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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 31]

Rural Lands in the Otago Land District open for Sale or Selection.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of "The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre respectively set opposite such land in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
Otago District.

FIRST-CLASS LANDS.

Maniototo.. | 10 | III. | 262 1 26 | £ 1 0 0 | Open, broken, and undulating; sandy clay subsoil; altitude, 1,600ft.
.. | 11 | .. | 240 0 13 | 1 0 0 | Open, broken, and undulating; sandy clay subsoil; altitude, 1,600ft.
.. | 12 | .. | 308 1 23 | 1 0 0 | Open, broken, and undulating; sandy clay subsoil; altitude, 1,550ft.
.. | 13 | .. | 317 1 20 | 1 0 0 | Open, broken, and undulating; sandy clay subsoil; altitude, 1,500ft.
.. | 14 | .. | 104 1 7 | 1 0 0 | Open, broken, and undulating; sandy clay subsoil; dry; altitude, 1,500ft.
.. | 4 | IV. | 332 2 37 | 1 0 0 | Undulating, agricultural block; black soil, sandy subsoil; altitude, 1,500ft.
.. | 8 | .. | 81 0 7 | 1 0 0 | Undulating, agricultural block; black soil, sandy subsoil; altitude, 1,500ft.
.. | 9 | X. | 224 2 26 | 1 0 0 | Fairly good; well watered; altitude, 1,100ft.
.. | 10 | .. | 207 1 35 | 1 0 0 | Fairly good; well watered; altitude, 1,080ft.
.. | 13 | .. | 76 1 8 | 1 5 0 | Good; well watered; altitude, 1,040ft.
.. | 14 | .. | 59 2 24 | 1 2 6 | Good; well watered; altitude, 1,030ft.
.. | 16 | .. | 157 0 0 | 1 5 0 | " " "
.. | 17 | .. | 117 0 0 | 1 5 0 | " " "
.. | 9 | XV. | 84 2 24 | 1 0 0 | Good, open, undulating; altitude, 1,200ft.
Rankleburn | 7 | VI. | 119 0 11 | 1 0 0 | 80 acres manuka scrub, agricultural, good soil, fairly watered; altitude, 400ft.
.. | 10 | .. | 147 3 16 | 1 0 0 | 80 acres clear, rest scrub; agricultural, good soil; altitude, 350ft. to 500ft.
.. | 11 | .. | 49 3 38 | 1 0 0 | 40 acres clear, easy spurs, good soil; altitude, 450ft.
.. | 12 | .. | 49 3 35 | 1 0 0 | 40 acres clear, easy spurs, good soil; altitude, 450ft.
.. | 13 | .. | 49 3 34 | 1 0 0 | Nearly all clear, easy spurs, good soil; altitude, 300ft. to 400ft.
.. | 14 | .. | 48 2 11 | 1 0 0 | Open land, easy spurs, good soil; altitude, 300ft. to 400ft.
.. | 15 | .. | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 15 acres manuka scrub, easy spurs, good soil; altitude, 300ft. to 400ft.
.. | 20 | .. | 47 2 22 | 1 5 0 | 20 acres scrub, soil fair to good, spurs easy; altitude, 150ft. to 300ft.
.. | 21 | .. | 48 3 21 | 1 5 0 | 15 acres scrub, soil fair to good, spurs easy; altitude, 150ft. to 300ft.
.. | 34 | .. | 5 2 21 | 3 0 0 | Scrub and bush, flat, nearly alluvial; altitude, 165ft.
.. | 40 | .. | 43 2 38 | 1 0 0 | Open land, spurs easy, soil fair; altitude, 450ft.
.. | 41 | .. | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0 | Nearly all open, spurs easy, soil fair; altitude, 400ft.
Tiger Hill.. | 30 | II. | 89 0 30 | 1 0 0 | Good; with valuation to the extent of £35; altitude, 1,100ft.
Blackstone | 15 | XVI. | 31 3 23 | 1 0 0 | Open, level, soil fair; altitude, 1,400ft.
.. | 16 | .. | 104 1 8 | 1 0 0 | " " " "
.. | 17 | .. | 65 1 8 | 1 0 0 | " " " "
.. | 20 | .. | 119 3 37 | 1 0 0 | Open, level land, well watered; altitude, 1,400ft.

SECOND-CLASS LANDS.

Benger .. | 7 | VII. | 235 0 29 | 0 14 0 | Two-thirds dry shingle, light grasses, sorrel, &c.; nearest bush Tapanui; altitude, 300ft. to 400ft.
.. | 8 | .. | 313 2 36 | 0 16 0 | 50 acres shingle, 100 acres fair quality, remainder rocky; nearest bush Tapanui; altitude, 300ft. to 800ft.
.. | 9 | .. | 307 0 19 | 0 15 0 | Chiefly steep spurs with rocks, small patches good soil; nearest bush Tapanui; altitude, 350ft. to 1,140ft.
.. | 11 | .. | 190 2 14 | 0 16 0 | Moderately steep spurs, fair soil on clay and shingle; tussock, fern, and flax; 4½ miles from Roxburgh; altitude, 800ft. to 1,100ft.
.. | 12 | .. | 191 2 10 | 0 16 0 | Two-thirds fair light soil on shingle, low spurs, light grasses, rest of section spurs, dry in summer; altitude, 400ft. to 900ft.
Lower Hawea | 1 | VIII. | 258 0 0 | 0 12 6 | Part high terrace, part low ground; medium; altitude, 1,000ft. to 1,200ft.