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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1891.

THE Zealandia Lodge, No. 48, situated at Wellington, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 23rd day of October, 1891.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 24th October, 1891.

THE Heretaunga Lodge, No. 46, situated at Petone, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 24th day of October, 1891.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 24th October, 1891.

THE Star of Egmont Lodge, No. 267, of the Ancient Order of Druids, situated at Patea, is registered as a friendly society under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 24th day of October, 1891.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Report of Land Claims Commissioner.

I, JAMES PILLANS MAITLAND, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide claims to land by persons claiming title thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, report that the claim of Charles Crawford, of Upper Harbour East District, in the Land District of Otago, Settler, was, on the 30th March, 1863, referred to the then Land Claims Commissioner, but has not yet been reported on. I do now hereby decide that the said Charles Crawford is entitled to a Crown grant for Section 21, Upper Harbour East District, containing 13 acres 2 roods 29 perches.

Dated at Dunedin, this 3rd day of September, 1891.
Number of report, 329 ; number of claim, 266.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1891.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1893, the period of literature will be the reign of Elizabeth, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macaulay’s Essays on Bacon and Walpole.

W. P. REEVES.
Minister of Education.

Crown Lands Notices.

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

Department of Lands and Survey,
Auckland, 1st October, 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 25th November, 1891. In cases where more than one application is received for the same section, priority of choice will be decided by priority of application :—

SECOND-CLASS UNSURVEYED LAND.

Coromandel and Raglan Counties.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Moehau and Cape Colville Survey Districts, and containing approximately 1,450 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the Poihakene No. 1 Block; towards the east by a right line running due south from the south-eastern angle of the last-named block, 12000 links; thence towards the north-east by a right line to the northernmost angle of Section No. 1 of Block I., Moehau Survey District; towards the south-east by that section; and towards the west generally by the sea to the point of commencement.

Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 5s. per acre.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Cape Colville Survey District, and containing approximately 1,400 acres. Bounded towards the east generally by the sea; towards the south-east by Section No. 1, Block II., Moehau Survey District; towards the south-west by a right line from the westernmost angle of Section No. 1 aforesaid to the southernmost angle of the Moehau No. 1m Block; and towards the north-west by the Moehau No. 1m Block aforesaid to the point of commencement.

Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 5s. per acre.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Moehau and Harataunga Survey Districts, and containing approximately 1,700 acres. Bounded towards the north-east generally by the sea; towards the south-east generally by the Tapapakaroro, Okahutahi, and Motukahakaha Blocks to the westernmost angle of the last-named block; thence towards the south-west by a right line to the southernmost angle of Section No. 1 of Block II., Moehau Survey District; and towards the north-west by that section and Stony Bay to the point of commencement.

Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 5s. per acre.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Whangape, and containing approximately 17,000 acres. Bounded towards the north generally by a public road and by Section No. 5, Parish of Opuatia; towards the east generally by Sections Nos. 30, 84, 81, and 82, Parish of Whangape; towards the south generally by a public road, by Sections No. 32, Block VIII., and Section No. 26, Block VII., Awaroa Survey District, by a public road, by Section Nos. 4, 3, 2, and 1, Block VII., Awaroa Survey District aforesaid, and by the northern boundary of Block VI. of the same survey district; and towards the south-west by Section No. 3, Parish of Putataka, to the point of commencement.

All mixed forest, with a few fern openings; soil generally very good, and a large proportion of it is limestone. Roads have been graded through the block, and will in some places be partially cleared so that selectors can trace the lines. Cash price, 15s. per acre.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lease of Reserves, Canterbury Land District.

Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 5th October, 1891.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” that written tenders will be received at this office up to noon on Tuesday, the 17th November, 1891, for the leases of the under-mentioned reserves, on the terms stated. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheques or post-office order for ten months’ rent to the 1st October, 1892, at the rate offered :—

Reserve 360, adjoining railway between Bennett’s and Oxford, 13 acres 3 roods 6 perches; upset annual rental, £1 14s. 6d. Term of lease, seven years.

Reserve 151, Okain’s Bay, 2 roods 32 perches; upset annual rental, £2. Term of lease, seven years.

Reserve 160, Okain’s Bay: Lot 1, 1 acre 2 roods 18 perches; upset annual rental, £1 12s. 3d. Lot 2, 1 acre 2 roods 14 perches; upset annual rental, £1 11s. 9d. Term of lease, seven years.

Reserve 2028, Police Reserve at Mount Somers, 10 acres; upset annual rental, £2 10s. Term of lease, five years.

Reserve 2814, north side of Waihao River, adjoining and above the traffic-bridge, 15 acres 1 rood; upset annual rental, £1 18s. 2d. Term of lease, seven years.

Reserve 2815, north side of Waihao River, adjoining and below the traffic-bridge, 6 acres 2 roods 20 perches; upset annual rental, 16s. 7d. Term of lease, seven years.

All of the above leases will be subject to the right of the Crown to terminate each lease by a year’s notice if the land is required by Government for any purpose. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. The lessees will have the right of occupying and using the lands for grazing purposes, but will be prohibited from cropping the same.

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