Aug. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 941

Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

R. J. SEDDON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Rural Lands in the Westland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

ONSWLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of not less than forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Bruce Bay Survey District.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
.. | XI. and | 1,000 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 0 1 0
| XII |

Situated on the south side of the Makawiho River, intersected by the Main South Road scheme, and bounded on the west by Native Reserve, Section No. 785.

.. | VII. and | 500 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 0 1 0
| VIII. |

Situated on the south side of the Manakaiau River, and on the east side of the Main South Road.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Gillespie’s Survey District.

.. | XVI. | 500 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9

Situated between the Clearwater River and Carter’s Creek and the block at present open for selection along the Cook’s River-flat Road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in the Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

ONSWLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of not less than forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.—Waikawa Survey District.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
1 | VI. | 316 0 20 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Four-fifths bush, balance open undulating, manuka and birch timber, soil poor.

2 | VI. | 323 2 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
One-half manuka scrub and mixed bush, undulating, mixed agricultural and pastoral.

3 | VI. | 508 0 28 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Four-fifths red-pine and manuka bush, mixed with birch, soil thin and poor.

4 | VI. | 297 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Four-fifths manuka and red-pine and birch bush, balance scrub and flax, undulating, poor soil.

5 | VI. | 320 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
One-fifth mixed bush and manuka scrub, balance scrub, flax, and fine grass, poor soil.

6 | VI. | 318 1 24 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Four-fifths mixed bush, back portion steep, balance scrub and flax, agricultural and pastoral, poor soil.

7 | VI. | 319 1 4 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Two-thirds mixed bush, back portion steep, balance scrub and flax, agricultural and pastoral, poor soil.

8 | VI. | 311 1 0 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
One-half mixed bush, back portion steep, balance scrub and flax, agricultural and pastoral, fair soil.

9 | VI. | 308 3 9 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
One-half manuka and green scrub, small pine and birch bush, back portion steep, fair soil.

10 | VI. | 226 3 8 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
One-half manuka and green scrub and birch bush, fair soil, balance box- and black-scrub and flax.

The above sections are all well watered, and lie from one and a half to four miles back from nearest formed road, and from eight and a half to eleven miles from Waikawa Harbour.

Wallace County.—Longwood Survey District.

12 | XV. | 257 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
Light bush, manuka, mapo, kapuka, &c., level, subject to flood.

13 | XV. | 248 3 23 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9

14 | " | 300 3 1 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, level.

15 | XV. | 176 3 33 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, swampy, level.

16 | XV. | 193 3 10 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, undulating.

17 | XV. | 150 1 32 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, swampy, level.

18 | XV. | 228 2 28 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9

19 | " | 228 3 7 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, undulating.

20 | XV. | 145 0 18 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, level.

21 | XV. | 207 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
Light bush, manuka, mapo, kapuka, &c., level, subject to flood.

This block is all bush, level land, gravel formation, light soil, good for growing grass after bush is felled and burnt off. Nearest railway-station, Orepuki, about eight and a half miles. Nearest formed road, about two and a half miles, which is now undergoing formation.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.