JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 955

Earnslaw District, Sections 79 to 94, Block II. (grouped), Lake County; about 836 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £1 per annum.

Glenorchy District, Sections 27 to 30, Block I., and Upper Lake Wakatipu District, Section 39, Block I. (grouped), Lake County; about 220 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £1 per annum.

The three foregoing runs are situated near Glenorchy, at head of Lake Wakatipu, about thirty miles from Queenstown, and 221 or 134 miles from Dunedin or Invercargill respectively.

Lower Hawea District, Sections 3, Block III., and 1 and 2, Block VI. (grouped), Vincent County; about 692 acres; term, five years. Upset rental, £11 10s. 8d. per annum. Situated about five miles from Newcastle (Albert Town), between Lakes Wanaka and Hawea. Distance from Dunedin, via Cromwell, about 185 miles.

Maniototo District, Section 32, Block II., Maniototo County; about 110 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £1 per annum.

Maniototo District, Section 18, Block VI., Maniototo County; about 229 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £1 per annum.

These last two runs are situated on the Eweburn, six and nine miles from Naseby respectively. Distance from Dunedin, about 100 miles.

Table Hill District, Sections 9 and 33, Block IV. (grouped), Bruce County; about 90 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £2 5s. per annum. Situated about two miles northward of Manukau Railway-station, on the Dunedin-Lawrence line, forty-seven miles from Dunedin.

Possession of the foregoing runs will be given on day of sale, terms of licenses commencing from the 1st March, 1893. Purchasers will be required to pay a half-year’s rent from date on which possession is given, and £1 1s. license-fee at time of sale.

SMALL GRAZING-RUN LEASES, UNDER PART VII. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1885.”

Kuriwao District, Sections 6, 7, and 8, Block IX. (grouped), Clutha County; about 862 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £21 11s. per annum. Valuation for hut, fencing, and cultivation, £93 10s. Part of the Clutha River Trust endowment. Situated about eight miles south of Clinton Railway-station; about eighty-one miles from Dunedin. Open ridgy land of fair pastoral quality; well watered.

Lauder District, Section 5, Block VI., Vincent County; about 1,298 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £32 9s. per annum.

Lauder District, Section 6, Block VI., Vincent County, about 1,282 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £32 1s. per annum. Situated within three miles of Matakanui Post-office; about 140 miles from Dunedin. Rail to Dunback or Middlemarch, thence by road. Undulating agricultural and pastoral land; western portions of sections gravelly, eastern portions good loam; watered.

Tiger Hill District, Run 244D, Vincent County; about 1,138 acres; term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £28 9s. per annum. Valuation for fencing, £118 15s. Situated within a mile and a half of Ophir (Black’s) Township, 147 miles from Dunedin. Rail to Dunback or Middlemarch; thence by road. Open, ridgy, dry, pastoral country.

Possession of all the foregoing small grazing-runs will be given on day of sale, terms of leases commencing from the 1st September, 1892.

Purchasers will be required to pay a half-year’s rent and lease and registration fees (£1 11s.) on fall of the hammer, and hand the auctioneer the declaration required by section 200 of “The Land Act, 1885.” The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st March, 1893.

Valuations for improvements to be paid within fourteen days from day of sale.

Conditions of Lease.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years being with the Governor; recurrent rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by “The Land Act, 1885,” section 209. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form below.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory for six years, commencing within twelve months from commencement of lease, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on land in his occupation within ten miles of the run.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year’s rental by the end of the first year, two years’ rental by the end of the second year, and four years’ rental at the end of the sixth year.

5. The rent is to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead, through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

NOTE.—One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen years is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving the access to the land.

Declaration.

I, , of* , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1885,” am desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of the pastoral lands of† .

3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any other person or persons whatever.

4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before me, , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

FORFEITED DEFERRED-PAYMENT LANDS, UNDER PART III. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1885.”

Dunback District, Section 14, Block V., Waihemo County; 269 acres 2 roods 14 perches. Upset price, 15s. per acre. Valuation for sod hut, garden, and fencing, £45 17s. Situated about seven miles south of Dunback Railway-station. Distance from Dunedin about fifty miles. Open land, broken, and of medium quality; watered.

Poolburn District, Section 3, Block III., Vincent County; 117 acres 3 roods 33 perches. Upset price, £1 per acre. Valuation for fencing and cultivation, £50. Situated in Ida Valley, about eleven miles from Ophir (Black’s), and 129 miles from Dunedin. Open level land of medium quality.

Terms of Payment: One-twenty-eighth part of the total price, and £1 1s. (license-fee), to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance in equal half-yearly instalments extending over a period of fourteen years.

The value of the improvements must be paid in cash on the fall of the hammer.

Purchasers must deposit the statutory declaration required by section 113 of “The Land Act, 1885.”

RURAL LANDS.

Glenkenich District, Section 1, Block XVIII., Tuapeka County; 7 acres 3 roods 23 perches. Upset price, £2 per acre. Valuation for house, garden, sheds, fencing, and cultivation, £73 10s. Situated about three miles and a half south of Tapanui, two miles from Pomahaka Railway-station. Distance from Dunedin, ninety-four miles; good, cleared bush land.

Greenvale District, Section 50, Block IV., Tuapeka County; 3 acres and 8 perches. Upset price, £3 per acre. Situated close to Heriot Railway-station, eight miles from Tapanui, 104 miles from Dunedin. Open agricultural land of good quality.

Lauder District, Section 21, Block V., Vincent County; 480 acres 1 rood 8 perches. Upset price, £1 1s. per acre. Valuation for hut and fencing, £257 2s. 6d. Situated about six miles from Matakanui Post-office. Distance from Dunedin, about 140 miles. Rail to Dunback or Middlemarch, thence by road. Open agricultural land, mostly level; loam with patches of shingle; watered.