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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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hopai, adjoining the Upper Run; estimated area, 12,800 acres. Upset annual rent, ½d. an acre.

Spray and Upcot Survey Districts: Adjoining the Castle Run, at the head of the Spray; estimated area, 4,200 acres. Upset annual rent, ½d. an acre.

Molesworth and Leatham Survey Districts: Saxton Valley, slopes of range, Waihopai Saddle, to boundary of provincial district; estimated area, 14,100 acres. Upset annual rent, ½d. an acre.

Molesworth, Leatham and Upcot Survey Districts: Acheron and Saxton Valleys, from summit of range to Pass Run; estimated area, 17,400 acres. Upset annual rent, ½d. an acre.

Pine Valley Survey District: North Bank of Wairau (including the late Oddstone Run, 4,200 acres); estimated area, 6,400 acres. Upset annual rent, 1¼d. an acre.

In each case the licensee to have the boundaries laid off at his own expense if required to do so by the Land Board.

Half a year’s rent and £1 1s. license-fee to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

SMALL GRAZING RUNS UNDER PART VII., “THE LAND ACT 1885.”

Linkwater Survey District.

Mahau Sound: Estimated area, 1,000 acres.

Tennyson Survey District.

Mydia Bay: Estimated area, 720 acres.

Mydia Bay: Estimated area, 250 acres.

The term of lease is twenty-one years. Upset annual rent, 3d. an acre.

Area and boundaries to be subject to adjustment after survey.

Half a year’s rent and £1 1s. lease-fee to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land District of Canterbury.—Sale of Lake Ellesmere Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 11th March, 1890.

IN pursuance of the provisions of “The Ellesmere Lake Lands Act, 1888,” the under-mentioned lands, which were not sold at auction on the 12th November, 1889, will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at the upset prices noted, at the Crown Lands Office, Christchurch, at 11 o’clock a.m., on Wednesday, the 16th April, 1890.

Purchasers will have to pay one-fifth of the total price on the fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Block III.

| 2 | 118 0 4 | 3 0 0 | 354 1 6 |
| 3 | 100 0 6 | 2 10 0 | 250 1 10 |
| 4 | 87 2 29 | 2 10 0 | 219 4 1 |
| 7 | 87 2 35 | 2 10 0 | 219 6 0 |
| 8 | 107 0 2 | 3 0 0 | 321 0 7 |

This land is all light, sandy soil, principally adapted for grazing purposes only, though probably some of the better land is suitable for root-crops. The greater part of the flat is covered with self-sown rye-grass, and is well known for its grazing capabilities. Artesian water can, it is believed, be obtained in any part of the flat. An artesian well was sunk many years ago on Section 34, Block II., near the sandhill, in the middle of the flat, and is still flowing. Section 36, Block II., adjoining the Little River Railway-line, is covered with splendid rye-grass. Sections 1, 2, and 3, Block IV., on the main road, include part of the same rye-grass flat, and have all some ground suitable for building on. Sections 4, 8, 9, and 13, Block IV., are covered with the lake-weed, growing on a sandy bottom, but are considered capable of improvement if the lake-water is kept off them. The rest of the sections, both in Blocks II., III., and IV., especially those fronting the long straight road, on the ridge known as the base-line ridge, are all more or less covered with rye-grass, affording good pasturage, and carry a large amount of stock. Sections 2 to 8, Block II., are wetter than the rest of the flat, but are all capable of being drained; they do not at present, however, afford such good pasturage as some of the other sections. The greater part of Section 41, Block II., is a sandhill.

The whole of the land is within three and a half miles of either the Greenpark or the Rabbit Island Railway-stations, on the Little River Railway. The Ellesmere Flat is situated about eighteen miles from Christchurch, and is eminently fitted for grazing and dairy purposes, being within easy distance of the Taitapu Dairy Factory.

Notice to Occupier of Run, Marlborough District.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 13th January, 1890.

PURSUANT to section 188 of “The Land Act, 1885,” I hereby give notice that, if the amount of rent and penalty due on Run No. 19, situate at Onapua Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, Arapoua Survey District, and held under license by William Henry Keenan, be not paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Blenheim, within three months after the insertion of this notice in the New Zealand Gazette, the said run will be declared forfeited.

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection.—Land District of Canterbury.

LANDS LYING BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH BRANCHES OF THE ASHBURTON RIVER.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred payments, or on perpetual lease, at the option of the selector, on and after Thursday, the 3rd April, 1890 (with possession on the 2nd May, 1890).

In cases where more than one application is received for the same section on the same day, priority of choice will be decided by priority of application; but, if two or more persons shall apply at the same time for the same piece of land, or any portion thereof, the Board shall determine by lot the priority of right to be heard, as provided by section 2, Appendix E, of “The Land Act, 1885.”