Aug. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 977

Land Office, Hokitika, where full particulars as to conditions of sale and conditions of lease may be ascertained.

Payments to be made on fall of the hammer, and consist, with regard to pastoral licenses, of six months’ rent in advance, and license-fee, £1 1s.; with regard to leaseholds in Grey Coal Reserve, one year’s rental in advance, lease-fee, full amount of bonus (if any), and value for improvements (if any).

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

PASTORAL LICENSES.

Date and term of lease: Ten years, from 1st March, 1891.

LEASEHOLDS IN GREY COAL RESERVE.

Date and term of lease: Fourteen years, from 1st January, 1892.

| 824 | 10 0 0 | 5 0 0 | Dobson, Block IX., Arnold Survey District (quarry-site). |

Date and term of lease: Ten years, from 1st January, 1892.

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, Invercargill :—

SECOND-CLASS SURVEYED LAND.

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 18| 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.

Lands for Application as Village Homesteads, Land District of Otago.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 6th August, 1891.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned land will be open for application under the village-homestead system on Wednesday, the 16th September, 1891. Applications must be made on the proper forms, and must be made in person or sent through the post to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin. Application-forms and full particulars can be obtained at this office, and at the Post-offices, Heriot and Balclutha.

This land is being opened for the purpose of providing homes for villagers. Holders of other lands exceeding one acre in extent are not eligible as selectors. Any person putting in an application in contravention of the conditions under which the land is opened is liable to be prosecuted for making a false declaration, and any section obtained thereby is, in accordance with the conditions, forfeited. Alleged ignorance of the conditions will not, after this notice, be accepted as an excuse for persons putting in applications who hold other lands.

Sections 35 to 48 are level, remainder hill-slope, all open agricultural land, adjacent to Heriot Railway-station; eight miles from Tapanui and 104 miles from Dunedin.

Crookston Survey District.

| 32 | VIII. | 1 2 12 | 0 2 6 | 0 5 0 |
| 33 | " | 2 2 24 | 0 2 6 | 0 7 6 |
| 34 | " | 2 3 20 | 0 2 6 | 0 7 6 |
| 35 | " | 2 0 10 | 0 2 6 | 0 5 0 |
| 36 | " | 1 3 3 | 0 2 6 | 0 5 0 |
| 37 | " | 7 0 24 | 0 2 0 | 0 14 0 |
| 38 | " | 7 2 3 | 0 2 0 | 0 16 0 |
| 39 | " | 9 1 38 | 0 2 0 | 0 18 0 |
| 40 | " | 10 1 30 | 0 2 0 | 1 0 0 |
| 41 | " | 12 0 12 | 0 2 0 | 1 4 0 |
| 42 | " | 8 3 32 | 0 2 0 | 0 18 0 |

Open, flat, agricultural sections, soil good; Sections 32 to 36 are not watered, remainder intersected by the Spylaw Creek; altitude 800ft. above sea-level; situated five and a half miles from Heriot Railway-station, and about 112 miles from Dunedin.

CLUTHA COUNTY.

Warepa Survey District.

| 45 | I. | 4 3 8 | 0 1 6 | 0 7 6 |
| 66 | " | 22 2 32 | 0 1 6 | 1 14 6 |
| 67 | " | 26 1 4 | 0 1 9 | 2 5 6 |
| 69 | " | 49 1 18 | 0 1 6 | 3 13 6 |
| 70 | " | 48 2 38 | 0 1 6 | 3 13 6 |

Rough good land, partly clear and partly covered with bush or scrub; all the sections are watered; situated on the Puerua Stream, about five and a half miles from Romahapa Railway-station; distance from Dunedin about sixty-five miles.

| 1 | XII. | 28 1 30 | 0 0 7½ | 0 17 6 |
| 2 | " | 44 3 10 | 0 0 9 | 1 14 0 |
| 3 | " | 33 3 19 | 0 0 9 | 1 6 0 |
| 4 | " | 42 2 32 | 0 0 10½ | 1 17 6 |

Rough sections, partly clear and partly covered with bush and scrub; Section 1, rocky; 2 and 4, soil fair; 3, soil poor; all watered except Section 1; situated to south of and adjoining Section 69, Block I.