Nov. 28.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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Auction Sale of Crown Lands in Auckland.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 4th November, 1889.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands contained in the
Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public
auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Auckland, on Friday, the
13th December next, at 11 a.m.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

RURAL LANDS.

Mareretu Parish, Otamatea County.
| | | 63 3 16 | 64 0 0 |
| 171 | .. | 69 0 8 | 69 2 6 |
| 172 | .. |
Description of Land: Lot 171, broken bush land, with
about 225,000ft. of kauri; 172, chiefly broken bush land con-
taining about 225,000ft. of kauri, remainder undulating fern
land, good soil.

Kaihu Survey District, Hobson County.
| | I. | 160 3 24 | 135 7 6 |
| 9 | | 79 2 8 | 55 0 0 |
| 10 | | 152 2 25 | 151 0 0 |
| 11 | | 106 0 30 | 89 15 0 |
| 13 | | 106 2 0 | 89 15 0 |
| 14 | | 137 0 32 | 89 0 0 |
| 15 | | 148 1 24 | 305 10 0 |
| 16 | | |
Description of Land: Land of inferior quality, but con-
taining valuable kauri timber. Section 9 contains approxi-
mately 300,0000ft.; 10, 60,000ft.; 11, 300,000ft.; 13,
200,000ft.; 14, 10,000ft.; 15, 150,000ft.; 16, 1,000,000ft.

Tutamoe Survey District.
| 9 | XIII. | 169 1 16 | 138 10 0 |
Description of Land: Inferior soil, contains 300,000ft. of
kauri.

Sale of Canterbury Runs.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 25th October, 1889.

THE under-mentioned runs will be offered for sale by
public auction, at the upset annual rentals noted
below :-

SALE AT LAND OFFICE, CHRISTCHURCH, TUESDAY, 10TH
DECEMBER, 1889, AT 11 A.M.

Blackford Station: Run 100, 35,000 acres (11,000 barren);
fourteen years, fixed tenure; rent, £500.

Manuka Point Station: Run 127, 40,000 acres (25,000
barren); twenty-one years, fixed tenure; rent, £135.

Woodstock Station: Run 149, 9,000 acres; rent, £150;
situated within the area of selection by the Midland Railway
Company; tenure for six years and ten months, subject to
right of resumption, without compensation, on twelve months'
notice, if required for the purpose of granting to the said
company.

SALE AT LAND OFFICE, TIMARU, FRIDAY, 6TH DECEMBER,
1889, AT 11 A.M.

Ben Ohau Station: Run 87, 54,700 acres; rent, £425;
fixed tenure for twenty-one years.

Rhoboro Downs Station: Run 88, 65,000 acres; rent,
£375; fixed tenure for twenty-one years.

Glentanner Station: Run 89, 58,000 acres (32,000 barren);
rent, £225; fixed tenure for twenty-one years.

The tenures are in each case (except Run 149) for two
months less than the terms stated.

Six months' rent must be paid at the time of sale, and
possession will be given on the 2nd May, 1890. Conditions
as to further payment of rent, date of leases, &c., may be ob-
tained at the Land Office, Christchurch, and will also be
announced at the time of sale.

The purchase or removal of any existing fences on the
Crown lands offered for license, whether at the date of sale
or before the determination of the present license, will be
matter of arrangement between the present licensee and the
purchaser during the currency of the present license.

No liability is accepted by or on behalf of the Crown in
respect of such fencing.

Where fences form the boundary between Crown lands
offered for license and freehold land, the purchaser of such
license will be liable to the provisions of any law now or here-
after in force relating to boundary fences.

Posters and plans can be seen at the principal railway-
stations and post offices throughout Canterbury, and may be
obtained at the Land Offices at Christchurch and Timaru,
and at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Run liable to Forfeiture.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 21st October, 1889.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of section 188 of "The
Land Act, 1885," that Run 423B, Waikaia, is liable
to forfeiture, and, if the rent, together with the penalty, be
not paid within three months from this date, the run will be
declared forfeited,

JOHN SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

Partition of Land under the Native Land Court Acts,
1886, 1888; and 1889.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1889.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of the Native
Land Court of New Zealand, to be held at Palmerston
North, on the 14th day of January, 1890, 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, and which are situate in the
district named in the third column.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.