April 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 633

Pastoral Lease of Gray's Hills Station, Canterbury, to
be sold at Auction.

District Land and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 11th March, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that the pastoral lease of the
under-mentioned run will be offered for sale by public
auction, at this office, on Tuesday, the 26th April, 1892, at
12 o'clock noon :—
Run 71, Gray's Hills Station, Mackenzie County; about
29,862 acres. Term of lease eighteen years and ten months,
fixed tenure, from the 1st May, 1892. Upset rental, £600
per annum.
The lease, all costs whereof shall be borne by the pur-
chaser, will be from the Canterbury College. The lease shall
be subject to the right of the Canterbury College or the
Crown to dispose of the freehold of the whole of the run, or
any part thereof, by way of sale. Provision is made in the
memorandum of lease to meet this contingency. Six
months' rent must be paid on the fall of the hammer, four
months' rent on the 1st November, 1892, and thereafter
half-yearly, on the 1st March and the 1st September in each
year. Possession will be given on the 1st May, 1892. Plans
and full particulars as to terms of lease may be obtained at
this office, the Timaru Land Office, or from the Registrar of
Canterbury College.
J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Lands by Auction, Hawke's Bay Land District.

District Land and Survey Office,
Napier, 21st March, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sections enumerated in
the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by
public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Napier, on
Thursday, the 28th April, 1892, at 11 a.m. :—

SCHEDULE.
FOR CASH.

Section 21, situated on the main road, one and a half
miles from Frasertown; the portion between road and river
agricultural land, balance hilly, and covered for the most
part with manuka scrub. Section 27, situated about two and
a half miles from Norsewood Township; level land, rather
more than half cleared and in good grass; estimated value
of the improvements on the section, £74. Section 7, situated
on main road Woodville to Napier, and distant two miles
from the former.

To be offered for sale by public auction, at the District
Land Office, Gisborne, on Thursday, the 28th April, at
11 a.m. :—
FOR CASH.—SUBURBAN LAND.

About eighty miles north of Gisborne.
Terms of Sale: One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid
at close of sale, and the balance, with £1 Crown-grant fee,
within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the
purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited,
and the contract for the sale of the land shall henceforth be
null and void.
Plans may be inspected at this office, and at the Land
Office, Gisborne.
T. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lease of Reserves, Canterbury Land District.

District Land and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 16th March, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of "The Public Reserves
Act, 1881," that written tenders will be received at this
office up to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the 26th April, 1892, for the
leases of the under-mentioned reserves, on the terms stated.
Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheques or post-
office orders for the amount of rent for the period described,
at the rate offered :—

Term of lease: Fourteen years.
This reserve is situated on the north side of the Ashley
River, extending easterly about two and a half miles from
the junction of the Garry and Ashley Rivers, and consists
mainly of sandy loam formation, partly covered with gorse
and tussock, and is subject to floods. The lease will be sub-
ject to the right of the Crown to terminate it by a year's
notice if the land is required by Government for any pur-
pose. Tenders to be accompanied by a deposit of six
months' rent.

PARTS OF BLOCKS I. TO IV, LAKE ELLESMERE RESERVE.

Term of lease: Four months from the 1st May, 1892.
Tenders to be accompanied by a deposit of the rent for
the full term. The sections are those not disposed of at the
auction sales in 1889 and 1890 of part of the Lake Ellesmere
Reserve. Lot 4, Block I., is situated on the south-west side
of the Halswell River, above the Ahuriri Lagoon, and com-
prises some swampy land. The lots in Block II. are the
unsold sections in the village reserve on the south-west side
of the railway-line, where it enters the lake-flat. The
remaining sections in Blocks III. and IV. are on the low-
lying flats on the north-east side of Lake Ellesmere, and
comprise light sandy soil, more or less covered with rye-
grass and lake-weed in places.
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.

Land for Sale by Auction, Land District of Canterbury.

District Land and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 16th March, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of "The Land Act, 1885," that the under-mentioned section will be offered for sale
by public auction, for cash, at this office, on Friday, the 17th
June next, at 12 o'clock noon :—

ASHBURTON COUNTY.—WESTERFIELD SURVEY DISTRICT.

This section is situated immediately below the high terrace
on the south-west side of the south branch of the Ashburton
River. It has frontage on the Shepherd's Bush Road, about
one and three-quarter miles north-east of the Westerfield
Railway-station, and is distant about eight miles in a north-
westerly direction from the Town of Ashburton. The section
comprises soil of fair quality, but is liable to flood.
A deposit of one-fifth of the purchase-money shall be paid
on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with a
Crown-grant fee of £1, within thirty days thereafter, or the
deposit will be forfeited and the sale cancelled.
There are no restrictions or limitations incumbent upon
purchasers of cash lands at auction.
Plans may be seen and further particulars obtained at this
office.
J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.