1170
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

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 subsoil, 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.

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.

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.

Reserves for Leasing.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 7th October, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that tenders for the right to occupy the under-mentioned Crown lands for grazing purposes only, without any right of cropping, will be received at this office up to Monday, the 10th November, 1890. Every tender must be accompanied by a post-office order or marked cheque for ten and a half months' rent to the 1st October, 1891, at the rate tendered. No compensation for improvements will be given at expiration of tenancy:

Reserve 282, and part of old Railway Reserve adjoining the Rangitata River, estimated to contain 20 acres. Upset annual rental, £1. Subject to right of road up to river. Yearly tenancy.

Village reserve on south side of railway, two and a half miles south-west of Rangitata Station, 85 acres. Upset annual rental, £4 5s. License subject to six months' notice, and renewable from year to year for five years if the land is not required by Government for any purpose.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves for Leasing.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 7th October, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that tenders for the occupation for grazing purposes only, without the right of cropping, of the under-mentioned lands, will be received at this office up to 5 p.m. on Monday, the 10th November, 1890. The licenses will be annually renewed by the Land Board for a period of seven years, unless the land is required by Government for any purpose, but will be terminated on six months' notice if required for the purpose of granting to the Midland Railway Company or being otherwise dealt with. Every tender must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-office order for four and a half months' rent to the 1st April, 1891, at the rate tendered:

Reserves 158 and 2016, Hurunui, Lots 3 and 4, 89 acres 3 roods 18 perches. Upset annual rental, £11 14s. 6d.

Reserve 360, adjoining railway between Bennett's and Oxford, 13 acres 3 roods 6 perches. Upset annual rental, £1 14s. 6d.

Plantation Reserve in Reserve 2331, West Oxford, 30 acres 1 rood 22 perches. Upset annual rental, £3.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Town, Suburban, and Rural Lands to be sold by Public Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 30th September, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that sales by public auction will be held on the dates and at the places mentioned below, when the Crown lands specified will be submitted.

At the Courthouse, Temuka, on Wednesday, the 29th October, 1890, at 11 a.m.:

To be sold for Cash.

Arowhenua Town Sections 463, 465, 467, 469, 471, 473, 492, 494 to 503, 522 to 538, 590 to 594, 606, 607, 608, 610. Upset price, £7 10s. per quarter-acre.

Orari Town Sections 20, 21, Block IV.; 26, 27, Block VI. Upset price, £7 10s. per quarter-acre.

Lot 19, subdivision of Section No. 54, Reserve 389, Orari, 3 acres. Upset price, £15.

Forfeited Immigration Section 26473, Cooper's Creek, near Rangitata, 20 acres. Upset price, £20.

Section 36066, 33 acres 3 roods 6 perches. Upset price, £50 13s. 6d. Situated about four miles north-west of Rangitata, being an old pre-emptive right adjoining Proudfoot's land.

To be sold on Deferred Payments.

Orari Village Settlement, Lots 1c and 4, Block XXIII., 4 acres 3 roods 25 perches. Upset price, £29 8s. 9d.

Reserve 389, Orari, Lot 12, subdivision of Section 45, 5 acres. Upset price, £22 10s.

Arowhenua Village Settlement, Lots 687, 703, 821, each 1 rood. Upset price, £10 each.

Ashwick Flat, Lots 10 and 11, 334 acres 2 roods 9 perches. Upset price, £793 4s.

At the Land Office, Christchurch, on Friday, the 31st October, 1890, at 11 a.m.:

Part of Halswell Tramway Reserve, Tai Tapu. Area, 2 acres 2 roods 32 perches. Upset annual rental, £7 10s. Term of lease, fourteen years.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.