1278

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

In Bankruptcy.-In the District Court of Westland, holden at Greymouth.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN RALPH REES, of Greymouth, Civil Engineer, was this day adjudged a bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on the 1st day of September, 1893, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.

ROBT. WM. RUSSELL,

Deputy Official Assignee.

Greymouth, 19th August, 1893.

In Bankruptcy.--In the Supreme Court, holden at Christchurch.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN MAITLAND JONES, late of St. Albans, now of Dunedin, Commission Agent, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on the 25th day of August, 1893, at 11 o'clock.

G. L. GREENWOOD,

Official Assignee.

19th August, 1893.

In Bankruptcy.--In the District Court, holden at Ashburton.

NOTICE is hereby given that ROBERT DONN, of Ashburton, Painter, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on the 22nd day of August, 1893, at 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon.

JOHN DAVISON,

Deputy Official Assignee.

16th August, 1893.

In Bankruptcy.--In the Supreme Court, holden at Dunedin.

No. 29.

NOTICE is hereby given that PETER SELLARS, of Dunedin, Clerk, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on the 22nd day of August, 1893, at 3 o'clock.

C. C. GRAHAM,

Official Assignee.

Dunedin, 16th August, 1893.

In Bankruptcy.--In the Supreme Court, holden at Dunedin.

No. 23.

NOTICE is hereby given that BETSY LEIGHTON, of Dunedin, Storekeeper, was this day adjudged bankrupt on a creditors' petition; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on Monday, 28th day of August, 1893, at 3 o'clock.

C. C. GRAHAM,

Official Assignee.

Dunedin, 21st August, 1893.

In Bankruptcy.--In the Supreme Court, holden at Dunedin.

No. 28.

NOTICE is hereby given that CORNELIUS JOHNS, of Dunedin, Auctioneer, was this day adjudged bankrupt upon a creditors' petition; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be holden at my office, on Tuesday, 22nd day of August, 1893, at 11 o'clock.

C. C. GRAHAM,

Official Assignee.

Dunedin, 21st August, 1893.

Crown Lands Notices.

Town Lands in Southland for Sale by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,

Invercargill, 21st June, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following lots in Oraka Township will be submitted to auction in the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon, on Thursday, the 14th day of September, 1893. Terms: One-fifth part of purchase-money on fall of hammer; balance, together with grant-fee and valuation (if any) within thirty days of date of sale.

[N0. 65

ORAKA TOWNSHIP.

Sections 1 to 9, 13 to 16, 18 to 29, 46 to 51, 56 to 60, 65 to 67, 71 to 74, one rood each, more or less. Price £5 per section.

Section.

Area.

Section.

Area.

A. R. P.

10

1 3 28

40

1 0 0

11

1 2 18

41

1 0 0

12

0 2 4

42

1 0 0

17

0 3 4

43

1 0 0

33

3 0 16

44

1 1 28

34

3 2 16

52

4 3 24

35

7 2 20

53

2 1 12

38

1 0 0

54

2 0 23

39

1 0 0

Upset price, £2 per acre.

Valuations.

Section 22, two huts, two rooms each, £20; Section 24, house, two rooms, £12; Section 61, two huts, two rooms each, £20; Section 67, house, £25.

Sections 52, 53, and 54 to be sold subject to the New Zealand Pine Company's right to remove sawmill timber growing thereon.

G. W. WILLIAMS,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Land and Survey Office,

Invercargill, 20th July, 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 20th September, 1893, at the rental noted opposite each run.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Run No.

Section.

Survey District.

Area.

Rent per Annum.

A. R. P.

£ s. d.

27

125

Eyre

.. | 3,143 0 0 | 39 5 9 Open, undulating country; pastoral; hilltops stony, gullies clay soil; well watered; height above sea-level, from 1,230ft. to 1,530ft.; distance from Eyre Creek Railway-station about 40 chains. This run will be burdened with £5, being value of hut on same, and also with £28 8s. 9d., being half the value of rabbit-proof boundary-fence.

28 | 815 | Hokonui .. | 3,168 0 0 | 39 12 0 Open, hilly, pastoral country; stony soil, with tussock grass; well watered; height above sea-level, from 1,300ft. to 2,044ft.; distance from Lumsden Railway-station, about four miles.

29 | 816 | Hokonui .. | 2,879 0 0 | 85 19 9 Open, hilly, pastoral country; stony soil, with tussock grass; well watered; height above sea-level, from 1,200ft. to 2,053ft.; distance from Lumsden Railway-station, about five miles.

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 September, 1894.