Oct. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1119

For Pastoral License for Twenty-one Years.

Description of Land: Run No. 9 has some land which would carry good grass, but it exists in patches. Run No. 10 contains about 6,000 acres of pumice land, with clay sub-soil, and little or no vegetation on it. Run No. 19 is hilly pastoral country, soil light, overlying a calcareous marl or papa formation. All three runs are well watered, and distant about twenty-three miles from Clyde, the county town.

Conditions: The licenses of Runs Nos. 9 and 10 shall date from the 1st March, 1892, and that of Run No. 19 from the 1st March, 1891.

Crown Lands Sale, Otago Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 22nd September, 1890.

THE following Crown lands will be sold by auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 23rd October, 1890, at 11.30 a.m. :

PASTORAL LICENSES UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1885.”

Run No. 24A, Clutha County, about 890 acres; term, ten years. Upset rental, £14 16s. 8d. per annum.

Run No. 37, Lake County, about 268 acres; term, ten years. Upset rental, £5 per annum.

Run No. 38, Lake County, about 274 acres; term, ten years. Upset rental, £5 per annum.

Section 7, Block III., Catlin’s District, about 726 acres; term, ten years. Upset rental, £9 1s. 6d. per annum.

Section 3, Block IV., Kurow District, about 204 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £7 13s. per annum.

Possession of the foregoing runs will be given on the day of sale. Purchasers will be required to deposit a half-year’s rent and £1 1s. license-fee on the fall of the hammer.

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

Subdivisions of Part of Taieri Lake Station.

Run No. 205A, about 1,200 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £30 per annum.

Run No. 205B, about 3,960 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £99 per annum.

Run No. 205F, about 1,400 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £35 per annum.

Run No. 205G, about 1,385 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £34 12s. 6d. per annum.

Possession on day of sale. Purchasers will be required to hand to the auctioneer 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., on fall of hammer.

TOWNSHIP SECTIONS.

Town sections in Kaitangata, Kelso, Nenthorn, Waipahi, and Waynes Townships. Upset price, £30 per acre.

Terms: Twenty per. cent. deposit on fall of hammer; balance, with Crown-grant fee, £1, and valuation (if any), within thirty days.

NOTE.—Sections in Nenthorn and Waynes are subject to valuations for improvements, particulars of which can be obtained on application.

For further particulars apply to this office.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Notice to Occupiers of Runs, Westland District.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 20th September, 1890.

IN accordance with section 188 of “The Land Act, 1885,” I hereby give notice that the runs hereunder enumerated will be declared forfeited if the amount of rent due, together with the penalty for non-payment, are not paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Hokitika, within three months from the date of insertion of this notice: Runs No. 24, Nisson and Eggeling, Waiatoto, 15,000 acres; No. 25, Cattery and Jackson, Arawata, 14,000 acres; and No. 12, John Allen, Upper Mikonui, 3,000 acres.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Grazing Rights, Land District of Canterbury.

THE following grazing rights, without power of cropping the land, being river-conservation reserves on Rangitata Island, will be sold at the Courthouse, Temuka, on Wednesday, the 29th October, 1890, at 11 a.m. :

On the north side of Rangitata River, Coldstream Run, at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Friday, the 31st October, 1890, at 11 a.m. :

These lands are all situated on the Rangitata Island or on the north and south banks of the Rangitata River, and consist of river-bed land all more or less subject to being overflowed if the river is in flood. The land is light, and in some places broken or very stony and poor, but in others well grassed, and capable, especially if worked with the adjoining lands, of carrying a good deal of stock. The term of lease will be for seven years; rent to be payable half-yearly, on the 1st April and October in each year.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Runs liable to Forfeiture.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 1st October, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of section 188 of “The Land Act, 1885,” that the following runs are liable to forfeiture, and if rent and penalty be not paid within three months from present date the existing licenses will be declared forfeited :

Runs Nos. 323B, 443, and 475.

JOHN SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Public Reserve for Lease.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1890.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” that the lease of the under-mentioned section will be offered at public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, on Thursday, the 20th day of November, 1890, at noon.

Plan and form of lease can be seen and particulars obtained at this office.

The term of the lease will be seven years.

No allowance whatsoever shall be payable on account of improvements effected by the lessee.

A deposit of a half-year’s rent and £1 11s. lease-fee must be deposited on the fall of the hammer.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 22, Block IV., Mikimiki District, 4 acres 1 rood. Upset rental per annum, 10s.

Description of Land: This section is situated on the west side of the Ruamahanga River, about fifteen miles from Masterton, at the head of the Opaki Plain, at Mole’s Corner, and comprises stony flat land of fair quality, covered with mixed bush.