Run 237c (Class I.), part of Morven Hills Station, Vincent County; about 16,790 acres; term, ten years. Upset annual rental, £245.

Run 436 (Class I.), Vincent and Southland Counties; about 43,500 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset annual rental, £20.

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

Run 109, part of Shag Valley Station, Waitaki County; about 10,400 acres; term, seven years. Upset annual rental, £150.

Run 134A, part of Tapui Station, Waitaki County; about 22,580 acres; term, ten years. Upset annual rental, £220.

Run 259, part of Lee Flat Station, Tuapeka County; about 30,830 acres; term, ten years. Upset annual rental, £200.

Run 3, Tuapeka County; about 2,107 acres; term, seven years. Upset annual rental, £55.

Run 4, Tuapeka County; about 2,820 acres; term, seven years. Upset annual rental, £72.

Run 6, Tuapeka County; about 2,580 acres; term, seven years. Upset annual rental, £86.

Run 260B, part of Abbotsford Station, Taieri County; about 9,440 acres; term, five years. Upset annual rental, £110.

Tiger Hill Survey District, Sections 60 and 61, Block I.; about 415 acres; term, seven years. Upset annual rental, £10.

Budle Survey District, Sections 19, 20, and 21, Block VI.; about 526 acres; term, seven years. Upset annual rental, £9.

Licenses of the above runs will be sold generally in terms of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1885,” tenure of runs noted as in Class I. being certain for terms stated, Government not reserving any right of resumption.

Possession will, in all cases, be given on the 1st March, 1892, from which date the terms of the licenses will date.

Purchasers will be required to deposit a half-year’s rent and £1 1s. license-fee on fall of hammer.

Valuations for improvements, amount of which shall in no case exceed three times the amount of the existing annual rental where such rental is over £50 per annum, or five times the existing annual rental where such rental is under that sum, will be payable by the incoming tenant one month before possession is given.

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

Tuapeka West District (Rural), Section 18, Block II.; 55 acres 1 rood 28 perches. Upset price, £1 per acre; valuation for improvements, £16 10s.

Glenkenich District (rural), Section 74, Block XI.; 136 acres 3 roods 9 perches. Upset price, £1 per acre. Valuation for improvements, £70.

Waikoikoi Town (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 lands, one-twenty-eighth of the 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 lands, 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 the 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 Arrowtown Extension, Catlin’s, Kurow, and Kaitangata Townships. Upset price, £30 per acre.

Terms of payment: 20 per cent. deposit on fall of hammer; balance, with Crown-grant fee £1, within thirty days.

For further particulars apply to this office.

J. P. MAITLAND,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

Notice of Date for Rehearing of a Claim.—Kai Iwi.

NATIVE LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND:

DISTRICT OF WHANGANUI.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court given at Whanganui, in the said district, on the 17th day of August, 1889, upon the hearing of an application for the partition of certain land called or known by the name of Kai Iwi, situate at or near Whanganui; and in the matter of an application made in writing, within three months after such decision was given, by Erana Tamakore and others, Natives, thinking themselves aggrieved thereby, for a rehearing upon the aforesaid application; and in the matter of the order heretofore made by Hugh Garden Seth-Smith, Esquire, Chief Judge of the said Court, directing a rehearing therein:

Now notice is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Court will be held at Whanganui, for an inquiry into and determination upon rehearing of the aforesaid application, on Tuesday, the 3rd day of March, 1891.

Dated this 31st day of January, 1891.

H. F. EDGER,

Deputy-Registrar.

“The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881,” and the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Acts, 1888 and 1889.

Native Land Court Office,

Whanganui, 3rd February, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Trust Commissioner will, under the authority and for the purposes of the said Acts, hold a Court at Marton, on the 14th day of February, 1891, for investigating the case mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, at which time and place all persons interested in the said case, and having objection thereto, are hereby notified to attend.

H. F. EDGER,

Deputy-Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

WAIROA, LOT 68B, SECTION 405, BLOCK XII.

91-1. TRANSFER dated the 30th day of January, 1891, from Tare Warahi (Charles Wallace) to William Beaumont Fisher.