JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 749

Greenvale District: Section 3, Block XVII., about 320 acres; term, ten years. Upset rental, £5 6s. 8d. per annum.
Kuriwao District: Section 22, Block IX., about 502 acres; term, nine years. Upset rental, £16 14s. 8d. per annum.
Otago Peninsula District: Section 53, Block III., about 437 acres; term, ten years. Upset rental, £5 per annum.
Teviot District: Section 46, Block II., about 195 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £5 14s. per annum.
Run 36, Lake County, about 2,500 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £5 per annum.
Run 205c, part of Taieri Lake Station, Maniototo County, about 4,250 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £110 per annum. Subject to valuation for existing improvements (if any).

With Possession on the 1st March, 1891.

Run 421, Class I., Benmore Station, Waitaki County, about 15,000 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £30 per annum.
Run 421A, Class I., Benmore Station, Waitaki County, about 14,800 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £30 per annum.
Run 429B, Class I., Benmore Station, Waitaki County, about 6,700 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £20 per annum.
Run 429C, Class I., Waitaki County, about 2,600 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £10 per annum.

Pastoral licenses for the foregoing runs will be sold generally in terms of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1885,” tenure of runs marked “Class I.” being certain for terms stated, Government not reserving the right of resumption.

Runs possession of which is not given until the 1st March, 1891, are subject to valuations for existing improvements, to be paid one month before possession is given.

Purchasers will be required to deposit a half-year’s rent and £1 1s. license-fee on fall of hammer, and, in case of Run 205c, to pay the valuation for improvements (if any), to be declared at sale at same time.

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

Nenthorn District, Sections 1, 2, 3, 8 to 12, Block II., and Strath-Taieri District, Section 16, Block XIII. (grouped): About 2,255 acres; term, twenty-one years from the 1st September, 1890. Upset rental, £70 9s. 6d. per annum. Valuation for improvements, £739 9s. Possession on day of sale.

The purchaser will be required to hand to the auctioneer immediately the lease is knocked down to him the declaration required by section 200 of “The Land Act, 1885,” and to pay the first half-year’s rent and lease- and registration-fees (£1 11s.). Valuation for improvements payable within fourteen days from day of sale.

RURAL AND SUBURBAN DEFERRED-PAYMENT LANDS, UNDER PART III. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1885” (REOPENED).

Dunback District (Rural): Section 14, Block V., 269 acres 2 roods 14 perches. Upset price, £1 per acre. Valuation for improvements, £30.

Tuapeka West District (Rural): Section 18, Block II., 55 acres 1 rood 28 perches. Upset price, £1 per acre. Valuation for improvements, £16 10s. Section 20, Block II., 101 acres 2 roods. Upset price, £1 per acre. Valuation for improvements, £18.

Waikoikoi Township (Suburban): Sections 9, 13, and 20, containing 2 acres and 8 perches, 1 acre, and 1 acre 1 rood 39 perches respectively. Upset price, £5 per acre. Valuation for improvements on Section 13, £3 4s.

Terms of Payment: For rural land, one twenty-eighth of total price and £1 1s. license-fee, to be paid on fall of hammer; balance in equal half-yearly payments extending over fourteen years. For suburban land, one-tenth of total price and £1 1s. license-fee, to be paid on fall of hammer; balance in equal half-yearly payments extending over five years. Purchasers must deposit statutory declaration required by section 113 of “The Land Act, 1885,” and pay valuation for improvements (if any) at time of sale.

TOWNSHIPS.

Town sections in Herbert, Kelso, Kurow, and Pembroke Townships. Upset price, £30 per acre, except small sections in Blocks I., II., and III., Pembroke, which are offered at £3 per section.

Terms: One-fifth of purchase-money to be paid on fall of hammer; balance, with £1 Crown-grant fee, within thirty days.

For further information apply at this office.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forfeiture of Run.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 30th May, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of section 188 of “The Land Act, 1885,” that Run 424 is liable to forfeiture, and if rent and penalty be not paid within three months from present date the same will be declared forfeited.

J. SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rainfall for May, 1890.

Meteorological Office, Colonial Museum,
Wellington, 25th June, 1890.

THE following is the rainfall for the month of May, 1890:—

J. HECTOR,
Director.