April 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 465

SMALL GRAZING RUNS.

BENGER DISTRICT.—Section 6, Block XIV., 1,208 acres; improvements, £390 10s. Sections 7, 10, 11 (grouped), Block XIII., 810 acres.

CATLIN'S DISTRICT.—Sections 1 and 3 (grouped), Block VI., 716 acres; improvements, £435 2s.

HIGHLAY DISTRICT (Deep Dell).—Section 3, Block VII., 1,330 acres; Section 5, Block VII., 1,390 acres; Section 6, Block VII., 1,312 acres.

SWINBURN DISTRICT (Deep Dale).—Section 1, Block XIII., 4,957 acres.

KURIWAO DISTRICT (subdivision of Run No. 90, Clutha River Trust).—Sections 5A, 6, 7, and 11, Block VII. (grouped with Section 2, Block XII.), 1,618 acres; Sections 3 and 4, Block VIII. (grouped with Section 1, Block IX.), 645 acres; Section 1, Block XI., 1,578 acres; Section 1, Block X., 930 acres; Sections 9 to 11, Block IX., 763 acres; Sections 4 and 5, Block IX., 658 acres (Crown lands); Sections 13, 14, 15, and 17, Block IX., 524 acres; Sections 18 to 22, Block IX., 1,315 acres.

STRATH TAIRI DISTRICT.—Section 1, Block III., 4,931 acres; improvements, £1,548.

TIGER HILL DISTRICT.—Section 29, Block II. (grouped with Section 16, Block IV., Lauder District), 567 acres.

NOTE.—Upset rentals on foregoing runs, 6d. per acre.

SUBDIVISIONS OF RUN No. 23.

KUROW DISTRICT.—No. 2 of 23, about 6,047 acres; upset rental, 4d. per acre. No. 3 of 23, about 4,528 acres; upset rental, 3d. per acre. No. 4 of 23, about 3,982 acres; upset rental, 3d. per acre. No. 5 of 23, about 1,825 acres; upset rental, 1s. per acre. No. 6 of 23, about 7,212 acres; upset rental, 3d. per acre. No. 7 of 23, about 7,164 acres; upset rental, 3d. per acre. No. 8 of 23, about 614 acres; upset rental, 9d. per acre. No. 9 of 23, about 2,200 acres; upset rental, 9d. per acre; valuations for improvements, £—.

PARTICULARS.—Terms of lease, twenty-one years. Purchasers must deposit on sale the required statutory declaration, and pay the first half-year's rent with lease and registration fee. Valuation for improvements payable within fourteen days after purchase. Possession on day of sale, except Kurow Runs, which will not be given until 24th May.

PASTORAL LICENSES.

Run No. 14, about 18,800 acres, Earnslaw District, fourteen years; upset rental, £59 per annum.

Run No. 18, about 43,700 acres, Earnslaw District, fourteen years; upset rental, £68 per annum.

Run No. 19, about 33,500 acres, Earnslaw District, fourteen years; upset rental, £35 per annum.

Run No. 346, about 14,300 acres, Glenorchy District, fourteen years; upset rental, £45 per annum.

Run No. 346A, about 8,900 acres, Glenorchy District, fourteen years; upset rental, £23 per annum.

Run No. 346B, about 16,000 acres, Glenorchy District, fourteen years; upset rental, £50 per annum.

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

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

Run No. 328A, about 4,580 acres, Waikaka District, ten years; upset rental, £10 per annum.

Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, Block VII., 818 acres, Table Hill District, fourteen years; upset rental, £20 9s. per annum; improvements, £36.

Section 29, Block VII. (grouped with Section 72, Block IV.), 145 acres, Table Hill District), fourteen years; upset rental, £3 12s. 6d. per annum; improvements, £22 10s.

Section 1A, Block X., 1,064 acres, Waipori District, seven years; upset rental, £13 6s. per annum.

NOTE.—Possession on day of sale, except Runs Nos. 217B and 419, which will not be given till 1st March, 1889. Improvements payable on fall of hammer.

The licenses of 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.

Small Grazing Runs, Otago District.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 7th April, 1888.

SALE of small grazing runs under Part VII., "Land Act, 1885."

Terms: Twenty-one years' lease, with right of renewal as provided by the Act.

By auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 10th May, 1888, at noon.

SUBDIVISIONS OF RUN No. 23, KUROW.

Subject to valuation for improvements.

Particulars.—The leases will be for an absolute term of twenty-one years, renewable for a further term of twenty-one years in terms of section 209 of "The Land Act, 1885."

Improvements equal in value to one year's rent must be effected in each year for the first two years, and before the end of the sixth year an additional amount, equal to two years' rent, must also be expended.

Valuations for permanent improvements, as described in sections 210 and 214 of "The Land Act, 1885," will be paid at the expiry of the leases to the outgoing tenants.

No person can take up more than one run. No person who owns freehold land under lease or license from the Crown which in all would exceed 6,000 acres, or who is incapable of making the declaration prescribed by section 200 of "The Land Act, 1885," can become a lessee.

Purchasers will have to deposit with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, on sale, the required statutory declaration, and on fall of the hammer pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue the first half-year's rent from the 1st September, 1888, to the 1st March, 1889, together with fee for lease, £1 1s.

Persons having payments to make on account of land revenue are notified that no cheques can be received unless marked as correct for two days if drawn on Dunedin banks, or for ten days if drawn on country banks. Exchange need not be added if a cheque is drawn on a bank in any town in which there is a branch of the Bank of New Zealand.

Full particulars given on application to the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, where lithograph maps may also be obtained.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Third-class Rural Lands, Auckland Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 6th April, 1888.

I HEREBY notify that the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Monday, the 28th May next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

S. PERCY SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

THIRD-CLASS LANDS.
BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY.
Parish of Ruapekapeka.

| | | A. | R. | P. | £ s. d. |
| 51 | | 23 | 3 | 8 | } 0 5 0 |
| 52 | | 23 | 3 | 13 | |
| 54 | | 62 | 2 | 32 | |
| 57 | | 25 | 3 | 9 | |
| 65 | | 20 | 3 | 18 | |
| 72 | | 182 | 3 | 12 | } 0 5 0 |
| 75 | | 468 | 1 | 10 | |
| 77 | | 54 | 0 | 0 | |
| 78 | | 65 | 0 | 0 | | 0 8 0 |
| 82 | | 296 | 2 | 0 | |
| 83 | | 226 | 1 | 10 | | 0 8 0 |
| 84 | | 360 | 0 | 0 | | 0 5 0 |

Parish of Kawakawa.

| | | A. | R. | P. | £ s. d. |
| 182 | | 113 | 0 | 0 | } 0 8 0 |
| 183 | | 30 | 0 | 0 | |
| 191 | | 35 | 0 | 5 | |