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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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ration, and pay the first half-year’s rent, and lease and registration-fee. Valuation for improvements payable within fourteen days after purchase.

PASTORAL LICENSES.

Run No. 51A, about 10,460 acres, Waipori District; 7 years; upset rental, £180 per annum.

Runs Nos. 171A and 171B (grouped as one run), about 4,530 acres, Hummock District; 10 years; upset rental, £130 per annum.

Runs Nos. 171, 171C, 171D, 171F, and 171G (grouped as one run), about 16,520 acres, Hummock District; 10 years; upset rental, £400 per annum.

Runs Nos. 218, 218A, and Section 17, Block III. (grouped as one run), about 23,321 acres, Nenthorn District; 10 years; upset rental, £400 per annum.

Run No. 223, about 14,120 acres, Lauder District; 3 years; upset rental, £250 per annum.

Run No. 323A, about 36,930 acres, Kingston District; 14 years; upset rental, £100 per annum.

Run No. 325A, about 18,500 acres, Cromwell District; 14 years; upset rental, £300 per annum.

NOTE.—Possession on day of sale, except Run No. 51A, which will not be given until the 1st June, 1888. Valuation for improvements on Runs Nos. 23A, 23B, 23C, 23D, £ , payable on fall of hammer. Valuation on Run No. 51A, £ , to be paid 1st May, 1888. The area of Run No. 223 will be increased by 600 acres in 1890, this acreage being at present included in license of Run No. 238A.

Run No. 217B, about 17,170 acres, Waihemo District; 10 years; upset rental, £200 per annum.

Run No. 225, about 3,830 acres, Naseby District; 3 years; upset rental, £111 per annum.

Run No. 225A, about 4,300 acres, Blackstone District; 3 years; upset rental, £127 per annum.

Run No. 225B, about 7,040 acres, Gimmerburn District; 3 years; upset rental, £210 per annum.

Run No. 225D, about 5,450 acres, Gimmerburn District; 3 years; upset rental, £162 per annum.

Run No. 238C, about 7,666 acres, Wakefield District; 10 years; upset rental, £100 per annum.

Run No. 238D, about 6,860 acres, Wakefield District; 10 years; upset rental, £100 per annum.

Run No. 238E, about 8,600 acres, Wakefield District; 1 year; upset rental, £107.

Run No. 238F, about 12,800 acres, Wakefield District; 1 year; upset rental, £165.

Run No. 238H, about 1,100 acres, Wakefield District; 2 years; upset rental, £12 per annum.

Run No. 240D, about 6,044 acres, Cardrona District; 9 years; upset rental, £100 per annum.

Run No. 255, about 1,210 acres, Waihemo District; 14 years; upset rental, £15 per annum.

Run No. 419, about 10,900 acres, Kinloch District; 14 years; upset rental, £20 per annum.

NOTE.—Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1889. Valuation for improvements (if any) must be paid one month before getting possession. Half-year’s rent from date of possession, with license-fee (£1 1s.), to be paid on fall of hammer, either by marked cheque or in cash.

The licenses of all the foregoing runs will be sold subject to the provisions contained in “The Land Act, 1885,” and “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887.”

Further particulars can be obtained on application to the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land open for Application, Land District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 28th November, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given, in conformity with section 232 of “The Land Act, 1885,” that the Crown lands situate in the Mackenzie County and Hakateramea Valley, formerly excluded from sale by the Government in view of proposed railway-extensions, will be open for application at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru, on the 29th February, 1888, subject to the provisions of the said Act.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands, Wellington Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of “The Land Act, 1885,” that the under-mentioned lands will be offered at auction, at the rental and prices specified in the Schedule, at this office, on Wednesday, the 7th March, 1888, at half-past 2 o’clock p.m. Full particulars obtainable on application.

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

SCHEDULE.

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

47 | X. | Mangaone.. | 30/ | 112 0 16 | 168 3 0
3 | I. | Kopuaranga | 20/ | 114 0 0 | 114 0 0

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.—VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS.

1371 | .. | Bunnythorpe | .. | 1 2 12 | 8 0 0*

SMALL GRAZING RUN.

47 | III., IV., VII., VIII. | Pohangina.. | /6 | 1,266 0 0 | †

CASH.—HASTWELL VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

45 | XIV. | Mangaone.. | 100/ | 4 3 30 | 24 13 9
46 | " | " | 90/ | 4 3 39 | 22 9 8
49 | " | " | 60/ | 10 0 5 | 30 2 0

• Forfeited deferred-payment section.

† This land is situated in the Pohangina District, about 19 miles from Ashurst, on the east side of the Pohangina River; access is by a made road for a part of the distance, the rest at present by the Pohangina River-bed. The area consists of hilly and undulating forest country, covered with rimu, white-pine, rata, tawa, hinau, black-birch, with some totara and manuka in places. The soil varies from good on the flats to poor on the ridges; there is some good flat land on the river and streams and on the tops of the spurs.

RETURN of the Estimated Population (inclusive and exclusive of Maoris) of the Colony of New Zealand on the 31st December, 1887.

Population of the Colony.

• No more recent information is obtainable, as births and deaths of Maoris are not recorded.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1888.