FEB. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 295

Crown Lands Notices.

Notice re Grazing-farms, Cheviot.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 14th February, 1894.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by "The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893," I, John McKenzie, Minister of Lands, do declare that clause 6 of the terms and conditions of the lease of grazing-farms at Cheviot, published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 76, of the 12th October, 1893, will not apply to the leases of the Cheviot grazing-farms open for application on Monday, the 5th day of March proximo; and I do further declare that the clause hereunder given will be one of the conditions of sale of the grazing-farms aforesaid:—

6. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one years' rental by the end of the first year, to one and a half years' rental by the end of the second year, and to two and a half years' rental at the end of the sixth year. The improvements which have been already made upon the land shall be reckoned as improvements under this clause.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Forfeiture of Leases.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th February, 1894.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned perpetual leases were forfeited, by resolution of the Hawke's Bay Land Board, on the 25th October, 1893, under the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892."

SCHEDULE.

LEASE 368: Section 14, Block XIII., Wakarara Survey District. Held by Lorans Andersen.

Lease 425: Section 6, Block XIV., Nuhaka North Survey District. Held by David Herlihy.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

CHEVIOT ESTATE.

NOTICE is hereby given that

SEVENTEEN GRAZING-FARMS,

comprising 27,713 acres 2 roods of Pastoral Land, will be open for application

FOR LEASE

on Monday, the 5th day of March.

Also, nine First-class

PASTORAL GRAZING-FARMS,

comprising 14,305 acres, and two sections of Second-class

RURAL LAND,

comprising 196 acres, will be offered for SALE FOR CASH on Tuesday, the 6th day of March.

Plans and terms, with full particulars of the lands, and a brief description of each area, can be obtained at any Land Office in the colony after the 10th February.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Lands and Survey Department,
Wellington, 24th January, 1894.

Lease of Crown Lands for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 12th February, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the under-mentioned Crown lands will be submitted to public auction at this office on Wednesday, the 28th March, 1894, at noon.

KAPONGA VILLAGE.

Sections 38, 39, 40, comprising one acre each. Upset annual rental, payable half-yearly in advance, 10s. each section. Term of lease, fourteen years.

Conditions of Sale.

One half-year's rent and a lease-fee of £1 1s. must be paid on the fall of the hammer. Plans and particulars may be obtained at this office.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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 application 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 Run No.
Area.
Rent per Acre.
Half-yearly Rent.

BLACKSTONE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Subdivisions of Pastoral Run 225 and part of Pastoral Run 225A, resumed for settlement. The country was comprised 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.

BLACKSTONE AND IDABURN SURVEY DISTRICT.

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 Highfield 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 present themselves. The proposed Otago Central Railway traverses 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.

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