JUNE 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 729

To be offered at auction on same day, at 11.30 a.m.:

FOR CASH.

Description of Land: Section 1, Block XIV., Woodville, is hilly forest-land on spurs of Ruahine Range, between Woodville and Manawatu Gorge. Access is had by Woodville–Palmerston Road and through Ferry Reserve. Sections 48 and 49, Block III., Tahoraite, are situated within a few minutes’ walk of Danevirke, on the new road to Wainui. The land is of first-class quality, and contains a considerable quantity of valuable totara and matai timber, Block 88, Wakarara, is within about twenty miles of Waipawa, by a good road. It is enclosed by a substantial ring-fence, and carries a large quantity of valuable timber, consisting of totara, matai, rimu, miro, and kahikatea, estimated to be worth at least £200. A proportion of the cost of fencing would be recoverable from adjoining owners under the existing Fencing Acts.

Conditions: One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer; the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within one month from date of sale.

FORFEITED DEFERRED-PAYMENT SECTIONS.

• Subject to £2 10s. for valuation for improvements.

Description of Land: Section 10, Block XV., Hangaroa, is distant about a mile and a half from the village of Tiniroto and the Gisborne–Wairoa main road. Section 5, Block VII., Woodville, is half-way between the Woodville and Victoria Railway-stations, in the middle of a well-settled district. It is laid down in grass.

ON PERPETUAL LEASE.

Description of Land: Situated on the banks of the Akitio River, about two miles from the Wainui–Tahoraite Road. Two acres have been felled and eight acres under-scrubbed on the section.

Conditions: £7 is to be paid in cash for the above-mentioned improvements. Half a year’s rent and £1 10s. lease- and registration-fees are also to be paid by the successful bidder.

FOR LICENSE FOR TEN YEARS.

Description of Land: On the sea-coast, adjoining Mahia Township.

Conditions: Half a year’s rent and £1 1s. license-fee must be paid at the sale.

For further particulars apply to the Crown Land Offices at Napier or Gisborne.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands for Sale, Marlborough Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 10th June, 1890.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be offered for disposal by public auction, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, on Tuesday, the 15th July, 1890, at noon:

FOR SALE FOR CASH,

Kaikoura.—Mount Fyffe Survey District.

SMALL GRAZING-RUNS (to be leased under Part VII. of “The Land Act, 1885”).

Pelorus Sound.—Ohingaroa.—Linkwater Survey District.

| 4 | VI. | 202 0 0 | 7 17 6 |
| 5 | " | 423 0 0 | |

Eli Bay.—Orieri Survey District.

| 3 | I. | 480 0 0 | 10 6 9 |
| 4 | II. | 347 0 0 | |

Maori Bay.

| 2 | IV. | 318 0 0 | 9 6 0 |
| 3 | " | 426 0 0 | |

Clova Bay.—Gore Survey District.

| 12 | II. | 286 0 0 | 3d. an acre. |
| 13 | " | 586 0 0 | |

• These areas are approximate.

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

PASTORAL LICENSES.—PART VI., “THE LAND ACT, 1885.

Pine Valley Survey District.—North Bank of Wairau
Estimated area, 6,400 acres (including the late Oddstone Run, 4,200 acres). Upset annual rent, ½d. an acre. Term of license, from date of disposal to the 1st July, 1896.

Pine Valley and Mount Olympus Survey Districts.
Estimated area, 12,700 acres (adjoining the above-mentioned block). Upset annual rent, ½d. an acre. Term of license, from disposal to the 1st July, 1896.

Cloudy Bay Survey District.—Kaituna Valley.
Estimated area, 1,650 acres. Upset annual rent, 1d. an acre. Term of license, ten years.

Licensees to have the boundaries laid off at their own expense if required to do so by the Land Board.

Gore Survey District.—Forsythe Island.
The whole of the island, excepting present licensee’s homestead. Estimated area, 1,850 acres. Upset annual rent, 1d. an acre. Term of license to be twenty-one years from expiration of present license.

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

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st January, 1890.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1891, the period of literature will be the period from 1800 to 1850, and the special books will be Milton’s Samson Agonistes, and Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.

T. W. HISLOP.