now open to persons holding
miners' rights or business licenses, or to applicants for a
lease, as if no lease of the said section had ever been applied
for.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this thirty-first
day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-seven.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Native Land Court Notices.

Partition of Land under "The Native Land Court Act,
1886."

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 29th August, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of the Native
Land Court of New Zealand, to be held at Ohine-
muri, in the District of Upper Thames, on the 22nd day of
September next, will be heard the applications of the persons
whose names appear in the first column for the partition
of the lands the names of which appear in the second
column, situate in the district named in the third column.

EDW. HAMMOND,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

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

Native Land Court Office,
Whanganui, 31st August, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court
to be held at Opunake, in the District of Whanganui,
on the 6th day of October, 1887, will be heard the applica-
tions of the persons whose names appear in the first column
of the Schedule hereunder for the subdivision of the heredita-
ments comprised in the Crown grants of the pieces of land
the names of which appear in the second column, situate in
the districts named in the third column.

ELWIN B. DICKSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Town, Suburban, and Rural Lands, Land District
of Auckland.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 25th August, 1887.

HEREBY notify that the lands mentioned in the
Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public
auction, at this office, on Thursday the 6th October next, at
the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

• Subject to £40 for improvements.