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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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the most part light, consisting of tawa, pukatea, hinau,
titoki, and kohekohe, with a few matai, totara, and rimu
trees. The formation is generally papa and sandstone, with
pumice here and there. The soil is generally good, although
light in parts.

The block will be connected by surveyed road with Gis-
borne, from which it is distant about twenty-five miles.
Distance from shipping place at Mahia about eight miles,
and about twenty-five miles to Wairoa.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

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

ONSLLOW, 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 Hillier, Earl of Onslow, 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 not less than 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 stated in the said
Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
Lithograph 13.
SURVEYED LANDS.

Description of Land: Light stony land, fairly well grassed.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Selwyn County.—Between Bankside and Rakaia River,
East of Main Railway.

Description of Land: Very light stony river-bed land,
lightly grassed.

UNSURVEYED LANDS.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Selwyn County.—Between Bankside and Rakaia River,
East of Main Railway.

Description of Land: Light stony river-bed land, fairly
well grassed, with early spring feed; on patches the soil is a
little deeper and there is more herbage, but on other parts
there are patches of light manuka with poorer soil. Water-
races cross the land.

Description of Land: Very stony river-bed land, lightly
grassed; on I, J, K, and L there is is a light growth of
manuka.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

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

ONSLLOW, 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 Hillier, Earl of Onslow, 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 not less than 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 stated in the said
Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
Lithograph 20.
SURVEYED LANDS.

Description of Land: Very good grazing land; difficult
access.

Description of Land: Fairly good land, part ploughable.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Geraldine County.—Waitohi Hills, near Geraldine.

Description of Land: Rough ferny land on Waitohi Hill.

Description of Land: Rough fern land on side of hill.

Description of Land: Fern and manuka, poor land; near
Educational Reserve.

Description of Land: Rough scrubby face of hill on
Kakahu River.

Description of Land: Good grazing land, facing Opuha
River; access from Ashwick Flat side.

Description of Land: Fair grazing land, difficult access.

Description of Land: Good grazing land, fronting on the
south branch of the Hae-hae-te-moana River; good aspect.