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tion, or the right to the lease shall become forfeited, and any
deposit paid on account thereof shall become forfeited also.
6. No person can purchase or hold a lease of more than
one section.
7. No married woman, not having obtained a decree of
judicial separation or protection order, shall be capable of
becoming a lessee, excepting under a will or an intestacy.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

SYNOPSIS OF CONDITIONS OF LEASES.

1. TERM of lease, sixty-six years.

2. Rents payable annually in advance.

3. Leases not to be transferred or holdings subdivided or
   sublet without the consent of the Minister of Mines.

4. No transfer will be allowed until lessee has been twelve
   months in legal occupation and complied with the conditions
   of his lease.

5. A fee of £1 1s. shall be paid for recording every transfer
   of any lease.

6. The lessee will be required to occupy his leasehold in a
   bonâ fide manner for business purposes or residence within
   six months from the commencement of the term of lease.

7. Any lessee who shall fail to comply with any of the
   conditions of lease in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof
   thereof to the satisfaction of the Warden of the district, for-
   feit his interest in the said lease and his right to hold the
   land thereunder.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Warden.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 23rd January, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, on
and after Monday, the 26th February, 1894, at the rental
noted opposite each run. In case of more than one applica-
tion for the same run on the same day, priority of selection
will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Pastoral Land.

| Sectional | Area. | Rent per | Half-yearly |
| Run No. | | Acre. | Rent. |

BLACKSTONE SURVEY DISTRICT.

| | A. | R. | P. | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
| 225D | 1,690 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 21 | 2 | 6 |
| 225O | 1,162 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 6 |
| 225F | 626 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 6 |
| 225P | 680 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7½ | 10 | 12 | 6 |
| 225C | 435 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7½ | 6 | 16 | 0 |

Subdivisions of Pastoral Run 225 and part of Pastoral
Run 225A, resumed for settlement. The country was com-
prised within Highfield Station, lately occupied by Messrs.
Ross and Glendining. It consists of open, broken land, of
fair quality, interspersed with rocks, watered; distance from
Naseby from thirteen to eighteen miles. The runs are either
traversed by or are in close proximity to the proposed Otago
Central Railway. Their average altitude is 2,000ft.

Valuations for improvements are payable immediately
after ballot as follow: Run 225D, £63; Run 225O, £24; Run
225F, £14 8s.; Run 225P, £17 2s. Mr. C. Brown is to be
allowed one month's time from date of sale to remove
eighteen chains of fencing erected by him in northern corner
of Run 225P.

| Sectional | Area. | Rent per | Half-yearly |
| Run No. | | Acre. | Rent. |

BLACKSTONE AND IDABURN SURVEY DISTRICT.

| | A. | R. | P. | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
| 225J | 168 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7½ | 2 | 12 | 6 |
| 225H | 794 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7½ | 12 | 8 | 2 |

Subdivisions of part of Run 225, which has been resumed
for settlement. This country was recently occupied by
Messrs. Ross and Glendining, and is comprised within High-
field Station. Run 225J is level and shingly; Run 225H is
broken. The land is open, of fair quality, watered, and of
an average altitude of 2,000ft. Rocks here and there pre-
sent themselves. The proposed Otago Central Railway tra-
verses Run 225H, and is adjacent to Run 225J. Naseby lies
about thirteen to fifteen miles distant.

Valuation for fencing, £10 5s., is payable immediately after
ballot on Run 225H. Mr. C. Brown is to be allowed one
month's time from date of sale to remove fencing erected by
him on Run 225J.

GIMMERBURN SURVEY DISTRICT.

| | | | | | | | | |
| 225 | 263 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10½ | 5 | 15 | 6 |
| 225S | 433 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10½ | 9 | 9 | 11 |
| 225L | 946 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 14 | 9 |
| 225K | 889 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7½ | 13 | 17 | 10 |
| 225A | 1,154 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7½ | 18 | 0 | 8 |
| 225M | 589 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 225N | 744 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10½ | 16 | 5 | 6 |

Subdivisions of parts of Pastoral Runs 225B and 225D,
resumed for settlement. Messrs. Ross and Glendining lately
occupied this country, which is comprised within Highfield
Station. It is open, broken, agricultural and pastoral land,
partly covered with rocks. The soil is black, and of good
quality. A good road runs from Naseby, which is about
thirteen miles distant, to Run 225. Distance from proposed
Otago Central Railway, about five miles. The land is
watered, and of an average altitude of 2,300ft.

Valuations for improvements are payable immediately
after ballot as follow: Run 225L, £11 14s.; Run 225K, £24
6s.; Run 225A, £39 3s.

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 declara-
   tion 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 be
   paid immediately the application is declared successful; 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 January, 1895.

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 pur-
   chaser of a lease of Run No.†

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.