Aug. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 929

| No. of | Survey District. | Area | Upset | Total Rent |
| Run. | | about | Rent per | per |
| | | | Acre. | Annum. |
| | | A. | s. d. | £ s. d. |
| 48 | Wainuioru and Kai- | 2,240 | 0 1 | 9 6 8 |
| | whata | | | |
| 51 | Rewa .. .. | 1,430 | 0 1 | 5 19 2 |
| 52 | Rewa .. .. | 3,150 | 0 1 | 13 2 6 |
| 53 | Rewa .. .. | 1,200 | 0 1 | 5 0 0 |
| 55 | Rewa and Kaiwhata | 1,700 | 0 1 | 7 1 8 |

Conditions of sale are—

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, the option of
   renewal for a further period of twenty-one years being with
   the Governor, rent to be fixed by valuation, and improve-
   ments being secured to lessee, as provided by “The Land
   Act, 1885,” section 209.
2. No person can lease more than one run.
3. Residence on the run is compulsory for six years, com-
   mencing within twelve months from commencement of
   lease, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board
   to reside on land in his occupation within ten miles of the
   run.
4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one
   year's rental by the end of the first year, two years' rental by
   the end of the second year, and four years' rental at the end
   of the sixth year.
5. One half-year's rent to be paid on the fall of the
   hammer.
   The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land,
   but he can select 150 acres around the homestead, through
   which no road can be taken or other public privilege exer-
   cised without compensation.
   One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen years
   is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving the
   access to the land.

Lands open for Application as Village Homesteads, Canter-
bury Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 18th July, 1891.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for ap-
plication as village homesteads, on Wednesday, the
26th August, 1891:—

SOUTHBIDGE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Lot 1, Block I., 8 acres; rent, 3s. 6d. per acre.
Lot 2, Block I., 7 acres 3 roods 19 perches; rent, 5s. per
acre.

CONDITIONS.

Term of lease, thirty years; renewable for further periods
of twenty-one years.
Rents are payable half-yearly, on the first days of January
and July in each year.
No rent need be paid for the first two years. The unpaid
rent will, however, be added to the capital value, and rent
then paid on such increased value, or the arrears of rent can
be paid off at any time.
A fee of 10s. will be charged for registration of lease.
A sum of £10 will be advanced by the Government for
building a house, which must be finished in six months after
selection, and residence on the land is thereafter compulsory.
On bush-lands felling must begin at once.
Each settler shall within two years cultivate one acre, and
within four years the half of the remainder, of his selection,
and make substantial improvements.
Substantial improvements shall mean—
(1.) Fencing the land with timber or other durable ma-
terials, not being a brush fence; or
(2.) Breaking up and laying down the same in English or
other cultivated grass; or
(3.) Breaking up and planting or sowing root or other
crops therein; and, in case of bush-lands, the felling
and clearing of timber and sowing of grass.
Any person who has an interest in any land of more than
an acre in extent in the colony is not eligible to select.
No person can hold more than one section.
Where more applications than one are made on the same
day for the same section, the right to occupy will be deter-
mined by lot amongst the applicants, but subject to married
men having preference as selectors.
No married women are eligible as selectors.

Settlers cannot subdivide or sublet their holdings without
consent.
Application-forms can be obtained at any Land Office, and
must be either lodged personally or sent through the post to
the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Canterbury.

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

Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection, Otago Land Dis-
trict.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 9th July, 1891.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale
or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land
Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred
payments, or on perpetual lease, at the option of the selector,
on and after Wednesday, the 2nd September, 1891. In cases
where more than one application is received for the same
section, priority of choice will be decided by lot on the follow-
ing day, at 11 a.m., at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin:—

FIRST-CLASS SURVEYED LAND.

Maniototo County.—Gimmerburn Survey District.

| Section. | Block. | Area. | Cash Price | Deferred- | Perpetual- |
| | | | per Acre. | payment | lease Rent |
| | | | | Price per | per Acre. |
| | | | | Acre. | |
| | | A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| 3 | VI. | 231 3 28 | 1 5 0 | 1 11 3 | 0 1 3 |
| 4 | ,, | 150 0 0 | | | |

Open, level, agricultural sections, black soil, sandy clay
subsoil, fronting the Taieri River, about twenty miles south
of Naseby; distance from Dunedin about one hundred miles.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection, Southland Land
District.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 28th July, 1891.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale
or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land
Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred
payments, or for perpetual lease, at the option of the selector,
on and after Wednesday, the 16th, September, 1891. In
cases where more than one application is received for the
same section, priority of choice will be decided by lot on the
following day, at 11 a.m., at the Crown Lands Office, Inver-
cargill:—

SECOND-CLASS SURVEYED LAND.

| Section. | Block. | Area. | Cash Price | Deferred- | Perpetual- |
| | | | per Acre. | payment | lease Rent |
| | | | | Price per | per Acre. |
| | | | | Acre. | |
| | | A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| 7A | VI. | 224 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½ |
| 8 | ,, | 286 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½ |
| 3 | VII. | 32 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½ |

Lindhurst Hundred.

Undulating pastoral land for most part, but steep and
broken in places; situate two miles north of Titipua Stream,
and about six miles from Ota Creek Railway-station, on the
Dunedin–Invercargill line.

Tuturau District.

| 24 | X. | 307 0 0 | 0 17 6 | 1 1 10½ | 0 0 10½ |
| 25 | ,, | 315 2 13 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9 |

Consists mostly of spurs sloping to the north; land of a
mixed pastoral and agricultural character; situate north of
Mimihau Stream, and about nine miles from Wyndham
Township. Section 24, burdened with £32 10s., and Section
25, with £9 10s., valuation for improvements (fencing).

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.