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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

No allowance whatsoever shall be payable on account of improvements effected by the lessee.
A deposit of a half-year’s rent and £1 11s. lease-fee must be deposited on the fall of the hammer.

SCHEDULE.
Section 207, Township of Hunter ville; area, 1 acre; upset rent per annum, 10s.; term of lease, seven years.
This section is situated on the Ongo Road, in the Township of Hunter ville, which is about sixteen miles from Marton, on the Murimotu Road, and the projected North Island Main Trunk Railway, and the trains now run past the township. Part of the section is in grass and the rest covered with manuka scrub, and it is partly flooded after heavy rain. A temporary fence has been put up round the section, except on the front, where a stab fence is erected; and there is a drain through the section for about two and a half chains. The quality of the land in Hunter ville is generally very good.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land for Settlement, Land District of Wellington.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1891.

THE following land is being opened for ordinary selection under “The Land Act, 1887,” and will be opened early in March:—

5 miles from Eketahuna, Mount Baker Block .. 5,500
21 miles from Pahiatua, North Puketoi Block .. 10,000
6½ miles from Birmingham, Oroua-Coal Creek Block 6,000
14 miles from Pipiriki, Waimarino Block .. 14,000

Total .. .. .. 35,500

To be followed by 40,000 acres now under survey between the Puketois and the East Coast.

The following village-settlement lands will be offered for sale in March:—

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection.

District Land and Survey Office,
Auckland, 21st January, 1892.

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 23rd March, 1892, when the first applicant on any tenure will be entitled to the area applied for:—

SECOND-CLASS UNSURVEYED LAND.
Kawhia County.—Awakino North Survey District.

Broken country, situated on the Awakino River, covered with forest, soil fair, some of it papa.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Auction of Lands at Blenheim.

Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 14th January, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands will be offered for disposal by public auction at the Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Tuesday, 23rd February, 1892, at noon:—

FOR SALE FOR CASH.

Linkwater Survey District.

Section 2, Block XVI.: Area, 47 acres 3 roods 14 perches. Upset price, £24.
Situated in the Waitohi Valley, about a mile back from the railway and main road to Picton. Clay soil, poor land, covered principally with birch bush. About 2 acres comparatively level, remainder hill.
One-fifth of the purchase-money must be paid at the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with £1 Crown-grant fee, within thirty days, or the payment at auction will be forfeited.

PASTORAL LICENSES (under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1885”).

Gore Survey District, East Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, Run No. 3: Estimated area, 100 acres; term, 5 years. Upset annual rent, £3.
About 20 acres level or comparatively level, remainder gentle slopes; partly grass, partly light scrub.

Wakamarina Survey District, Kaituna Valley, adjoining Run 53: Estimated area, 900 acres; term, 10 years. Upset annual rent, £3 15s.
Situated at the back of the freehold sections in Farnell’s Valley, about two miles from main road. Moderately steep hills, soil varying from inferior on the ridges to fair in the gullies; higher ridges birch, lower slopes scrub and mixed bush.

Wakamarina Survey District, Kaituna Valley, adjoining Sections 19, 21, and 105: Estimated area, 210 acres; term, 10 years. Upset annual rent, 17s. 6d. Half a year’s rent and £1 1s. license-fee must be paid at the auction in each case.
Situated at the back of sections fronting on main line of road from Blenheim to Nelson. Consists of hilly country, covered with mixed bush.

LEASE (under Section 23 of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881”).

Town of Picton: Sections 620, 621, 622, 623, and 624; area, 2 acres and 12 perches; term, 5 years. Upset annual rent, £2 10s. Half a year’s rent and £3 for the lease must be paid on the fall of the hammer.
Level land; good grass paddock; fenced in.

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land District of Canterbury.—Pastoral Lease of Black Forest Station to be sold at Auction.

Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 30th January, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the Land Acts, that the pastoral lease of the under-mentioned run will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 23rd March, 1892, at 12 o’clock noon:—

Run 68, Black Forest Station, Waimate County, about 20,800 acres; term of lease, nineteen years. Upset rental, £460 per annum.

This run is good sound sheep-country, and comprises about 4,000 acres of flat, on the Waitaki River; the remainder consisting of low hills, well grassed and watered.

Six months’ rent must be paid at the time of sale, and possession will be given on the 1st March, 1892. Subsequent payments of rent must be made half-yearly in advance, on the 1st March and the 1st September.

Plans and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

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