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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 27

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—GEORGE BIRCHALL, of No. 85, Gracechurch Street, London, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England, has been this day appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.
Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of April, 1894.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Notice by the Public Trustee of his Election to administer Intestate Estates.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1894.

NOTICE.—It is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the provisions of section 8 of “The Public Trust Office Acts Amendment Act, 1893,” the Public Trustee, having elected to administer the property of the following person, who, so far as is known, has died intestate within the Colony of New Zealand, did file his election in writing at the Supreme Court Office, at the place stated after the name of such deceased person:—
Alexander Gore Thorn, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago. Filed at Dunedin, on the 28th day of March, 1894.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Will accepted by the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 30th March, 1894.

In the matter of the will of John Shepherd, late of Caversham, deceased.

IT is hereby notified that this will has been finally accepted, in accordance with the provisions of “The Public Trust Office Act, 1872,” and that the Public Trustee is the Executor appointed under the said will.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

“New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Act, 1892.”

NOTICE is hereby given to whom it may concern, in terms of section 14 of “The New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Act, 1892,” that the original claimants to land within the Land District of Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand, described in the Schedule hereto annexed, or their respective representatives, are hereby required to prove before me their claims to the issue of Crown grants in their favour some time previous to the 19th February, 1895; in default whereof the said claims will be declared to have lapsed, and be deemed to be abandoned, and the land comprised in the claims will, by section 13 of the said Act, become demesne lands of the Crown, discharged and free from all contracts or engagements whatever.

SCHEDULE.

• Rural.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Land Claims Commissioner under “The New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Act, 1892.”

Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, New Zealand,
19th February, 1894.

Crown Lands Notices.

Pastoral Lease in Southland Land District for Sale by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 30th March, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral lease will be submitted to public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, the 23rd May, 1894, at noon:—
Run No. 509, Eyre Mountains, Southland County, 40,600 acres. Chiefly barren mountain-tops; vegetation, silver-tussock, fern, and snow-grass. Height above sea-level, from 1,000ft. to 6,000ft.; distance from Mossburn Railway-station, about eleven miles. Term, 21 years from 1st March, 1895; upset annual rent, £5.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 3rd March, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on and after the 2nd May, 1894, at the half-yearly rental noted opposite the runs. In case of more than one application for the runs on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Pastoral Country.

Run No. 60 is situate about five miles from Havelock; it consists of hilly land, covered with mixed bush.
Run No. 61 is situate near Waitaria, in Kenepuru Sound; it consists of hilly land, covered with mixed bush. The soil is fair in the gullies, but poor on the spurs.

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 below.
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 March, 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.

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

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.