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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

Run No. 102, 6,000 acres, Kanieri River and Bluebottle Branch; and Run No. 103, 5,000 acres, Kanieri Lake and Mount Graham. Term, 10 years, from 1st March, 1894; annual upset rental, £1 per 1,000 acres. Cattle-feed country, bush; mountain and hill slopes.

Section No. 848, Blocks X. and XI., Bruce Bay Survey District, 20 acres. Cash; second-class rural lands; upset price, 10s. per acre. Swampy land, sand, and loam.

Colonial University Reserve No. 29, Town of Greymouth. Term, 14 years from 1st July, 1893; area, 5 acres; fixed annual rental, £2 10s. Bidding by bonus.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Leases of Small Grazing-runs, Otago, open for Application.

District Land Office,
Dunedin, 17th April, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for application, at this office, on Wednesday, the 7th June, 1893, at the rental noted opposite each run.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI COUNTY.

Maruwenua Survey District.

Domct Survey District.

17A (Class I.) | 4,457 0 0 | 0 6·5 | 60 7 2 |

Run No. 17 is very rugged and broken, and extends from the top of Ben Lomond to the Otekaike River. Soil light, covered with tussock; well watered, with a number of sheltered gullies. Distance from Otekaike Siding about six miles by road and track. Altitude averages 2,000ft.

Run No. 17B includes the southern slope from the Ben Lomond Range to the Maruwenua River; soil light, growing tussock; well watered. Distance from Livingstone by road, seven miles. Altitude averages 2,000ft.

Run No. 17C is light pastoral land, well watered, and sloping towards the Maruwenua River. Distance from Livingstone by road, seven miles. Altitude averages 2,400ft.

Run No. 17D consists of light pastoral land, well watered, and sloping towards the Maruwenua River. Distance from Livingstone by road, seven miles. Altitude averages 2,400ft.

Run No. 17E consists of light pastoral country, well watered, and sloping towards the Maruwenua River. English grass and clover are growing near the river, and tussock on the remainder of the run. Distance from Livingstone by road, about seven miles. Altitude averages 1,400ft.

Run No. 17F consists of light undulating pastoral land, well watered, and partly arable. Distance from Livingstone by road, about seven miles. Altitude averages 1,900ft.

Run No. 17G consists of light undulating pastoral country, well watered, and in parts arable. Distance from Livingstone by road, about seven miles. Altitude averages 1,900ft.

Run No. 17A is very steep and broken where it faces the Otekaike and towards the Maruwenua, but there are very good slopes near the top of it; soil light, growing tussock; well watered. Distance from Kyeburn, on west, six miles; from Otekaike to north-east, nine miles (both accessible by track); and from Livingstone, to the south-east, seven miles by road. Altitude averages 2,500ft.

NOTE.—The above are subdivisions of Pastoral Run No. 17 (portion of Otekaike Station), held by R. Campbell and Sons (Limited) under license which expired on the 28th February, 1893.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by “The Land Act, 1892,” section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed hereon.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

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; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. for the lease must accompany the application; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st March, 1894.

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.

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, 1892,” am desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.† __.

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.

5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.

6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

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.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maoris under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination; the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, and are open to all Maoris under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have not been pupils at Te Aute or St. Stephen’s, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory. The senior scholarship is offered for competition among Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1893. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1893. The questions will, however, be more difficult than those set for the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 18th and 19th December, 1893.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 25th April, 1893.